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Donald Trump Knows the Age of Reagan Is Over. Does Hillary?

Plus climate protests around the world, and Patrick Cockburn’s ISIS update.

Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

May 19, 2016

Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign stop in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, on Sunday, May 15, 2016. (AP Photo / Andrew Harnik)

Hillary will have to do something different to beat Donald Trump, Bruce Shapiro argues—because appealing to moderates, like the Clintons did in the ’90s, is not going to work this year.

Start Making Sense is hosted by Jon Wiener and co-produced by the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Also: The #BreakFree climate protests have mobilized tens of thousands in direct actions against coal, oil, and gas companies around the world. Zoë Carpenter reports.

Plus: Patrick Cockburn, who Seymour Hersh has called “the best Western journalist at work in Iraq today,” gives us an update on Iraq, Syria, Libya, and ISIS.

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