Rev. Al Sharpton is the host of MSNBC's "PoliticsNation" and the founder and President of the civil rights organization National Action Network (NAN). Sharpton also hosts the nationally syndicated radio show, "Keepin' it Real". His new book is Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads". Rev. Al Sharpton reflects on the Age of Trump, the pandemic, and a season of protest and resistance. He also explains how Joe Biden should prepare to debate Donald Trump, a man who has no standards of mora...
Sep 30, 2020•56 min•Ep. 302
Tim Wise is one of the United States' and the world's leading antiracism activists and authors. His books include Dear White America , White Like Me , Speaking Treason Fluently , and Under the Affluence . His new book is Dispatches from the Race War . Tim Wise reflects on the recent passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and how her death has now made America's multiracial democracy even more imperiled by the Age of Trump and his white neofascist movement. He also shares how the Tr...
Sep 21, 2020•39 min•Ep. 301
There are two guests on this very special 300th episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . David Rothkopf is the CEO of The Rothkopf group. He was also a senior official in the Clinton Administration and CEO and editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy Magazine. He is the author of many books and articles including the forthcoming Traitor: A History of American Betrayal from Benedict Arnold to Donald Trump . Rothkopf is a frequent contributor to such leading news media outlets as The Washington Post, The Ne...
Sep 08, 2020•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 300
Stuart Stevens has worked as a strategist and consultant for the Republican Party at the highest levels including with the Dole, George W. Bush, Romney, and McCain presidential campaigns. He now serves as a senior advisor to the Lincoln Project, a political advocacy group founded by "Never-Trumpers" and former Republicans that is committed to defeating Donald Trump and his movement. His new book is, It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump . Stuart Stevens explains how the ...
Aug 31, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 299
This is a sneak preview of this week's episode of The Truth Report which can be found at the link below: https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-60-riots-and-lawyers-donald-trumps-scheme-to-steal-the-2020-presidential-election-is-much-bigger-than-just-the-us-mail Greg Palast is an investigative journalist whose work has been featured by the BBC, the Guardian, the Nation, and Rolling Stone. He is one of the United States' and the world's foremost experts on voter suppression, vote ...
Aug 25, 2020•5 min•Ep. 298
Simon Rosenberg is president of the New Democrats Network and the New Policy Institute, a liberal-think tank based in Washington, DC. He has served as a senior advisor to the Democratic Party at the highest levels and has worked in two presidential campaigns, including a senior role in the 1992 Clinton "War Room". In 2018, Rosenberg was a senior advisor to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee where he helped to craft the strategy which resulted in the Democratic Party winning 41 seats...
Aug 17, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 297
Glenn Kirschner is an NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst and teaches criminal law at George Washington University. He also worked in the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia office as a federal prosecutor/Assistant U.S. Attorney where he was supervised by Robert Mueller. Kirschner explains why Donald Trump and other members of his inner circle should be criminally prosecuted for manslaughter and/or negligent homicide because of their response to the pandemic. Kirschner also outlines...
Aug 06, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 296
This is a sneak preview of this week's episode of The Truth Report which can be found at the link below: https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-57-donald-trump-is-bullying-the-american-people Dr. Justin Frank is the author of the book Donald Trump on the Couch . He is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and a physician with more than 40 years of experience in psychoanalysis. He is the author of the bestselling books Bush on...
Jul 31, 2020•6 min•Ep. 295
Ruth Ben-Ghiat is Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University and an expert on fascism and authoritarianism. Her new book is Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present . Ruth Ben-Ghiat warns that Donald Trump's threats of violence against the American people are very real. Ruth Ben-Ghiat explains that the American people (including the country's political elites) remain in denial about the existential dangers of neo-fascism and autocracy because to admit the truth would mean th...
Jul 25, 2020•58 min•Ep. 294
Jennifer Mercieca is a historian of American political discourse at Texas A&M University. Her new book is Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump. Mercieca explains how Donald Trump is intentionally using the rhetorical strategies of demagogues and other authoritarians. She also details how Trump's use of the demagogue's language playbook allows him to consistently evade responsibility for his actions. And Mercieca reveals how Donald Trump is the P.T. Barnum con artist...
