The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVega

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The truth will set you free. Each week on "The Truth Report", Salon politics and culture writer Chauncey DeVega searches for personal, philosophical, empirical, and moral truth with New York Times best-selling authors, leading opinion makers and other experts on politics, history, social justice, the creative arts, human rights, the economy, technology, and the Age of Trump.

Episodes

Ep. 51: Greg Palast Warns That The Georgia Democratic Primary Was a Preview of How Donald Trump Will Steal the 2020 Presidential Election

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 suggest ...

Jun 13, 2020•23 min•Ep 51•Transcript available on Metacast

Ep. 50: Fintan O'Toole Explains How the United States in the Age of Trump's Pandemic is a Pathetic and Pitiable Nation

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 26, 2020•28 min•Ep 50•Transcript available on Metacast

Ep. 49: Jason Stanley Warns That Donald Trump is Using the Pandemic to Destroy Every Aspect of American Democracy

Jason Stanley is a professor of philosophy at Yale University and author of the bestselling books How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them as well as How Propaganda Works . Stanley’s essays and other writing have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Boston Review, and The Guardian. Jason Stanley warns that the pandemic is an opportunity for the Trump regime to further advance its campaign against the Constitution, democracy, human rights, human dignity, and freedom acr...

May 11, 2020•17 min•Ep 49•Transcript available on Metacast

Ep. 48: Chris Hedges Warns That The Tumult and Pain of Trump's Pandemic is a Preview of Far Worse Things in America's Future

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer-winning journalist, author, and philosopher. Hedges’s most recent book is America: The Farewell Tour . There Chris Hedges both details the country's many cultural and political crises and what could potentially happen next. The pandemic crisis has shown his analyses to be eerily prescient. Hedges also warns that the tumult and pain of Trump's coronavirus crisis is but a preview of far worse things in America's future, as social inequality and political failure combine ...

Apr 28, 2020•22 min•Ep 48•Transcript available on Metacast

Ep. 47: Tim Wise Explains How White Privilege is Making the Pandemic Much Worse

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 pandemic 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 Trump and hi...

Apr 21, 2020•28 min•Ep 47•Transcript available on Metacast

Ep. 46: Don Winslow Explains How Donald Trump is Everything Wrong with American Masculinity

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”. His 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 communit...

Apr 15, 2020•26 min•Ep 46•Transcript available on Metacast

Ep. 45: How Donald Trump Will Use Mail-in Voting and the Coronavirus to Steal the 2020 Presidential Election

Greg Palast is an investigative journalist whose work has been featured by the BBC, the Guardian, the Nation, and Rolling Stone. He is 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 how elections are rigged to suppress and otherwise interfere with the will of the people in a democracy. He warns that mail-in voting as it currently exists is likely to guarantee Donald Tru...

Apr 11, 2020•18 min•Ep 45•Transcript available on Metacast

Ep. 44: Understanding the Power of Donald Trump's Coronavirus Death Cult

Steven Hassan is one of the world's foremost experts on mind control and cults. Hassan is the author of several bestselling books, including Combating Cult Mind Control and Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults, and Beliefs . His new book is The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control . Steven Hassan details the workings of Donald Trump’s coronavirus death cult and the power the president has over his followers. Hassan also ...

Apr 06, 2020•19 min•Ep 44•Transcript available on Metacast

Ep. 43: Navigating the Coronavirus Pandemic and Then Making a Better America and World

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 43•Transcript available on Metacast

Ep. 42: How Social Inequality in America is Making the Coronavirus Even More Deadly

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 19, 2020•21 min•Ep 42•Transcript available on Metacast

Ep. 41: Rachel Bitecofer Explains Why Bernie Sanders Has a Better Chance Than Joe Biden of Beating Donald Trump

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 supports the Republican Party. Rachel Biteco...

Mar 06, 2020•26 min•Ep 41•Transcript available on Metacast