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This is a preview of this week's installment of  The Truth Report.   https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-109-donald-trump-and-the-republican-neofascists-have-pushed-america-to-the-brink-of-a-second-civil-war Barbara Walter is a professor of international relations and political science at UC San Diego and one of the world's leading experts on civil wars, political violence, and...

Leonce Gaiter's nonfiction writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Times, LA Weekly, Newsweek, and The Washington Post. His essay "The True Story of The Harder They Fall's Villain Is Even Weirder Than in the Movie" was recently featured at Slate. He is the author of several novels including his most recent, "In the Company of E...

This is a special New Year's Eve 2021 episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show and The Truth Report . Elliot Ackerman is both a former White House Fellow and Marine. He served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he received the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart. Ackerman is also an ex–CIA paramilitary officer. His new book (co-written with Adm. James Stavridis U...

Winfred Rembert was one of America's great contemporary artists. Originally from Cuthbert, Georgia, Rembert painted on carved and tooled leather where he chronicled black life during the Jim Crow terror regime through the lens of his own personal experiences. Rembert's artwork and life story are a testament to the enduring spirit of black Americans and his attempt to live a good life even in the f...

Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a professor of history and Italian studies at New York University and an expert on fascism and authoritarianism. Her opinion essays and other writing have been featured by CNN, the Washington Post, The New Yorker and the Atlantic. Ruth Ben-Ghiat's most recent book is Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present . Ruth Ben-Ghiat reflects on how authoritarianism and America's escalatin...

Brian Klaas is a columnist at The Washington Post, a political scientist, and an associate professor in global politics at University College London. He is the author of several books including The Devil's Accomplice , The Devil's Apprentice , and How to Rig an Election . His new book is Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us. Brian Klaas warns that America's political, social, and othe...

This is a preview of this week's installment of The Truth Report which features anti-racism educator, activist, and premier truth-teller Tim Wise. https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-106-the-jim-crow-republican-critical-race-theory-bogeyman-is-powered-by-white-rage. * * * Tim Wise is one of America's and the world's leading experts on white privilege and racism. He is the author...

Emmet Asher-Perrin is a writer and cultural critic. They are also the news and entertainment editor for Tor.com Asher-Perrin critically interrogates the new Dune film and its white savior theme(s) and questions of identity, gender, power, orientalism and cultural appropriation. They also reflect upon Denis Villeneuve's choices in terms of casting, narrative, visual storytelling and character devel...

Hello good people! On this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show I am sending up a a signal flare and sharing a sneak preview of The Truth Report. https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-105-how-the-jim-crow-republicans-are-going-to-steal-the-2022-midterm-and-2024-presidential-elections I also update you good and kind members of The Chauncey DeVega Show family about my whereabo...

This is a special Indigenous Peoples' Day episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show in honor of sociologist and historian James Loewen who passed away on August 19, 2021. **** James Loewen  is the author of the bestselling book  Lies My Teacher Told Me . He has also written award-winning books such as Sundown Towns ,  Teaching What Really Happened , and  The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader .   Pr...

Kenneth Feinberg served as the Special Master of the U.S. government's September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. He has also been responsible for compensation programs for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, the Virginia Tech massacre, and other tragedies. He is also the subject of the documentary "Playing God" as well as the new Netflix film "Worth". Ken Feinberg reflects on how he navigat...

Dr. Mary Trump is a clinical psychologist and business woman. She is also Donald Trump's niece. She is the author of the bestselling book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man . Her new book is The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal . Mary Trump explains why so many Americans are still in deep denial about Donald Trump's enduring powe...

Adilifu Nama is Professor of African American Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of several books including  Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes . His newest book is  I Wonder U: How Prince Went beyond Race and Back . Nama critically interrogates the "new" film "Candyman" and locates it relative to horror genre conventions, cinematic representations of bla...

Norman Solomon is the author of several books including War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death" . He is also the founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. Solomon explains how the United States is actually a global empire. He also details how propaganda is used to convince the American people to support war, the country's military industrial...

S.A. Cosby is the author of the bestselling crime noir novels "Blacktop Wasteland" and "Razorblade Tears". Cosby reflects on how his upbringing as a striving member of the black working poor in the south helped to teach him lessons about humanity, dignity, and masculinity that guide his life to this day. He also explains the importance of family and the many other good people who mentored him thro...

Anthea Butler is the author of the new book White Evangelical Racism . She is also Chair of Religious Studies and Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her essays and other writing have also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, NBC, and The Guardian. Professor Butler explains why it is impossible to properly understand...

There are two guests on this episode of  The Chauncey DeVega Show . Dr. Aruna Khilanani is a forensic psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with expertise in violence and racism. Dr. Khilanani shares what it was like to be attacked by the right-wing rage machine because of her recent talk at the Yale University School of Medicine titled "The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind". To that end, she expla...

Jared Yates Sexton is the guest on this very special July 4 Independence Day episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show and The Truth Report . Jared Yates Sexton is the author of several books including "The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage" and "American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World But Failed Its People". In this wide-ranging conversation Jare...

There are two guests on this episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show . Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi is the author (with Joshua Horwitz) of the new book A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars . He is also a professor at the Florida Institute of Technology, and a frequent contributor to the Discovery Channel and National Geographic. Hakeem has given multiple TED talks and is regularly in...

Jason Colavito is a professional skeptic and author. His investigations have appeared on the American Heroes Channel and the History Channel. Colavito's essays and commentary have also been featured by The New Republic and other leading publications. His forthcoming book is  The Legends of the Pyramids.   Jason Colavito explains why today's America is so sick with conspiracy theories and other ant...

Chris Matthews is the former host of "Hardball" on MSNBC. His new book is This Country: My Life in Politics and History. Chris Matthews shares his worries and concerns about American democracy under existential threat from Trumpism and the Jim Crow Republican Party.   He also reflects on life lessons, opportunities, the kindness of mentors and strangers, and his long love affair with journalism an...

This is a sneak preview of  The Truth Report  which can be found at the link below: https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-94-what-will-happen-when-the-united-states-and-china-finally-go-to-war Elliot Ackerman is both a former White House Fellow and Marine, and served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he received the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the P...

Nicole Perlroth is an award-winning cybersecurity journalist for The New York Times. She is the author of the new book This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race . Perlroth explains the existential threat that cyberwarfare and such digital weapons as computer viruses and "zero-day exploits" represent to an internet-connected society. She also warns that individual hackers...

Kristin Du Mez is the author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. Du Mez explains how right-wing extremists took over the Republican Party and why they view the evildoer Donald Trump as a type of savior and weapon to advance their Christian fascist war on secular democracy. Du Mez also highlights the role of white right-wing Christian extremists...

***Given the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict for murdering George Floyd, this week we are revisiting a conversation which took place with Lt. Colonel (ret.) Dave Grossman that originally aired here on The Chauncey DeVega Show on April 28, 2016. Grossman has been prominently featured in these recent discussions of how America's police are trained to use lethal and other force.*** Former United States...