The Chauncey DeVega Show

Michael Moss is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and bestselling author of Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. His new book is Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions. Moss explains how the processed food industry has weaponized our hunger. He also highlights how the processed food industry is constantly developing new ways to use excess...

Jeff Sharlet is a journalist and bestselling author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power  and C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy . He is also the executive producer of the Netflix documentary series based on those two books. His newest book is This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers. Sharlet is also a contributing editor for Rolling St...

Lt. Joe Kenda (ret.) was a detective with the Colorado Springs Police Department for twenty years. During that time, he solved 356 of the 387 murder cases he investigated. Kenda is the host of the new discovery+ show American Detective .  Lt. Kenda's new book is Killer Triggers . His previous book is I Will Find You: Solving Killer Cases from My Life Fighting Crime . Prior to his new show, Kenda w...

Ronald Purser is a professor of Management in the College of Business at San Francisco State University. He is the author of several books including his most recent, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality . Purser's essays and other writing have appeared in the Huffington Post, Alternet, Tikkun, The Guardian, and elsewhere. Purser explains how neoliberal gangster cap...

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 reviews and analyzes the new film "Judas and the Black Messiah" in the context of black cultural politics, history, and our understanding...

Leon Krauze is a news anchor on Univision's KMEX station in Los Angeles. His writing and other work on U.S. politics and immigration has been featured by such leading publications as The New Yorker, The Daily Beast, Foreign Affairs, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. Krauze formerly held the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Journalism at USC. Krauz...

Dr. Carl Hart is professor of neuroscience and psychology at Columbia University. He is one of the world's leading experts on addiction and how drugs interact with the brain. In addition to articles in leading science journals, Dr. Hart's popular writing has been featured in such outlets as The New York Times, Scientific American, and The Nation. His new book is Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Lib...

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. Dr. Frank cautions that Donald Trump may want to be the country's shadow president but the more serious danger at present are his millions of cult members a...

Jared Yates Sexton is the author of several books including American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World But Failed Its People and The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage. He is also a featured commentator on Vice TV's new series While the Rest of Us Die . Sexton explains how and why Donald Trump's neo fascist movement and assault on democracy will...

Eric Boehlert is an award-winning journalist who has written for Rolling Stone and Media Matters. He is also the author of the books "Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press" and "Lapdog: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush". Boehlert is the editor and founder of PressRun. Media. He explains how the American mainstream corporate news media helped to enable Donald Trump'...

This is a sneak preview of The Truth Report which can be found at the link below: https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-82-tim-wise-explains-how-white-privilege-fueled-trumps-coup-attempt-and-assault-on-the-us-capitol-building 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  Di...

Dr. Cornel West is professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard and a professor emeritus at Princeton. He is the author of several bestselling books, including  Democracy Matters ,  Race Matters  and  Black Prophetic Fire . Dr. West reflects on what Trump's fascist white supremacist coup attempt and assault on the Capitol Building reveals (even more) about how America is a sick societ...

In the spirit of the late great Art Bell and his radio show Coast to Coast AM , Happy New Year! John Feffer is a futurist, foreign policy expert, social theorist, and author of the speculative fiction books Splinterlands and Frostlands . He is also Director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. His work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Na...

Jonathan Lethem is a best-selling essayist, novelist, and cultural critic. His books include Dissident Gardens ,  Chronic City ,  The Fortress of Solitude , The Feral Detective , and  Motherless Brooklyn . Lethem is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Lethem's new book is The Arrest . Jonathan ponders thinking and writing in the A...

Michael D'Antonio is the author of The Truth About Trump . His forthcoming book is A Consequential President. D'Antonio is also a frequent commentator on CNN where he has appeared on Anderson Cooper 360, New Day, CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, and Reliable Sources. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose essays and other writing have been featured by such leading publications as The New York...

Nikki Giovanni is one of America's greatest living poets. She has written dozens of collections of poetry as well as non-fiction and other work. Giovanni has received many awards and other honors including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and three NAACP Image awards for literature. She was also a central voice in the Black Arts Movement. Giovanni is currently University Disti...

This is a sneak preview of The Truth Report which can be found at the link below: https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-77-wajahat-ali-has-spent-several-years-reaching-out-to-trump-supporters-and-it-did-not-go-well Wajahat Ali is a playwright, attorney, and political analyst. He is also the author of the recent and widely-read New York Times essay, "'Reach Out to Trump Supporters,...

Ace Atkins is a New York Times bestselling author whose novels include the Quinn Colson series and Robert B. Parker's Spenser series. Atkins is a former newspaper reporter and SEC football player. His essays and other writing have appeared in national publications such as Time magazine and elsewhere. Ace reflects on the ghosts and demons of the color line in America and what the "New South" means...

Thom Hartmann is a national radio show host, New York Times bestselling-author, and leading progressive voice. His new book is The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream .  Hartmann counsels that the American people -- and liberals and progressives in particular -- should be both optimistic and cautious about Joe Biden's presidency. He also explains that Joe Bi...

On this special Election Day episode, Chauncey DeVega goes solo and reflects on his and our feelings and emotions about America in the Age of Trump, this world historical moment, and what may happen today and in the days and weeks ahead with the election and the country's future. To that end, Chauncey warns that the American people should be very suspicious of anyone in the pundit class and elsewh...

This is a sneak preview of The Truth Report which can be found at the link below: https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-66-the-american-people-are-living-in-donald-trumps-horrible-reality-tv-show-and-cannot-escape-it 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....

This is a sneak preview of The Truth Report which can be found at the link below: https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-68-timothy-snyder-warns-that-as-election-day-2020-approaches-america-is-in-the-midst-of-a-slow-motion-reichstag-fire-emergency Dr. Timothy Snyder is a Professor of History at Yale University and the author of the bestselling books On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from...

Paul Mason is a journalist, writer, film-maker and public speaker.  He is the author of six books, including Postcapitalism . Mason writes a weekly column for the New Statesman, and contributes to the Guardian, Freitag and Le Monde Diplomatique. He is a frequent guest on opinion-forming TV and radio shows, including BBC Newsnight, DemocracyNow! BBC Politics Live and BBC Question Time. Mason was al...

Robert P. Jones is the CEO and Founder of PRRI and a leading scholar and commentator on religion, culture, and politics. He is the author of the acclaimed book  The End of White Christian America . His new book is White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity. Jones reflects on the relationship between racism and white supremacy in White Christianity and the Age of Trump....

Dr. Cornel West is professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard and a professor emeritus at Princeton. He is the author of several bestselling books, including  Democracy Matters ,  Race Matters  and  Black Prophetic Fire . Dr. West reflects upon questions of right and wrong, karma, and justice as related to how Donald Trump was recently hospitalized because he was infected by the vir...