May 25, 2023

Mark Jacob is a media critic and a former Metro Editor at the Chicago Tribune and Sunday Editor at the Chicago Sun-Times.

He reflects on his decades-long career in the news media and what he learned about that institution’s failings and how it helped to birth the Age of Trump and American neofascism.

Mark Jacob...

May 4, 2023

Jason Van Tatenhove is the former national media director of the right-wing militia group the Oath Keepers. Mr. Tatenhove testified about the escalating dangers of right-wing radicalization and neofascism before the House Jan. 6 Committee.

His new book is The Perils of Extremism: How I Left the Oath Keepers and Why...

Feb 20, 2023

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, bestselling author, and social critic. His two most recent books are Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison and The Greatest Evil is War.

Chris Hedges reflects on the lessons he learned during his long career as a journalist about the...

Nov 24, 2022

***This is a special combined episode of The Truth Report and The Chauncey DeVega Show***

On this special Thanksgiving Day installment of the podcast, Chauncey DeVega reflects on the deeper meaning of gratitude and thankfulness during these challenging and troubling times.

Chauncey also shares his recent essay on using...

Nov 17, 2022

*** This is a special combined episode of The Truth Report and The Chauncey DeVega Show***

Jeff Sharlet is a journalist and bestselling author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power and C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy. His forthcoming book is The Undertow:...