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Behind every news headline, there’s another, deeper story. It’s a story about power. In Deep Background, Harvard Law School professor and Bloomberg View columnist Noah Feldman will bring together a cross-section of expert guests to explore the historical, scientific, legal, and cultural context that help us understand what’s really going on behind the biggest stories in the news.iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.

Deep Background with Noah Feldman

A conversation with Craig Waters, spokesman for the Florida Supreme Court, about becoming the face of an embattled, apolitical institution during a partisan battle.

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Bush v. Gore: Bonus - Information Wars

An interview with Ralph Nader on his role as a “spoiler” in the 2000 election, and historian Mary Frances Berry, who led the 2001 commission looking into the impact that ballot box irregularities involving Black voters may have had on the outcome in Florida.

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Bush v. Gore: Bonus - What If…

Attorneys David Boies and Ted Olsen, who represented the Gore and Bush sides, respectively, talk about the unique challenges that came with representing their clients before the Supreme Court.

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Bush v. Gore: Bonus - Lawfare

Host Leon Neyfakh transports listeners into the day-to-day reality of our country’s most pivotal historical events, bringing to life the forgotten twists and turns of the past while shedding light on the present. Fiasco: Iran-Contra tells the story of a secret war, a secret deal, and a foreign policy scandal that threatened to destroy Ronald Reagan’s presidency — until it didn’t.

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Iran Contra: A New Introduction from Leon Neyfakh

How a crew of amateur spies from Long Island helped the Reagan administration set the stage for Iran-Contra.

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Iran Contra: Episode 1 - Get Me Kevin Kattke

How the Reagan administration landed in a hostage crisis…and extended a hand to one of America’s sworn enemies.

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Iran Contra: Episode 2 - Trade Secrets

How the United States got involved in a not-so-secret secret war in Nicaragua.

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Iran Contra: Episode 3 - Contra Dance

How Oliver North decided to do a little multitasking -- and ended up on a plane to Tehran.

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Iran Contra: Episode 4 - Diverted

A bonus interview with journalists Martha Honey and Tony Avirgan. Honey and Avirgan tell Leon about their time reporting on the Contra war from the southern front in Costa Rica. 

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Iran Contra: Bonus - Bombs, Drugs, and the Contra War

How the Reagan administration tried to prevent the Iran scandal from becoming a second Watergate.

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Iran Contra: Episode 5 - All Out

Marta Figlerowicz, an associate professor of comparative literature and English at Yale, discusses classic works of literature about pandemics from Boccaccio's The Decameron to Camus' The Plague. Plus, she psychoanalyzes Noah's love of detective novels.

Marta Figlerowicz's Pandemic Reading List

 • The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
 • Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman 
 • Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman 
 • Molloy by Samuel Beckett 
 • Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett 
 • Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
 • The Plague by Albert Camus 
 • Occupation Journal by Jean Giono
 
 
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