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#1822 The State Media Playbook: The FCC and Billionaires Are Waging a War on the Free Press

#1821 Election Sabotage, Voting System Vulnerabilities, and the Defense of the 2026 Midterms

SOLVED! #39 - Why You Should Care About Prisons in the Fight for a Better World (Throwback)

#1820 Science and Public Health Under Attack by Our Own Government

#1819 Coerced Sterilization, Abortion Bans, and the New Pronatalism: Who Controls American Reproduction (Transcript)

#1818 Flock Cameras, ICE, and the Surveillance State Targeting Everyone

#1817 Worse on Purpose: Trump is Killing Our Response to the Climate Emergency

#1816 IP'd to Death: How Intellectual Property Law Went from a Protection to a Weapon

#1815 Sanctioned Ignorance: The Assault on Museums, Libraries, and American Memory

#1814 Open Imperialism in Latin America: Trump Says the Whole Hemisphere Is His to Run

#1813 Suffering is the Strategy: ICE, Mass Deportation, and Demographic Engineering

#1434 Confronting Climate Chaos Through Time (Throwback)

#1812 Democracy or This Supreme Court, But Not Both

#1811 Country for Old Men: Gerontocracy By Design and the Democracy Problem

Monthly-ish Mix #11 The Loneliest Superpower: What America Gets for Pushing Everyone Away

#1810 Post-American Europe: How to Lose Friends and Influence People to Protect Themselves Against You

#1809 Democrats Seek a Blue Wave, Progressives Push Democratic Socialism, GOP Revive the Red Scare

#1634 Abortion as the Tip of the Iceberg (Throwback)

#1808 Billionaires vs. Democracy: They're Not Coming For Your Job, They're Coming For Your Government (And The Entire Economy)

#1807 What the World Cup Exposes: Identity, Colonialism, and Racism in 2026

#1806 America at 250: The Declaration, the Constitution, and our Crisis of Democracy

#1805 Trump Giving Iran $300 Billion to End His Own War

#1804 Elon Musk, the First Trillionaire, and the Broken System That Made Him

#1803 Monthly-ish Mix: Manufactured Legitimacy and the Fight to Reclaim It

#1802 Department of Injustice: Revenge Prosecutions, Judges Threatened, and Incompetence All the Way Down

#1801 Counterfeit Populism: Trump, the 2026 Primaries, and the Era That's Ending (Transcript)

#1800 How Capitalism Created Loneliness and How To Joyfully Organize Our Way to Community

#1799 The US and China Are Fighting Over Taiwan, Semiconductors, and Africa's Minerals

#1798 FIFA Sportswashing Fascism: The World Cup from Mussolini to Trump

#1797 AI Spent $540 Billion to Make You Lonelier: Betting Against Jobs, Art, and Community

#1796 1.8 Billion for the Mob and a Kill List for Dissent: Trump's payout fund and counterterrorism strategy, decoded

#1795 You Say You Want A Revolution: Successful Revolutions are the Boring Ones

#1794 From MAHA to Measles: RFK's Public Health Purge Will Make America Sick Again

#1793 Anti-Immigrant Brutality Costs Countries More Than Their Morals: ICE, Mass Deportation, and the Global Far-Right

#1792 Capitalist Class Warfare: AI, Billionaire Capture, and the How to Fight Back

#1791 Jim Crow 2.0 — SCOTUS Kills the Voting Rights Act and Unleashes the Gerrymandering War

#1790 Assassin Nation: How Political Violence Got Normalized And How To Reverse It

#1789 Boomcession: Why the Economy Looks Great on Paper and Hurts in Real Life

#1788 Monthly-ish Mix: The America That Almost Was—Empire Abroad, Control at Home, and the Long Arc of Resistance

#1787 The American President vs The American Pope: Leo XIV, Trump, and the MAGA-Catholic Rift

#1786 Defeating Viktor Orbán in Hungary and the Authoritarian Playbook Worldwide

#1329 Our Longest War Has Been a Lie All Along (The Afghanistan Papers) (Throwback)

SOLVED! SAMPLE! #38 - Keepin' it Class-y: How Class Structure and Wealth Inequality Keep Us Stuck

#1785 Iran and the Chain Reaction: The War Nobody Thought Through (Or, Bomb First, Think Never)

#1784 Who Gets to Be American, Who Gets to Vote, and Who Decides

#1783 The Ideology of a Cancer Cell: AI, Surveillance, and Silicon Valley's Psychopath Problem

SOLVED! SAMPLE! #37 - Solidarity Forever: Boycotts, Strikes, & the Labor Movement We Need

#1683 Oligarchy Unmasked: President Musk, the crackup of capitalism, and the MAGA meltdown (Throwback)

#1782 Cuba's Crisis: Trump's Deadly Embargo, Blackouts, and Dream of Regime Change

#1781 Your Team Is a Hedge Fund Now: How Gambling and Billionaires Captured American Sports

ALMOST SOLVED! SAMPLE! #1 - Liberation Theology & What Redemption Really Looks Like

#1780 Cynicism Is a Scab: Hope, Solidarity, and the Labor Fight That Never Stopped

#1779 Community After God: Why the Left Needs What Church Provided

SOLVED! SAMPLE! #36 - Bribery Jazz - Corruption is the Water We Swim In

#1778 AI, the Pentagon, Labor and Capitalism: The Fight Over Who Controls the Future

#1777 How Christian Nationalism, Oil, and Zionism Built The War Against Iran

#1776 Trump's Pharaoh Complex, Our Flawed Constitution, and the 250th Anniversary

SOLVED! FROM THE ARCHIVES - "Collaborators, Internal Exiles, and Dissidents" (Original Air Date: 01-26-25)

#1775 Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition and the Remaking of American Politics

#1774 Monthly-ish Mix: Who's in Charge?—The Scramble for Control of Nations, Bodies, and Minds

