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The Egregious Price America Exacts for Integrity Feb 05, 2021

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Joel Whitney joins Robert Scheer to talk about the lives of poets George and Mary Oppen, two admirable Americans persecuted for their leftist ideals.

The FBI’s Crusade Against MLK Was Darker Than You Think Jan 29, 2021

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Director Sam Pollard did a deep dive into the FBI’s surveillance of MLK under the leadership of J. Edgar Hoover in his documentary “MLK / FBI,” released by IFC Films earlier this month. Listen to the full conversation between Pollard and Scheer as they discuss the implications of that question, as well as address the highly controversial summaries of the FBI’s MLK surveillance tapes discovered by King’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, David J. Garrow in 2019.

Jimmy Carter’s Foreign Policy Record Reveals Both Hope and Cynicism (Part 2) Jan 22, 2021

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In the second part of the “Scheer Intelligence” interview with Jonathan Alter, the author of “His Very Best” examines the former president’s mixed foreign policy record.

Jimmy Carter's Lifelong Efforts to Atone for White America's Sins (Part 1) Jan 15, 2021

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Raised in privilege amidst the barbarism of segregation, the oft-maligned president eventually embraced the New South liberalism that just swept his native Georgia’s election.

Death by UFO at Heaven’s Gate: A Dark Fable for Christmas Dec 25, 2020

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Clay Tweel’s HBO Max documentary on the New Age “cult of cults” that claimed dozens of lives raises powerful questions about the checkered histories of various religions.

How Reagan paved the way for Trump Dec 18, 2020

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Matt Tyrnauer, director of the devastating Showtime documentary blockbuster “The Reagans,” reveals how Donald Trump was the logical heir to the Reagan Revolution beginning with his plagiarism of the Gipper’s “Make America Great Again” slogan and ending with the abysmal failure to confront a medical pandemic.

What Aaron Sorkin Got Wrong in ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ Dec 11, 2020

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Historian Jon Wiener, who wrote “Conspiracy in the Streets” on the subject of the Netflix film, sets the record straight on this week’s “Scheer Intelligence.”

How the Democratic Party Became a Vehicle of Aristocracy Dec 04, 2020

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In the second part of a two-part interview, Thomas Frank explores how anti-populism made liberals comfortable with plutocracy.

Benjamin Madley and a California Genocide Nov 27, 2020

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Robert Scheer sits down with professor and author Benjamin Madley to talk about a little known part of California's history.

Don’t Believe Anything You Were Told About Populism Nov 20, 2020

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Thomas Frank examines the history of American populism, and how it was distorted by Democrats and co-opted by Republicans.