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Diane Rehm: On My Mind

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Diane Rehm’s weekly podcast features newsmakers, writers, artists and thinkers on the issues she cares about most: what’s going on in Washington, ideas that inform, and the latest on living well as we live longer.

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Diane Rehm’s weekly podcast features newsmakers, writers, artists and thinkers on the issues she cares about most: what’s going on in Washington, ideas that inform, and the latest on living well as we live longer.

Copyright WAMU 88.5 American University Radio - For Personal Use Only
6hr 2min
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Glenn Kessler is the chief writer of the Fact Checker column in the Washington Post. He joins Diane to talk about truth and lies in the 2024 election.
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Donald Trump won a decisive electoral victory Tuesday. With a GOP majority in the Senate and possibly in the House, political scientist Norman Ornstein looks ahead at how Trump could transform our government.
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Donald Trump has been called a "fascist" by historians, his former White House staff and now Kamala Harris. Fascism expert Jason Stanley joins Diane to talk about what that term means and why voters should care.
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Donald Trump has laid the groundwork to challenge the election if he loses.  Legal expert Rick Hasen says lessons learned from 2020 could help secure the vote in 2024.
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Weakening support among Black voters prompts a last-minute push by the Harris campaign. So, what's her message? And is it too late? Diane talks to New York Times reporter Maya King.
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It has been 30 years since Congress passed the Violence Against Women Act. And yet one in three women will experience abuse in their lifetime. Journalist Rachel Louise Snyder talks about progress made — and work to be done -- to end domestic violence.
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Former NIH director Francis Collins talks about his new book, "The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust."
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CNN’s Dana Bash talks about her new book, "America's Deadliest Election" and explains why the violence of 1872 should serve as a cautionary tale for today.
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The Wall Street Journal's Damian Paletta digs into the economic plans of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris — and how they might affect inflation, the job market, and your pocketbooks.
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The New Yorker's Susan Glasser breaks down the presidential debate – and the state of the race -- as early voting kicks off next week in key battleground states.

Fact-checking the 2024 election

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September 5, 202425min 35sec

Donald Trump began his political career with demands to see Barack Obama’s birth certificate, based on the false claim that the he had been born outside of the United States. In other words, a lie. 

The former president concluded his term in office with an even bigger lie, namely that the 2020 election was rigged. 

In between, Trump fibbed thousands of times about things big and small. And keeping track of these mistruths and exaggerations were political fact-checkers, journalists whose job it is to call out not only Donald Trump’s lies – but the lies all politicians tell. 

Glenn Kessler has been the chief writer and editor of the Fact Checker column for The Washington Post since 2011. In it he examines the “truth behind the rhetoric.”

Kessler joined Diane to talk about how his job has changed since Donald Trump entered politics and the challenges of covering the 2024 presidential election. 

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Fact-checking the 2024 election
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