Episode Description
This week, on America: In the Making...
- An announcement on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (00:00)
- The death of civil rights activist Jesse Jackson (02:25)
- 11 more dead after US strikes on drug boats (07:19)
- Is morality in American politics dead? (21:51)
- And President Obama believes in aliens (40:22)
Joining the show this week is Emma Long, Associate Professor in American History and Politics at the University of East Anglia.
And also Jacob Jarvis, the host of American Friction, and a regular on The Bunker, so he loves podcasting about America almost as much as we do.
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News sources:
- American Friction [podcast]: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/american-friction/id1744345702
- Jesse Jackson’s Death: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jesse-jackson-dies-age-84-civil-rights-leader/
- 11 dead after US strikes on alleged drug boats: https://apnews.com/article/boat-strikes-drug-trafficking-trump-5504d20ac43e0f4796084d0f1cefe5ec
- Drug dealers Trump has pardoned: https://www.complex.com/life/a/backwoodsaltar/drug-dealers-donald-trump-pardoned
- Pam Bondi testimonial: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fiery-exchanges-dominate-bondi-appearance-before-congress-4-takeaways/ar-AA1Wa41i?ocid=BingNewsSerp
- How many countries has Trump attacked? https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/president-of-peace-really-countries-trump-has-bombed-in-his-second-term-article-153402053
- 2025 Government shutdown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_federal_government_shutdown
- Impact of ICE raids: https://truthout.org/articles/the-trauma-of-ice-raids-is-rippling-through-public-schools-across-the-us/
- Affordability crisis continues: https://www.allianz.com/en/economic_research/insights/publications/specials_fmo/260211-US-affordability.html
- Obama clarifies existence of aliens: https://www.nbcnews.com/video/barack-obama-clarifies-he-s-seen-no-evidence-of-aliens-257772101699
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