Half the Answer
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Half the Answer is a news podcast hosted by Liberal Currents. It has 78 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.
Caitlin M. Green and Trent R. Nelson interview experts who weigh in on current debates. In the process they seek not only to uncover answers to the questions of the day, but to explore why they are being asked in the first place. To understand the questions we ask, they believe, is half the answer.
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"No Quarter, No Mercy": Understanding Pete Hegseth
Liam Ramos, Kid Prisons, and ICE Flights
What the Hell Is Happening in Texas?! (with Gwen Howerton)
Sharia Socialism in NYC, Or Just Smarter Governance? (with Ryan Cooper)
DOGE Dunces, Depositions, DC Cops and Scoop Ethics (with Marisa Kabas)
Holding ICE and Border Patrol Accountable (with Joshua Erlich)
Political Polarization Across the U.S.A. and Europe (with Aurelien Mondon)
Making America Sick Again: How MAGA is Hurting Healthcare & Science (with Walker Bragman)
America and Iran: Another Forever War? (with The Logical Leftist)
The WaPo Defenestration and ICE Flight Brutality (with Gillian Brockell)
What’s the Deal with Concentration Camps? (with Andrea Pitzer)
The SAVE America Act’s Assault on Voting Rights (with Hunter CG)
CBP and ICE Report: New Orleans, Minneapolis, Greg Bovino & Apple Pie (with Amanda Moore)
Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show, Warehouse Prisons & the El Paso Laser Fiasco (with Jonathan Katz)
Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself? (with Matt McManus)
SCOTUS, the Fourth Amendment, and the Resistance (with Chris Geidner)
ICE Flights and Accountability in Journalism (with Gillian Brockell)
The Year We Lost Everything: Appraising 2025 and Fighting Back in 2026 (with Evan Urquhart)
2025's Word of the Year (with Savi Namboodiripad and Daniel Midgley)
Understanding Stephen Miller (with Greg Sargent)
The U.S. in Venezuela: The International Community and the Donroe Doctrine (with Mark Copelovitch)
The U.S. in Venezuela: Why Is Corporate Media Being So Weird? (with Marisa Kabas)
The Imaginary "War on Science"—and the Real One (with Nathan Oseroff-Spicer)
What Do Republicans Know? (with Matthew Sheffield)
Touring America with Border Patrol and ICE (with Amanda Moore)
Sick in America: Is Everyone Else Lying to You? (with Jonathan Howard)
Modern Gangsters of Capitalism and the Imperial Boomerang
National Delirium: NatSec in Post-9/11 America, from Dubya to Donny
Leaving Children Behind: Education Policy from Bush to Trump
What's It Really Like at the Portland ICE Facility? Part Deux
Prison Reform, Mass Incarceration, and the History of ICE
The Tucker Carlson–Nick Fuentes Interview Episode
SCOTUS, the Originalism Trap, and the Civil Rights Act
What Does History Tell Us About the Second Trump Term?
What's It Really Like at the Portland ICE Facility?
MAHA and the Climate Deniers: Who Are These People?!
America and Iran: Past, Present and Future
Andy Ngo and the Portland Mythology
Palestine in Context: The New Israel-Palestine Deal
What Is Antifa, and How Do You Catch a Fascist?
Mass Shootings, MedBeds, Media Mistakes and Misconceptions
Education Wars
Charlie Kirk and the Roots of the Far Right
Chaotic Neutrality in the Democratic Party
Ezra Klein, Charlie Kirk, Free Speech, and Whitewashing in the Media
What Are Groypers?
The Language of Democrats and Republicans
The Health of American Democracy
A Second American Midnight?
The American Anti-Vaxx Movement: Past, Present, and Future
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