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Michele Norris is in for Ali Velshi and is joined by Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA), President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund Janai Nelson, Director of Social Security & Disability Policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Kathleen Romig, Professor of International Affairs at UC-San Diego Barbara F. Walter, Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University Martha S. Jones, Professor of U.S. History at Georgetown University Chandra Manning, and co-authors of ‘You Must Take Part In Revolution’ Melissa Chan and Badiucao.

Melissa Murray is in for Ali Velshi and is joined by Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), fmr. FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School Leah Litman, Professor of Philosophy at Yale University Jason Stanley, White House Correspondent with The New York Times Luke Broadwater, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Associate Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh Greer Donley, Professor of Law at Drexel University David Cohen

Ali Velshi is joined by Michigan State Sen. Mallory McMorrow, Wisconsin Candidate for Congress Rebecca Cooke, Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, Princeton sociology professor Matthew Desmond, Tennessee State Rep. Justin J. Pearson, Rep. Kelly Morrison (D-MN), independent journalist Noga Tarnopolsky, author of “The Human Scale” Lawrence Wright & former FTC Commissioner Lina Khan

Ali Velshi is joined by Professor Emeritus at Harvard Law School Laurence Tribe, Pulitzer Prize-winning Columnist with The New York Times Nicholas Kristof, The Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah, Professor of Philosophy at Yale University Jason Stanley, Renowned Presidential Historian Jon Meacham, fmr. Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, author of ‘The 57 Bus’ Dashka Slater

Why Donald Trump is underwater on the economy, what’s at stake as he slashes health research, and why more people aren’t speaking out against creeping authoritarianism

Ali Velshi is joined by Harvard Economist Kenneth Rogoff, Wesleyan University President Michael Roth, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, Canada’s Consul-General in New York Tom Clark, constitutional law and global health policy professor Michele Goodwin, two-time Newbery medalist Erin Entrada Kelly, and Columbia Professor Rachel E. Adams.

Charles Coleman Jr. is in for Ali Velshi and is joined by Rep. Jamie Raskin, Rep. Bennie Thompson, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Douglas Brinkley, Janai Nelson, Lisa Rubin, Caroline Randall Williams, and Imani Perry.

Congressman Al Green (D-TX) talks about challenging President Trump with “righteous incivility” while the courts are increasingly viewed as the last, best, clearest line of defense against presidential overreach.

Europe prepares for a world without the U.S. as a reliable ally, Canada readies for Trump’s tariffs, and Republicans work toward slashing health and nutrition programs to pay for tax cuts

Trump takes Russia’s side, the White House seizes control over the press pool, and post-Roe America brings echoes of the real-life stories that inspired The Handmaid’s Tale

How America’s foreign policy realignment under Donald Trump threatens to unravel decades of global alliances and what history tells us about what might come next

What’s behind an extraordinary series of late-night firings at the Pentagon, the truth about Republican cost-cutting, and what the new American administration’s reversal on Ukraine means for the war-torn country

Even with both chambers of Congress at his disposal, Donald Trump continues to unilaterally bulldoze his way through government, consolidating power. At every turn the president flouts the proper channels and procedures necessary to accomplish his goals, and instead Trump chooses chaos. But it really doesn’t have to be this way.

The judicial branch is now under threat as the Trump administration continues its power grab in Washington and tests the limits of the president’s power. Will America’s system of checks and balances hold?

What the arch-conservative blueprint for governing looks like in real life, how the gutting of the federal workforce could hit Black workers hardest, and what happens when Big Tech coddles authoritarian leaders

How Elon Musk’s DOGE is amassing power and President Trump is making good on his promise to dismantle government.

U.S. trade partners retaliate for Trump’s tariffs, Trump’s FBI purge meets pushback, and a new era of American unseriousness on the global stage takes hold

A new shock-wave of firings by the Trump administration, Day One of Trump’s new tariffs, and the state of the most endangered Trump cabinet nominations

The consequences of President Trump’s ongoing political retribution for America’s national security with Ambassador John Bolton and Rep. Bennie Thompson, and how wealth and power in the new Trump era is leading us down a path towards American oligarchy

How Donald Trump is reshaping justice in a new term, why we can’t assume his birthright citizenship gambit is doomed to fail, and what holding the line looks like now that he’s in office