Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

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David
 Sep 12, 2023
I've been listening for years. Jay and his team do a wonderful job curating and putting together topics from progressive voices around any given topic of the day. There have been so many episodes I see the title of and think "nah, not for me" but inevitably every single time I give them a shot, I walk away happy I did!


 Jan 9, 2023


 Mar 5, 2022

Eric
 Apr 26, 2020
presents a reasoned, responsible view of issues we all should be thinking about.

Byron
 Feb 21, 2020
tried it... certainly wasn't impressed

Description

Expertly-curated progressive politics, news, and culture produced by leftist humans, not algorithms or AI. This is an award-winning podcast that dives deeply into a wide range of national and international issues facing society and governments. We draw from hundreds of sources of progressive news and commentary. Est. 2006. Save time by listening to a range of perspectives on a focused topic in each episode and be introduced to new sources you will not have come across on your own!

Episode Date
Bonus Sample #300 My People are Humans
Apr 23, 2024
#1623 Burning American Credibility on Support for Israel's Genocidal War in Gaza - Biden, Netanyahu, and the double standards of the rules-based order
Apr 20, 2024
Bonus Sample #299 Selling Bliss
Apr 18, 2024
#1249 Understanding the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli mistreatment of Palestinians (Throwback)
Apr 16, 2024
#1622 Capitalism Culture Catastrophes On Land, Sea, And In The Sky - Baltimore Bridge Collapse, Boeing Blowout, and the Continuing Threat to Railway Workers
Apr 12, 2024
#1621 How Democrats Lost Their Way On Economics And Are Starting To Find It Again
Apr 09, 2024
Bonus Sample #292 Someone is Wrong on the Internet
Apr 07, 2024
#1379 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Democracy in America (Throwback)
Apr 05, 2024
#1620 Threatening the 2024 Election to Subvert Democracy, from Legal Maneuvers in Congress and Unconstitutional Congressional Maps to Violent Threats Against Election Workers
Apr 03, 2024
Bonus Sample #297 No Laughing Matter
Apr 01, 2024
#1619 A Guide to Protests Against Injustice from the Peaceful to the Deadly
Mar 30, 2024
Bonus Sample #296 Coping: Magic Mushrooms, Bath Time, Perpetual Therapy, and Pain Killers
Mar 28, 2024
#1463 People Are Waking Back Up To The Need For Labor Unions (Throwback)
Mar 26, 2024
#1618 Forget Equality, Embrace the Feminism of Freedom - Breaking entirely free from the structures of White supremacy and heteropatriarchy
Mar 23, 2024
Bonus Sample #295 Cause it's all about control
Mar 21, 2024
#1617 The Profitable and Political Moral Panic Around Trans People: Debunking Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, Groomers, and Detransitioning Misconceptions
Mar 19, 2024
#1616 The Party of Putin and the Propaganda Leading the GOP to Trump and the US to Russian-Style Autocracy
Mar 15, 2024
Bonus Sample #294 Answering men's cry for help
Mar 11, 2024
#1165 To Exist is to Resist: Life and Activism in Occupied Palestine Working Toward Rights and Democracy For All in Israel (Throwback)
Mar 08, 2024
#1163 Strange Bedfellows: Looking at why Ethno-Nationalists Admire Israel and the Violence Inflicted on Gaza (Throwback)
Mar 05, 2024
Bonus Sample: #293 I love you, man
Mar 03, 2024
#1615 Envisioning a Leftisț Economic Future of Postcapitalism, High-Tech Automation, Universal Basic Income and a World (Mostly) Without Work
Mar 01, 2024
#1614 Deep-Fakery and Deep Consequences for Democracy: AI-generated fake news threatens elections around the world and makes people question the ability to know what is real
Feb 28, 2024
Bonus Sample #292 Techno Authoritarians vs Interoperabilities
Feb 25, 2024
#1613 Breathless Speculation: Biden's Baggage, Trump's Tyranny, Misleading Media, Courts and Criminality
Feb 23, 2024
#1612 New Tech and the New Luddite Movement; Inequitable Distribution of Benefits from New Technology Always Sparks Demands from Labor and AI is Rekindling the Old Arguments
Feb 20, 2024
Bonus Sample #291 Recommendations and Manipulations
Feb 19, 2024
#1611 Higher Education: the Myths, McCarthyism, and Change Makers at a time when education is under attack for free speech, DEI and CRT but arguably needs changes to meet a changing world
Feb 17, 2024
#1610 The Border, and Our Border Politics, Are a Mess - As Trump and MAGA-driven misunderstanding and panic about the nature of immigration dominates election concerns.
