{"id":651460,"date":"2026-05-19T01:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/651460\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T01:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:56:09","slug":"department-of-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/651460\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Fate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BookPRE-ORDER NOW!<\/p>\n

Rachel Maddow leads a revelatory, rollicking trip through the history of the Justice Department, finding heroism and treachery in equal measure\u2014and, in the end, a rescue effort for our battered democracy.<\/p>\n

Over its nearly 150 years, the United States Department of Justice became America\u2019s 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\u2019s most revolutionary core principle: equal protection under the law.<\/p>\n

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 political masters have cherrypicked economic winners and losers, determined which causes will be allowed to succeed or fail, and dictated which people and places will thrive and which will be beaten down. The department has fixed the path of the nation\u2019s political swings.<\/p>\n

In this searing new history, Rachel Maddow traces these triumphs and misdeeds through the founding and rise of the KKK, the riotous chaos of the Red Scare, civil rights murders and violence, railroad barons\u2019 crushing of unions, cabinet scandals that make Watergate look like Mister Rogers\u2019 Neighborhood, the faux erudite lawlessness of the Reagan Administration, and the collapse into thug rule in the Trump Administration.<\/p>\n

Written in her typical whip-smart prose and with a biting sense of clarity, Department of Fate invites us to see how the history of this key institution illuminates a path ahead for a more resilient, re-democratized America committed to making good on even its loftiest promises. In a moment beset with polarization and misinformation, Maddow\u2019s voice shines in this blistering demand to do better\u2014to rebuild the republic, and stronger this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PRE-ORDER NOW! Rachel Maddow leads a revelatory, rollicking trip through the history of the Justice Department, finding heroism…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-651460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}