Best Darrell Mcclain Podcasts (2026)

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Legalizing Death Or Protecting Life 47:59

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Send us a text A single week can redraw moral boundaries. When New York and Illinois announced support for “Medical Aid in Dying,” the language sounded compassionate, but the shift was seismic: freedom recast as control over life’s endpoint, medicine repositioned to facilitate death, and “autonomy” installed as the supreme value. We trace what that…

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Anna Kasparian Versus Bill Maher On Genocide, History, And Power 2:06:29

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Send us a text Start with a boast and a blind spot: “The truth never makes me uncomfortable.” From that line, the debate ignites. We take you inside Anna Kasparian’s appearance on Bill Maher’s Club Random, where calm receipts meet moving goalposts, and where big claims about Gaza, genocide, and history collide with facts on the record. We unpack th…

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From Family Tragedy To Campus Pressure And Ancient Hate 37:53

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Send us a text The distance between us and harm feels like it’s vanished. We open with three shocks—a father slain by his son, a campus shooting at Brown, and an antisemitic attack in Austria—and follow the thread that ties them together: when formation collapses, pressure finds a way out. Family should be the last shelter, so language breaks when …

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Robert Reich On Civility, Trust, And The Rigged Economy 1:02:04

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Send us a text What if our problem isn’t that we disagree—but that we’ve forgotten how? Robert Reich joins us at a 50th reunion event hosted by the Center on Civility and Democratic Engagement to map the terrain of modern incivility and show a clearer path forward. We explore why trust in institutions fell from a broad majority in the 1960s to a sm…

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Why Words Are Cheap: How Congress Avoids Ownership While The Executive Makes Policy 51:17

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Send us a text Accountability costs more than a press conference, and that’s exactly why our politics keeps choosing words over work. We open with the Caribbean boat strikes and map the legal gray zone where overlapping agencies, temporary guidance, and classified memos substitute for clear law. When Congress refuses to define roles and rules of en…

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Anti-Zionism, Anti‑Semitism, And The Lines Between 1:33:52

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Send us a text One sentence can change the temperature of a room: “Anti‑Zionism is anti‑Semitism.” We revisit a gripping 2019 Intelligence Squared debate featuring Melanie Phillips and Einat Wilf for the motion, and Ilan Pappé and Mehdi Hasan against it, to examine how history, identity, and power collide over those seven words. The case for the mo…

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Health Care On The Brink 46:22

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Send us a text A listener asked a blunt question we couldn’t ignore: what happens if Congress lets the enhanced ACA subsidies expire—and how likely is it they’ll do nothing? We walk through what those subsidies actually did for real families, what vanishes when they lapse, and why “gridlock” isn’t a neutral accident but a choice with a body count. …

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Tariff Checks And War Crimes 45:41

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Send us a text A listener asks a sharp question: can a president really mail out $2,000 “tariff dividends”? We break the promise down to its bolts—tariffs as taxes that raise consumer prices, Congress’s exclusive power of the purse, and a pending Supreme Court ruling that could fence off unilateral tariff moves until mid-2026. The math looks simple…

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Miranda Myths, Courtroom Realities 48:23

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Send us a text Think missing Miranda warnings make cases vanish? Let’s test that belief against the law, the courtroom, and the consequences the public rarely sees. We break down what Miranda actually protects, why custody and interrogation are the hinge, and how a judge thinks about suppression versus dismissal. From the first contact to the first…

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Law Before Loyalty 1:03:18

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Send us a text A headline said the quiet part wrong: a former Navy combat pilot and astronaut under investigation for “serious misconduct” because he affirmed the most basic military truth—refuse unlawful orders. We zoom out from the hot takes and lay down the actual hierarchy every recruit learns: Constitution, law, mission, order. When number fou…

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Big Club Meets Big Yikes: Epstein Files Force A Truth Hangover 46:04

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Send us a text A microphone at the Capitol, survivors at the front, and a rare bipartisan agreement to force sunlight on a scandal many believed would stay buried. We walk through the House push to advance the Epstein Transparency Act, unpack the tactics that made a discharge petition work, and spotlight the survivors whose persistence moved Congre…