Feb 14, 2024
#1609 The Post-Roe World is Bad But it Could Still Get Worse - Abortion Bans in the US Are Causing Widespread Suffering for Both Patients and Doctors Attempting to Navigate the New Normal
Feb 10, 2024
#1608 Widespread Loneliness is a Solvable Social Problem - Urban Design, Architecture, Co-housing, and Community Action and Support Can Make Our Towns Better
Feb 07, 2024
Bonus Sample #289 A Cul-de-Sac of Ignorance
Feb 06, 2024
#1607 The Tangled, Flammable Web of War in the Middle East
Feb 03, 2024
Bonus Sample #288 Make the Children Cry in Order to Save Them
Jan 28, 2024
#1606 Biden's Barriers and Boons to Reelection
Jan 26, 2024
#1605 Our Prison System is a Demonstrable Failure
Jan 23, 2024
#1529 Monopolies Run By Morons (Repost)
Jan 20, 2024
#1604 The Border Crisis is Manufactured for Political Opportunity
Jan 17, 2024
Bonus Sample #286 Looking to the Past to See Ourselves
Jan 15, 2024
#1603 Clarence Thomas and the Highest Court in the Land with the Lowest Standards of Ethics
Jan 13, 2024
#1535 We Don't Do Accountability (Trump and GOP Crimes That Go Unpunished) (Repost)
Jan 09, 2024
Bonus Sample #285 The Christians and the Pagans
Jan 08, 2024
#1602 What Happens in Israel and Gaza Doesn't Stay in Israel and Gaza
Jan 05, 2024
#1601 Christian Nationalism is not Christianity, it is Fascism
Jan 02, 2024
Bonus Sample #284 First they came for the Italian babies
Jan 01, 2024
#1532 Accelerationism is the Brick on the Gas Pedal of the Runaway Car of Society (Repost)
Dec 29, 2023
#1533 How Theocracies Begin and End (Rise of the Far-Right + Demanding Women's Rights in Iran) (Repost)
Dec 26, 2023
#1600 Housing Cannot be a Fundamental Human Right and a Commodity at the Same Time
Dec 23, 2023
#1599 Taming the Beast: AI Regulation Before Human Relegation
Dec 20, 2023
Bonus Sample #283 Meaningless rituals are useful but self-driving cars are more questionable
Dec 16, 2023
#1598 Kiss of Death: Henry Kissinger's Bloody Legacy of Indifference
Dec 13, 2023
Bonus Samples #281 and 282 No one likes how this is going | Not Worth It
Dec 11, 2023
#1597 The rise of fascism around the world driven by economic insecurity
Dec 08, 2023
#1596 Building a positive future by first envisioning it and then designing it
Dec 06, 2023
#1519 International Fascist Movement on the Move (Throwback)
Dec 02, 2023
#1595 Pushing for Medicare For All in the Laboratories of Democracy
Nov 29, 2023
#1594 Testing New Climate Solutions: Geothermal and Geo-Engineering
Nov 26, 2023
#1518 Ronald Reagan, It Turns Out, Was Bad (Repost)
Nov 22, 2023
Bonus Sample #280 Tracking people and animals in order to save them and ourselves
Nov 17, 2023
#1593 Beyond Neoliberalism: Dreaming a new economic system into being
Nov 15, 2023
#1592 Israel and Palestine are less complicated than you think: Standing for international law while condemning crimes against humanity, war crimes, antisemitism, and apartheid.
Nov 11, 2023
#1591 Broken News: Understanding traditional media and social media reporting on the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza
Nov 06, 2023
#TBT #1510 Avoiding Accountability: How the powerful in the US have almost always been allowed to skate by (Throwback)
Nov 01, 2023
#TBT #1507 Installing Loyalists: The Multi-Pronged Destruction of Our Democracy Already in Progress (Throwback)
Oct 27, 2023
#1590 Red Caesar and Project 2025: A fascist fever dream being given a vaguely respectable coat of paint by the Claremont Institute and the Heritage Foundation paving the way for an unconstrained, lawless, authoritarian Republican president
Oct 24, 2023
Bonus Sample #279 Complainers gonna complain, creepers gonna creep
Oct 21, 2023
#1589 War in the Holy Land: Context Behind the Atrocities, Crimes Against Humanity, and the Possible Escalation That Will be Detrimental to All Sides in the Wake of the Hamas Attack Israel is Calling Their "9-11"
Oct 17, 2023
#1588 The Shutdown That Wasn't And The Chaos That Is: The far-right of the GOP has been intent on not governing for a long time and eating their own, like McCarthy most recently, is their go-to maneuver.
Oct 13, 2023
#TBT #1545 Agents of Chaos: The New Congress (Throwback)
Oct 10, 2023
#1587 What Conservatives Think of When They Think of the Children: Child Labor, Child Brides, Child Mothers, Childhood Poverty, Child Indoctrination
Oct 07, 2023
#1586 Cop City is the Backlash to the Backlash Against Police Brutality and Murder, the Atlanta Community is Fighting Back and Creating a Blueprint for Change in the Process
Oct 04, 2023
Bonus Edition #278 Obfuscating Reality Through Layers of Fantasy
Sep 29, 2023
#1585 Workers Rights Ascendent Amid Writers and Actors Strikes in Hollywood and the UAW Strikes Against the Big 3 US Automakers all While the Sociopathic Reality of Capitalism is Laid Bare by CEOs Explain How Exploiting Workers is Intrinsic to the System
Sep 26, 2023
#1584 Israel's Political Upheaval, Supreme Court Power Struggle, US Support, and the Normalization of Apartheid
Sep 24, 2023
#TBT #1360 Redefine, Unburden and #DefundThePolice: With Copy City renewing debate over policing, we look back at the counterargument (Throwback)
Sep 22, 2023
#1583 Alluring Conspiracy Culture vs Capitalism: The Driving Forces that are Attracting People into Conspiratorial Thinking About Trump, COVID, Economics, Military Affairs and More.
Sep 18, 2023
#TBT ​#1190 Island Recovering From Disaster: Hurricane Maria laid bare the colonialism and capitalism in Puerto Rico (Throwback)
Sep 16, 2023
#1582 Maui Fire Sale: Hawaiian Colonization, Disaster Capitalism, and the Climate Crisis Fueling Wildfires and Housing Insecurity in Native Hawaiian Communities on Maui and Beyond
Sep 13, 2023
Bonus Sample: The human condition since the Christianization of Europe
Sep 08, 2023
#1581 Indicted Authoritarianism Up For Debate: GOP presidential candidates debate the future of the party just in case Donald Trump is found guilty of any of his many crimes and somehow manages to lose the GOP primary or is barred from office.
Sep 07, 2023
#1580 Bet Your Life: Sports betting is opening new and expensive ways to waste your time and destroy your mental health. The impacts of gambling are straining the legitimacy of sports and how they're reported by ESPN and beyond.
