The Chauncey DeVega Show

This is a special joint episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show and The Truth Report . Steve Cash is Executive Director of The Steady State , a non-profit advocacy organization whose members are former senior national security officials. He previously served as Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Intelligence & Analysis at the Department of Homeland Security, and as Chief of Staff to the Direct...

Nell Irvin Painter is Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, Princeton University. She also holds degrees in painting from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers and the Rhode Island School of Design. Painter is the author of many books including Sojourner Truth, A Life, A Symbol ; Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over ; I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays ; and the New York T...

Dr. Michael Valdovinos is a board-certified clinical psychologist and U.S. Air Force veteran. His new book is Moral Injuries: When Good Conscience Suffers in a World of Hurt . His writing has appeared in The Guardian and Time Magazine. Valdovinos argues that the Age of Trump has inflicted a collective moral injury on millions of Americans — the psychological wound that comes from witnessing or bei...

Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush is President and CEO of Interfaith Alliance, an ordained Baptist minister, and a leading voice on religion, civil rights, and religious freedom. He is a frequent commentator on CNN, NPR, The New York Times, and the BBC. What does it mean to be a person of faith in the Age of Trump? Rev. Raushenbush argues we must speak boldly and directly and with great moral clarity...

Fatima Bhutto is an acclaimed journalist and novelist. She is the author of the novels The Runaways and The Shadow of the Crescent Moon . Her nonfiction works include New Kings of the World and Songs of Blood and Sword . Fatima Bhutto's new book is The Hour of the Wolf: A Memoir . Her essays and other work have been featured in New Statesman, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, and The Nation . Fatima'...

Jeffrey Stern is an award-winning journalist and the author of five books, including his latest, The Warhead: The Quest to Build the Perfect Weapon in the Age of Modern Warfare . His reporting has appeared in The New York Times Magazine , Vanity Fair , and The Atlantic . Stern shares his anger at how President Trump and Pete Hegseth are treating America's war with Iran as though it were a videogam...

This special episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show honors the life and legacy of Robert Duvall , who recently transitioned to the next plane of existence at the age of 95. Duvall's extraordinary career includes unforgettable performances in The Godfather , Apocalypse Now , To Kill a Mockingbird , and Tender Mercies .  His cult film classics include THX 1138 , The Killer Elite , Colors , and Falling...

Steve Cash is Executive Director of The Steady State, a non-profit advocacy organization whose members are former senior national security officials. He explains the findings of the organization's new report, Accelerating Authoritarian Dynamics: Assessment of Democratic Decline . Its conclusion is dire: with Donald Trump's return to power, the country is rapidly sliding toward authoritarian rule....

Heather McGhee is a leading expert in economic and social policy and the New York Times–bestselling author of The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together . A former president of the think tank Demos, McGhee is a frequent commentator on national affairs and now serves as chair of the board of Color of Change, the nation's largest online racial justice organization. McG...

Thom Hartmann is the nation's #1 progressive talk radio host and a New York Times bestselling author. His new book is The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink . Hartmann reflects on the first year of Trump 2.0 and the destruction and chaos it has unleashed on American democracy, society, and the world. Yet he insists that despair and surrender are not op...

On this special  Christmas holiday episode of the podcast, Chauncey DeVega reflects on this very surreal and challenging year and tries to find some mirth, merriment, positive energy and joy to refill his (and our) hope tanks. Chauncey taps into the joy of childhood nostalgia and a longing for a simpler time as he looks through store catalogues from the 1980s in search of his favorite Transformers...

Rodney Barnes is an American screenwriter, producer, and author. He has written and produced such TV shows as The Boondocks , Everybody Hates Chris , Marvel's Runaways , American Gods , Wu-Tang: An American Saga , and HBO's Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty . His graphic novels and comic books include Killadelphia , Blacula , Monarch , Marvel's Falcon , and the adaptation of the first s...

This is a special joint episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show and The Truth Report . Mechele Dickerson is the Arthur L. Moller Chair in Bankruptcy Law and Practice at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law and author of  Homeownership and America's Financial Underclass . Her new book is The Middle-Class New Deal: Restoring Upward Mobility and the American Dream. In this wide-ranging convers...

John J. Lennon is a prison journalist who is currently serving a 25-year sentence in Sing Sing prison in New York. His work has been featured by such leading publications as New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and New York magazine. John's new book is The Tragedy of True Crime . John shares his surreal experience of being on a book tour whil...

Dr. Carol Anderson is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of African American Studies at Emory University. She is the author of several books including the New York Times bestseller White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide,  and One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy . Her most recent book is The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America. Dr. Anders...

Yaroslav Trofimov is Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent for The Wall Street Journal . He is the author of several books including Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence . Yaroslav shares what he experienced on the ground in Ukraine and the moral clarity of the war as compared to the wars and conflicts in the Middle East and other parts of the world. He als...

Professional wrestling legend Hulk Hogan (real name: Terry Bollea) passed away on Thursday, July 24 in Clearwater, Florida. He was 71 years old. Hulk Hogan was and remains one of the most important figures in American and global popular culture. Hulk Hogan/Terry Bollea also leaves behind a very complicated legacy. Brian R. Solomon is a leading professional wrestling journalist, historian, and auth...

Brittany Friedman is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Southern California. She is also a 2023-2024 American Association of University Women faculty postdoctoral fellow and an Affiliated Scholar of the American Bar Foundation, whose writing and other work have been featured by The Washington Post, C-SPAN, NPR, The Associated Press, and Vox. Her new book is Carceral Apartheid...

Sabrina Haake is a federal trial attorney with twenty years of experience specializing in First and 14th Amendment defense. Her essays have been featured in the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Reader, and Raw Story. Her Substack newsletter is The Haake Take . Sabrina Haake reflects on how the Age of Trump and his return to power have negatively impacted the interpersonal relationships and mental and...

Andrew Goldberg is an Emmy-Award-winning investigative producer and journalist. He has directed 14 prime-time documentary specials for PBS/public television, and both long and short-form segments for outlets like CBS News Sunday Morning, ABC News, Live From Lincoln Center, and National Public Radio. His new documentary film is White With Fear . Andrew Goldberg details how Donald Trump and his prop...

Rob Edwards is a thirty-year veteran of movies and television who wrote and produced shows including The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air , Full House , and In Living Color before writing two classic animated films for Walt Disney Feature Animation: the Academy Awards and Golden Globe nominated The Princess and The Frog , and the Academy Awards nominated Treasure Planet . His new project is the graphic nov...

Phil Tinline is the author of the new book Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax of the Century, Its Enduring Impact, and What It Reveals About America Today . Over the course of twenty years working for the BBC, Tinline has made and presented many acclaimed documentaries about how political history shapes our lives. He has also written for  The Times  (London),  The Guardian ,  The Daily Telegraph , ...

Norman Solomon is an author, journalist, media critic and activist. He is co-founder of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. Solomon's books include War Made Easy , and Made Love, Got War . His new book is War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine . In this wide-ranging conversation, Norman Solomon reflects on the first 100...

On this impromptu Easter Day installment of the podcast, Chauncey DeVega reflects on our collective discombobulation (and mass disinhibition), building our inner Noah's Ark to survive these dark times that are getting much worse and much faster with Trump's return to power, and the symbolism and metaphorical power of the Easter holiday and the spring season .  Following through on the importance o...

There are two guests on this week's episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show . Dr. Justin Frank is a former professor of psychiatry at George Washington University. He is the author of several books including  Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President . Dr. Frank returns to the podcast and explains the importance of listening to and trusting our feelings and emotions in this time of fear, e...