Listen: Ali Velshi on What Project 2025 Means For An Independent Press

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member talks to Vox Media's Zack Beauchamp about how another Trump administration might damage one of America's most important institutions

By Ali Velshi

Listen: Ali Velshi Banned Book Club on Gay Penguins and Book Bans

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member sits down with authors Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, authors of And Tango Makes Three, to talk about the contemporary children's classic about non traditional families and the efforts to ban it

By Ali Velshi

Listen: Ali Velshi Banned Book Club Banning The Poet X

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member speaks with National Young Person’s Poet Laureate Elizabeth Acevedo about young women learning the art of self-expression against the grain of faith and family

By Ali Velshi

Listen: Ali Velshi Lays Out the Stakes of the 2024 Election

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member says it's OK to be concerned about Biden's age. But the larger concern is democracy itself

By Ali Velshi

Listen: Ali Velshi Compares the Supreme Court to Tinkerbell

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member warns that SCOTUS's failure to maintain public trust is an enormous threat to a functioning government and the very survival of our nation

By Ali Velshi

Listen: Ali Velshi Reminds Us of Draconian Restrictions to Immigration a Hundred Years Ago

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member reminds us that we've been here before, restricting immigration and deporting immigrants is dangerous to our future and economy

By Ali Velshi

Listen: Ali Velshi Banned Book Club on Erasing Immigrant Stories

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member speaks with Laurence Yep about the immigrant experience in America and how important those stories are to our history

By Ali Velshi

Listen: Ali Velshi Banned Book Club Reads The Glass Castle

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member sits down with Jeannette Walls to talk about her provocative memoir and the complications and ugliness of real life

By Ali Velshi

Listen: Ali Velshi Banned Book Club Sits Down with Randi Weingarten

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member interviews the new president of the American Federation of Teachers about her efforts to take on book bans

By Ali Velshi

Listen: Ali Velshi on Women, Life, Freedom … In Iran.

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member discusses the renewed morality crackdown on women in Iran, where Mahsa Amini's tragic death inspired the Women, Life, Freedom movement

By Ali Velshi