Sep 03, 2023
#TBT ​#1152 Rise of the Oligarchs Like the Ones Taking Clarence Thomas on Trips: From the Libertarians of the Chicago School and the Push for Market Fundamentalism to the Megadonors Pulling the Strings of Politicians Today (Money in Politics) (Throwback
Aug 31, 2023
#1506 Native Landback for a Healthier Society and Environment (Repost)
Aug 30, 2023
#1504 Neurodiversity is Strength: Autism, ADHD and Beyond (Repost)
Aug 27, 2023
#TBT #1209 How to Debate Your Values: Being part of the solution in an age of hyper-polarization as we enter a new election cycle (Throwback)
Aug 25, 2023
#1579 Positive masculinity is a process. Many boys hear more about what they shouldn't say, how they shouldn't act, but without a strong alternative example which opens the door for the purveyors of toxic masculinity like Andrew Tate to fill the gap.
Aug 24, 2023
#1578 A.I. is a big tech airplane with a 10% chance of crashing, should society fly it? ChatGPT was only the starter pistol but it has shown the sloppiness of these companies and the need for regulate artificial intelligence for the public good.
Aug 20, 2023
#TBT #1323 Maui Fire and Power to the People: The Future of Public Ownership and Local Control (Throwback)
Aug 18, 2023
Bonus Sample #276 There Are No Mild-Mannered People on the Internet
Aug 16, 2023
#1577 Trump's historic third indictment containing three counts of conspiracy and one of obstruction regarding the 2020 election and Jan 6th, 2021
Aug 12, 2023
#TBT #1054 What Drives Trump Conservatives - "Strangers in Their Own Land" (Throwback)
Aug 10, 2023
#1499 January 6th Insurrection Hearings (Everyone Knew The Lie Was A Lie) (Repost)
Aug 09, 2023
#1576 How Florida's education reform works to maintain unjust power imbalances
Aug 07, 2023
Bonus Sample #275 Alternate Universes
Aug 04, 2023
#1575 Cluster Headache, Matching War Crimes with War Crimes Against Russia in Ukraine
Aug 02, 2023
#1497 A Healthier Humanity Through a Wellness Economy (Repost)
Jul 31, 2023
#TBT #1250 Teachers at the forefront of a resurgent progressive labor movement (Throwback)
Jul 28, 2023
#1574 Creative vs Control: Hollywood strikes for livable wages and the future of human creativity
Jul 26, 2023
#1573 Confronting Climate Chaos with Action and Adaptation
Jul 22, 2023
#TBT #1311 Our Culture and Our Economy are Making Us Depressed (Throwback)
Jul 19, 2023
#1572 Building a circular, sustainable economy for all
Jul 16, 2023
Bonus Sample #274 The good news is that the end is nigh
Jul 14, 2023
#1571 Understanding what we lost with the repeal of affirmative action
Jul 12, 2023
#1570 The overpopulation debate is more philosophical than empirical
Jul 09, 2023
#TBT #1155 Leisure, Desperation or a Reorientation (The Future of Work) (Throwback)
Jul 07, 2023
#1569 Winning Progressive Policies with Better Messaging
Jul 04, 2023
Bonus Sample #273 Marriage Proposals
Jul 02, 2023
#1495 No One Supports the Economic Interests of Rural America (Repost)
Jun 28, 2023
#1568 The Shifting Landscape of the Religion-Conservative-Political Complex
Jun 25, 2023
#TBT #1247 The Fight for the Four Freedoms (FDR vs. Libertarianism) (Throwback)
Jun 23, 2023
#1567 How to Sell an Immoral Economic System to the Masses
Jun 21, 2023
Bonus Sample #272 Billionaires Selling the System
Jun 19, 2023
#1482 The New Hotness in Scam Culture (Crypto Currency and NFTs)(Repost)
Jun 18, 2023
#TBT #1333 An Examination of Fear, Anger, Forgiveness and Grace (Also, Mr. Rogers) (Throwback)
Jun 15, 2023
#1566 Wrestling with Ethical Consumption Under Capitalism
Jun 14, 2023
#1565 Co-Housing Builds Community and Fights Loneliness
Jun 10, 2023
#TBT #1243 The story of Socialism in America (Throwback)
Jun 09, 2023
#1564 How Marketing Has Shaped Our World for the Worse
Jun 07, 2023
Bonus Sample #271 Infantile Engineers
Jun 05, 2023
#1563 Putting Our Kids to Work for Corporate Profits
Jun 04, 2023
#TBT #1080 Corporate media’s fight for legitimacy in the age of Trump (Throwback)
May 18, 2023
#1560 Immigration Crisis: Biden vs. Trump, Undocumented Workers, Anti-Immigrant Hate, Migrant Abuse, and the Economic Fallout of Florida's New Law
May 17, 2023
#1559 Company Towns are a Bad Solution to a Real Problem
May 14, 2023
#TBT #1133 Understanding Authoritarianism (Throwback)
May 11, 2023
Bonus Edition #270 I'd Like to Phone a Friend
May 11, 2023
#1558 States of Hate, Right-Wing Legislatures Go Full-Tilt While the Courageous Fight Back
May 10, 2023
#1557 Tactics and Counter-Tactics of the Struggle for Labor Rights
May 06, 2023
#1556 Oil Wealth and Oligarchy, Over 100 Years of Polishing Unredeemable Reputations
May 02, 2023
#1555 The Kids Are Not Alright (Boys, Girls, Culture and Social Media)
Apr 27, 2023
Bonus Sample #269 Tell Good Stories and Jokes
Apr 22, 2023
#1554 Destroying Education and Democracy for Fun and Profit
Apr 20, 2023
#1553 The Nuremberg Trials of J.K. Rowling: Misogyny and Authoritarianism in the Bizarro World
Apr 17, 2023
#1484 Elon Musk is Not Your Savior and He Is Actually Awful (Repost)
Apr 12, 2023
Bonus Sample #268 Making Corrections
Apr 08, 2023
#1480 The Cyberwar Did Not Begin with Cyber Pearl Harbor (Repost)
