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Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent talks in-depth about trying to push Democrats to discuss Republican extremism, and how Donald Trump himself was harmed by it
Author Nimmi Gowrinathan on the motivations of female militants and the origins of violent extremism
Programmer and entrepreneur Miguel de Icaza talks about how Linux went from a college student’s hobby to powering most of the world’s computers, and his own story as a free software developer
Historian Matthew L. Harris speaks about the critical role that Mormonism played in the development of right-wing American politics
Fact-checker and rumor killer Brooke Binkowski talks about the history of falsehoods, and how to combat them
While combating specific false beliefs is important, in the long run, helping people learn to spot misinformation is the best way to counter it
Podcaster and former CNN reporter Michele Mitchell talks about how commercialized media and scheming politicians profit from making us upset and uninformed
Author Angie Maxwell talks about how conservative Republicans were changed as they reconfigured their political strategy to appeal to white Protestants’ politics of grievance
Conservative policy ideas are very unpopular, but Democrats have not been able to close the deal with the public
Media critic Eric Boehlert discusses how the mainstream press refuses to acknowledge that the Republican Party has turned against democracy