Saturday on This is Hell!
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9:10 - Historian Ibram X. Kendi traces racist thought in America back to the birth of the nation.
Ibram is author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America from PublicAffairs.
10:05 - Live from Mexico City, Laura Carlsen reports on a teacher's strike that left nine dead in Oaxaca.
Laura spoke to the Real News Network for their segment Nine Killed in Police Crackdown on Oaxaca Teacher's Strike.
10:35 - Live from São Paulo, Brian Mier surveys land rights rollbacks in post-coup, pre-Olymics Brazil.
Brian has been covering the Brazilian coup a year before it even happened.
11:05 - Historian Andrew Bacevich explores four decades of American intervention, and failure, in the Middle East.
Andrew is author of America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History from Penguin Random House.
12:05 - Historian Judith Stein explains how liberals turned their backs on New Deal politics.
Judith was interview by Connor Kilpatrick for the Jacobin piece Why Did White Workers Leave the Democratic Party?
12:40 - In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen criticizes smugness, or is smug, or both.