For more than two decades, MS NOW’s Rachel Maddow has been one of America’s most incisive political commentators. On radio, television and in a series of bestselling books, she has examined the forces that shape our democracy, from corporate power and military overreach to the fragility of democratic institutions.
Now, in her new book, Department of Fate, she turns her attention to the Department of Justice. Tracing its history from the excesses of the Red Scare to cabinet scandals that make Watergate look like Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and the norm-shattering actions of the second Trump administration, Maddow explores how the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency has been tested, politicized and, at times, weaponized.
Maddow discusses why an independent and transparent Department of Justice remains essential to American democracy and what is at stake when politics intrudes on the rule of law. As Maddow writes, “What DOJ chooses to pursue, and what it lets go, can determine the boundaries of our political rights, our economy, and the fundamental question of whether the protections written into our Constitution are just words, or real life.”
Maddow will be in conversation with Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Hillary Rodham Clinton has spent over five decades in public service as an advocate, attorney, First Lady, US Senator, US Secretary of State and presidential candidate. As the 67th US Secretary of State, her “smart power” approach to foreign policy repositioned American diplomacy and development for the 21st century. Clinton played a central role in restoring America’s standing in the world, reasserting the United States as a Pacific power, imposing crippling sanctions on Iran and North Korea, responding to the Arab Awakening and negotiating a ceasefire in the Middle East. Earlier, as First Lady and Senator for New York, she traveled to more than 80 countries as a champion of human rights, democracy and opportunities for women and girls; she also worked to provide health care to millions of children, create jobs and support first responders who risked their lives at Ground Zero. In her historic 2016 campaign for President of the United States, Clinton won 66 million votes. She is the author of twelve best-selling books, founder of Onward Together, a Board Member of the Clinton Foundation where she launched the Clinton Policy Institute, founder of the global production studio HiddenLight Productions, a producer of the Broadway musical Suffs, Chancellor of Queen’s University Belfast and a Professor of Practice at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University where she co-founded the Institute of Global Politics. She and former US President Bill Clinton have one daughter, Chelsea, three grandchildren: Charlotte, Aidan, and Jasper and reside in New York.
