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#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