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Venezuela was once a liberal democracy with close geopolitical relations with the United States. So what happened?

This is the story of Venezuela's devolution from democracy to dictatorship, and from cooperation with America to coups and open conflict.

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►How did the Cold War affect US-Venezuela relations?

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Exceptions to & exapnsions of Freedom of Speech.

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In this interview:

►Was the First Amendment really the first?

►Why does the First Amendment only mention Congress?

►Did our Founders believe the President has no power to restrict freedom of speech?

►To our Founders and their British counterparts, was freedom of press more conseq...

Congress, and not the presidency, used to be the predominant power of the U.S. government. In this interview, we discuss the history of how politics, populism and polarization changed the balance of power in our government.

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►Where does the Constitutional principle of the "separation of powers" and "coequal" branches ...

On-again off again. Hot and cold. That's how I would describe more than 75 years of America's relationship with India. It's a story that seesaws between extremely close cooperation and virtually full ruptures and severe sanctions. And the goal of this interview is to learn from history how Pres. Trump's 50% tariffs may impact our relations with India now!

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U.S. interventions in Brazilian politics since the 19th century & Bolsonaro's 27-year prison term.

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🚩In this interview:

►How do Brazilians perceive the U.S.?

►Do Brazilians watch American TV shows? Do they listen to our music?

►Brazilians to Americans: why don't you know more about us!

►A Tropical Version of the U.S.?

►Brazilians' "weird" r...

New York Fashion Week is here. But what is fashion? And what is American fashion?

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🚩In this interview:

►What can be considered unfashionable?

►In the old days, did kings and queens set fashion trends?

►Do you have a fashion group?

►Did you say you don't think about clothes? If yes, then you do!

►Is fashion aspirational?

►Ralph Lauren

►Fashion duri...

How do presidents pay for White House renovations, furnishings and other expenses?

Pres. Trump will be building a big beautiful ballroom for the White House. And you will note from this interview, the need for additional space in the executive mansion is not at all new. Many presidents have asked for it.

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►Who manages the White Hou...

Bath, England, is celebrating Jane Austen - 250 years of her life and legacy.

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Do any of these titles sound familiar to you?

►"Pride and Prejudice"

►"Sense and Sensibility"

►"Persuasion"

►"Emma"

►"Mansfield Park"

►"Sanditon"

If so, you definitely want to hear this interview - the stories and history of Jane Austen's life and legacy.

🚩About My 186th Guest Schol...

Public broadcast federal funding has been completely cut. Our federal government will no longer fund public broadcasting. Pres. Trump has ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to cease any funding to PBS or NPR. In addition, he signed Congressional bill that clawed back already approved CPB funding.

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►What defines public br...

Japan's history of public health, imperial rise and nationalism. And also, story of a Japanese company's commercial invasion of America.

🚩In this interview:

►What does it mean to be modern?

►Japan's 'modernization' - 1860s to 1910s.

►4 requirements for modernization of Japanese toilets

►disease prevention, e.g., cholera in Japan

►Japan - the rise of a 'clean' empire

►Is Japan's history of cleanliness true?

►Black Gold: Japan's cen...

Why do some presidential sexual relations become major scandals while others don't even make the news?

🚩In this interview:

►Are presidential love affairs different than sexual relations?

►What defines a scandal? The nature of the act or the politics of the moment?

►JFK's sexual relations

►FDR's love affairs

►Cleveland's sex scandals and great love story

►Clinton's sexual relations

►Jackson's scandals - heartbreak & Cabinet's shut...

As Pres. Trump and Pres. Putin meet in Alaska to negotiate a potential peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, I speak with scholars of Russia and ask them these questions:

►Who is Putin?

►What event had the biggest impact on his worldview?

►Is he an ideological man?

►Does he love Russia?

►Is he a risktaker?

►Does he fear that Russians will revolt against him?

►Does he want to be remembered in history as Putin the Great? Actually, th...

As Pres. Trump & Putin meet in Alaska, without Pres. Zelensky, to discuss a peace deal in the Russian-Ukrainian War, it is not at all certain that any land will in fact be swapped for peace, as suggested by Pres. Trump. But one thing is for certain - that Pres. Putin will not, ever, swap Crimea for any land in Ukraine.

In this episode, my guest and I discuss the history of Crimea and the Crimean Tatars.

🚩About My 182nd Guest S...

Tower of London to Alligator Alcatraz: how constitutionalism came to America and became Americanized.

🚩In this interview:

►What is due process? Is it a legal right or privilege?

►How are procedural and substantive due process different?

►Is due process in the Constitution?

►Do immigrants have due process rights?

►Is due process essentially about fear?

►What is Magna Carta?

►Does due process come from Magna Carta?

►Magna Carta was ...

Is America undermining the rules-based international order? Are we jeopardizing the stability and predictability of the very system that we built for the world?

🚩In this interview:

►What is national security?

►What is America's "special relationship" with Britain?

►In 1916, why did Britain worry about Pres. Wilson's foreign policy?

►Did FDR bring about the end of British Empire?

►How has America benefited from this "special relati...

Most Americans hardly knew about autism in the 1980s and '90s. Then, as if suddenly, autism became big news in the 2000s. And the rate of autism has increased since, including diagnosis among adults. But how did this happen?

🚩In this interview:

►What is autism? A disorder? A disease? A psychiatric medical condition?

►What does autism spectrum mean?

►In the 1980s, what were medical experts taught about the rate of autism?

►Is there ...

"First Responders" of entertainment TV. Why American citizens will miss late-night talk shows.

🚩In this interview:

►What defines a late-night talk show?

►Obsolescence that's in the name!

►Was Carson really the King of Late Night?

►Who is Faye Emerson?

►The Letterman revolution.

►Entertaining in 20th century vs. importance in 21st century.

►The internet effect.

►Are late-night talk show hosts partisan?

►Same format. Different perso...

Can Harvard use its huge endowment to make up for the federal funds frozen by Pres. Trump?

🚩In this interview:

►What are university endowments?

►How are endowments different than grants, federal funds and other monies that come into universities?

►How do universities perpetuate their endowments?

►What rules and regulations govern endowments?

►When did American universities first receive private monies?

►When did American universit...

Why is America's Jewish community so successful? Why have Jewish diaspora communities been so successful throughout history and across many countries and cultures?

🚩In this interview:

►Jewish migration, immigration and emigration

►Preserving Jewish communities: the challenge of Jewish assimilation

►Preserving Judaism without the temple

►Jewish diaspora in Persia - forgotten part of Queen Esther's story

►Which Jews immigrated to Amer...