When the pandemic-driven inflation set in, experts warned that America might see a repeat of the prolonged 1970s “Great Inflation.”
But Nobel Prize Economist @paulkrugman says, “it just doesn’t look like that.”
It’s not just a single GDP report. @mehdirhasan runs through all the numbers that show how the Biden economy is not just strong: It’s exceeding virtually all expectations.
"I can't take seriously a movie on child trafficking starring, an out-and-out conspiracist who dabbles in QAnon and Anti-Semitism, suggests elites are behaving like vampires with kids, and even now claims Donald Trump is the new Moses," @MehdiRHasan says of 'Sound of Freedom.'
"There was a time when conservatives had substantive things to say... now it's Barbie this, Dr. Seuss that, Bud Light, Mr. Potato Head, the skin color of the Little Mermaid. It's ridiculous."
@MehdiRHasan talks to @AymanM about conservatives freaking out over... Barbie.
Can Jack Smith hope to present his Trump documents case before a fair and impartial jury in the MAGA heartland of Florida? @MehdiRHasan asks former prosecutor @glennkirschner2 his thoughts. WATCH:
"In parts of the West Bank, what you're seeing is a slow-motion ethnic cleansing," @PeterBeinart discusses protests and what he saw on the ground in Israel ahead of a Netanyahu-backed judicial overhaul.
Donald Trump is continuing to make veiled threats over the prospect of him serving jail time. @judgecordell tells @MehdiRHasan, "no judge should take this sitting down or quietly when he makes statements like this."
Fmr. Trump DHS official @MilesTaylorUSA is quick to call out the dangers of authoritarianism and Trumpism, but how does he square that opposition with his work in the administration, particularly Trump’s child separation policy? Watch what he has to say to @MehdiRHasan:
Ex-Trump official @MilesTaylorUSA explains to @MehdiRHasan just how close the U.S. came to nuclear war with North Korea during the Trump administration:
“That [was the] first time in the history of the DHS that it had a real-life preparation for a potential nuclear strike.”
Trump and his allies are making authoritarian plans for his second term like a “Bond” villain – right in plain sight. But @MehdiRHasan asks, if this is what they’re saying in public, shouldn’t we also be concerned about what they’re planning behind closed doors?
It's a tale of two Espionage Act cases.
While Trump allies cry foul over his indictment under that law, @mehdirhasan says Trump's case is not one where it's being abused. To understand why, you need to understand the story of whistleblower Daniel Hale: youtube.com/GPTGKQm2sU0
Rep. Pramila Jayapal is facing bipartisan backlash after calling Israel a “racist state” during remarks last weekend. Jayapal apologized, but @mehdirhasan looks at the Israeli government's own policies and asks: how would you characterize those policies?
Could Joe Biden face a third-party challenge from fellow Democrat Joe Manchin and the “No Labels” movement?
@SenMarkey tells Mehdi he’s worried that dark money groups are helping fund the movement, which could ultimately "siphon" off Biden votes in crucial 2024 swing states.
Could a tax on private jet travel curb global warming? @SenMarkey thinks so. That's why he introduced the "FATCAT Act." But @mehdirhasan asks, will it ever pass when those same private jet owners are major donors to both parties?
While Biden “deserves credit” for radically reducing drone strikes, @jeremyscahill tells @mehdirhasan “Pandora is out of the box” when it comes to drone use around the world, all because of the U.S. legacy.
When it comes to the use or even abuse of the Espionage Act, Drone Papers reporter @jeremyscahill tells @mehdirhasan "you can't compare Donald Trump to [drone whistleblower] Daniel Hale."
He explains how Hale "paid the price for Donald Trump’s ego."
Don’t call RFK Jr. a “political maverick” or “vaccine skeptic.” As @mehdirhasan notes, his anti-vaccine effort has real-life consequences. For proof, just look at the 2019 measles outbreak in Samoa, where dozens of children died thanks to an anti-vaccine movement Kennedy boosted.
With President Biden nominating Elliott Abrams (of Iran-Contra fame) to a bipartisan diplomacy panel, @mehdirhasan breaks down Abrams' deeply problematic history in U.S.-Latin American foreign policy.
“You don’t ‘defend’ yourself against people you’re colonizing… That simply is not the way that it works.”
@YousefMunayyer reacts to Israel's incursion in Jenin, including the suggestion by Fmr. PM Naftali Bennett that teens killed in the operation were terrorists.