taliban took over kabul, the capital the canister. they did that america s longest war would finally come to an end. a new study puts that were on the united states s long history of military interventions almost 400 in total into context. joining me to discuss at all this peter. a professor at the school of journalism of the city college of new york. he s also the editor at large for the jewish currents and msnbc political analyst. doug it is called the binary notebook. peter, thanks for joining me this evening. i want to get your reaction to the top lines from that study. almost 400 military interventions and total with half occurring since world war ii, a quarter since the end of the cold war. wasn t the end of the cold war supposed to bring peace to the
have wanted to hear from a black historian or scholar. black americans are being hit hardest by the attacks on voting rights, and always have been, throughout american history. we thought we would one ask one of if they had been invited, joining me now is carole anderson, a professor and chair of the african american studies department and author of the acclaimed work, one person, no vote, how voter suppression is destroying our democracy. carol, thank you for coming back on the show. simple first question. what would you have said to joe biden if you had attended that meeting? i would have said we have been here before and what happened was not pretty. i think about reconstruction. here, coming out of the civil war, and we get these constitutional amendments, and we get these laws that are about stealing the citizenship, sanctioning the citizenship of black folk. you get this massive wave of violence, and you get supreme
court decisions, and you get the kind of timidity she of the north in terms of protecting black citizenship rights. that hurled us into jim crow, and it hurled us into where you had millions of black people basically living in fascist states where they didn t have voting rights, or they didn t have rights to health care, agitation. we ve been here before. it wasn t good for america. it wasn t good for americans. it wasn t good for democracy. carol, i wonder, do you feel like elected democrats, activist groups, even big chunks of the quote, unquote, liberal media, have kind of moved on from the freedom to vote and john lewis voting rights acts on the basis that the filibuster is not going to change. manchin and sinema are never gonna budge, but moving on from the problem does not change the fact that the problem still exists. that the midterms are still going to be affected by gerrymandering, voter