Apr 05, 2023
#1552 Invasion of Iraq, 20 years later
Apr 01, 2023
#1476 The Disinformation War We Are Not Fighting (Repost)
Mar 29, 2023
#1551 Making sense of the senseless war in Ukraine
Mar 27, 2023
Bonus Edition: Absurdity on top of absurdity
Mar 24, 2023
#1550 Red States, Where Democracy Goes to Die and Terrible Legislation is Born
Mar 22, 2023
#1549 Fox News is worse than we imagined or: they all knew they were lying
Mar 18, 2023
Bonus Sample #266 AI may destroy society and capitalism will help
Mar 16, 2023
#1548 The War on Woke Pits the GOP Against Their Usual Allies in Big Business
Mar 15, 2023
#1547 Shaping the Future of the Internet
Mar 09, 2023
#1546 Exist, Resist, Indigenize, Decolonize: A story of colonialism, cultural renaissance and modernity
Mar 04, 2023
#1466 The Faustian Bargain of Technological Advancement and Societal Degradation (Repost)
Mar 02, 2023
Bonus Sample #265 The Laughter to Darkness Ratio
Feb 25, 2023
#1545 Agents of Chaos: The New Congress
Feb 23, 2023
#1544 Block History Month: The Campaign to Erase Uncomfortable Truths About Black History
Feb 18, 2023
#1543 Capitalism doesn't live up to the hype
Feb 14, 2023
#1542 Despair and violence in Israel's illiberal and exclusionary "democracy"
Feb 10, 2023
Bonus Sample #264 How To Talk About The Super Bowl
Feb 08, 2023
#1541 Tear down paradise and put up a dystopian police state (Cop City)
Feb 05, 2023
#1540 The Grift of Life (Scam Culture™ and the Economy it has built)
Feb 01, 2023
Bonus Sample #263 Capitalism Culture and System Failure
Jan 28, 2023
#1539 Stolen Children is Stolen History, Heritage, and Culture (Indian Child Welfare Act)
Jan 25, 2023
#1538 Authoritarian Coup Attempts Around the World
Jan 22, 2023
#1461 Neoliberalism is Hanging on for Dear Life in Changing Times (Repost)
Jan 18, 2023
#1537 All Your Faves Were Radicals (Beyond Martin Luther King Jr)
Jan 14, 2023
#1536 Your Food Choices Are Not Your Food Choices
Jan 11, 2023
#1535 We Don't Do Accountability (Trump and GOP Crimes That Go Unpunished)
Jan 07, 2023
#1534 Every Move You Make (Facial Recognition, TikTok, and Surveillance Capitalism 2.0)
Jan 03, 2023
Bonus Sample #261 Join the Indoctri-Nation!
Dec 31, 2022
#1451 The Foxification of American Media (Fox News 25th Anniversary) (Repost)
Dec 27, 2022
#1533 How Theocracies Begin and End (Rise of the Far-Right + Demanding Women's Rights in Iran)
Dec 24, 2022
The Last Resort (The Story of Cal-Exit)
Dec 22, 2022
Bonus Sample #260 Don't Call Me Out My Name
Dec 20, 2022
#1532 Accelerationism is the Brick on the Gas Pedal of the Runaway Car of Society
Dec 17, 2022
#1531 The Labor Movement is a Hot Mess and Democrats Are Not Much Help
Dec 13, 2022
#1454 The Problem with Facebook is Facebook (Repost)
Dec 11, 2022
#1530 The Pillars of Polarization and Persuasion
Dec 07, 2022
#1529 Monopolies Run By Morons
Dec 04, 2022
Bonus Sample #259 Political Movements
Dec 02, 2022
#1528 The Ugly Underbelly of The Beautiful Game (Qatar World Cup)
Dec 01, 2022
#1230 Thanksgiving and cultural heritage (Repost)
Nov 26, 2022
#1527 Making Antisemitism Great Again with Ye, Kyrie Irving and Dave Chapelle
Nov 23, 2022
#1265 Moving beyond tragedy by surviving and adapting (Repost)
Nov 20, 2022
#1526 A History of Political Violence in the US
Nov 16, 2022
#1525 Don't Panic: Irrational Fear and Panic in the US
Nov 13, 2022
#1524 An Historic, World-Shaping Election, Of Sorts (China, Xi Jinping)
Nov 09, 2022
Bonus Sample #258 Chatbots and Catbots
Nov 04, 2022
#1523 Pocketbook Pain and Corporate Profits
Nov 01, 2022
#1522 An extremist cult conspired to destroy the United Kingdom from within
Oct 29, 2022
#1521 The election of a lifetime for this year
Oct 26, 2022
Bonus Sample #257 The Fascist Hobbit and the Conservatism of Storytelling
Oct 25, 2022
#1440 The Physical Structures of Structural Racism and the Fight for Environmental Justice (Repost)
Oct 21, 2022
#1435 A History of White Violence in Policy and Practice (Repost)
Oct 18, 2022
#1520 Demanding Rights for Women in Iran
Oct 14, 2022
Bonus Sample #256 Life is a Series of Tasks
Oct 12, 2022
#1447 Settler Colonialist Structures Around the World (Repost)
Oct 11, 2022
#1519 International Fascist Movement on the Move
Oct 08, 2022
#1518 Ronald Reagan, It Turns Out, Was Bad
Oct 05, 2022
#1517 Reverse Freedom Rides (Human Trafficking Asylum Seekers)
Oct 01, 2022
Bonus Sample #255 Good Questions and Bad Answers
Sep 27, 2022
#1516 The Clean-Up Crew (The System of Activist Judges Defending Trump)
Sep 24, 2022
#1515 Set the Sun on the British Empire (Queen Elizabeth II)
Sep 21, 2022
#1514 Creating a Digital World of our Worst Habits
Sep 17, 2022
#1513 The Morality of Debt and Forgiveness
Sep 14, 2022
#1512 Ownership and Rights in a Digital World
Sep 09, 2022
#1511 Economic Underclass, Political Pawns (Immigration and Asylum Seeking)
Sep 06, 2022
#1436 The Long Legacy of Making Deals with the Devil (Bipartisanship) (Repost)
Sep 04, 2022
#1510 Avoiding Accountability
Aug 31, 2022
#1509 Preparing for the next proxy-war (China and Taiwan)
Aug 27, 2022
Bonus Sample #253 Bill Maher vs George Carlin
Aug 24, 2022
