Trump concedes. Fake news?
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For the last episode of Reckonings, none other than: Donald Trump.
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#29 || DEEP RECKONINGS
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If Brett Kavanaugh, Alex Jones, and Mark Zuckerberg had a reckoning, what would they say? Reckonings presents Deep Reckonings — a project that uses deepfakes to take Reckonings in a *fictional* direction, and imagine public figures having a reckoning. Watch the full series and learn more about the project: deepreckonings.com
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#28 || How To Tackle Trump's Lies
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How do we cover the communications of a president who lies, especially when those lies can be fatal? The traditional rituals of journalism don't quite work with a president who doesn't tell the truth, so what can we do instead? Reckonings presents Infinite Lunchbox on the topic of how to tackle Trump's lies — aka *post-truth jujitsu*.
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#27 || How do people change?
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How do we change our hearts and minds? What moves us to shift our political worldviews, transcend extremism, and make other kinds of transformative change? That's the $64 million dollar question that gave birth to Reckonings. And that's the question I explore with lessons learned *from* Reckonings -- in this bonus episode with Inflection Point's Lauren Schiller.
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#26 || Biden, #MeToo, and Growing in Public
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Joe Biden stands accused of sexual assault. And the Democratic Party leadership, which had been loud in its support for #MeToo, is suddenly.....silent.
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#25 || Beyond Goliath
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He built Facebook’s business model. Then he went on to become the President of Pinterest. And then he realized: he was addicted to his phone. And later: he was complicit in his own – and all of our – addictive relationships with technology.
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#24 || How to turn a monster into an apologist
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Reckonings brings you Inflection Point’s conversation with Eve Ensler about her recent *masterpiece* of a book, The Apology. In it, Ensler imagines the apology her father never gave her for the abuse he inflicted on her as a child.
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#23.5 || Where is Reckonings going?
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Let's take a quick peek behind the curtain on a few things, including the question: where is Reckonings going?
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#23 || An uncommon conversation about clergy sex abuse
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She was sexually abused by her Catholic school teacher, a former nun. As a young priest, he sexually abused boys in his parish. Buckle your seat belts for an *uncommon conversation* about clergy sex abuse. Enormous gratitude to the National Association of Community and Restorative Justice (https://nacrj.org), and to The Gilead Project (https://gileadproject.org) -- a 501(c)3 devoted to healing and preventing sexual abuse.
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#22 || An imaginary reckoning with Pope Francis
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If the Pope had a reckoning, what would it sound like?
info_outline"One of my co-workers said, 'Trump supporters are without exception the worst people I've ever met, they're almost sub-human.' And I'm standing there thinking, you know, we're friends, but I think I'll keep my mouth shut." That's Alex Mamach, a young white Chicago native who grew up in a poor and diverse suburb of Chicago. He gives voice to why millions of Americans support Donald Trump: because Trump speaks to his marginalized constituency in a way that neither party has done in decades. And when his co-worker, the political establishment, and the media accuse Trump supporters of being sub-human, ignorant, and racist, it only entrenches their support and reinforces the notion that only he cares about poor white Americans.
So why did Alex defect from the Donald, and who did he switch to? Tune in for that, but for now, a sneak peak into how Trump supporters might be moved in a new direction: by appealing to their nobler intentions.