Jul 15, 2020•58 min•Ep. 293
Marvin McAllister is Associate Professor of Theatre at Winthrop University. He is the author of Whiting Up: Whiteface Minstrels and Stage Europeans in African American Performance . McAllister explains the history and enduring power and damage of so-called "blackface" race minstrelsy. He also shares some hidden history about how black folks in America and across the Black Atlantic have performed "whiteness" as a means of striking back against racism – this cultural resistance also includes the c...
Jul 04, 2020•46 min•Ep. 292
Dr. Cornel West is professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard and a professor emeritus at Princeton. He is the author of several bestselling books, including Democracy Matters , Race Matters and Black Prophetic Fire . Dr. West explains how George Floyd is a martyr and that the American people must prepare for a long and brutal reaction from the country's right-wing elites to the rising demands for social justice. He also warns that Donald Trump and his regime constitute a neofasci...
Jun 26, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 291
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is the President & Senior Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach and Co-Chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival. Rev. Dr. Barber is also the architect of the Forward Together Moral Movement He is the author of several books including We Are Called to Be a Movement ; Revive Us Again: Vision and Action in Moral Organizing ; The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear ; and Forward Toget...
Jun 18, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 290
Greg Palast is an investigative journalist whose work has been featured by the BBC, the Guardian, the Nation, and Rolling Stone. He is one of the United States' and the world's foremost experts on voter suppression, vote theft and vote fraud. He is the author of the bestselling books Billionaires & Ballot Bandits and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy . His new book is How Trump Stole 2020 . Greg Palast warns that Joe Biden's chances against Donald Trump are far worse than the polls would sugg...
Jun 13, 2020•4 min•Ep. 289
Jennifer Richeson is a social psychologist who studies racial identity and interracial interactions. She is currently the Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology at Yale University where she heads the Social Perception and Communication Lab. Professor Richeson details the ways that racial inequality, psychology, and systems of privilege relate to one another. She also highlights how basic notions of what it means to be "American" are entangled with "whiteness" and other identities. That relation...
Jun 03, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 288
Fintan O'Toole is a historian, literary critic, author, and essayist whose work has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Irish Times, The Guardian, and other leading publications. O'Toole is the author of many books including his most recent The Politics of Pain: Postwar England and the Rise of Nationalism . In a series of recent essays O'Toole has, with rapier sharp devastating prose, described Trump's America as being pitiful and pathetic where the pandemic only further exposed the so...
May 28, 2020•5 min•Ep. 287
Mike Davis is a historian, political activist, and writer. He is the author of many books including City of Quartz, Buda's Wagon, and Planet of Slums . Davis has also written for The Nation and The New Statesman among other magazines and publications. Davis is also an editor of the New Left Review. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award. Davis is also a Distinguished Emeritus Professor in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riv...
May 21, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 286
David Neiwert is an investigative journalist based in Seattle and a contributing writer for the Southern Poverty Law Center. He is the author of numerous books including Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump, The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right , Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us , and Over the Cliff: How Obama's Election Drove the American Right Insane . Neiwert explains how Trump's fake "anti-lockdown" "protests" are the la...
May 12, 2020•41 min•Ep. 285
Ben Fountain is the author of the novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk , winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award and a finalist for the National Book Award. Fountain traveled across the country during Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign in an effort to document that political and social disaster as it took place in real time. The result is his most recent book Beautiful Country Burn Again . Fountain shares how he is trying to remain focused and grounded in these maddening and su...
May 03, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 284
Daryl Davis is an American R&B and blues musician, activist, author, actor, and bandleader. He is considered one of the best -- if not the best -- boogie-woogie piano players in the world. Daryl Davis has played with such legendary musicians as Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, B. B. King, and Bruce Hornsby. He is also the subject of the 2016 documentary Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America . Daryl Davis is also the author of the book Klan-destine Relationships: A Black Man's Ody...
