ome of the things that we most need to remember. On the first episode of the third season of “Who Is?,” join Sean Morrow, host of “Who Is?,” for a critical reevaluation of Reagan, his administration, and his legacy.

Mayor Willie Brown, former Mayor of San Francisco and former Speaker of the California State Assembly
Maria Foscarinis, Founder and Executive Director of the National Homelessness Law Center
Jo-Marie Burt, Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies at George Mason University
Elizabeth Oglesby, Professor of Latin American Studies and Geography at the University of Arizona
Monica Prasad, Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University
Paul Volberding, a physician who has been fighting HIV/AIDS since the beginning of the epidemic

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President Reagan knew a detent with the Soviet Union wouldn’t win the Cold War. If we take off the gloves and force Soviet communism to compete with American democracy, he thought, the U.S. will prevail. In a phrase: “We win, they lose.” He was right. The U.S. won. The Soviet Union collapsed.

But in the decades since as America’s role in the world diminished and the rules-based order decayed, Russia relapsed. And as he puts back the pieces of a shattered Soviet Union one illegal land-grab at a time, Putin is hardly the only despot hellbent on resurrecting an imperial renaissance in the shadows of American retrenchment.

Also jonesing for a rise from the ash heap of history are the Islamist regime in Tehran and Chinese Communist Party in Beijing. Together with Moscow, they’ve formed a neo-imperialist axis to take on the West in a New Cold War.

With the U.S. facing multiple nuclear-powered adversaries in a conflict for the first time ever, the second Cold War is shaping up to be far more dangerous than the fi

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