Rachel Maddow — Department of Fate: The Promise, the Power, and the Collapse of America's Most Consequential Institution - with Chris Hayes — at Lisner Auditorium

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Rachel Maddow leads a revelatory, rollicking trip through the history of the Justice Department, finding heroism and treachery in equal measure—and, in the end, a rescue effort for our battered democracy. Over its nearly 150 years, the United States Department of Justice became America's most consequential institution, determining the rules and limits of what makes us who we are as a country: our political freedoms, our economy, and our nation's most revolutionary core principle: equal protection under the law. As the Department made wildly consequential decisions about what types of Americans to target, and for what crimes, it has been steered at times by patriotism, bravery, and self sacrifice, but just as often by lust for power, corruption, and vengeance. Its polit…

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