The New Abnormal co-hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy have some advice for the judge handling former President Donald Trump’s New York City hush-money trial: Treat it exactly the same as a high-profile mob case. Then, a conversation with Medhi Hasan about his new media venture, Zeteo, which launched on Monday. Plus! Jonathan V. Last, an editor at The Bulwark, joins the program to talk about his recent presidential rankings.

NYC Judge Needs to Treat Trump Like the Mafia Boss He Is

﻿This week on The New Abnormal, co-hosts Danielle Moodie talks to Andrea Miller, the founding board member of the Center for Common Ground, about the importance of the black vote in the South for Democrats in this election. Plus! The Washington Post tech reporter Drew Harwell gives us the details on the people still investing in Trump Media &amp; Technology Group despite its rapidly plummeting stock price.

GOP Is Throwing Out ‘Catastrophic’ Candidates to Democracy

For all of<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/donald-j-trump" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Donald Trump’s</a> incessant fear-mongering about<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-sb4-the-controversial-texas-immigration-law" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> migrants fueling crime</a> in the United States, he has yet to ask one very important question: What is driving the violence that is making so many on the other side of the border desperate to flee in the first place? That’s the question<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/franchise/the-new-abnormal" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> The New Abnormal</a> team posed to Ieva Jusionyte, author of<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Exit-Wounds-Americas-California-Anthropology/dp/0520395956" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Exit Wounds: How America's Guns Fuel Violence across the Border</a>, on this Sunday’s episode—and his answer might not sit well with<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-claim-that-migrants-smuggle-the-fentanyl-is-junk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> team MAGA.</a>

 The Dirty Little Gun Secret Behind MAGA World’s Migrant Hysteria

This week, The New Abnormalintroduces you to a relatively new face in the pantheon of Trumpworld toadies:Steven Cheung, Trump’s principal spokesperson and de facto enforcer. Plus, a conversation with New Republic staff writer Melissa Gira Grant about a largely forgotten 1873 law, called the Comstock Act, that could be used to outlaw virtually all abortions across America.&nbsp;

The Wild Backstory Behind Trumpworld’s Newest Toadie

This week on The New Abnormal, co-hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy discuss why we should take Donald Trump’s latest statement on abortion with a grain of salt. Plus! Deputy Director of the ACLU Immigrants Rights Project Cody Wofsy fills us in on an immigration law in Texas that even those supporting it have said may have gone too far. Then, journalist Jeb Lund is here to talk about his recent piece covering Florida’s “War on Woke.”

Trump's Abortion Stance Is Likely to Change Come November

The New Abnormal team has picked who they believe Donald Trump will select as his running mate. Plus! Andy Levy talks to CBS News correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti about his new book Before It's Gone: Stories From the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America.

Why These Two Republicans Are Trump’s Most Likely VP Picks

On this week's episode, hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy don’t see any major publications or politicians taking Trump’s threats of retaliation seriously. Then, Mark Joseph Stern, a senior writer at Slate Magazine, joins the program to discuss an upcoming abortion ballot referendum in Florida—and the “giant threat” lurking behind it. Plus! A conversation with Brian Beutler, the author of the Substack “Off Message,” on Democrats’ messaging issues as the 2024 race inches closer to the finish line.

Trump Wants to Jail His Opponents and Nobody Seems to Care

This week on The New Abnormal, University of Louisville Associate Professor in the Departments of Women&amp;#39;s, Gender &amp;amp; Sexuality Studies and Pan-African Studies Dr. Kaila Story joins us to talk about the new acronym conservatives are flinging about, and why it’s taken flight. Plus! Editor of The National Interest, Jacob Heilbrunn, joins us to talk about his new book, “America Last: The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators.”

The Right-Wing’s Spooky New Acronym DEI Betrays an Old Prejudice

From the site where George Floyd was killed to places where Black people were lynched, “Ghosts of Segregation” illustrates a history of racism in the U.S. that can’t be ignored.

 A Visual History of U.S. Racism Articulates What Words Can’t

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