Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris, is heard every Monday night on WPKN 89.5 FM, Bridgeport, CT between 8:00 - 10:00 pm ET. Webstreaming and audio archive at http://wpkn.org

1) Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of Italian and History at New York University and author, "Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present," talks about her recent editorial, "Why Strongmen Leaders Manage Exits from Power Badly," and the ongoing threat of authoritarianism posed by Donald Trump and many in the Republican Party.

2) Jenna Grande, Press Secretary with Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington discusses the major failings of our democracy under the Trump administration, and the government reform proposals discussed in CREW's recent report, "What Democracy Looks Like."

3) Craig Aaron Co-CEO of the media democracy group Free Press, discusses the issues his group is currently working on as the incoming Biden administration takes shape, such as restoring Net Neutrality, stopping President Trump's nomination of Nathan Simington to the FCC, and expanding affordable access to broadband Internet to meet the needs of millions of people now working and attending school online.

4) Joseph Geevarghese, Executive Director of Our Revolution, talks about his group's successful candidate endorsements in the 2020 election campaign, moving the incoming Biden administration toward adopting progressive policies, and OR's work in the two critical Senate runoff elections in Georgia on January 5th.

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