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Eugene Jarecki, “The House I Live in”

October 1, 2012

Happy Monday everyone! On today’s show, documentary filmmaker Eugene Jarecki (@EugeneJarecki) on his new film The House I Live In, a history of the failure and abuses of the War on Drugs.

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