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After enduring almost three months of the Trump-Musk agenda, Democrats finally gained a victory last week, after voters elected Democratic-backed judge Susan Crawford, defeating billionaire Elon Muskâs attempt to flip the court to conservative control.
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Ten British nationals are now facing allegations of war crimes over their service in the Israeli military and its war on Gaza. To respond to this groundbreaking news, Mehdi interviews one of the lawyers behind this report: renowned human rights barrister Michael Mansfield KC.
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Mehdi was in New York this past week, and he was joined in the studio for a fascinating and wide-ranging conversation by none other than Molly Jong-Fast, acclaimed author, host of the âFast Politicsâ podcast, and a special correspondent for Vanity Fair.
You might find this to be a cathartic conversation as Mehdi and Molly unleash on the idiocy of the Trump tariffs - and the Trump administration in general. The two of them also address the deficiencies in the modern, cautious, elderly Democratic Party.
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The United States Constitution was written nearly 240 years ago, laying the foundations for an independent, successful, democratic country. But, like most of the nationâs laws, it was written by and for wealthy white men. To put it simply, the US legal system today feels, in some ways, both outdated and discriminatory â especially when itâs either under attack or weaponized by Donald Trump. Itâs this exact issue that Elie Mystal, lawyer, author, and justice correspondent at The Nation magazine, tackles in his new book, Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America. Mehdi speaks with Mystal about US democracy, voter suppression, and the Trump administration.
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In this segment of Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi interviews the lawyer for a Georgetown scholar who is facing deportation for his pro-Palestine views.
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With the sun setting over Gazaâs skyline and warplanes flying overhead, trauma surgeon Dr. Feroze Sidhwa and orthopedic surgeon Dr. Mark Perlmutter huddle in front of their webcam at Nasser Hospital in the south of Gaza to describe some of the horrors they have seen over the last week.
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In this segment of Mehdi Unfiltered, culture commentator Taylor Lorenz talks about the âMisogyny Slop Ecosystemâ and how Republican influencers are using pop culture to funnel women into the right-wing pipeline.
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In this weekâs episode of Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by New York Times business investigations editor David Enrich to discuss his new book, âMurder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful.â
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Trump is once again trying to reassert himself as the law and order president. During his recent joint address to Congress, the president called for a mandatory death penalty for anyone who kills a police officer. This of course comes less than two months after Trump himself pardoned more than 1,500 Jan. 6 rioters, including over 300 who pleaded guilty to either assaulting or obstructing law enforcement.
One of those law enforcement officers who was assaulted on Jan. 6 was former Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell, who tells Mehdi that he âhad to laughâ last week when Trump tried to claim heâs on the side of law enforcement. Sgt. Gonell tells Mehdi that he was assaulted by more than 40 rioters that day and had to undergo two surgeries as a result. When asked what his reaction was when Trump pardoned those rioters on his first day back in office, Gonell told Mehdi it was like a âstab in the heart.â
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Elon Musk gets called a lot of names by a lot of people, but not many elected officials find the courage to call him a âdickâ without fear of the DOGE bros coming for them, unless youâre Senator Tina Smith that is, the Democrat from Minnesota who sat down for a wide-ranging interview with Mehdi in her office on Capitol Hill.
The senatorâs harsh words are not exclusively reserved for Musk and Trump though, as the Minnesota senator is just as unfiltered in her criticisms of the Democratic Party to which she belongs, a party that she describes today as being âtoo cautious.â
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In this weekâs episode of Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by Democratic Rep. Jim Himes to discuss his censure vote for Rep. Al Green, the detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, and the âpro-fascist instinctsâ of Elon Musk.
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The conservative moment in the US has even taken to declaring liberal Jewish critics of Israel as not Jewish enough, says one leading Jewish expert on antisemitism, who warns against the conflating of antisemitism with anti-Zionism.
Friedman has not been shy to point out the hypocrisy displayed by people who are outraged by phrases like âfrom the river to the sea,â but are seemingly unbothered by Nazi-looking salutes on stage here in the US.
