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Jonathan Kozol on the Scandal of America's Apartheid Education System
How Corporations Suck the Welfare State Dry (w/ Anne Kim)
Why Thomas Sowell is a Terrible Economist (w/ Cahal Moran)
Why Do We Have a "Viral Underclass"? (w/ Steven Thrasher)
Is Trump an "Aberration" Or the Logical Conclusion of the Right-Wing Project? (w/ David Austin Walsh)
What Will New Weight-Loss Drugs Do to Us? (w/ Johann Hari)
Inside the MAGA Movement on the Ground (w/ Isaac Arnsdorf)
How The Dollar Became America's Most Powerful Weapon (w/ Saleha Mohsin)
In Praise of Excess (w/ Becca Rothfeld)
What Would a Left Foreign Policy Look Like? (w/ Van Jackson)
How Cars Make Life Worse (w/ Daniel Knowles)
Debunking Popular Talking Points on Israel-Palestine (w/ Ben Burgis)
Why We Need Solidarity Now More Than Ever (w/ Leah Hunt-Hendrix)
How To Communicate Left Political Ideas to Gen Z (w/ Jessica Burbank)
Why We Don't Need Borders (w/ John Washington)
How Everyone Misunderstands Capitalism (w/ Grace Blakeley)
Why Animal Liberation Is A Crucial Moral Issue For Our Time (w/ Lewis Bollard)
How The Gains of 20th Century Feminism Are Under Threat (w/ Josie Cox)
Inside The Chaos at Elon Musk's Twitter (uh, "X")
The Infamous, Blood-Soaked Legacy of Henry Kissinger (w/ Jonah Walters)
What The Labor Movement Can Do For You (w/ Hamilton Nolan)
A Leading Philosopher Makes The Case for Degrowth (w/ Kohei Saito)
Understanding the Genocide Case Against Israel (w/ Jeremy Scahill)
The Case for Limiting Wealth (w/ Ingrid Robeyns)
How the "Squad" Discovered the Reality of Power in D.C. (w/ Ryan Grim)
What Can the U.S. Learn From Canadian Politics? (w/ Ed Broadbent)
How George Santos Scammed Everyone (w/ Mark Chiusano)
The Bill Gates Problem (w/ Tim Schwab)
A Climate Scientist on What We're Facing and What We Need to Do
On The Persistence of Racist Pseudo-Science (w/ Keira Havens)
What Did the "Decade of Protest" Accomplish—And Why Did it Fail? (w/ Vincent Bevins)
Current Affairs Presents: "American Radio"
Can The Concept of "Philanthropy" Be Saved? (w/ Amy Schiller)
Why The Luddites Were Right (w/ Brian Merchant)
Why Students Are Rising Up for Gaza
The Meaning of "Security" (w/ Astra Taylor)
A Philosopher Explains Why It's Rational To Be Angry (w/ Myisha Cherry)
How is Capitalism Like a Bad Relationship? (w/ Malaika Jabali)
How to Spot Corporate Bullshit (w/ Nick Hanauer)
Your Money or Your Life: A Physician on the Miseries of Medical Debt
How Four Billionaires Are Creating A Horrible Future For All of Us (w/ Jonathan Taplin)
The Rise and Fall of Crypto Lunacy (w/ Zeke Faux)
How The Occupation Shapes Everything (w/ Nathan Thrall)
The Current Israel-Palestine Crisis Was Entirely Avoidable (w/ Jerome Slater)
Why Wars Happen (w/ Michael Mann)
A McKinsey Whistleblower on Life Inside The Secretive Consulting Firm
How Big Pharma Makes a Killing From Letting People Die (w/ Nick Dearden)
What Makes For a "Strong Town"? (w/ Allison Lirish Dean)
How White Supremacist Ideology Made Its Way Into Music Theory (w/ Philip Ewell)
Gary Younge's 30-Year Panorama of the African Diaspora
Why The Cop City Indictment Threatens Everyone's Freedom (w/ Christopher Bruce)
Why We Need Utopias (w/ Kristen Ghodsee)
ZINNOPHOBIA - Why So Many Still Fear "A People's History of the United States" (w/ David Detmer)
