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.

Nowhere has President Biden’s foreign policy rhetoric failed to match his actual foreign policy more clearly than in Israel and the occupied territories, @mehdirhasan says, where the U.S. simply stood by Israel after its deadly incursion in Jenin.

.@PeterBeinart tells @mehdirhasan that a “mass movement of Americans of conscience” is needed to ignite real change when it comes to U.S. policy and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Check out The Beat’s special podcast episode, featuring Alfre Woodard reading Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s full affirmative action dissent. shorturl.at/aFHR8

.@mehdirhasan breaks down why we should care about the ongoing political turmoil in Pakistan and Imran Khan's ejection from the Prime Minister's office last year: "That country has been in the midst of an historic political and economic crisis."