Day: April 15, 2026

Could a Ceasefire Between Israel and Lebanon Lead to an Iran-US Agreement to End the War?

We begin with an update on the blockade of the Persian Gulf amid reports that negotiations with Iran might resume soon, tempered by threats from the IRGC that they will blow up Saudi, Kuwaiti, UAE and Qatari oil and gas facilities if Iranian ports are blocked. Joining us to discuss a possible sign of progress with a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon that Iran has made a precondition for a deal with the US is Dr. Paul Pillar, the Director of Graduate Studies at the Center for Peace and Security Studies at Georgetown University. He had a 28-year career in the U.S. intelligence community, in which his last position was National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia and is the author of Terrorism and US Foreign Policy, Negotiating Peace: War Termination as a Bargaining Process and Why America Misunderstands the World. We discuss his article at Responsible Statecraft, “What if Israel just won’t stop?”

On Tax Day Working And Middle Class Americans Do Their Patriotic Duty While the Richest Among Us Take Their Money and Run

Then on this tax day when the working and middle class pay their taxes while, thanks to Trump and the Republicans, the richest Americans and the billionaires get tax breaks, we speak with Meghan Schneider, the communications director for Tax the Greedy Billionaires. We discuss her article at Other Words, “We Need To Tax the Corporations Cashing In On the Iran War.”

The Delusional Democrats Crowding Out the Governor’s Race Make it Likely a MAGA Republican Will be California’s Next Governor

Then finally, in spite of the withdrawal of the sandal-plagued Eric Swalwell from the race, we are left with a ridiculous number of delusional Democrats vying to become the next governor of California, crowding out the field to the point a fringe MAGA Republican could become the next governor of the most Democratic state in the union. We speak with Harold Meyerson, one of the nation’s best-known progressive columnists and editor-at-large of The American Prospect. He’s also been a Washington Post columnist and executive editor of LA Weekly, and has written for a number of prominent magazines and newspapers. His latest articles at The American Prospect include “A Really Bad Week for the Global Right” and “The Nation’s Most Democratic State Might Elect a Trump-Friendly Governor.”