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1) Jason Stanley, Jacob Urowsky Pprofessor of Philosophy at Yale University and author of “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them,” discusses his views on the normalization of authoritarian and fascist views as seen in the recent CNN Trump Town Hall program, mass shooting incidents motivated by racist hate, the GOP attack on public education through censorship of history, book banning and stigmatizing LGBTQ youth -- and multiple Republican state legislature's attack on the foundations of democratic accountability and governance.

2) Robert C. Hockett, Edward Cornell Professor of Law AT Cornell Law School discusses the important issues examined in his recent New York Times op-ed piece, "This Is What Would Happen if Biden Ignores the Debt Ceiling and Calls McCarthy’s Bluff."

3) Mel Goodman is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, professor of government at Johns Hopkins University, and a former CIA analyst. Author of "Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA," "National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism," and "A Whistleblower at the CIA," Goodman assesses today's U.S. foreign policy, and issues covered in his recent article, "US Hypocrisy and the Global South."

4) Kim Ives, an investigative journalist and editor at the weekly newspaper Haïti Liberté, and filmmaker, discusses the current situation in Haiti, i.e. recent workers strikes demanding higher wages, the declaration of a coalition of labor unions proposing a transition to democracy and rejecting international military intervention, as well as a recent uprising against street gangs.

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