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Every week Chris Hayes asks the big questions that keep him up at night. How do we make sense of this unprecedented moment in world history? Why is this (all) happening? This podcast starts to answer these questions. Writers, experts, and thinkers who are also trying to get to the bottom of them join Chris to break it all down and help him get a better night’s rest. “Why is this Happening?” is presented by MSNBC and NBCNews Think.
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What Happens When Americans Get $1,000 a Month Unconditional Cash Transfers? with Elizabeth Rhodes and David Broockman
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What are the effects when you give $1,000 a month in unconditional cash transfers to low-income Americans for three years? Our guests this week studied the behavioral and political outcomes of this in a 3,000-person study. Elizabeth Rhodes is the research director for the Unconditional Cash Study at OpenResearch, a nonprofit research lab founded by…
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Guests: Sahil Kapur, Rep. Summer Lee, Faiz Shakir, Nancy Goodman, Melanie Zanona, Donna Edwards Democrats bail out Republicans before a shutdown. Tonight: how Elon Musk imposed his will on the Republican Party. And how the world's richest man killed cancer funding for kids. And from his troubled transition to failure in the House, Donald Trump's we…
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Guests: Melanie Zanona, Rep. Dan Goldman, Matt Fuller, Jamelle Bouie, Matt Duss Elon Musk assumes control of the MAGA House. Tonight: the Republican mess that could shut down the federal government. Plus, Jamelle Bouie on the difference between "determined" opposition and what Democrats are doing now. And amid all that media coverage and campaign h…
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Guests: Melanie Zanona, Brendan Buck, Sherrilyn Ifill, Cecilia Muñoz, Jelani Cobb Trump chaos and dysfunction is back, baby. Tonight: co-president Elon kills the Republican plan to fund the government and brings us closer to a shutdown as the House Speaker loses control of his caucus. Then, Trump escalates his threats of show trials for his politic…
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Guests: Ari Melber, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sam Adler-Bell, Lisa Rubin Trump's latest attempt to intimidate the media with lawsuits. And how the former Republican candidate Governor of North Carolina just jeopardized his own case. Then, Senator Elizabeth Warren on Trump's new MAGA agenda with the same old Republican priorities. Plus, murder as an ac…
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The 1955 murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi, is one of the most infamous crimes in American history. Yet, decades later, so much of what happened to Till is still widely unknown. Our guest this week points out that this is no accident. Wright Thompson is a senior writer for ESPN and is the aut…
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Guests: Rohit Chopra, Brandy Zadrozny, Faiz Shakir, David Milliband Bombshell reporting on the Trump transition and the deregulation craze. Tonight: new alarm over the man Donald Trump picked to protect American health and the growing concern over the broad MAGA push for deregulation. And as the Fox News cabinet keeps filling out, why is the future…
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Guests: Brian Beutler, Adam Serwer, Sen. Peter Welch, Jennifer Granholm The intimidation continues and the MAGA picks keep coming. Tonight: why Republican rejection of democracy is still alive and well. Then, despite a massive PR push, the signs that Trump's Pentagon pick is not out of the woods yet. And Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm on the…
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