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How to Manipulate The Public Into Believing Corporate Lies (w/ Jennifer Jacquet)
How U.S. Foreign Policy Is Making War With China More Likely (w/ Van Jackson)
How to Spot Pseudoscience About Sex Differences (w/ Cordelia Fine)
How to Respond to The Right—Introducing Nathan's New Book!
What Living Under Jim Crow Was Like In New Orleans (w/ Adolph Reed)
Why Is The Internet So Broken? What Would a "People's Internet" Look Like? (w/ Ben Tarnoff)
Exposing the Corporate "Mindfulness" Racket (w/ Ronald Purser)
Understanding The Right's Never-Ending War to Destroy Social Security (w/ Alex Lawson)
How To Hold The New York Times Accountable (w/ Margaret Sullivan)
The Pseudoscience and Faux Feminism of Sobriety Memoirs (w/ Jennifer Dines)
The Dysfunctions of Our "Democracy" and How To Fix Them (w/ Tom Geoghegan)
STAY WOKE: Vital Lessons From Black Musical History (w/ Samuel James)
EThe Entirely Predictable Collapse of FTX and the Future of Crypto Cons (w/ Stephen Diehl)
Why Socialism and Trans Liberation Need Each Other (w/ Shon Faye)
How a Marine Became a Critic of U.S. Imperialism (w/ Lyle Jeremy Rubin)
Why The Market Is Not The Economy (w/ Nomi Prins)
What Happens When McKinsey Shows Up?
The Editors Take a MasterClass: Anna Wintour Edition
Why Our Wars Never End (w/ Chris Hedges)
A Merciless Intellectual Brawl Between a YIMBY and a "Left NIMBY"
How Billionaires Plan To Escape The World They've Destroyed
How Giant Corporations Squeeze Every Last Penny Out of Writers and Musicians
How to Save Sick Piglets While Avoiding Jail Time (w/ Wayne Hsiung and Matt Johnson)
How To Be A Smart Media Critic Who Knows Propaganda When They See It
How Do You Create A Leftist Animated Cartoon That Is Actually Funny?
Why You Don't Need To Worry About "Superintelligent AI" Destroying The World (But Artificial Intelligence Is Still Scary)
The Exciting Rise of the New U.S. Leftist Movement (w/ Raina Lipsitz)
Why We Have To Teach Kids to Analyze and Debunk Propaganda
How the "Economic Style of Reasoning" Came to Dominate Social Policy
Vietnam Veteran W.D. Ehrhart on What Americans Still Don't Know About the War (Part II)
Vietnam Veteran W.D. Ehrhart on What Americans Still Don't Know About the War (Part I)
How to Spot Copaganda (w/ Alex Karakatsanis)
Can The Minions Tell Us Anything?
Palestine Part II: Rights and Crimes in the Conflict Today
The Enduring Moral Insight and Satirical Power of Charlie Chaplin and The Twilight Zone
Sensible Thinking About U.S. Foreign Policy: Russia, China, and the Threat of World War
How Does the U.S. Exercise Power Around the World?
Why Is There an Israel-Palestine Conflict in the First Place?
Afghanistan Through Western Eyes
How Can We Deal With America's Gun Problem?
The Moral Atrocity of Factory Farming and Why We Can't Look Away
Jeffrey Sachs On Why He Concluded COVID-19 Probably Came From a Lab (And Why Nobody Wants to Talk About It)
Why Children Make Such Good Philosophers
The Life of Murray Bookchin / Revolution in Rojava
How Much Is a Whale Worth? (w/ Adrienne Buller)
The Wonderful World of Animal Senses and How They Expand Our View of The Universe (w/ Ed Yong)
Have the Suburbs Ruined Everything? (w/ Bill McKibben)
A Set of Progressive Economic Principles That Can Actually Win Elections
A Neuroscientist Critiques the Dangerous "Populist" Pseudoscience of Yuval Noah Harari
Cory Doctorow on The Wondrous World of the Early Internet & How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism
Debunking The Right's Bad History of Abortion Laws w/ Leslie Reagan
Robin D.G. Kelley on the Importance of Utopian Visions for Social Movements
The 20-Year Catastrophe of the War In Afghanistan
Oxford and the Making of the British Ruling Class
Why Web3 Is Going Just Great (w/ Molly White)
Thinking About Police After Uvalde and the San Francisco Prosecutor Recall (w/ Alex Vitale)
Unearthing Queer History in America
Destroying Democracy in Education: The Case of New Orleans
How To Create Beautiful Places - A guide to the work of the late Christopher Alexander
Current Affairs Book Club: The Novels of Sally Rooney
How Can We Plan a Viable Eco-Socialist Future That Everyone Likes?
Inside the Real World of Union Organizing
How the War In Ukraine Can Be Ended
Why This Computer Scientist Says All Cryptocurrency Should “Die in a Fire”
How to Get Past the Need for Endless Economic Growth (w/ "Doughnut Economics" author Kate Raworth)
The Terrifying and Stupid Ideas of "Neoreactionaries"
Santa Claus for Alaska
How Do We Overcome Capitalism?
How Corporations Get Away With Criminality—And How to Stop Them
The Life and Crimes of Winston Churchill
A View of British Government From the Inside w/ former Labour MP Chris Mullin
Dr. Mark Vonnegut on the Soullessness of Modern Medicine
How the Amazon Labor Union Defeated the Bezos Behemoth
Why Are So Many Pedestrians Getting Killed in America?
Noam Chomsky on How to Avoid World War 3
How Finance Ate The Economy - w/ Grace Blakeley
Aviva Chomsky on Why "The Science" Isn't All We Need To Know About Climate Change
How Does Economics Corrupt The World? - Jonathan Aldred, author of "The Skeptical Economist"
Are We In The Middle of A Sexual Revolution? Journalist Laurie Penny on changes in gender relations
How Radical Teachers are Re-Igniting the Labor Movement - labor studies professor Eric Blanc on the Minneapolis strike
How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over The World - an interview with Elle Hardy, journalist and author of "Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity is Taking over the World"
SPECIAL: How Leftists Can Run, Win, and Govern - featuring interviews with six Democratic Socialists who have been elected to public office
Understanding Putin's Criminal War in Ukraine - interview with Russia expert and publisher of The Nation Katrina vanden Heuvel
How Companies Make Us Worship Our Work - interview with Carolyn Chen, author of "Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes a Religion in Silicon Valley"
"How Are You Going To Pay For That?" and Other Dumb Political Questions - interview with Ryan Cooper, managing editor of The American Prospect
How To Be A Foreign Correspondent Without Swallowing Propaganda - interview with Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for The Independent, about his decades as a foreign correspondent
How Bill Gates Makes The World Worse Off
Astonishingly, There IS An Alternative! Interview with Yanis Varoufakis, former Finance Minister of Greece about his book "Another Now"
Why Suppressing "Fake News" Can't Fix Our Journalism Crisis
What Policing Looks Like From The Inside
War Zones & Prisons: The Places We Hide Suffering and The Ways We Rationalize It
How Do Hedge Fund Managers Justify Their Existence?
How To Think Sensibly About Apocalypse and Catastrophe
Why Is Climate Communication So Impossible and Frustrating?
Our Era of Scams & Hype: From the Fyre Festival to Trump's Career to NFTs
How Did Anyone Ever Believe WeWork's BS?
Is The International Criminal Court a Functional Institution?
Is Mocking the Deaths of Anti-Vaxxers "Necessary"? Or Cruel and Useless?
Why Judge Judy Is A Reactionary Enemy of the Poor Who Must Be Destroyed
How Segregation Was Built—And Why It's Still With Us