#1615 Envisioning a Leftist Economic Future of Postcapitalism, High-Tech Automation, Universal Basic Income and a World (Mostly) Without Work (Throwback)

#1540 The Grift of Life (Scam Culture™ and the Economy it has built) (Throwback)

SOLVED! SAMPLE! #34 - Understanding The Dual State: Life Under Authoritarianism and Your Role in Fighting It

#1773 How Big Tech Captured Attention, Kids, and Democracy

#1772 From Fragile to Fascist: How Broken Masculinity Feeds Authoritarianism

#1771 They Need You in the Dark: Information, Journalism, and the Fight Against Fascism

SOLVED! SAMPLE! #33 - Be a Mosquito in a Swarm: How to Put Cracks in Authoritarian Power

#1770 Getting in the Fight Against ICE and Authoritarianism

#1128 Confronting Fascism in the Land of Free Speech (Throwback)

SOLVED! #32 - How the Left is Always Right Too Soon (With Receipts)

#1769 Politics Beyond the Ballot Box: Elections and the Movements that Power Them

#1768 The End of an Era: The International Rules-Based Order Gives Way to Trump's Might-Makes-Right Plutocracy

SOLVED! FROM THE ARCHIVES - "Of Horse Races and Men: The Result of Decades of Media Atrophy (aka: Uncertain and Powerless"

#1767 Wars Are Won By Teachers and Trump is Attacking Them Like a Foreign Adversary

#1766 The Fragility of State Violence: The ICE Occupation, Renee Good, and the Minneapolis Uprising

SOLVED! SAMPLE! #31 - There is no "Male Loneliness Crisis(TM)": Why Patriarchy & Capitalism Are Hurting Us ALL

#1765 AI Capitalism Will Not Deliver an AI Utopia

#1764 Wealth Inequality is Bad for Society and There's No Good Counterargument

#1763 It's Not a Health Care System, it's a Wealth Extraction System

#1248 There you go again. Venezuela and America's addiction to imperialism (Remix)

#1762 Trump's Imperialistic Shakedown of Venezuela

SOLVED! SAMPLE! #30 - Everything is Ugly: How Convenience Killed Beauty—And How We Can Bring It Back

#1761 Monthly-ish Mix: The Machine Cracks—Empire, Exploitation, and the Crumbling Facade

#1760 Hot Mess: Conservative Chaos Below the Surface of Trump's Authoritarian Regime

#1500 America, A Beginner's Guide (Throwback)

#1759 Why Dictators Are Lunatics and Their Followers are Fools

SOLVED! FROM THE ARCHIVES - "This is Really Happening" (Original Air Date: 12-12-24)

#1758 Why you think the Sudanese civil war doesn't involve you

SOLVED! SAMPLE! #29 - "Don't Be Cringe": Is Gen Z's Humor a Political Warning Sign?

#1757 Life is But a Game (that you can now bet on)

#1756 War Criminal Dick Cheney's Guide to Ethical Governance and Saving Democracy

SOLVED! FROM THE ARCHIVES! - "Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted" (Original Air Date: 5-26-24)

#1605 Our Prison System is a Demonstrable Failure (Throwback)

#1755 Affordability: Actual Economic Populism is the Kryptonite to Fake Populism

SOLVED! SAMPLE! #28 - Big White Lies: The Impossible Promises of Supremacy

#1354 Police violence and racism are a product of our past (Uprising, Crackdown, Authoritarianism) (Throwback)

#1754 The Epstein Files and Donald Trump, Our Predator-in-Chief

SOLVED! FROM THE ARCHIVES - "The Truth Shall Set Us Free" (Original Air Date: 12-6-24)

#1753 What the Shutdown and Weaponized Hunger Exposed About Our Asymmetric Morality

SOLVED! SAMPLE! #27 - Watch what you say! How weaponized language changes our reality

#1752 Reigniting the Nuclear Arms Race: Fat Man, Little Boy, and Donald Trump

#1751 Monthly-ish Mix: Institutions Fall, Reality Breaks, Empire Rises

#1750 "America's Backyard" - The War on Terror Meets the War on Drugs

SOLVED! FROM THE ARCHIVES - "Transgressive Thoughts in a Villain Era" (Original Air Date: 1-6-25)

#1749 Democracy: In Theory, In Practice, and Under Threat

#1748 Patriotism in Peril: Democracy, the Military, and the Fight Over What America Means

#1747 Racism in the United States, it turns out, is a problem

#1746 What an actual attack on free speech looks like

#1374 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Columbus and the Centrality of Colonialism (Throwback)

SOLVED! SAMPLE! #25 - Trump's "State Capitalism" is Just a Grift, NOT Socialism

#1745 Fake New World: The Age of AI Slop, AI Education, and AI Fascism

SOLVED! SAMPLE! #24 - Attacking the Medium is the Message: Trump's Media Oligarchs and the Assault on Free Speech

#1743 Trump and Project 2025: Blitzkrieg Against America

#1742 Captured Court, Captured Nation: SCOTUS Serves Trump's Authoritarianism

#1741 Global Uprisings: Dissatisfaction Roiling France, the UK, and Nepal

#1740 Monthly-ish Mix: The Enemy Within and the Enemy Without—America's Two-Front

SOLVED! SAMPLE! #23 - ROBBING YOU BLIND: 'Buy Now Pay Later' and Mass Consumer Manipulation

#1526 A History of Political Violence in the US (Throwback)

#1739 The Charlie Kirk Assassination and the Plans to Weaponize It

SOLVED! #22 - The Culture Wars at 10,000 Feet

#1738 Escalations: Russia, Israel, And What We Are Allowed to Say About It

#1737 State of the Resistance: Labor, Anger, and Knowing That We've Been Here Before

#1736 Not the Opposition Party the Country Need Right Now

#1735 Trump's Making Friends of Enemies and Enemies of Neighbors (Foreign and Domestic Wars)

SOLVED! #21 - GerryF**ked: How to Fix Congressional Representation and End Homelessness

#1567 How to Sell an Immoral Economic System to the Masses (Throwback)

#1734 Where is the Revolutionary, Anti-Fascist Art?

