Truth, Politics and Power

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Each week, host Neal Conan conducts in-depth conversations that help listeners learn the history, politics and risks of the new administration's decisions.

The election of Donald Trump is challenging core ideas about how we view ourselves as a nation and how we function as a democracy. Stepping back from the daily scrum, ”Truth, Politics and Power” addresses the context and meaning that underlie the issues.

Each week, host Neal Conan puts the new administration’s policies and practices in historical perspective. Among the range of questions to be explored: What’s the purpose of the President’s constant attacks on the media? Why would a new president question the integrity of his own intelligence services? How do the origins of the “America First” movement fit into Trumps’ World view? How will the president respond to dissent, to the checks and balances of the American system, and to inevitable crises? How does a President and a ruling party with a narrow political base address an increasingly diverse population? What’s the long-term effect of a strategic retreat from the US role as the “indispensable nation” at the center of the world order established after World War II? How does Trumpism fit with the rise of right wing movements in Europe as well as authoritarian regimes in Russia, China, Turkey and the Philippines?

For information about Truth, Politics and Power, please contact Steve Martin at steve@sfmconsulting.com or call 703.715.0827. Hide full description 

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Each week, host Neal Conan conducts in-depth conversations that help listeners learn the history, politics and risks of the new administration's decisions

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Each week, host Neal Conan conducts in-depth conversations that help listeners learn the history, politics and risks of the new administration's decisions


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As Truth Politics and Power winds up weekly production, host Neal Conan puts Donald Trump and Trumpism into historical context. Historian Heathe...

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
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“Politically Correct” originated as an insult on the fringes of the American left…and migrated over to the conservative rhetorical arsenal. In an ...

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  • Added: Mar 23, 2018
  • Length: 58:57
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The slave owner who founded the Democratic Party and, much later, a favorite of Donald Trump. The first President to be impeached. The history of R...

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  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 58:56
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The final phase of the civil war in Syria is descending to new levels of agony as Syrian and Russian jets reduce a suburb of Damascus to rubble, fo...

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  • Added: Mar 09, 2018
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The boom in oil and gas production in the US has profound effects on the economy and foreign policy - the technology that created the boom, frackin...

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  • Added: Mar 02, 2018
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As the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, reignites the debate on guns, we update the “Gun Rights and Gun Control” episode of Truth, Politics and ...

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2018
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For more than half a century, Presidents based major decisions on a deliberative process that invited input from all the government agencies concer...

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  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
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While the FBI is no stranger to political controversy, the bureau is now the target of an unlikely attack. President Trump and his allies have la...

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2018
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In his address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, President Trump turned to a slogan he trumpeted during his campaign and his inaugural addres...

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2018
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Turkey's escalation in it's war against US backed Kurdish fighters puts the United States on a collision course with a NATO ally and offers a windo...

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  • Added: Jan 26, 2018
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