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In Part Two of Mehdiâs interview with Joe Walsh, the former Republican congressman turned Never-Trumper, Mehdi challenges Walsh on his support for Israelâs war on Gaza.
Mehdi presses Walsh on his use of the term âgenocideâ to describe Russiaâs attack on Ukraine but his refusal to apply it to Israelâs attack on Gaza; on his smearing of the International Criminal Court for having âanti-israel biasâ; and on his refusal to condemn Israelâs mass displacement of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, not just Gaza.
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Former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh was once a proud ally of the right-wing Tea Party â the movement that many believe paved the way for Donald Trump. But today, Walsh is no fan of Trump. In fact, heâs become one of the most vocal âNever Trumpâ Republicans and is now officially an independent.
In this first of a two-part interview, Mehdi and the former Congressman discuss the fallout from Trump term two so far, the Democrats' failure to fully push back against him, and whether the US is heading towards civil war.
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New York City Mayor Eric Adamsâ days seem to be numbered as he faces mounting pressure â from New Yorkers and beyond â to resign. The embattled mayor had faced charges related to bribery, campaign finance violations, and conspiracy offenses - until that is, the Trump DOJ stopped the charges against Adams just two months before his trial, in return for the mayorâs support for the administrationâs immigration policies.
Adams has denied the charges and stated that he will serve his full term, despite the national outrage, but one man is ready to step up if needed: New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams â the first in line to succeed Adams and become acting mayor.
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Award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad has just released his first non-fiction book titled One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. The bookâs title, inspired by a viral tweet Akkad posted in October of 2023, gives you a good hint that the main theme is the genocide in Gaza. Akkad joins âMehdi Unfilteredâ to discuss the many themes in his book, what inspired it, and why so many are silent when they shouldnât be.
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Indian Author Pankaj Mishra has spent much of the past year advocating against Israelâs war on Gaza, and has now even gone as far as to write a whole book on the subject â The World After Gaza: A History. The book is of course inspired by Mishraâs London Review essay and lecture, âThe Shoah After Gazaâ â which drew up controversy last year, after the Barbican backed out of hosting Mishraâs lecture, all before he even gave it.
Hear Mishra discuss the implications of Israelâs impunity, US President Donald Trumpâs re-election, and his spats with far-right writers Jordan Peterson and Niall Ferguson, as well as parallels between the state of Israel and his home country of India, specifically in relation to what India is doing in Kashmir.
Click here to buy a copy of Mishraâs book, âThe World After Gaza: A History.â
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Donald Trump hasnât even been in office for a month, and already, his administration is dismantling key agencies of the federal government, including USAID. Much of this work is being done by shadow president Elon Musk, whose so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been wreaking havoc on key systems at the Treasury, the Department of Education, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. If DOGE really plans on cutting $2 trillion from the federal budget, thereâs one place progressives say he can start: the Pentagonâs whopping $850 billion budget.
Ben Cohen, progressive activist and co-founder of the ice cream brand Ben & Jerryâs and Matthew Bartlett, a Republican strategist who served in Trumpâs first-term State Department join Mehdi to discuss.
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Last week, Democratic Congresswoman and âSquadâ member Ilhan Omar became Elon Muskâs latest target on Twitter, after he falsely accused her of breaking the law for sharing legal advice to undocumented immigrants.
In this interview on âMehdi Unfiltered,â Rep. Omar sits down with Mehdi to discuss Muskâs attack on her, the ongoing effort to dismantle federal agencies funded by Congress, the need for the Democratic Party to get more aggressive and use the leverage it has and Trumpâs plan for the US to illegally take control of Gaza among other topics.
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Last week, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order freezing US aid to South Africa, saying that their new land ownership law â meant to address the legacy of apartheid â âblatantly discriminates against ethnic minority Afrikaners.â This came just days after Elon Musk railed against the law on Twitter, calling it âopenly racist.â
In this interview, South Africaâs Ambassador to the US Ebrahim Rasool sits down with Mehdi to discuss the new law, Trump and Muskâs decision to âinterfereâ with South Africaâs internal politics, and the countryâs ICJ case against Israel, which the Trump administration cited as one of the reasons for freezing aid to South Africa.
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