SOLVED! #20 - America's Brain Drain: How Scientific Empires Fall

#1733 The Impossible Promise of Make American Healthy Again: MAHA vs MAGA

#1732 It's Never Just About the Kids (Online Censorship, Age Verification, and the Project 2025 Agenda)

#1731 Raw Power, the Presidency, the Courts, and Democracy in the Balance

SOLVED! #19 - Big Data: Putting Digital Fingerprints in the Pie of Freedom

#1730 The Axis of the Dark Personality Triad: Unfit Leaders and the Suffering They Cause

#1729 Monthly-ish Mix: Layers of Authoritarian Control and the Rising Resistance

SOLVED! #18 - How to Live Under Fascism

#1728 The Lawfare Presidency: The Case of Trump v. Journalism

#1727 Super-Powered Men For Good and Ill: Fascism, Media, and the Manoshpere

#1573 Confronting Climate Chaos with Action and Adaptation (Throwback)

SOLVED! #17 - How to Use the Bullsh*t Machine: A.I. LLMs' insertion into childhood, school, work, and movements

#1726 Epstein Forever: Trump flails as criticism finally comes from inside the MAGA house

#1725 A Flood of Disinformation: A World of Climate Change and Conspiracies

#1724 How to Socialism: Einstein liked socialism, you think you know better?

SOLVED! #16 - Under Pressure: Aiming Higher to Fix Societal Problems

#1375 The Militia Movement is Having a Moment (Throwback)

#1723 Scam Nation: Trumpism is the Art of Screwing You Over in Every Way Possible

SOLVED! #15 - This is Propaganda Country: The Grotesque, Cruel, & Artificial Aesthetics of Modern Fascism

#1722 Imbalance of Powers: The Supreme Court and Executive Branch Collude for Unchecked Power Grab

#1721 The Evolution of the Military Industrial Complex: Now with AI!

SOLVED! #14 - How to Be An Imperfectionist: Fighting the infighting and building a resilient Left movement

#1376 Tell Stories, Not Myths- America is a Force But Not Always For Good (Throwback)

#1720 Building an Organized Left, the Eternal Oxymoron

#13 - How to Make Enemies and Influence People

#1719 The Fascist Playbook: Immigrants, Brown Shirts, and the Backlash

#1718 On the Path to Destruction: Israel Attacks Iran as Support for War on Gaza Drops

SOLVED! #12 - Back to the…1980s? The Power of Nostalgia and Trump's Reaganitis

#1717 Monthly-Ish Mix: Wealth Concentration, Knowledge Suppression, and Identity Exploitation: The Systems of Control of the Authoritarian Playbook

#1716 The Fight for Workers: Oligarchy and its Bipartisan Enablers

#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 (Throwback)

#1715 The Weaponization of Antisemitism and Counterproductive Violence

SOLVED! #11 - Culture War Distractions While the Oligarchs Rob You Blind

#1714 Trump's Anti-Knowledge Agenda is Inviting the Next Authoritarian Dark Age

#1597 The rise of fascism around the world driven by economic insecurity (Throwback)

SOLVED! #10 - The Old Guard is Dying

#1713 Yes, GOP Policies Really Are That Bad: Trump's Corruption and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

#1712 Eugenics Redux: A Gilded Age Ideology Brought Back for the Second Gilded Age

SPECIAL MEMBERS EDITION! Myths, Vampires, and Sinners (the movie!) - SPOILERS!

#1355 I Can't Breathe, The Three Words That Define an Era (Throwback)

#1711 How It Started, How It's Going- Assessing the Flooded Zone Full of Shit

SOLVED! #9 - A Pale Blue Dot of Anxiety

#1710 The past is never dead. It's not even past. Race, Religion, Culture and the Stories we Tell

#1493 Marketing, Messaging and Mass Shootings (Throwback)

#1275 So, Marxism. What is that all about? (Throwback)

#1709 Monthly-ish Mix: Government Power, Vulnerable Communities, Transformations, Opposition & Resistance

SOLVED! #8 - PART 2: Drowning Men Will Clutch at Straws: Masculinity in a MAGA world

#1708 Rent Asunder: From the Moderation of Pope Francis to Extremism of JD Vance, the Catholic Church is Deeply Divided

#1707 Tariffied: Exposing Trump's Artless Deal

SOLVED! #8 - PART 1: Drowning Men Will Clutch at Straws: Masculinity in a MAGA world

#1706 Trump's Kafkaesque Deportation Nightmare is the Shame of the Nation

#1705 Threatened Social Safety Nets Are Foundational to Healthy Societies

#1704 Weaponization and Capitulation: Trump vs Immigrants, Universities, and Media

#1703 The Broligarchy and the Rise of Techno-Feudalism

#1254 Israeli right-wing politics has lead to some strange, fascist bedfellows (Throwback)

#1702 Destroying Education, Boosting Christian Nationalism: Rewriting the Past and Hamstringing the Future

#1701 Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way: Installing the Backbone Democrats Need

#1700 Dehumanizing Trans People is Always the First Step for Fascists

#1479 Torturing Children and Families in the Name of Protecting Them (Trans Rights Throwback)

SOLVED! #3 - Common Sense Is Not So Common

#1699 A Government Of the People, By the People, and Weaponized Against the People

Bonus Edition #341 - SOLVED! Like a Flame in the Night

#1698 Resistance is Not Futile: Support the collective revolt against Trumpism (Special Podcasthon!)

#1697 The Trump World Order: Are we the Baddies?

