President Trump delivers his first address to a joint session of Congress from the floor of the House of Representatives in Washington, DC, February 28, 2017. (Jim Lo Scalzo / Pool Image via AP)
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How we got from the events in Ferguson to the election of you-know-who: Chris Hayes talks about race, incarceration, and politics in his new book A Colony in a Nation—Salon called it “a dark book for a dark time.”
Start Making Sense is hosted by Jon Wiener and co-produced by the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Plus: Although Trump was the least Christian of all the Republican candidates, white evangelicals voted for him overwhelmingly, despite the work of some prominent evangelical leaders. Sarah Posner of the Nation Institute analyzes the political deal that evangelicals made—she wrote about the issue last month for The New Republic.
And Gary Younge explains what it’s been like talking about kids killed by guns—on call-in shows on talk radio. His book Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives recently won the Anthony J. Lukas Prize.
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