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When Politics Becomes Theater, Who Writes The Bill For Real People? 2:45:08

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Who Gets Protected When No One Can Defend Themselves? 1:10:19

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Send us a text Some rules sound perfect until they meet real life. Zero tolerance promises order and fairness at work, but what happens when a punch lands, security is minutes away, and your kids still need you home tonight? We pull this apart with a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt and military veteran whose day job straddles IT, investigations, and…

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Wall Street Just Spit Out Its Coffee 40:42

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Send us a text The ground shifted under America’s political feet, and you can feel the rumble from City Hall to Capitol Square. New York—long the altar of finance—just elected a socialist mayor on a platform of affordability, transit access, and universal childcare. Virginia flipped every top office behind a former CIA officer who campaigned on pay…

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Sanctuary Or Sword 40:07

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Send us a text Sirens, hymns, and a hard choice at the curb outside a detention center: that’s where our story begins. We trace the line from candlelit vigils at “Alligator Alcatraz” to pulpits blessing immigration raids, and ask what Christian faith actually demands when families are torn apart at 2 a.m. Some clergy call ICE agents to repentance a…

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Tariffs, Trade Wars, And Broken Promises 49:01

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Send us a text A farm-town promise met a ledger full of losses. We open with the hard math of tariffs and trade wars: higher equipment costs for growers, soybean sales to China evaporating overnight, and a puzzling turn to importing Argentinian beef just as America’s cattle herd hits historic lows. Add four packers controlling most of the beef mark…

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Night Fight For New York 42:03

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Send us a text A mayoral debate that felt like a prize fight. A White House wing torn down for a 9,000-square-foot ballroom. Sanctions that squeeze Russia’s oil lifeline while summits dissolve overnight. And a healthcare shock that sends families scrambling to schedule surgery before premiums explode. We pull these threads together to show how spec…

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If Mercy Is Transactional, What Happens To Truth? 38:28

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Send us a text A seven-year sentence becomes 84 days, and the country learns a lesson it won’t soon forget: when loyalty becomes currency, justice gets priced. We break down George Santos’s commutation, why it happened, and what it signals about how power is exercised and rewarded. The receipts are not in dispute—wire fraud, identity theft, donor d…

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Two Roads, One Choice 3:00

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Shutdown Standoff And Health Care Stakes 1:23:04

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Send us a text Missed paychecks, spiking premiums, and a Capitol gone quiet—this conversation pulls back the curtain on a shutdown with life-or-death stakes. We walk through why a quick “reopen first” deal won’t cut it, why a one-year ACA fix is a political mirage, and what ink-on-paper protections are needed to stop millions from losing coverage a…

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Secrets, Power, And Double Standards 54:13

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Send us a text A hawk who preached secrecy now stands accused of mishandling it. We open with the Bolton indictment—18 counts, thousands of pages, and a century-old Espionage Act stretched to fit modern data—and ask a hard question: can selective prosecution and real accountability coexist? We walk through the legal thresholds, the political optics…

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From Myth to Man: Elon Musk’s Rise, Reverence, and Reckoning 11:51

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Powder Keg Peace 46:31

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Send us a text Cameras love a finish line. Real peace rarely offers one. We open with a bold victory lap and press on the brakes, examining what a signed deal in Gaza can and can’t do while weapons remain, hostages return in tears and coffins, and leaders pull in opposite directions. I walk through Netanyahu’s conspicuous absence, Abbas’s calculate…

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When Rhetoric Burns: Virginia’s Debate and a Fire That Shouldn’t Exist 47:19

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Send us a text One line lit the fuse: leaked texts from a statewide nominee invoked “three people, two bullets,” forcing Virginia’s race into a referendum on responsibility, tone, and what leaders are willing to condemn—and what they’re not. We walk you into the Norfolk clash where Abigail Spanberger stayed steady and Winsome Earle-Sears swung for …

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Is accountability possible in a system built for spectacle? 38:19

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Send us a text The cameras were hot, the questions were sharp, and the answers—when they came—raised more doubts than certainty. We walk you through the pivotal moments of a combative Judiciary Committee hearing with Attorney General Pam Bondi, from the still-murky $50,000 cash handoff to the whiplash over an “Epstein client list.” Beyond the viral…