#1696 Monthly Mix: Ethnic Cleansing Gaza, Mass Deportations, Deconstructing the State, Trump's Corruption

Bonus Edition #340 - SOLVED! Prophetic Voices from the Past and Hope for the Future

#1695 Trump's Corruption As A Matter Of Course and a Strategy to Hold Power

#1694 Unhealthy Discourse: RFK Jr. and the Anti-Science Movement Endangering Global Health

Bonus Edition #339 - SOLVED! The Power of Entrepreneurial Spirit Compels You!

#1496 Home Is Where The Hardship Is (Housing Crisis Throwback)

#1693 Empowering Ethnostates: Ethnically cleansing Gaza and Trump's South Africa fixation

Bonus Edition #338 - SOLVED! Friends, Enemies, and Blood Chutes

#1692 Ethnically Cleansing America: Trump's racist whirlwind of deportation and criminalization of immigration

#1691 Democracy Emergency, Constitutional Crisis, Democratic Backsliding, Failing Guardrails

Bonus Edition #337 - SOLVED! Bullying the Biggest Losers

#943 No human being is illegal (Throwback)

#1690 Oligarchy Unmasked: Why Billionaires Hate Democracy and How They're Dismantling It

Bonus Edition #336 - SOLVED! Demystifying Our Reality

#1689 The Media and the Moguls: Corporate Media is not equipped for Trump

#1688 International Decline: The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born

Bonus Edition #335 - SOLVED! Good Advice in Bad Times

#1687 Respite: Ceasefire in Gaza and the Legacy of Imperial Folly in the Middle East

#1686 Temperatures Rising, Tempers Flaring: LA Fires, Climate Emergencies, Conspiracies, and Water Wars

Bonus Edition #334 - SOLVED! Collaborators, Internal Exiles, and Dissidents

#1085 A case against the myth of individualism (Throwback)

#1685 Faux Populism and Neoliberalism: Working People Are Stuck Between Oligarchy and Disregard

Bonus Edition #333 - This is What Democracy (Actually) Looks Like

#1684 The Last Honest President: The imperfect life and legacy of Jimmy Carter

#1683 Oligarchy Unmasked: President Musk, the crackup of capitalism, and the MAGA meltdown

#1682 Looking Back to Trump 1.0 (Remix)

#1681 Trump's American Imperialism: Threatening Friends and Annoying Neighbors

Bonus Edition #332 Transgressive Thoughts in a Villain Era

#1680 The US puts the Hell in Health Care: For-profit insurance, Pharma, and the hatred and conspiracies they breed

#1554 Destroying Education and Democracy for Fun and Profit (Throwback)

#1679 The Middle East War Process: Syria's Transition, Israel's Expansion, and Beyond

#1566 Wrestling with Ethical Consumption Under Capitalism (Throwback)

Bonus Edition #331 - The Realignment Will Make You Seasick

#1678 Trump's Total Dominance Over the Republican Party and the Resistance Efforts Already Underway

#1677 Dems Can't Have Their Billionaires and Beat Them Too: The politics of anti-elitism

Bonus Edition #330 - Rebuilding the Village

#1676 The Incompetence of Authoritarians: Trump's cabinet picks are all loyalty, no ability

Bonus Edition #329 - This Is Really Happening

#1675 Fighting Nihilism to Organize For Freedom Against Fascism

#1595 Pushing for Medicare For All in the Laboratories of Democracy (Throwback)

Bonus Edition #328 The Truth Shall Set Us Free

#1674 #MenToo: The Make America Male Again Election and the Media Driving the Message

#1673 Beyond Thanksgiving: Telling Native Stories (Remix)

#1672 Keep an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out

Bonus Sample #327 You Say You Want a Revolution

#1671 The Non-Exclusive Impact of White Supremacy and Misogyny on the Election

#1670 A Refresher on the Sham of Conservative Economic Populism and the Left Alternatives (Remix)

#1669 Private Equity: The worst of capitalism, amplified

#1668 We Are Going Back: Team post-election analysis

#1667 Billionaires and Ballots: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

#1666 The Holy War Against America: The New Apostolic Reformation, Opus Dei, Evangelicals, Christian Nationalists, and the Worship of Donald Trump

Bonus Edition #326 Marketing: The Dirty Public Restroom of the Internet

#1665 The GOP Is A Grift And Was Long Before Trump

#1543 Capitalism doesn't live up to the hype (Throwback)

#1664 All That Gets Wrongly Blamed on Immigrants: Lies about the economy, crime, election integrity, Social Security, and more!

Bonus Edition #325 A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing

#1491 Mismanaging Capitalism Can Lead to Fascism (Inflation and the Working Class)(Throwback)

#1663 Recovering from Disaster(ous) Policy Amid Disinformation: Hurricanes and Wild Fires at the forefront of our climate emergency

Bonus Edition #324 The Mess Joe Made

#1662 Renewing the Nuclear Age: Weapons, Energy, Climate Mitigation, and Risk

To See Each Other: A Beloved Nursing Home

#1661 Immigration is Actively Good for the Country Unless You're Racist

Bonus Sample #323 Solving Antisemitism

#1660 Criminalizing Pregnancy: The high cost in health, freedom, and even lives of the campaign to keep people pregnant.

