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Velshi

Velshi

Written by: MS NOW Ali Velshi
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Ali Velshi brings his sharp analysis and perspective to weekend mornings.MS NOW Political Science Politics & Government
Episodes
  • California Dreaming: A Look at CA’s crucial upcoming primaries
    May 31 2026

    Growing scrutiny over the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey. Allen Orr discusses the legality of the detention facility that’s being accused of substandard care for detainees. Fmr. California Senator Barbara Boxer weighs in on the upcoming California primaries. Fmr. U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade discusses her new book “The Fix”. What started out as an "impossible" idea, led to a massive medical breakthrough for pancreatic cancer. Dr. Shubham Pant explains.

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    47 mins
  • Power Hungry: Inside the Utility Cost Trap
    May 31 2026

    Velshi takes a deep dive into the broken system driving utility rate increases; protests erupt outside one of the nation’s most controversial ICE detention centers; and the story of a 14-year-old trapped in a post-Roe police state

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    38 mins
  • Bearing Witness to New Jersey’s Contentious Immigrant Detention Center
    May 31 2026

    Protests outside the Delaney Hall Immigration Detention Center in Newark, NJ have intensified over several days. Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) discusses the lack of transparency over the conditions of the facility. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is confronted over actions by the NJ State Police to block the press from witnessing the protests. Eddie Glaude discusses his new, and timely, book ‘America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries’.

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    50 mins
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