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EXCLUSIVE: Sumud Flotilla Responds to Israel’s Terrorism Allegations (w/ Tommy Marcus)

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As The Far Right Rises, Don’t Be Ezra Klein

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Dubai Chocolate, Selling Out, and the Sad World of Republican Congressional Podcasts

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The Myth of the Marxist University

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The Ruling Class Wants a New Cold War With China

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Trump Thinks He Can Kill Anyone He Wants

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The Dark Money Behind “Progressive” Influencers (w/ Taylor Lorenz & John Ross)

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Let Them Eat Memes

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The Clowns Aren’t Funny Anymore

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Gaza, Islamophobia, and the Democratic Party's Complicity (w/ Yasmine Taeb)

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The Fight to Unionize Starbucks (w/ Jason Woods)

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"THE MOST DANGEROUS PERSON IN THE WORLD?" Why Fascists Fear Teachers (w/ Randi Weingarten)

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How We Stopped Caring About “Selling Out”

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Abdul El-Sayed DESTROYS AIPAC Talking Points

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Current Affairs 10th Anniversary Speech (W/ Nathan J. Robinson)

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Is This San Francisco’s Zohran Mamdani? (w/ Saikat Chakrabarti)

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This Surgeon Criticized UnitedHealth on TikTok—Then They Threatened to Sue (w/ Dr. Elisabeth Potter)

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Rise of the Idiot Interviewer

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What Democrats Refuse to Fight For (w/ Max from UNFTR)

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What “The System” Really Means in American Politics (w/ Barry Eisler)

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Israel’s Starvation Campaign in Gaza Explained (w/ Mouin Rabbani)

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The Epstein Case Reveals the Fraud of Trumpism

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MAGA Doesn't Understand Anything About The Roman Empire (w/ Honor Cargill-Martin)

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Why the United States Is Really Losing to China (w/ Kishore Mahbubani)

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Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Is Just What The Left Needed

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ABANDON "ABUNDANCE"

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How Ordinary People Can Fight Trump (w/ Ralph Nader)

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The Ukraine War Could Have Ended Years Ago (w/ Katrina vanden Heuvel)

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The Brainless Propaganda of Stephen Miller

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“Andrew Cuomo Is Just Like Trump” — Lindsey Boylan Speaks Out

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Andrew Cuomo Is Worse Than You Even Know

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The End of American Empire (w/ Richard Wolff)

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How Noam Chomsky Exposes The Myth of American Idealism

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Everybody Hates Capitalism (W/ John Cassidy)

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The Democratic Party Lied to You About Joe Biden

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America's Diplomatic Failures in China, Ukraine, and Gaza (w/Chas Freeman)

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Democrats Are Not "The Left" (w/Ted Rall)

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How Other Countries Solved What America Won’t (w/Natasha Hakimi Zapata)

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Douglas Murray’s “Expertise” Is a Sham

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Inside Saturday Night Live (w/Susan Morrison)

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We Must Return to the Radical Roots of Liberalism (w/ Matt McManus)

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Shrimp Are the Most Abused Animals on Earth (w/ Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla)

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Let's Talk About PHYSICS! (w/ Sean Carroll)

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“Common Sense” Is Destroying Democracy (w/ Sophia Rosenfeld)

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Could a Socialist Mayor be Just What New York City Needs? (w/ Zohran Mamdani)

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Taking Stock of the Biden Presidency (w/ Branko Marcetic)

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The Democratic Party Must Wake Up (w/ Sam Seder & Emma Vigeland)

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Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza (W/Peter Beinart)

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Trump, Nihilism, and the Crisis of Virtue (w/ Dr. Cornel West)

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How to Fight Fascism and Have Fun Doing It (w/ Francesca Fiorentini)

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Dr. Omar Suleiman Interview | Islamophobia, Empire, and Resistance

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How Do Workers Win? (w/ Eric Blanc)

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How Do We Fight Climate Denial? (w/ Dr. Genevieve Guenther)

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The Grotesque World of the Super-Rich (w/ Rob Larson)

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Debunking Pseudo-Archaeology (and Why Atlantis Isn't Real) w/ Flint Dibble

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Medicare For All Is Still The Solution!

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If Not Luigi Mangione, Then What? The Need For a Solidaristic Health Justice Movement

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How "Don't Look Up" Explains Our Times (w/ Adam McKay)

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What Would it Mean to Be "Woke"? (w/ Musa al-Gharbi)

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Why Democrats Fear Populism (And Keep Losing) (w/ Thomas Frank)

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Zohran Mamdani on How To Save NYC from Eric Adams

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How to Promote Animal Welfare In Ways That Actually Get People On Board (w/ Brian Kateman)

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What Harms Will AI Cause and What Can We Do About Them? (w/ Garrison Lovely)

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How the "Child Welfare" System Destroys Black Families (w/ Dorothy Roberts)

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Dr. Feroze Sidhwa on What He Saw in Gaza

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Are We Heading into the Era of "Disaster Nationalism"? (w/ Richard Seymour)

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Why The Electoral College Is Worthless (w/ Carolyn Dupont)

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Why America Perceives a "World of Enemies" (w/ Osamah Khalil)

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Why the Fraudulent "Broken Windows" Theory of Policing Refuses to Die

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What The U.S. Did To Haiti (w/ Jonathan Katz)

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Seeing Through "The Myth of American Idealism"

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On Satire in Music (w/ Danny Bradley)

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Why Does Kamala Harris Sound Like a Republican? (w/ Malaika Jabali)

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Who Poisoned Flint? (w/ Jordan Chariton)

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What The DNC Was Really Like (w/ Kat Abughazaleh)

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Inside Atlanta's "Stop Cop City" Movement (w/ Jamie Peck)

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"This Is A War of Annihilation" - Mouin Rabbani on Gaza and Israel's Endgame

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Welcome to Chomsky-World (w/ Bev Stohl)

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How Do We Actually Dismantle Mass Incarceration?

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An Israeli Journalist Excoriates His Country's Destruction of Gaza

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What Keir Starmer Means for Britain (w/ Oliver Eagleton)

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How Dehumanization Happens (w/ David Livingstone Smith)

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Do Anarchism and Islam Go Together? (w/ Mohamed Abdou)

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Why You Should Join a Club (w/ Rebecca and Pete Davis)

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Who Killed New York City? (w/ Jeremiah Moss)

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Why Did We Invade Iraq? (w/ Dennis Fritz)

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Understanding Biden's Foreign Policy (w/ Richard Beck)

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How to Read Nietzsche (And How The Left Should Feel About Him)

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How Fox News Turns People Terrified and Paranoid (w/ Kat Abughazaleh)

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Jeffrey Sachs on What's Wrong With U.S. Foreign Policy

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What Biden's Changes to Asylum Mean For Immigrants

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How "Pharmacy Benefit Managers" Are Extorting Us (w/ Max from UNFTR)

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Why Everyone Feels So Rotten About the Economy (w/ Kyla Scanlon)

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Nuclear Countdown, or, Why We Need to Start Worrying and Stop the Bomb

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Why No One Gets To Retire Anymore (w/ Teresa Ghilarducci)

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The Authoritarian Nightmare Donald Trump Is Planning (w/ Radley Balko)

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What Americans Don't Know About Iran (w/ John Ghazvinian)

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Is It 1968 All Over Again? (w/ Charles Kaiser)

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The Toxic Legacy of Martin Peretz’s New Republic (w/ Jeet Heer)

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Jonathan Kozol on the Scandal of America's Apartheid Education System