#1659 Conflagration Through Escalation: Israel expands the war to Lebanon to defend their ongoing genocide in Gaza

Bonus Sample #322 Things That Go Vroom

#1658 Pileup on the Information Superhighway: Information Dispensation in the Age of Deep Doubt

#1657 Modeling Positive Masculinity: Between Tim Walz and the Manosphere, boys are looking for guidance

Bonus Sample #321 Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty

#1550 Red States, Where Democracy Goes to Die and Terrible Legislation is Born (Throwback)

Bonus Sample #320 Calculated Misery

#1656 How Far He Will Go: Election lies, intimidation, interference, insurrection

#1655 A Pivotal Moment for Big Tech, Both Old and New: Google Search, the A.I. Boom, Antitrust, and Regulation

#1654 Demographics of Democracy: Decoding cohorts of voters that will decide the election (Updated)

Bonus Sample #319 If you can't stand the heat, someone will profit from your misery

#1653 Money-N-Politics: SuperPACS, Crypto, Billionaires, and Public Funding of Elections

#1219 How the GOP became the most destructive force in the world (Throwback)

Bonus Sample #318 Staring Unblinkingly Into the Future

#1652 Denial, Delusion, and Devastation: Israeli genocide made possible by a nurtured ignorance and deft dehumanization

#1651 The Politics of Migration in the Age of Insecurity: From the UK riots to GOP fear-mongering

#1650 The Vibes Election Explained: Harris is up, Trump is down and Gaza will not be forgotten

#1579 Positive masculinity is a process that is underway (Throwback)

Bonus Sample #317 Don't Forget the Philosophers (AI in our politics, art, and humanity)

#1649 Race in America and the Moral Clarity of James Baldwin

#1648 Power Grabs, Elections Optional: The threat of minority rule through election denialism

Bonus Sample #316 How are you gonna fix that garden?!

#1248 There you go again. Venezuela and America's addiction to imperialism (Throwback)

#1647 How to Eliminate Homelessness While Maintaining Our Humanity

Bonus Sample #315 You Do You, You Weirdos

#1646 The Kamalanomenon and the Inevitable Misogynoir Backlash of Racism and Sexism

#1645 J.D. Vance, Faux Republican Economic Populism And The Real Pro-Worker Policies We Need

Bonus Sample #314 The Lesson of The Grinch

#1644 State of Play: The RNC Cultish Clown Show, Continued Calls for Violence, and Biden Bows Out

#1526 A History of Political Violence in the US (Throwback)

Bonus Sample #313 Consistency When it Matters

#1643 Extremism Comes in Many Forms: SCOTUS goes hard-right, Project 2025 in the spotlight, and Christian Nationalism unmasked in Assassination Nation

#1642 Tumultuous Year of Democracy: Left-Wing victories in the UK, France and Mexico with lessons for the US

Bonus Sample #312 In a Dinghy of Hope

#1641 Green Energy and Public Transport: Feeling blue and seeing red about the inevitable messiness of transitioning to a low-carbon economy

#1247 The Fight for the Four Freedoms (FDR vs. Libertarianism) (Throwback)

Bonus Sample #311 Primal Scream of Catharsis

#1640 China Explained: From Cars to Computer Chips, Communism to Carbon Emissions, the South China Sea to Space, and Clinton to Biden

#1639 Migrants and Refugees on Fortress Earth: Our politicized, fortified, industrialized borders in the US and Europe

Bonus Sample #310 - The Torment Nexus

#1638 AI: From Killer Apps to Killer Robots, the Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence Spans the Spectrum

#1590 Red Caesar and Project 2025: A fascist fever dream by the Claremont Institute and the Heritage Foundation (Throwback)

Bonus Sample #309 Of Kidults and Puppets

#1637 Shifting Populations, Shifting Politics: The European elections show a shift toward the hard right over fears of immigration and scarcity

#1460 The Growing Threat of Minority Rule (Throwback)

Bonus Sample #308 Let the Kids (and Adults) Play

#1636 The Supreme Court Is In Bad Shape. Like, Really Bad. And SCOTUS Is Going To Take Us All Down With Them

#1635 Democracy on the Decline: The US is not alone in facing threats to democracy, others countries are showing how democracies fail

Bonus Sample #307 Uncertain and Powerless

#1634 Abortion as the Tip of the Iceberg: the fight for privacy, bodily autonomy, and functional democracy after Dobbs overturning Roe v Wade

#1633 Fights for Fair Pay, Journalism vs Sensationalism, Billionaire Bailouts, and Addiction Capitalism: Sports are a Microcosm of the Ills of Society

Bonus Edition #305 Solved It! Conspiracy Theorists, Comment Sections, and Trump

​#1134 Unnatural Disasters (Hurricanes and Humans) (Throwback)

#1632 SiliCON Valley: The False Promises, Enshittification Economics, and Misguided Adventures of the Twits of Tech

Bonus Sample #304 Not everything that counts can be counted

#1631 Body Neutrality in the World of Ozempic: Reassessing Weight, Body Positivity, Physical and Mental Health, and even the Economics of Body Size

#1630 Unrivaled Global Arms Dealer: Officially and Illegally Exporting the US Gun Culture Around the World

#929 Looking to avert further tragedy (War on Drugs™) (Throwback)

Bonus Sample #303 At the Carwash: Living in a World Not Built for Humans

#1629 Hitting Where it Hurts in Our Era of Negative Partisanship: Messaging left-wing politics amid cultish politics

#1628 New Era of Antitrust for a New Era of Capitalism, Mega-Corporations and Big Tech

#1627 Campus Protests and the Crackdown: Civil resistance against Israeli genocide in Gaza, responses from university presidents to Biden

Bonus Sample #302 Satire requires a clarity of purpose and target lest it be mistaken for and contribute to that which it intends to criticize.

