After the Democrats Failed Twice to Stop Trump, In the End Will It Be Iran’s Theocratic Fanatics Who Bring Him Down?
We begin with the irony that while the Democratic opposition in this country has been unable to stop the ruinous reign of Trump in 2016 and 2024, it may come down to the fanatical theocrats of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corp being the ones that ended Trump’s debilitating and destructive presidencies. Joining us is Hussein Banai, an Iranian American scholar and Professor of International Studies at Indiana University who teaches Iran’s political development as well as US-Iran relations. He is the author of Hidden Liberalism: Burdened Visions of Progress in Modern Iran and he has a recent article at Foreign Affairs, “When a Ceasefire is Really a Stalemate.”
How To Build a Bridge Between College-Educated Democrats and the Concerns of Working Class Voters
Then we look into how to build a bridge between college-educated voters who make up the base of the Democratic Party and the concerns of working class voters who must be won over to win in competitive swing states. Joining us is Joan Williams, Distinguished Professor of Law and Hastings Foundation Chair emerita at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law San Francisco. An award-winning scholar of social inequality, her books include What Works for Women at Work, coauthored with Rachel Dempsey; Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do About It; and White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America. Her latest book is Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back and she has a new report at the Equality Action Center and the Center for Working Class Politics we discuss, “The Left’s Coalition Crisis.”
How Did We Get To the Point the World’s Most Powerful and Expensive Military is Running Out of Ammo?
Then finally we assess how we got to the point where the world’s most powerful and expensive military is running out of ammo and speak with Eugene Gholz, a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. His work focuses on the intersection of national security and economic policy, on subjects including innovation, defense management and U.S. grand strategy. From 2010-2012, he served in the Pentagon as Senior Advisor to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manufacturing and Industrial Base Policy, and he is the coauthor of two books: Buying Military Transformation: Technological Innovation and the Defense Industry and U.S. Defense Politics: The Origins of Security Policy.