#1508 On the Questionable Usefulness and Longevity of NATO
Aug 20, 2022
#1507 Installing Loyalists: The Multi-Pronged Destruction of Our Democracy Already in Progress
Aug 16, 2022
#1433 The legacy of White Supremacy in schools, health care and public pools (Repost)
Aug 13, 2022
#1506 Native Landback for a Healthier Society and Environment
Aug 10, 2022
#1505 The Largest Investment in Climate Mitigation in US History
Aug 05, 2022
#1504 Neurodiversity is Strength
Aug 02, 2022
#1422 Teach No Evil, Protest No Evil, Vote Not At All (Repost)
Jul 30, 2022
#1503 The Supremely Extreme Court
Jul 26, 2022
#1502 Conflict, Climate, Capitalism and Famine
Jul 22, 2022
Bonus Edition #203 The Fog of Work (Repost)
Jul 17, 2022
#1501 Navigating Post-Roe America
Jul 13, 2022
Bonus Sample #252 The Assumptions of Capitalism Culture
Jul 08, 2022
#1500 America, A Beginner's Guide
Jul 04, 2022
#1424 Fighting with at least two hands tied (Conservative Democrats Manchin and Sinema) (Repost)
Jul 02, 2022
#1287 Mitch McConnell is the Forking Worst (Reposted)
Jun 28, 2022
#1499 Everyone Knew The Lie Was A Lie (January 6th Insurrection Hearings)
Jun 25, 2022
#1498 Pride and Prejudice
Jun 22, 2022
#1497 A Healthier Humanity Through a Wellness Economy
Jun 17, 2022
#1496 Home Is Where The Hardship Is (Housing Crisis)
Jun 15, 2022
#1495 No One Supports the Economic Interests of Rural America
Jun 11, 2022
#1494 Progressives and the Primaries
Jun 08, 2022
Bonus Sample #251 Tales of Panic
Jun 07, 2022
#1493 Marketing, Messaging and Mass Shootings
Jun 04, 2022
#1492 The Great Replacements (Conspiracy vs Reality)
Jun 01, 2022
#1491 Mismanaging Capitalism Can Lead to Fascism (Inflation and the Working Class)
May 27, 2022
Bonus Sample: #250 Tell Me A Story
May 25, 2022
#1416 The Disneyfication of Our Past, Present and Future (Repost)
May 21, 2022
#1411 Our Democracy is Filibusted, Time to Kill the Filibuster (Repost)
May 17, 2022
#1490 What To Do As We Enter A Post-Roe World
May 14, 2022
#1489 Journalism, Social Media and the Billionaire Business Model
May 10, 2022
#1488 Seeking Approval from the GOP Fringe is Making Them Mainstream
May 07, 2022
#1487 Oceans Rise, Empires Fall (The Coming New World Order)
May 04, 2022
#1486 Unionizing is a Labor of Love
Apr 29, 2022
Will Be Wild, a Deep Dive into January 6th
Apr 26, 2022
#1485 The Politics We Have, The Politics We Need (Socializing the Oil Industry)
Apr 23, 2022
#1484 Elon Musk is Not Your Savior and He Is Actually Awful
Apr 20, 2022
#1483 Coming Catastrophe at the Supreme Court
Apr 16, 2022
#1482 The New Hotness in Scam Culture (Crypto Currency and NFTs)
Apr 13, 2022
Bonus Sample: Hair of the Dog
Apr 10, 2022
#1481 A New Voice of Dissent on the Supreme Court (Ketanji Brown Jackson)
Apr 07, 2022
#1480 The Cyberwar Did Not Begin with Cyber Pearl Harbor
Apr 02, 2022
#1479 Torturing Children and Families in the Name of Protecting Them (Trans Rights)
Mar 29, 2022
#1478 Refugees, Borders, War, and the Climate Crisis
Mar 24, 2022
#1477 The Plot Against America
Mar 19, 2022
#1476 The Disinformation War We Are Not Fighting
Mar 16, 2022
Bonus Sample #246 Feeling Good About Feeling Bad
Mar 15, 2022
#1475 Fossil Fueled War
Mar 11, 2022
#1403 The American Empire Gets a Reboot (Foreign Policy Under Biden) (Repost)
Mar 09, 2022
#1474 Invasion of Ukraine: Some Context
Mar 04, 2022
#1473 How the GOP Became a Radicalized Strongman Cult
Mar 02, 2022
#1472 Some, but not enough, progress on gun violence in America
Feb 26, 2022
#1471 Taking Delight In Chaos (Trucker Protests Go International)
Feb 23, 2022
#1399 Myths are written by the victors, history by the scholars (1619 vs 1776) (Repost)
Feb 18, 2022
#1396 The Platforms of Our Discontent (Social Media, Social Destruction) (Repost)
Feb 15, 2022
#1470 Distorting History and Banning Books is a Power Play of Exclusion
Feb 12, 2022
#1469 Geopolitical Brinksmanship Rekindling The Cold War (Ukraine Crisis)
Feb 09, 2022
Bonus Edition #245 Nouning Discrimination
Feb 08, 2022
#1468 Winning battles against the forces of neoliberalism around the world
Feb 05, 2022
#1467 No One Asked For The Next Big Thing (Metaverse)
Jan 31, 2022
#1394 White Terrorism and Willful Ignorance (Repost)
Jan 25, 2022
#1391 The Road to Sedition (Repost)
Jan 19, 2022
#1466 The Faustian Bargain of Technological Advancement and Societal Degradation (Audio Fixed)
Jan 15, 2022
Sample Bonus 244 Come Correct or Not At All
Jan 12, 2022
#1465 Epidemic of Patent Protection and Propaganda
Jan 09, 2022
#1464 Fighting to Preserve Democracy With Only Democrats to Turn To
Jan 06, 2022
#1402 Racism or Classism? Caste Explains that it is Both (Repost)
Dec 31, 2021
#1387 Hyper-Partisanship is Baked Into the System, Not a Result of Bad Actors (Repost)
Dec 28, 2021
#1390 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Our Second Founding (Reconstruction) (Repost)
Dec 25, 2021
#1463 People Are Waking Back Up To The Need For Labor Unions
Dec 23, 2021
Bonus Sample: Mighty White
Dec 21, 2021
#1462 There Will Be No Reichstag Fire
Dec 18, 2021
#1461 Neoliberalism is Hanging on for Dear Life in Changing Times
Dec 16, 2021