#1626 Remix - Protest Crackdown: Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand and the Response is Predictable

#1625 Society of Extreme Wealth and its Discontents: Tax avoidance, wealth inequality and the detrimental effects felt by us all

Bonus Sample #301 War Is the Continuation of Policy with Other Means

#1513 The Morality of Debt and Forgiveness (Throwback)

#1624 Island Fervor: Cuba and Haiti Struggle for Economic and Political Self-Determination in the Face of Respective Histories of Exploitation and Embargo

Bonus Sample #300 My People are Humans

#1623 Burning American Credibility on Support for Israel's Genocidal War in Gaza - Biden, Netanyahu, and the double standards of the rules-based order

Bonus Sample #299 Selling Bliss

#1249 Understanding the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli mistreatment of Palestinians (Throwback)

#1622 Capitalism Culture Catastrophes On Land, Sea, And In The Sky - Baltimore Bridge Collapse, Boeing Blowout, and the Continuing Threat to Railway Workers

#1621 How Democrats Lost Their Way On Economics And Are Starting To Find It Again

Bonus Sample #292 Someone is Wrong on the Internet

#1379 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Democracy in America (Throwback)

#1620 Threatening the 2024 Election to Subvert Democracy, from Legal Maneuvers in Congress and Unconstitutional Congressional Maps to Violent Threats Against Election Workers

Bonus Sample #297 No Laughing Matter

#1619 A Guide to Protests Against Injustice from the Peaceful to the Deadly

Bonus Sample #296 Coping: Magic Mushrooms, Bath Time, Perpetual Therapy, and Pain Killers

#1463 People Are Waking Back Up To The Need For Labor Unions (Throwback)

#1618 Forget Equality, Embrace the Feminism of Freedom - Breaking entirely free from the structures of White supremacy and heteropatriarchy

Bonus Sample #295 Cause it's all about control

#1617 The Profitable and Political Moral Panic Around Trans People: Debunking Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, Groomers, and Detransitioning Misconceptions

#1616 The Party of Putin and the Propaganda Leading the GOP to Trump and the US to Russian-Style Autocracy

Bonus Sample #294 Answering men's cry for help

#1165 To Exist is to Resist: Life and Activism in Occupied Palestine Working Toward Rights and Democracy For All in Israel (Throwback)

#1163 Strange Bedfellows: Looking at why Ethno-Nationalists Admire Israel and the Violence Inflicted on Gaza (Throwback)

Bonus Sample: #293 I love you, man

#1615 Envisioning a Leftisț Economic Future of Postcapitalism, High-Tech Automation, Universal Basic Income and a World (Mostly) Without Work

#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

Bonus Sample #292 Techno Authoritarians vs Interoperabilities

#1613 Breathless Speculation: Biden's Baggage, Trump's Tyranny, Misleading Media, Courts and Criminality

#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

Bonus Sample #291 Recommendations and Manipulations

#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

#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.

#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

#1608 Widespread Loneliness is a Solvable Social Problem - Urban Design, Architecture, Co-housing, and Community Action and Support Can Make Our Towns Better

Bonus Sample #289 A Cul-de-Sac of Ignorance

#1607 The Tangled, Flammable Web of War in the Middle East

Bonus Sample #288 Make the Children Cry in Order to Save Them

#1606 Biden's Barriers and Boons to Reelection

#1605 Our Prison System is a Demonstrable Failure

#1529 Monopolies Run By Morons (Repost)

#1604 The Border Crisis is Manufactured for Political Opportunity

Bonus Sample #286 Looking to the Past to See Ourselves

#1603 Clarence Thomas and the Highest Court in the Land with the Lowest Standards of Ethics

#1535 We Don't Do Accountability (Trump and GOP Crimes That Go Unpunished) (Repost)

Bonus Sample #285 The Christians and the Pagans

#1602 What Happens in Israel and Gaza Doesn't Stay in Israel and Gaza

#1601 Christian Nationalism is not Christianity, it is Fascism

Bonus Sample #284 First they came for the Italian babies

#1532 Accelerationism is the Brick on the Gas Pedal of the Runaway Car of Society (Repost)

#1533 How Theocracies Begin and End (Rise of the Far-Right + Demanding Women's Rights in Iran) (Repost)

#1600 Housing Cannot be a Fundamental Human Right and a Commodity at the Same Time

#1599 Taming the Beast: AI Regulation Before Human Relegation

Bonus Sample #283 Meaningless rituals are useful but self-driving cars are more questionable

#1598 Kiss of Death: Henry Kissinger's Bloody Legacy of Indifference

Bonus Samples #281 and 282 No one likes how this is going | Not Worth It

#1597 The rise of fascism around the world driven by economic insecurity

#1596 Building a positive future by first envisioning it and then designing it

#1519 International Fascist Movement on the Move (Throwback)

#1595 Pushing for Medicare For All in the Laboratories of Democracy

#1594 Testing New Climate Solutions: Geothermal and Geo-Engineering

#1518 Ronald Reagan, It Turns Out, Was Bad (Repost)

Bonus Sample #280 Tracking people and animals in order to save them and ourselves

#1593 Beyond Neoliberalism: Dreaming a new economic system into being

#1592 Israel and Palestine are less complicated than you think: Standing for international law while condemning crimes against humanity, war crimes, antisemitism, and apartheid.

#1591 Broken News: Understanding traditional media and social media reporting on the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza

#TBT #1510 Avoiding Accountability: How the powerful in the US have almost always been allowed to skate by (Throwback)

#TBT #1507 Installing Loyalists: The Multi-Pronged Destruction of Our Democracy Already in Progress (Throwback)

#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

Bonus Sample #279 Complainers gonna complain, creepers gonna creep

#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"

#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.

#TBT #1545 Agents of Chaos: The New Congress (Throwback)

#1587 What Conservatives Think of When They Think of the Children: Child Labor, Child Brides, Child Mothers, Childhood Poverty, Child Indoctrination

#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

Bonus Edition #278 Obfuscating Reality Through Layers of Fantasy

#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

#1584 Israel's Political Upheaval, Supreme Court Power Struggle, US Support, and the Normalization of Apartheid

#TBT #1360 Redefine, Unburden and #DefundThePolice: With Copy City renewing debate over policing, we look back at the counterargument (Throwback)

#1583 Alluring Conspiracy Culture vs Capitalism: The Driving Forces that are Attracting People into Conspiratorial Thinking About Trump, COVID, Economics, Military Affairs and More.

