Anand was on Morning Joe today, responding to Donald Trump and J.D. Vance’s continuing racist lies about Haitian immigrants in his native state of Ohio, and talking about what is real: that immigrants are among America’s greatest gifts. Watch the video above, read Anand’s essay below, and read some text excerpts from his comments on Morning Joe, below the fold. A request for those who haven’t yet joined us: The interviews and essays that we share here take research and editing and much more....

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit the.ink Today, we’re speaking with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg about why infrastructure matters, the challenge of communicating its importance, how supplying the material basics that improve lives is crucial to the long-term project of turning Americans away from toxic politics, the value of speaking to those on the other side of the aisle, the changing nature of fatherhood and what it means to be a man — and of...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit the.ink Today we present for our subscribers the full audio recording of our conversation with Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal. Rep. Jayapal, who chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus, has been one of the most visible progressives in Congress; she’s long been a defender of immigrant rights and an outspoken voice for reproductive freedom and called early on f…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit the.ink Today we present for our paid subscribers the full audio recording of our conversation with Surgeon General Vivek Murthy. Earlier this week, the surgeon general intensified his call for the regulation of youth use of social media platforms, asking for the use of warning labels akin to those applied to products such as alcohol and tobacco. While some rese…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit the.ink Today we present for our subscribers the full audio recording of our conversation with the author and policy expert Heather McGhee. In her influential book, The Sum of Us, McGhee argues against the idea that progress for some must come at the expense of others. It’s the opposite, she maintains, famously recounting how, when the racist response to desegr…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit the.ink Today we present for our subscribers the full audio recording of our conversation with the author and activist Naomi Klein. Klein has written a series of books — among them No Logo and The Shock Doctrine — that have met their cultural moments and changed the way people think and talk. Her work on labor, climate change, globalization, and the other criti…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit the.ink Today on The Ink podcast, our conversation with Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan. She began her career as an antitrust researcher and reporter, eventually becoming a lawyer and public servant and along the way publishing a groundbreaking paper that turned 40 years of conservative thinking on antitrust on its head. Named by President Biden to lead…

Context. Is there a less sexy word in the English language? Or a more important one? The journalist Mehdi Hasan has long been a relentless advocate for context. As a host and commentator for the BBC, Al Jazeera, and MSNBC, Hasan has always challenged assumptions and filled in historical blind spots, with a devotion to doing the extra research and a willingness to speak truth to power. Now he has left his corporate media days behind him and has launched his own, independent media company,...