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Thin Gruel, Cold Justice 5:59

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Send us a text The curtain rises on a familiar stage: a high-profile indictment, a hungry news cycle, and a country eager to assign heroes and villains. We walk through the case against James Comey—two counts linked to testimony on the Russia probe and the Clinton Foundation—and the claim that he denied authorizing press contacts. Then we pull back…

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Congratulations, America: You’ve Perfected the Art of Tripping Over Your Own Government 30:49

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When politicians stage courage, citizens pay the bill 10:06

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Jane Goodall’s Reckoning: Hope, Hypocrisy, and the Work Left to Us 11:29

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Send us a text The headlines arrived first, tidy and late, but the weight beneath them is harder to hold: Jane Goodall is gone, and so is a voice that made science feel like conscience. We sit with the loss and the indictment it delivers—how institutions that once ignored her now rush to borrow her moral light, how applause became a habit while for…

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When justice bends, nature calls, and government stalls, what do we do to keep trust alive? 46:38

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Send us a text A courtroom trembles, a forest goes quiet, and a Capitol locks its doors and somehow they all tell the same story about trust. We start with the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey and examine what happens when the Justice Department looks like an instrument of revenge rather than a referee. We weigh the evidence, the repor…

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Bullets Don't Ask Who You Voted For 1:07:22

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Send us a text Charlie Kirk’s assassination has shaken America. A 31 year old conservative commentator gunned down while addressing students in Utah now joins the tragic roster of public figures lost to violence. But what may be just as troubling is our divided response, with some mourning, some weaponizing, and some celebrating. This episode refle…

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What Happens When We Stop Seeing Each Other as Neighbors? 49:34

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Send us a text The dividing lines in America have never been more dangerous than when we stop seeing each other as neighbors. In this powerful exploration of our fracturing society, we dive into Virginia's contentious governor race between Abigail Spanberger and Winsome Sears – a microcosm of America's broader political divisions where competence b…

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The Tragedy of Charlie Kirk: Violence in American Politics 34:13

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Send us a text The assassination of Charlie Kirk has sent shockwaves through America, forcing us to confront the alarming normalization of political violence in our society. Charlie, just 31 years old and father to two young children, was gunned down while speaking at a Utah campus event - a place meant for the free exchange of ideas, transformed i…

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Children Under Fire: The Minneapolis School Shooting 38:31

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Send us a text A horrific act of violence shattered the peace of what should have been a joyful back-to-school celebration at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis. As children gathered for Mass, a gunman positioned himself outside and fired through the stained glass windows, killing two elementary school students and injuring seventeen other…

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The Machine That Cannot Love: AI's Role in Teen Suicide 49:37

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Send us a text Digital connection has given us unprecedented access to information and relationships, but what happens when that connection replaces genuine human empathy, especially for our most vulnerable? Today's episode explores the growing crisis of teenagers turning to AI chatbots for emotional support and mental health guidance—with potentia…

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Power, Politics, and Humanitarian Crisis: A World at the Breaking Point 35:16

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Send us a text The stark divide between diplomatic theater and human suffering takes center stage in this powerful episode of The Darrell Mcclain Show. As global leaders exchange handshakes and pose for photographs, we pull back the curtain on what these performances truly reveal about power, principles, and moral responsibility in our fractured wo…

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The Cost of Education: Teachers Sue Over Surprise Healthcare Hikes 23:16

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Send us a text American hypocrisy takes center stage as Virginia Beach teachers sue their own school system over a shocking healthcare bait-and-switch that threatens both current educators and retirees. After signing their contracts and beginning the school year, teachers were blindsided with premium increases reaching $211 per paycheck, while some…

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The Alaska Summit: Trump and Putin's High-Stakes Diplomatic Dance 21:44

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Send us a text At a remote military base in Alaska, two of the world's most formidable figures sit across from each other in a moment pregnant with possibility. President Trump and President Putin's summit marks the first US-hosted presidential meeting with Russia since 1988, unfolding against the bloody backdrop of Ukraine's ongoing war. Trump arr…