#TBT ​#1190 Island Recovering From Disaster: Hurricane Maria laid bare the colonialism and capitalism in Puerto Rico (Throwback)

#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

Bonus Sample: The human condition since the Christianization of Europe

#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.

#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.

#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

#1506 Native Landback for a Healthier Society and Environment (Repost)

#1504 Neurodiversity is Strength: Autism, ADHD and Beyond (Repost)

#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)

#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.

#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.

#TBT #1323 Maui Fire and Power to the People: The Future of Public Ownership and Local Control (Throwback)

Bonus Sample #276 There Are No Mild-Mannered People on the Internet

#1577 Trump's historic third indictment containing three counts of conspiracy and one of obstruction regarding the 2020 election and Jan 6th, 2021

#TBT #1054 What Drives Trump Conservatives - "Strangers in Their Own Land" (Throwback)

#1499 January 6th Insurrection Hearings (Everyone Knew The Lie Was A Lie) (Repost)

#1576 How Florida's education reform works to maintain unjust power imbalances

Bonus Sample #275 Alternate Universes

#1575 Cluster Headache, Matching War Crimes with War Crimes Against Russia in Ukraine

#1497 A Healthier Humanity Through a Wellness Economy (Repost)

#TBT #1250 Teachers at the forefront of a resurgent progressive labor movement (Throwback)

#1574 Creative vs Control: Hollywood strikes for livable wages and the future of human creativity

#1573 Confronting Climate Chaos with Action and Adaptation

#TBT #1311 Our Culture and Our Economy are Making Us Depressed (Throwback)

#1572 Building a circular, sustainable economy for all

Bonus Sample #274 The good news is that the end is nigh

#1571 Understanding what we lost with the repeal of affirmative action

#1570 The overpopulation debate is more philosophical than empirical

#TBT #1155 Leisure, Desperation or a Reorientation (The Future of Work) (Throwback)

#1569 Winning Progressive Policies with Better Messaging

Bonus Sample #273 Marriage Proposals

#1495 No One Supports the Economic Interests of Rural America (Repost)

#1568 The Shifting Landscape of the Religion-Conservative-Political Complex

#TBT #1247 The Fight for the Four Freedoms (FDR vs. Libertarianism) (Throwback)

#1567 How to Sell an Immoral Economic System to the Masses

Bonus Sample #272 Billionaires Selling the System

#1482 The New Hotness in Scam Culture (Crypto Currency and NFTs)(Repost)

#TBT #1333 An Examination of Fear, Anger, Forgiveness and Grace (Also, Mr. Rogers) (Throwback)

#1566 Wrestling with Ethical Consumption Under Capitalism

#1565 Co-Housing Builds Community and Fights Loneliness

#TBT #1243 The story of Socialism in America (Throwback)

#1564 How Marketing Has Shaped Our World for the Worse

Bonus Sample #271 Infantile Engineers

#1563 Putting Our Kids to Work for Corporate Profits

#TBT #1080 Corporate media's fight for legitimacy in the age of Trump (Throwback)

#1560 Immigration Crisis: Biden vs. Trump, Undocumented Workers, Anti-Immigrant Hate, Migrant Abuse, and the Economic Fallout of Florida's New Law

#1559 Company Towns are a Bad Solution to a Real Problem

#TBT #1133 Understanding Authoritarianism (Throwback)

Bonus Edition #270 I'd Like to Phone a Friend

#1558 States of Hate, Right-Wing Legislatures Go Full-Tilt While the Courageous Fight Back

#1557 Tactics and Counter-Tactics of the Struggle for Labor Rights

#1556 Oil Wealth and Oligarchy, Over 100 Years of Polishing Unredeemable Reputations

#1555 The Kids Are Not Alright (Boys, Girls, Culture and Social Media)

Bonus Sample #269 Tell Good Stories and Jokes

#1554 Destroying Education and Democracy for Fun and Profit

#1553 The Nuremberg Trials of J.K. Rowling: Misogyny and Authoritarianism in the Bizarro World

#1484 Elon Musk is Not Your Savior and He Is Actually Awful (Repost)

Bonus Sample #268 Making Corrections

#1480 The Cyberwar Did Not Begin with Cyber Pearl Harbor (Repost)

#1552 Invasion of Iraq, 20 years later

#1476 The Disinformation War We Are Not Fighting (Repost)

#1551 Making sense of the senseless war in Ukraine

Bonus Edition: Absurdity on top of absurdity

#1550 Red States, Where Democracy Goes to Die and Terrible Legislation is Born

#1549 Fox News is worse than we imagined or: they all knew they were lying

Bonus Sample #266 AI may destroy society and capitalism will help

#1548 The War on Woke Pits the GOP Against Their Usual Allies in Big Business

#1547 Shaping the Future of the Internet

#1546 Exist, Resist, Indigenize, Decolonize: A story of colonialism, cultural renaissance and modernity

#1466 The Faustian Bargain of Technological Advancement and Societal Degradation (Repost)

Bonus Sample #265 The Laughter to Darkness Ratio

#1545 Agents of Chaos: The New Congress

#1544 Block History Month: The Campaign to Erase Uncomfortable Truths About Black History

#1543 Capitalism doesn't live up to the hype

#1542 Despair and violence in Israel's illiberal and exclusionary "democracy"

Bonus Sample #264 How To Talk About The Super Bowl

#1541 Tear down paradise and put up a dystopian police state (Cop City)

#1540 The Grift of Life (Scam Culture™ and the Economy it has built)

Bonus Sample #263 Capitalism Culture and System Failure

#1539 Stolen Children is Stolen History, Heritage, and Culture (Indian Child Welfare Act)

#1538 Authoritarian Coup Attempts Around the World

#1461 Neoliberalism is Hanging on for Dear Life in Changing Times (Repost)

#1537 All Your Faves Were Radicals (Beyond Martin Luther King Jr)

#1536 Your Food Choices Are Not Your Food Choices

#1535 We Don't Do Accountability (Trump and GOP Crimes That Go Unpunished)

#1534 Every Move You Make (Facial Recognition, TikTok, and Surveillance Capitalism 2.0)

Bonus Sample #261 Join the Indoctri-Nation!

