Saturday on This is Hell!
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9:10 - Policy researcher Paul Pillar explains why Americans misunderstand the rest of the world.
Paul is author of Why America Misunderstands the World: National Experience and Roots of Misperception from Columbia University Press.
10:05 - EPA whistleblower Marsha Coleman-Adebayo exposes regulatory failures in Flint and beyond.
Marsha is an EPA whistleblower, and wrote the recent pieces Water crises like Flint's will continue until the EPA is held accountable for the Guardian and McCarthy and Snyder to Testify before House Oversight Committee on the Poisoning of Flint’s Children for Black Agenda Report.
10:35 - Organizer Beverly Bell profiles the life and legacy of assassinated environmental activist Berta Cáceres.
Beverly wrote Why Was Berta Cáceres Assassinated? for Other Worlds.
11:05 - Writer Thomas Frank explores the continuing failures of liberal politics and the Democratic party.
Thomas is author of the new book Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? from Metropolitan Books.
12:05 - Journalist Andrew Cockburn dives into America's profitable/ineffectual election-industrial complex.
Andrew wrote Down the Tube: Television, turnout, and the election-industrial complex for Harper's magazine.
12:45 - In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen punctures the bubble of middle-class self-satisfaction.
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