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A noxious romance
Plus, the “have-nots” of Palestine
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Martin Di Caro
Nayib Bukele and the Death of El Salvador's Democracy
Twelve years ago, few outside Latin America knew of Nayib Bukele, then the young mayor of a small town outside San Salvador. Today, the media-savvy…
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Martin Di Caro
46:10
The Palestinians' Economic Catastrophe
When tracing the origins of today's war and devastation in Gaza, it may be easy to overlook economic inequality in favor of political or ideological…
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Martin Di Caro
48:46
It’s D-Day. Let’s talk movies.
Plus, Jim Oakes on Lincoln and habeas corpus
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Martin Di Caro
D-Day in Film
Can movies mirror the reality of war? Should war movies be entertaining or horrifying? Today is June 6, the anniversary of the Invasion of Normandy in…
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Martin Di Caro
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Lincoln and Habeas Corpus
Trump administration officials say they're considering doing something that's only been done four times in U.S. history: suspend the writ of habeas…
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Martin Di Caro
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May 2025

Trump the peacemaker? Not yet.
Plus, Damon Linker on the far-right ideas driving Trump’s exercise of presidential authority
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Martin Di Caro
Presidential Peacemakers
Since Theodore Roosevelt won a Nobel Peace Prize for helping end the Russo-Japanese War, American presidents have sought to mediate the end of conflicts…
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Martin Di Caro
57:40
The Ideas Behind Trump 2.0
The theories of unrestrained executive power guiding the Trump administration's assault on the administrative state and its attitude toward the federal…
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Martin Di Caro
1:11:29
Antony Beevor on Putin, Trump, and global chaos
Are we losing our connection to the Second World War?
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Martin Di Caro
What is Chinese Communism?
China is ruled by a Communist Party of 100 million members, a giant pyramid with President Xi Jinping and the Politburo at the top. Yet its economy, the…
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Martin Di Caro
47:44
Antony Beevor on Trump, Putin, and the Unsettled Legacies of WWII
Historian Antony Beevor says the world today resembles the Second World War in one important respect: "For decades, it seemed as though the characters…
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Martin Di Caro
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