#1451 The Foxification of American Media (Fox News 25th Anniversary) (Repost)

#1533 How Theocracies Begin and End (Rise of the Far-Right + Demanding Women's Rights in Iran)

The Last Resort (The Story of Cal-Exit)

Bonus Sample #260 Don't Call Me Out My Name

#1532 Accelerationism is the Brick on the Gas Pedal of the Runaway Car of Society

#1531 The Labor Movement is a Hot Mess and Democrats Are Not Much Help

#1454 The Problem with Facebook is Facebook (Repost)

#1530 The Pillars of Polarization and Persuasion

#1529 Monopolies Run By Morons

Bonus Sample #259 Political Movements

#1528 The Ugly Underbelly of The Beautiful Game (Qatar World Cup)

#1230 Thanksgiving and cultural heritage (Repost)

#1527 Making Antisemitism Great Again with Ye, Kyrie Irving and Dave Chapelle

#1265 Moving beyond tragedy by surviving and adapting (Repost)

#1526 A History of Political Violence in the US

#1525 Don't Panic: Irrational Fear and Panic in the US

#1524 An Historic, World-Shaping Election, Of Sorts (China, Xi Jinping)

Bonus Sample #258 Chatbots and Catbots

#1523 Pocketbook Pain and Corporate Profits

#1522 An extremist cult conspired to destroy the United Kingdom from within

#1521 The election of a lifetime for this year

Bonus Sample #257 The Fascist Hobbit and the Conservatism of Storytelling

#1440 The Physical Structures of Structural Racism and the Fight for Environmental Justice (Repost)

#1435 A History of White Violence in Policy and Practice (Repost)

#1520 Demanding Rights for Women in Iran

Bonus Sample #256 Life is a Series of Tasks

#1447 Settler Colonialist Structures Around the World (Repost)

#1519 International Fascist Movement on the Move

#1518 Ronald Reagan, It Turns Out, Was Bad

#1517 Reverse Freedom Rides (Human Trafficking Asylum Seekers)

Bonus Sample #255 Good Questions and Bad Answers

#1516 The Clean-Up Crew (The System of Activist Judges Defending Trump)

#1515 Set the Sun on the British Empire (Queen Elizabeth II)

#1514 Creating a Digital World of our Worst Habits

#1513 The Morality of Debt and Forgiveness

#1512 Ownership and Rights in a Digital World

#1511 Economic Underclass, Political Pawns (Immigration and Asylum Seeking)

#1436 The Long Legacy of Making Deals with the Devil (Bipartisanship) (Repost)

#1510 Avoiding Accountability

#1509 Preparing for the next proxy-war (China and Taiwan)

Bonus Sample #253 Bill Maher vs George Carlin

#1508 On the Questionable Usefulness and Longevity of NATO

#1507 Installing Loyalists: The Multi-Pronged Destruction of Our Democracy Already in Progress

#1433 The legacy of White Supremacy in schools, health care and public pools (Repost)

#1506 Native Landback for a Healthier Society and Environment

#1505 The Largest Investment in Climate Mitigation in US History

#1504 Neurodiversity is Strength

#1422 Teach No Evil, Protest No Evil, Vote Not At All (Repost)

#1503 The Supremely Extreme Court

#1502 Conflict, Climate, Capitalism and Famine

Bonus Edition #203 The Fog of Work (Repost)

#1501 Navigating Post-Roe America

Bonus Sample #252 The Assumptions of Capitalism Culture

#1500 America, A Beginner's Guide

#1424 Fighting with at least two hands tied (Conservative Democrats Manchin and Sinema) (Repost)

#1287 Mitch McConnell is the Forking Worst (Reposted)

#1499 Everyone Knew The Lie Was A Lie (January 6th Insurrection Hearings)

#1498 Pride and Prejudice

#1497 A Healthier Humanity Through a Wellness Economy

#1496 Home Is Where The Hardship Is (Housing Crisis)

#1495 No One Supports the Economic Interests of Rural America

#1494 Progressives and the Primaries

Bonus Sample #251 Tales of Panic

#1493 Marketing, Messaging and Mass Shootings

#1492 The Great Replacements (Conspiracy vs Reality)

#1491 Mismanaging Capitalism Can Lead to Fascism (Inflation and the Working Class)

Bonus Sample: #250 Tell Me A Story

#1416 The Disneyfication of Our Past, Present and Future (Repost)

#1411 Our Democracy is Filibusted, Time to Kill the Filibuster (Repost)

#1490 What To Do As We Enter A Post-Roe World

#1489 Journalism, Social Media and the Billionaire Business Model

#1488 Seeking Approval from the GOP Fringe is Making Them Mainstream

#1487 Oceans Rise, Empires Fall (The Coming New World Order)

#1486 Unionizing is a Labor of Love

Will Be Wild, a Deep Dive into January 6th

#1485 The Politics We Have, The Politics We Need (Socializing the Oil Industry)

#1484 Elon Musk is Not Your Savior and He Is Actually Awful

#1483 Coming Catastrophe at the Supreme Court

#1482 The New Hotness in Scam Culture (Crypto Currency and NFTs)

Bonus Sample: Hair of the Dog

#1481 A New Voice of Dissent on the Supreme Court (Ketanji Brown Jackson)

#1480 The Cyberwar Did Not Begin with Cyber Pearl Harbor

#1479 Torturing Children and Families in the Name of Protecting Them (Trans Rights)