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Dec 15, 2021
#1460 The Growing Threat of Minority Rule
Dec 12, 2021
#1459 Disability Is Not Merely Physical or Mental But Is Also Social
Dec 09, 2021
Bonus Sample #242 It's Always the Season for Male Supremacy
Dec 07, 2021
#1458 White Supremacy on Trial (Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Arbery Murder, Charlottesville Nazis)
Dec 03, 2021
#1385 The Lost Causes of the Confederacy and the Forty Fives (Repost)
Nov 28, 2021
#1457 GOP Authoritarianism Will Likely To Get Worse Before It Gets Better
Nov 25, 2021
#1456 Capitalism and Colonialism vs Climate Progress
Nov 20, 2021
Bonus Sample: You want it to be one way, but it's that other way
Nov 18, 2021
#1379 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Democracy in America (Repost)
Nov 16, 2021
#1455 How to End Homelessness
Nov 13, 2021
#1454 The Problem with Facebook is Facebook
Nov 10, 2021
Bonus Edition: Playing With Children
Nov 08, 2021
#1453 The Tea Party Too (School Board Backlash and the Dark Money Behind It)
Nov 06, 2021
#1452 Worked to Death: Pandemics Expose the Power of Labor
Nov 04, 2021
#1376 Tell Stories, Not Myths: America is a Force But Not Always For Good (Repost + Bonus Clips)
Oct 31, 2021
#1451 The Foxification of American Media (Fox News 25th Anniversary)
Oct 28, 2021
#1450 Tax the Mother-Forking Rich (Pandora Papers and other Financial Tricks)
Oct 23, 2021
Bonus Sample #239 You probably need a therapist
Oct 22, 2021
#1449 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, 2Spirit and Relatives (MMIWG2S+)
Oct 20, 2021
#1448 Pillars of Copaganda and the Lies We Are Told About Police
Oct 17, 2021
#1374 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Columbus and the Centrality of Colonialism (Repost + Bonus Clips)
Oct 13, 2021
#1447 Settler Colonialist Structures Around the World
Oct 10, 2021
#1446 Occupy Wall Street is Part of a Very Long Continuum
Oct 07, 2021
Bonus Sample: You Probably Need an Exorcism
Oct 03, 2021
#1445 A Crisis For Haitians, Not the US, on the Border
Sep 30, 2021
#1444 The Ongoing Coup and Other Ways to Destroy Democracy
Sep 26, 2021
#1443 Legacies of 9/11: War on Terror, Islamophobia and Conspiracy Theories
Sep 22, 2021
#1442 Health, Race, Class, Gender and Gaslighting at Work (Texas Abortion Law and SOCTUS)
Sep 18, 2021
#1373 Post-Roe: The Next Phase in the Fight for Reproductive Justice (Repost)
Sep 15, 2021
Bonus Sample: Constant Vigilance!
Sep 14, 2021
#1441 There is Nothing New About Right-Wing Extremist Violence
Sep 11, 2021
#1440 The Physical Structures of Structural Racism and the Fight for Environmental Justice
Sep 08, 2021
#1439 Power, Policies and Prejudice in a World of Refugees
Sep 04, 2021
#1366 The Great Unhousing of America (Repost)
Sep 01, 2021
#1438 Afghanistan: Where We Go From Here
Aug 28, 2021
#1437 Afghanistan: The Long Road to Now (Remix)
Aug 25, 2021
#1436 The Long Legacy of Making Deals with the Devil (Bipartisanship)
Aug 21, 2021
#1435 A History of White Violence in Policy and Practice
Aug 19, 2021
#1434 Confronting Climate Chaos Through Time (Remix)
Aug 13, 2021
#1433 The legacy of White Supremacy in schools, health care and public pools
Aug 10, 2021
#1305 How to Build an Empire (A History of American Expansion) (Repost)
Aug 07, 2021
#1357 What Trump is Invoking When He Invokes Manifest Destiny (Repost)
Aug 04, 2021
#1432 Wishing Cuba well in one breath, enforcing the embargo in the next
Aug 01, 2021
#1431 Stealing Native Children and Their Future (Residential Schools)
Jul 29, 2021
#1430 Abortion laws are changing and so is how we talk about it
Jul 24, 2021
#1334 Your Life Will Have Been What You Paid Attention To (Attention Economy) (Repost)
Jul 22, 2021
Bonus Sample: Even Nazis Want to do a War Dance
Jul 16, 2021
#1429 The Grit, Glory and Gaslighting of the Olympic Games
Jul 14, 2021
#1361 Building a Better System of Justice (Repost)
Jul 10, 2021
#1428 Labor Shortages and the War to Keep Wages Low and Profits High
Jul 07, 2021
Bonus: Justifications rather than justice
Jul 03, 2021
#1427 The Consequences of Everyday Racism
Jun 30, 2021
#1426 The Liberation and Assimilation of Pride Month
Jun 27, 2021
#1425 Remembering and Learning from History (Tulsa Massacre and Juneteenth)
Jun 24, 2021
#1424 Fighting with at least two hands tied (Conservative Democrats Manchin and Sinema)
Jun 19, 2021
Value: Health Insurance companies and Surveillance Capitalism
Jun 16, 2021
#1423 A Microcosm of our Broken Society (Sports)
Jun 12, 2021
#1422 Teach No Evil, Protest No Evil, Vote Not At All
Jun 10, 2021
#1421 The Rise of China and the Freak Out of the West
Jun 07, 2021
#1420 Alexa Is Not Your Friend (Digital vs Democratic Futures)
Jun 02, 2021
#1286 The Rise of Christian Nationalism (Repost)
May 29, 2021
#1419 Losing support for the indefensible (Israel and Palestine)
May 26, 2021
#1418 The morality test of the COVID age (Vaccine Distribution)
May 22, 2021
#1417 Afghanistan, The 20-year War
May 19, 2021
#1358 How A System Of Power Defends Itself, A Case Study (Repost)
May 14, 2021
Sample Bonus Edition: Just don't make me think, I have to get to work.