Apr 23, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 283
Don Winslow is one of America and the world's most widely read and acclaimed crime fiction writers. His books include the New York Times bestsellers "The Cartel", "The Force", and "The Border". Winslow's work has been adapted for major Hollywood movies and TV series. Winslow's new book "Broken" is a collection of short novels focusing in on the tragedies and triumphs, and day-to-day lives of people -- cops, bounty hunters, drug addicts, drug dealers, detectives, their loved ones, friends, and co...
Apr 16, 2020•51 min•Ep. 282
Tim Wise is one of America's and the world's leading experts on white privilege and racism. He is the author of numerous books including his most recent Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America . Tim Wise explains how the coronavirus plague and the types of surveillance and changes in personal behavior and freedom it requires are a crisis for white entitlement and white privilege. Tim Wise also reflects on how only white men such as Donald Tr...
Apr 07, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 281
Robert Evans has been a conflict journalist in Iraq and Ukraine. He has also reported extensively on far-right extremist groups in the United States. His investigative reporting is featured at the website Bellingcat . He is the host of the podcasts Behind the Bastards and It Could Happen Here . His new podcast -- which is available at iHeartRadio -- is The Women's War . Robert offers suggestions about preparing for crises like the coronavirus and surviving the types of chaos and society-wide dis...
Mar 31, 2020•26 min•Ep. 280
Jared Yates Sexton is a writer whose political writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, and elsewhere. He is the author of three collections of fiction and a crime novel. Currently he serves as an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Georgia Southern University. His new book is American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World But Failed Its People . Sexton reflects on his childhood and life in Trumplandia and the power that Trump's cult holds over so many white right-wi...
Mar 24, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 279
Jonathan Metzl is the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, and the director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. He is the author of several books, including Prozac on the Couch and The Protest Psychosis . His new book is Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland . Dr. Metzl explains how the novel coronavirus pandemic will further expose social inequality in America. He ...
Mar 15, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 278
Rachel Bitecofer is an Assistant Director of the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University, where she teaches political science She explains how much of the conventional wisdom about American politics, voting, and elections is incorrect. Bitecofer also highlights how the Democratic Party is wasting time, energy, and resources in a losing effort to win over independent voters and the so-called "white working class" – a group that largely supports the Republican Party. Rache...
Mar 07, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 277
Greg Palast is an investigative journalist whose work has been featured by the BBC, The Guardian, the Nation Magazine and Rolling Stone Magazine. He is also the author of the bestselling books Billionaires & Ballot Bandits and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy . Palast is one of the country's foremost experts on voter fraud and the many other ways that elections are rigged – almost always by Republicans -- so as to prevent the American people from having their votes (and political preferences...
Mar 01, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 276
Walter Koenig portrayed the character "Pavel Chekov" on the original Star Trek series and in seven of the subsequent canonical films. Generations was Koenig's final appearance in the official Star Trek films. Koenig shares his deep worries and concerns about the state of the world and American society in the Age of Trump. He also reflects on both the power and dangers of hope in troubled and challenging times. Koenig also shares how he found acting as his vocation and the ways that he tried to b...
Feb 28, 2020•23 min•Ep. 275
Tochi Onyebuchi explains how his new book Riot Baby is an act of liberation where black rage, black anger, and feelings of just revenge for injustice are acts of liberation against the White Gaze. He also reflects on science fiction, the burdens of representation and why imagining black people with superpowers is so important in a world where the lives of black people are devalued by dominant American society. Tochi also offers his thoughts on why the HBO series Watchmen is such a powerful medit...
Feb 23, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 274
Dr. Justin Frank is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and a physician with more than 40 years of experience in psychoanalysis. He is the author of the bestselling books Bush on the Couch and Obama on the Couch . His most recent book is Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President . Dr. Frank explains how Donald Trump's non-conviction for his obvious crimes in the Ukraine Scandal will worsen his mental health and other aberrant be...
Feb 16, 2020•24 min•Ep. 273
