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Joining us in our Get to Know a Journalist series today is Christian Parenti, a longtime reporter,

academic, writer, author. He's in D.C., so we wanted to get him into the studio.

We've covered your work here over the years.

Kind of a kind of clastic thinker on the left, a fair way, fair way to put it.

Is that what they say?

Let's go with that.

That's nice.

Because you never know exactly what you're going to say, which is useful.

Thank you.

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