May 12, 2021
#1416 The Disneyfication of Our Past, Present and Future
May 08, 2021
#1415 Accountability Not Justice, Continuing the Fight After the Chauvin Trial
May 06, 2021
#1362 Politics is Pointillism, Stand Back to See It Clearly (Voter Suppression) (Repost)
Apr 29, 2021
#1414 Go Home and Go Big (Infrastructure Investment, Jobs and Climate Mitigation)
Apr 24, 2021
#1413 Reflection on Insurrection (Police, White Supremacy and their Champions)
Apr 21, 2021
#1412 Trans People as Disposable Chess Pieces in a Despicable Political Game
Apr 17, 2021
ACTIVISM: Tell the Senate to Pass the #EqualityAct to Protect LGBTQ+ Rights, and More
Apr 17, 2021
#1411 Our Democracy is Filibusted, Time to Kill the Filibuster
Apr 15, 2021
#1410 Anti-Monopoly Activism for a New Era
Apr 11, 2021
Sample Bonus Edition: Vertical Shenanigans
Apr 09, 2021
#1353 Uprising, George Floyd was the spark that ignited the world (Repost)
Apr 07, 2021
#1409 The Change We Want and Deserve (Gun Violence)
Apr 03, 2021
#1408 Anti-Asian Hate and White Ignorance
Apr 01, 2021
#1407 Reclaiming the Streets (Defunding the Police and the Sarah Everard Outcry)
Mar 29, 2021
Sample Bonus Edition: Surviving the future while paying to ache for the past
Mar 27, 2021
#1406 RIP Austerity, the American Rescue Plan and the End of Reaganism
Mar 24, 2021
#1405 Biden Takes the Helm of Our Inhumane Immigration System
Mar 20, 2021
ACTIVISM: Shut Down Detention Centers: Join the #FirstTen to #CommunitiesNotCages Week of Action, March 22-26 via @DetentionWatch
Mar 19, 2021
#1293 Debating Democratic Socialism and How to Get There (Repost)
Mar 16, 2021
#1404 Democracy Under Siege (Voting and Protest Rights)
Mar 13, 2021
#1403 The American Empire Gets a Reboot (Foreign Policy Under Biden)
Mar 10, 2021
#1402 Racism or Classism? Caste Explains that it is Both
Mar 06, 2021
#1283 Native (Mis)Representation
Mar 03, 2021
#1401 That is a Texas-Sized Climate Disaster You Got There
Feb 28, 2021
#1285 Naked Capitalism has a Fig Leaf (Repost)
Feb 25, 2021
#1400 Fighting Neoliberalism from the Fields of India to the Fight for 15
Feb 21, 2021
#1399 Myths are written by the victors, history by the scholars
Feb 17, 2021
#1398 The Road to Justice Runs Through Accountability
Feb 13, 2021
#1397 Vaccine Rollout Once Again Exposes the Divide in Our Global Medical Apartheid
Feb 10, 2021
#1396 The Platforms of Our Discontent (Social Media, Social Destruction)
Feb 06, 2021
#1318 Why We Cannot Have Nice Things (How Racism Hurts Everyone, Including White People) (Repost)
Feb 04, 2021
#1395 The Arab Spring, Bin Laden Killed, Giffords Shot, Occupy Wall St. and Birtherism (A Look Back at 2011)
Jan 31, 2021
#1394 White Terrorism and Willful Ignorance
Jan 27, 2021
#1261 Profitable Extremism (How Social Media Propagates Hate) (Repost)
Jan 23, 2021
#1393 Opportunists, Enablers and Seditionists, the Rot at the Heart of the GOP
Jan 20, 2021
#1392 The Coup Klux Klan and the January 6 Insurrection
Jan 17, 2021
#1391 The Road to Sedition
Jan 10, 2021
#1390 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Our Second Founding (Reconstruction)
Jan 06, 2021
#1355 I Can't Breathe, The Three Words That Define an Era (Repost)
Jan 03, 2021
#1333 An Examination of Fear, Anger, Forgiveness and Grace (and Mr. Rogers) (Repost)
Dec 31, 2020
#1320 The Rise and Inevitable Fall of Neoliberalism (Repost)
Dec 27, 2020
#1389 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Origins of the War on Christmas, Revealed!
Dec 23, 2020
#1388 The Cathartic, Angry Description of Our COVID Response That You Need to Hear
Dec 19, 2020
#1387 Hyper-Partisanship is Baked Into the System, Not a Result of Bad Actors
Dec 16, 2020
#1386 Out With The Old Foreign Policy, In With The Even Older
Dec 12, 2020
#1385 The Lost Causes of the Confederacy and the Forty Fives
Dec 09, 2020
URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT! BotL in financial trouble and how you can help for free!
