cover of episode Fascism comes to Portland: Harold Meyerson; Disarm the police; Guttenplan; Ella Taylor on TV

Fascism comes to Portland: Harold Meyerson; Disarm the police; Guttenplan; Ella Taylor on TV

2020/7/24
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Trump’s “performative authoritarianism” as a campaign ploy designed for Fox News—that’s what Harold Meyerson says. He’s Editor at large of The American Prospect. Plus: it’s time to disarm the police—that’s what Don Guttenplan argues. He’s editor of The Nation. And film critic Ella Taylor is back with virus-time TV recommendations: this week, two Netflix shows about Brazil: an animated feature on migrant labor, and a documentary about the crisis of democracy there.