“We Have Faced Threats This Big Before”: Rachel Maddow’s New Podcast Is a History Lesson on American Democracy Under Assault

When I published a Rachel Maddow profile a few months ago, the part that made the most news was Maddow saying not-terrible things about Tucker Carlson. More tantalizing to me, if not the tabloid press, were Maddow’s comments about a juicy podcast she was hard at work on, the first major production of her new megadeal with NBCUniversal and MSNBC. “It’s an American history, underappreciated story,” Maddow had told me in May, keeping the description vague, “that has resonance for all these things we’re dealing with today—the threat of authoritarianism and the question of whether or not criminal law is… Read Full Article