Podcast Categories: News & Politics

Every Friday on C-SPAN’s The Sidebar, go beyond the headlines of the stories shaping the conversation in Washington and across the country with interviews that provide background and context to the issues and events dominating the news cycle

Fash the Nation features fast-paced political insight, hosted by a former political operative.

Using his 30+ years of investigative experience, Doug Hagmann takes on the Deep State and those who facilitate the Progressive, Socialist Communist and Islamist agenda in a factual, take-no-prisoners approach. Hagmann has worked as an informational and operational asset for the FBI, the United States Department of Justice, the Pennsylvania and New York State Police and has handled thousands of civil and criminal cases ranging from fraud to homicide. This show exposes the larger agenda and objectives of the Deep State actors like no other.

Methods is about how we know what we know.

Each week, Brooke Borel, author of The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking, interviews someone who examines facts for a living, including journalists, scientists, historians, judges, translators, and more.

Picking one of the guest’s projects—an investigative article, a book, a scientific discovery—we’ll dig into how they did it. What was their process? How did they investigate the evidence? What stories, pitfalls, and dead ends didn’t make it into the published work? How sure are they? And what level of uncertainty should we all be comfortable with when it comes to calling something a fact?

True Crime