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Trump Burger's Ironic Twist 7:35

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Send us a text Have you ever witnessed irony so perfect it seems scripted? The co-owner of "Trump Burger" in Houston—a restaurant shrine to Donald Trump complete with MAGA colors and themed menu items—now faces deportation for overstaying his visa. Roman Merez Baini, a 28-year-old Lebanese national, entered the US in 2019 on a visitor visa but didn…

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Crime and Politics in DC 1:00:54

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Send us a text The line between political theater and public safety has never been more blurred than in President Trump's recent declaration of a "crime emergency" in Washington DC. Despite data showing violent crime at a 30-year low and homicides down 34% from 2023, the administration has invoked rarely-used powers to federalize the Metropolitan P…

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When Numbers Tell the Truth, Who's Listening? 29:19

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Send us a text The American economy isn't just failing Black Americans—it's designed that way. In this eye-opening episode, we dive deep into the July 2025 unemployment statistics revealing a persistent, troubling pattern: while national unemployment sits at 4.2%, Black men face 7.5% unemployment, Black women 6.1%, and young Black Americans an alar…

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The Fire of Division: Violence Against Public Servants 46:21

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Holy Hush: Why Won't Churches Speak About Gaza? 31:49

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Send us a text What happens when political figures trade truth for attention and religious institutions abandon their moral voice? This raw, unfiltered episode tackles two explosive topics that reveal the dangerous state of American discourse. Darrell begins by dissecting former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard's extraordinary claim that Barack Obama or…

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Truth, Power, and Spectacle 47:00

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Send us a text Politics has devolved into theater, and nowhere is this more evident than in the calculated spectacle of recent ICE raids in sanctuary cities. These aren't about establishing order—they're about creating fear and asserting narrative dominance. When 1,000 agents descend overnight, the message isn't about immigration policy but about p…

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War Drums and Digital Chains 40:42

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Send us a text Warning signals flash while America looks away. Lieutenant General Daniel Bolger—who previously admitted our defeats in Iraq and Afghanistan—now cautions that drone strikes across the Horn of Africa are quietly pulling us into another protracted conflict. Yet this crucial warning receives barely a whisper of attention as media cycles…

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Snapping Jaws & Snapping Families: America's Moral Maze 12:07

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Send us a text Ever noticed how a nation that engineers elaborate floating sanctuaries for alligators can't seem to design a humane immigration policy? Darrell McClain scathing commentary "America's Grand Tragic Comedy" dissects this jarring contradiction with surgical precision, revealing the absurdity of a country that provides reptiles with temp…

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Floodwaters and Freedoms: A Nation at the Crossroads 1:01:28

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Send us a text Democracy hangs in the balance as American institutions face unprecedented challenges. In this gripping examination of contemporary crises, Darrell McClain takes listeners through the devastating Camp Mystic flood tragedy in Texas that claimed over 100 lives, revealing both the heroism of everyday Americans and the systemic failures …

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Fool's Gold: Why This "Big Beautiful Bill" Fails the Working Class 14:16

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Send us a text Why do we fall for flashy slogans over substance? Darrell McClain dives deep into America's latest legislative spectacle – the "big beautiful bill" – and exposes who really benefits when political theater trumps meaningful policy. This raw, unflinching analysis peels back the glittery wrapping to reveal how tax cuts for the wealthy, …

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The Big, Beautiful Bill: How Republicans and Democrats Fought Over the Nation's Most Vulnerable 32:09

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Send us a text A pivotal moment unfolded on the Senate floor as Vice President Vance cast the tie-breaking vote on what President Trump calls his "big, beautiful bill." This watershed legislation extends the Trump tax cuts, strengthens border security, and eliminates taxes on tips and overtime - but comes at a staggering cost that will reshape Amer…

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God's Chosen: Who Really Inherits Abraham's Promises? 1:40:41

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Send us a text When Tucker Carlson challenged Senator Ted Cruz to explain exactly who "Israel" is in the biblical promise "I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you," he exposed a theological fault line with explosive real-world consequences. As bombs fell on Iranian nuclear facilities and missiles flew in response, Americans w…