Why Do We Have Any Poverty In America When It's Such a Solvable Problem? (w/ Matt Desmond)
Mini-Cast: Ending Period Poverty Through the "Menstrual Equity for All" Act (w/ Grace Meng)
There Is No Alternative to Ending Fossil Fuel Use (w/ Lorne Stockman)
Why "Climate Optimism" Is Irrational and What Global Climate Justice Requires (w/ Jag Bhalla)
Is Being "Moderate" Actually How Democrats Win? (w/ Alex Bronzini-Vender)
The Many Layers of Injustice in American Criminal Punishment (w/ Stephen Bright & James Kwak)
Can The Concept of "Philanthropy" Be Saved? (w/ Amy Schiller)
What Would It Take To Have a Democracy? (w/ Thom Hartmann)
How Did the Idea of Being "Self-Made" Come About? (w/ Tara Isabella Burton)
Our Plan to Make It Actually Enjoyable to Read The News
The Role of Drugs in American Life (w/ Benjamin Fong)
The History of Arab-Jews Can Change Our Understanding of The World (w/ Avi Shlaim)
A HEATED Encounter with Chris Rufo: Critical Race Theory, The Left, and American History
The Dark Side of Fashion (w/ Alyssa Hardy)
How To Make Schools That Children Actually Enjoy Going To (w/ Lauren Fadiman)
How Rupert Murdoch Killed The Only Good Social Media Platform (w/ Michael Tedder)
How Labor Can Drive a Hard Bargain (w/ Jane McAlevey and Abby Lawlor)
Learning From Neglected Novels By 1900s Radicals (w/ the Rickard Sisters)
Why Minimalism? (w/ Kyle Chayka)
Is U.S. Democracy Just Going To Be Dysfunctional Forever? (w/ Benjamin Studebaker)
What Happens to the Disappointed When Social Movements Fail? (w/ Sara Marcus)
The Disaster of Privatizing Everything (w/ Donald Cohen)
The Process of Leaving Jordan Peterson Behind (w/ Benjamin Howard)
How The Super-Rich Really Live (w/ Michael Mechanic)
How to Explain Socialism To People Who Aren't Socialists (w/ Danny Katch)
Exposing the Spurious Anti-Semitism Accusations That Helped Bring Down Corbyn (w/ Asa Winstanley)
Dreaming of a World Without Wells Fargo (w/ Terri Friedline)
How "Influencing" Became an Industry (w/ Emily Hund)
Why Americans Don't See Or Talk About Their Wars (w/ Norman Solomon)
What "Economic Freedom" Would Look Like (w/ Mark Paul)
Can The Love of Menswear Be Justified? (w/ Sam Miller McDonald)
On Musical Plagiarism: The Case of Ed Sheeran vs. Marvin Gaye
How Socialists Took Over The Cities (w/ Shelton Stromquist)
Why Does The Law Fail Women So Badly? (w/ Julie Suk)
Are "Family Values" The Problem? (w/ Sophie Lewis)
Why Our Healthcare System Needs to Do More than Just "Fairly" Distribute Scarce Resources (w/ Lily Sánchez)
Understanding Reactionary Political Philosophy (w/ Matt McManus)
Why the Labor Movement Needs to be Creative and Disruptive (w/ Jono Shaffer)
Can Our Times Even Be Satirized? (w/ Matt Bors and Ben Clarkson)
How The "Big Myth" That Markets Will Solve Everything Was Foisted on the World
How to Win Every Argument (w/ Mehdi Hasan)
Lessons for Today's Movements from the Radical "Young Lords" (w/ Johanna Fernández)
How Right-Wing Propaganda Gives People "Brain Worms" (w/ Adam Glenn)
Banishing the "Bootstraps" Mythology from American Life (w/ Alissa Quart)
How Come "Everyone Is Beautiful But Nobody is Horny"? (w/ R.S. Benedict)
EHow the U.S. "War on Terror" Spread Islamophobia Around the World (w/ Khaled Beydoun)
Where "Effective Altruism" and "Longtermism" Go Wrong (w/ Émile Torres)