Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer. (Neon Tommy / CC BY-SA 2.0)

On Sunday’s edition of KPFA’s “Sunday Show” with Philip Maldari, Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer commented on the belligerence, ignorance, misogyny and neofascism on display in last week’s Republican debate.

In the show’s second hour, Maldari spoke with Kristina Rizga, author of “Mission High: One School, How Experts Tried to Fail It, and the Students and Teachers Who Made It Triumph.”

Listen here.

— Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.

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