Dec 09, 2020
#1384 Beyond Trump. Radical Authoritarianism in America.
Dec 05, 2020
#1383 The Work That Wins Elections (Political Organizing)
Dec 02, 2020
#1269 Following the thread of the global Great Transition (Repost)
Nov 27, 2020
#1321 Decolonization is for Everyone (Repost)
Nov 24, 2020
#1382 Progressive Policies Are Good Politics
Nov 21, 2020
#1381 The Conservative Fever Swamp is Reaching Critical Mass
Nov 17, 2020
#1380 The Coup Attempt We Saw Coming Years in Advance
Nov 14, 2020
#1379 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Democracy in America
Nov 11, 2020
Bonus Edition #221 All the credit we can give to the saviors of democracy
Nov 07, 2020
#1378 Bracing for Impact (Election 2020, #AllVotesMatter)
Nov 03, 2020
#1339 Recognizing the Signs of Fascism for What They Are (Authoritarianism) (Repost)
Oct 31, 2020
#1377 Building a Solidarity Economy for a More Resilient Future
Oct 27, 2020
#1287 Mitch McConnell is the Forking Worst (Repost)
Oct 24, 2020
#1376 Tell Stories, Not Myths: America is a Force But Not Always For Good
Oct 21, 2020
#1375 The Militia Movement is Having a Moment
Oct 16, 2020
#1374 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Columbus and the Centrality of Colonialism
Oct 13, 2020
#1373 Post-Roe: The Next Phase in the Fight for Reproductive Justice
Oct 09, 2020
#1372 The Supreme Court. Before, During and After Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Oct 06, 2020
#1371 Why Even Seemingly Normal People Are Falling for the QAnon Conspiracy Cult
Oct 01, 2020
#1370 Bernie Sanders on Trump as a Threat to American Democracy
Sep 26, 2020
#1369 The Business Model That Ate the World (Facebook)
Sep 22, 2020
#1368 Our Essential, Yet Disposable, Labor
Sep 18, 2020
#1367 The Post Office and the Census, Unmaking the American Institutions That Most Bind Us Together
Sep 15, 2020
#1366 The Great Unhousing of America
Sep 12, 2020
#1365 White Supremacy, Authoritarians, Trump and the Coming Election
Sep 08, 2020
#1364 Fundamentalist-Driven Sectarian Violence (And I am Not Talking About a Foreign Country)
Sep 05, 2020
#1363 An Education in Individualism (in)Action (Back to School)
Sep 01, 2020
#1362 Politics is Pointillism, Stand Back to See Things Clearly (Voter Suppression)
Aug 25, 2020
#1361 Building a Better System of Justice
Aug 12, 2020
#1360 Redefine, Unburden and #DefundThePolice
Aug 08, 2020
#1359 The Life, Legacy and Lessons of John Lewis
Aug 05, 2020
#1358 How A System Of Power Defends Itself, A Case Study
Jul 20, 2020
#1357 What Trump is Invoking When He Invokes Manifest Destiny
Jul 10, 2020
#1356 The Many, Many Problems with Cops and Why Reform is Impossible
Jul 06, 2020
#1355 I Can't Breathe, The Three Words That Define an Era
Jun 29, 2020
#1354 Police violence and racism are a product of our past (Uprising, Crackdown, Authoritarianism)
Jun 22, 2020
#1353 Uprising, George Floyd was the spark that ignited the world
Jun 17, 2020
#1352 Racism In America, The Last 160 Years, Explained
Jun 10, 2020
#1351 The Empire Strikes Up Another Cold War (China and US Empire)
Jun 05, 2020
#1029 You can't reignite a fire that never stops burning (Black and Blue Lives) (Repost)
Jun 02, 2020
#1350 Reach For The Good Ideas That Are Just Lying Around (Disaster Capitalism)
May 21, 2020
Bonus Edition #208 Planet of the Humans from Michael Moore, Explained
May 15, 2020
Bonus Edition #207 Hope springs eternal and tries to kill you
May 07, 2020
#1349 A Deep Dive on the Dysfunction of Trump and his Followers (Coronavirus)
May 04, 2020
Bonus Edition #205 A Pandemic of American Myths
Apr 29, 2020
#1348 Not the Great Equalizer, the Amplifier of Disparity (Coronavirus)
Apr 22, 2020
Bonus Edition #203 The Fog of Work
Apr 16, 2020
#1347 Locked in a Petri Dish (Mass Pandemic Incarceration)
Apr 12, 2020
Bonus Edition #201 Forget Positive Thinking, Feel Better by Contemplating the Worst
Apr 08, 2020
#1346 Pandemic Economics and the Reverse Robin Hood Bailout
Apr 04, 2020
Bonus Edition #200 Mental Taxation
Apr 01, 2020
#1280 Modern Monetary Theory: We already use it, now we need to understand it (Repost)
Apr 01, 2020
#1345 All the Best COVID-19 Coping Mechanisms in One Place
Mar 26, 2020
#1344 Everything is Political (Social Safety Net in a Time of Pandemic)
Mar 20, 2020
Bonus Edition #198 No Time for Individualism (Dealing with Coronavirus)
Mar 14, 2020
#1343 Bread and Roses (Socialism is Freedom and Firefighters)
Mar 11, 2020
#1342 What Coronavirus Reveals About the Structures of Our World
Mar 07, 2020
#1341 Bernie and the Billionaires (Democratic Primary Election)
Mar 03, 2020
#1340 The Border Between Socialism and Barbarism (Immigration and Empire)
Feb 28, 2020
#1339 Recognizing the Signs of Fascism for What They Are (Authoritarianism)
Feb 25, 2020