The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVega

James Poniewozik is chief television critic at the New York Times and author of the new book Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America . He explains what type of character Donald Trump is. How does Trump imagine his role? How did Donald Trump master the new rules of television and the media in the 21st century to gain so much power? James Poniewozik also ponders what...

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 a...

Holden Thorp is a chemist, biologist, inventor, and now editor-in-chief of Science magazine, which has the largest number of paid subscribers for a peer-reviewed general science publication in the world. He has served as provost at both Washington University and University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Holden Thorp is the author of the recent widely read essay at Science magazine, "Trump lied...

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 democ...

Jim Sciutto is CNN's chief national security correspondent and co-anchor of CNN Newsroom. Sciutto previously served as ABC News' senior foreign correspondent. As a foreign correspondent and in his other professional roles, Sciutto has traveled to and reported from more than 50 countries including Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan. His new book is "The Madman Theory: Trump Takes On the World". Sciutto ex...

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 i...

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 . He...

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". Simon Rosenberg shares his thoughts on what issues should be prioritized during the...

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 man...

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 the Couch and Obama on the Couch .   Dr. Frank shares his thoughts about Mary Trump's new book Too Much and...

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.    She also explains that the American news media has largely normalized Donald Trump because they are unab...

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer-winning journalist, author, and philosopher. His most recent book is America: The Farewell Tour . He explains why this perilous moment in America with the pandemic and Trumpism will be looked back upon fondly, compared to what the future holds. Hedges also shares how he sees little hope in Joe Biden and the Democratic Party, which he believes have no substantive solution...

Dr. John Gartner is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and former professor at the Johns Hopkins University Medical School. Dr. Gartner is also the founder of the Duty to Warn PAC, an organization working to raise awareness about the danger to the United States and the world posed by Donald Trump. He is a contributor to the 2017 bestseller "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Ment...

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 . His new book is S et the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties. 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 F...

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 Recon...

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 Pa...

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, de...

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 ad...

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...

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 enti...

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 -- c...

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...

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 o...

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 a...

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...