The Beat with Ari Melber, Nov. 30, 2020
Duration: 45 Minutes
Discussed Today:
Women and power in the Trump era:
'Handmaid’s Tale' author Margaret Atwood on feminism and politics
Trump’s Covid-19 failures miss key lessons from 1918 pandemic
Discussed Today, In Detail:
Women and power in the Trump era:
'Handmaid’s Tale' author Margaret Atwood on feminism and politics
Author Margaret Atwood joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber to discuss the sequel to her
blockbuster novel “The Handmaid’s Tale." She discusses government oppression,
totalitarianism, and feminism.
(The interview was taped before the election and coronavirus pandemic.)
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Trump’s Covid-19 failures miss key lessons from 1918 pandemic
As the U.S. faces a surging second wave of the coronavirus and breakthroughs for
a vaccine, the history of the 1918 pandemic offers key lessons for the crucial
period ahead. MSNBC’s Ari Melber cites doctors and historians in a special
report on parallels and contrasts between the two pandemics as the coronavirus
pandemic rages across the globe.
(This is a short excerpt of a longer special report.)
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