Politics and Reality Radio: Trump’s taxes, Cuba Libre and The Supremes
by Joshua Holland
Hello, Hullabaloo readers (Hullabalooers?), and a huge thanks to Digby for letting me park my show, Politics and Reality Radio, in her driveway. By way of introduction, I’m Joshua Holland, and I’m a contributor to The Nation. I also contribute occasionally to Salon and Raw Story, and I used write for AlterNet and Moyers and Company.
The show is pretty simple: Each week, we talk to progressive journalists, newsmakers and academics, and we take some time digging into the topics at hand rather than trying to boil down complex issues into a series of short sound-bytes. We also try to have some fun with it, because American politics can be depressing as Hell otherwise. (Digby’s one of our favorite regular guests.) And it’s 100% commercial free, so if I’ve got something totally wrong, it’s not because of pressure from advertisers.
This week, we look at what might be lurking in the tax returns that Republican front-runner and slick con artist Donald Trump refuses to make public. If anyone’s in a position to offer an informed theory, it’s David Cay Johnston, who won a Pulitzer Prize working the tax beat for The New York Times. He’s first up.
Then, as Obama embarks on a historic visit to Cuba, we’re joined by UT Austin research fellow Julia Sweig, who just returned from Cuba to offer a perspective on what’s going on down there now – and what the future may hold – that you won’t often hear on the evening news.
Finally, we speak to Martin Longman, web editor for The Washington Monthly (you may be more familiar with him as the blogger known as Booman) about Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. Some progressives aren’t pleased with the pick, but Booman likes it.
And here are this week’s musical breaks:
Vintage Jazz Cardigans with Haley Reinhart: “Lovefool”
AronChupa: “I’m an Albatraos”
Love: “Always See Your Face”
Gregory Isaacs: “Slave Master”
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Hope you enjoy it: