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Deconstructed — 302 episodes

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Intercepted: Trump and the Future of the Ukraine-Russia War

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Intercepted: The Meaning of the Genocide in Gaza

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Intercepted: The Civil and Proxy War Reignites in Syria

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Intercepted: Lebanon's "Ceasefire" Deal With Israel, and What It Means for Gaza

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What Trump’s Second Term Could Mean for the Middle East

6

Lever Time: Will The Cheneys Win Or Lose The Election For Dems?

7

Introducing Master Plan: Legalizing Corruption

8

Project 2025 Roots Date Back Half a Century

9

REBROADCAST PLUS Price Controls: An Inflation Solution That Doesn’t Screw Workers

10

Honduras, 15 Years After the Coup: An Interview With Ousted President Manuel Zelaya

11

Trump, Vance, and the New Right at the RNC

12

Why Biden's Still In: Insights From Democratic Insider Dmitri Mehlhorn

13

The Venezuelan Perspective

14

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Caught on Secret Audio

15

The Silence Around Covid Vaccine Injuries

16

Let’s Check In on AIPAC’s Assault on the Squad

17

“Tell the World What’s Happening Here,” Say Patients in Gaza

18

"Lever Time": Dissent Will Not Be Tolerated in the Democratic Party

19

Solidarity Forever: Building Movements Amid Today’s Crises

20

No to Biden, No to Trump: Insights From Swing-State Voters

21

How the Gaza War Is Reshaping Social Media

22

Havana Syndrome: How the Biden Administration Is Driving Cubans Into Misery

23

A New Haitian Revolution?

24

Intercepted: U.S. Endorses Pakistan’s Sham Election

25

Fatal Neutrality: Lumumba, the CIA, and the Cold War

26

Life Inside the Brutal U.S. Prison That Awaits Julian Assange

27

“America’s Fair-Haired Boy,” Notorious Mass Murderer, on Brink of Indonesian Presidency

28

No University Left Standing in Gaza

29

The Case for Open Borders

30

Pakistan Ambassador Opens Up

31

BONUS: Narco Gangs Launch Rebellion In Ecuador

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The Jewish Community Rupture Over Israel–Palestine

33

No Safe Place in Gaza

34

“Lever Time” Presents: Artificial Intelligence Is Denying Americans Health Care

35

“The Squad,” Part 3: The Last Gaza War

36

“The Squad,” Part 2: From Obama to Bernie, a Crisis and a Crossroads

37

“The Squad,” Part 1: The Rise and (First) Fall of Bernie

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Krystal Ball and Ryan Grim On The Squad

39

Who Was Napoleon’s Wife, Joséphine Bonaparte?

40

Shawn Fain on How the UAW Whipped the Big Three

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The Squad Is Getting Primaried for Standing Against the War

42

Inside a Gaza Village: “All of Us Will Die, but We Don’t Know When”

43

Unraveling Democracy: The Corporate Takeover

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Fog of War: The Media and the Israel–Palestine Conflict

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Hijacked Hope: Why a Decade of Mass Protest Backfired

46

The Feds Take Big Tech to Court

47

Inside Biden’s Secret Arms Deal

48

Naomi Klein on Conspiracy Culture and “the Mirror World”

49

Inside the Lefty Congressional Delegation to Latin America

50

Medicare Drug Pricing Negotiations Advance

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Rebroadcast: The Villages Crush a Grassroots Revolt

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How a Leaked Cable Upended Pakistani Politics — And Exposed U.S. Meddling

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How the U.S. Makes Its Wars Invisible

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United by Necessity: How the American Revolution Averted Civil War

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Meet the Man Driving the Right’s Culture War Panic

56

Congress Melts Down Over Israel Again

57

Lever Time with David Sirota Presents: The Stealth Supreme Court Rulings No One Is Talking About

58

Cluster Bomb Fight in the House

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Price Controls: An Inflation Solution That Doesn’t Screw Workers

60

Lever Time with David Sirota Presents: The Supreme Court Has A Billionaire Problem

61

New NIH Emails Released: What Are Officials Trying to Hide About Covid’s Origins?

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On the Ground in Ukraine

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Lever Time with David Sirota Presents: Pentagon Whistleblower, The Government Is Hiding “Non-Human” Technology

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A Conversation With Joe Manchin’s Former Right Hand, Scott Sears

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Imran Khan: U.S. Was Manipulated By Pakistan Military Into Backing Overthrow

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A Dmitri Rebuttal by Messaging Expert Anat Shenker-Osorio

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Economist Stephanie Kelton on the Debt Limit, a Potential Catastrophe We’re Risking for No Reason

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Turkish Elections: Erdogan’s Government Arrested and Expelled International Election Observers

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Around the World Update: Turkey, Pakistan, and Palestine

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Dmitri: The Man Financing a Political Counterrevolution

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Ben Smith on the Bust of the Digital Media Age

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“Myth America”: New Book Dismantles 20 Legends About Our Past

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Marianne Williamson on Being a TikTok Phenom

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The Teamsters and the UAW Gear Up for Struggle

75

A Is for Abuse: The Saga of For-Profit Schooling in Africa

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Understanding the Silicon Valley Bank Run

77

Ending the Hidden Occupation

78

Win Debates Like Mehdi Hasan

79

How Progressive Democrats Were Railroaded in the Primaries by AIPAC and Allied Groups

80

The Villages Crush a Grassroots Revolt

81

How the FBI Infiltrated Racial Justice Protests in 2020

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Tema Okun on Her Mythical Paper on White Supremacy

83

Biden’s New Chief of Staff Might Be Very Bad News

84

The Hidden Siege of Nagorno-Karabakh

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It’s Important to Talk Openly About Suicide

86

Israel’s Rightward Turn

87

What We Found in the New JFK Files

88

Inside the Fight for Climate Justice

89

How Purple is Georgia?

90

Philly’s Reform Prosecutor Reacts to His Impeachment

91

The Data Guy Who Got the Midterms Right

92

Bonfire of the Twitterverse

93

AOC and Mo Mitchell on the Midterms

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For Abortion Rights, Could Kentucky Be the Next Kansas?

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Can a Progressive Populist Win in Trump Country?

96

How Democrats Botched Impeachment

97

Senate Races That Could Tip The Balance

98

The Journalist Censored for Defending Rashida Tlaib

99

Bolsonaro on the Brink as the Far Right Rises in Europe

100

Is Crypto a Big Scam?

101

When the Uneasy Democratic Coalition Shares a Neighborhood

102

Democrats Could Codify Roe

103

Aboard the Trump Train

104

What’s It Like to Be a Red-State Abortion Doctor Post-Roe?

105

A Progressive Vision for the Economy

106

Biomedical Racism, Queer Theory, and the Monkeypox Epidemic

107

Progressives on Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit and US-China Policy

108

Behind the Manchin Miracle

109

What We May Never Know About Jan. 6

110

Vietnam to the Contras: The Life and Journalism of Robert Parry

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Why Jason Kander Walked Away From Politics

112

How the Democrats Forgot the New Deal and Paved the Way for Trumpism

113

The Colombian Left Comes to Power

114

The Implosion of Progressive Organizing

115

Revisiting the Capitol Insurrection

116

Can Democrats Win in Rural America?

117

Elizabeth Warren and Lori Wallach on the Solar War With China

118

Pennsylvania Surges Left at the Polls

119

The U.S. Is Stealing Afghanistan's Money and Starving Its People

120

The Lab-Leak Theory Is Looking Stronger by the Day. Here's What We Know.

121

Re-Broadcast: Ilyse Hogue on the Roots of the Movement to Overturn Roe

122

Steven Donziger vs. Big Oil

123

On the Road With Bernie Sanders

124

Mackenzie Fierceton On Her Battle With UPenn

125

A Truce In Yemen

126

David Sirota Goes to the Oscars

127

Joe Manchin Has Some Thoughts on Green Energy

128

Are Prices "Engines of Chaos"?

129

Don’t Cry for Me, Hydrocarbons

130

The War Over Ukrainian History and Identity

131

Murderville, TX: Episode 2, The Cops

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The Case for Expanding Social Security

133

Gas Price Politics And Genocide Collide In Yemen

134

Dignity in a Digital Age, With Ro Khanna

135

Introducing Murderville, Texas

136

Haiti, Smedley Butler, and the Rise of American Empire

137

Is Biden in the Midst of a World Historic Crime Against Humanity?

138

The Life and Legacy of Harry Reid

139

A New Way To Think About Medicare

140

Congress Caves To Saudi Arabia On Yemen War

141

Greening Red America: Breaking Down Build Back Better’s Climate Ag Policy

142

A Giving Tuesday Message

143

Rewriting History

144

Truth and Reconciliation

145

If Biden Wants to Build Back Better, He Should Look to Obama’s Mistakes

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Jamaal Bowman on His First Year in Congress

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Ro Khanna on Reconciliation

148

Michael Isikoff on Julian Assange and Monica Lewinsky

149

Facebook's Very Bad Week Just Got Worse

150

Hold the Line: The Progressive Caucus Makes Its Stand

151

Nina Turner on Her Loss and Future

152

Tax the Rich

153

King Manchin

154

Line 3 and a Week of Climate Catastrophe

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Andrew Quilty and Ilhan Omar on Afghanistan

156

Anand Gopal And Richard Ojeda On Afghanistan

157

The Era of Climate Denial is Over

158

Cori Bush on the Shame and Power of Poverty

159

The Coup That Wasn't

160

Antitrust Makes a Comeback

161

How “The People’s Mayor” Saved Public Power

162

Chelsea Manning Meets Ken Klippenstein

163

Joe Manchin Gets Candid With Billionaire Donors in Leaked Audio

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Banishing the Ghosts of the Great Recession

165

Race and Taxes

166

Losing the Asymmetric War

167

Life and Death in Occupied Palestine

168

The System That Killed Berta Cáceres

169

The Deconstructed May Day Special

170

Matt Bruenig on Joe Biden's American Families Plan

171

The Whistleblower Trying to Stop the Next Financial Crisis

172

The New Mexico Spring

173

A Big New Idea to End the Border Crisis

174

From Coyotes to Coffin Ships: Joe Biden and the Border

175

Daniel Ellsberg on Biden and Whistleblowers

176

Medicare for All Just Got a Massive Boost

177

Bernie Backers Took Over the Nevada Democratic Party. The Old Guard Walked Out.

178

What's Really in the Covid Relief Bill?

179

France and the Myth of the Color-Blind Society

180

Texas Republicans Ran a Twenty-Year Experiment. The Results Are In.

181

Let’s End the War in Yemen

182

Filibuster or Bust

183

Could the For the People Act Save American Democracy?

184

What’s the Path Forward for Medicare for All?

185

A Reckoning Over Homophobia in the Democratic Party

186

Rep. Pramila Jayapal on Her Escape From the Capitol Riot

187

Inside the Insurrection

188

Could Trump Still Try to Attack Iran?

189

Puerto Ricans Voted for Statehood (Again). What Happens Now?

190

Inside Biden's Meeting With Civil Rights Leaders

191

A Political History of Georgia

192

What Can Biden Do Without the Senate?

193

Populism Versus the Consulting Class

194

What Happened?

195

The Rise of the Radical Moms

196

The Final Debate

197

Amy Coney Barrett and the Looming Google Antitrust Case

198

In Eric Branstad, The Trump Administration Has Its Own Hunter Biden Problem

199

A Look at the 2020 Congressional Landscape

200

A Goodbye Message from Mehdi

201

Why You Should Care About the Extradition of Julian Assange

202

What Do We Do if Trump Won’t Go?

203

Do Democrats Risk Repeating the Mistakes of the Financial Crisis in the Era of Covid-19?

204

The Political Revolution Comes to the Statehouse

205

Markey Won. Morse Lost. What Happens Next?

206

Is QAnon the Future of the Republican Party?

207

Democratic Convention Special: Do Biden and Harris Have What It Takes to Beat Trump?

208

The Trump Child Abuse Scandal

209

Can We Build a Politics of Hope?

210

The Rise of the Left (with Mondaire Jones)

211

Let’s Defund The Military, Too

212

Is It Time To Defund the Police?

213

Is This Trump’s Reichstag Fire Moment?

214

One Hundred Thousand Dead From The Coronavirus. What Happens Next?

215

Is Bill Barr the Most Dangerous Member of the Trump Administration?

216

Is Elon Musk a Fraud?

217

Are Trump and the Anti-Lockdown Militias Itching For Violence?

218

Joe Biden Thinks We Should Believe Women—Just Not Tara Reade

219

Has The Coronavirus Made The Ultimate Case For Medicare For All?

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The Media Helped Elect Trump in 2016. Are they Doing it Again?

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Is Donald Trump Criminally Responsible for Coronavirus Deaths?

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Introducing Somebody

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Is the Trump Cult a Death Cult?

224

How to Save the U.S. Economy, With AOC and Stephanie Kelton

225

Bernie Versus Biden: Who Won the Debate?

226

Capitalism Versus Coronavirus

227

Can Biden Still Be Stopped?

228

Debate Special: The One Where Everyone Attacks Bernie

229

How Bloomberg Blew it In Las Vegas

230

Live from L.A. with John Legend and Patrisse Cullors

231

Rigged: The Acquittal of Donald J Trump

232

Does Joe Biden Have a Corruption Problem?

233

Why is Billionaire Tom Steyer Running for President?

234

Truth, Lies, and the Democratic Debate

235

Why Don’t We Care About China’s Uighur Muslims?

236

Nixon, Clinton, and What the Right Gets Wrong About Impeachment

237

It's Giving Tuesday!

238

Who Won Last Night’s Democratic Debate?

239

Does Liberal Canada Have a Dark Side?

240

The Bernie Sanders Interview

241

Deconstructed Special: The Noam Chomsky Interview

242

How to Resist: Live with Ilhan Omar and Michael Moore

243

Is It Time for Democrats to Fight Dirty?

244

Beto O’Rourke to Democrats: Go Big On Impeachment

245

The Silencing of Kashmir: Arundhati Roy on India, Modi, and Fascism

246

Finally, Impeachment: Julián Castro on Trump and Ukraine

247

Israel: Democracy or Apartheid?

248

Democratic Debate: Is Joe Biden OK?

249

Who Won the First Democratic Debates?

250

Iran Crisis: Have We Learned Nothing from The Iraq War?

251

Why Won't the Democratic Candidates Move to the Left on Foreign Policy?

252

Why is Andrew Yang Running for President?

253

Brexit and the Rise of the British Trumps

254

Joe Biden Would Be a Disaster

255

Will John Bolton Finally Get His War With Iran?

256

Is Trump a Fascist?

257

The Case For (and Against) Impeaching Trump

258

The Case Against AIPAC

259

Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Trump, Islamophobia, and His Presidential Bid

260

Erik Prince, Perjury, and the Secret Trump Tower Meeting

261

Cornel West on Bernie, Trump, and Racism

262

Ilhan Omar Speaks Out On Her Twitter Scandal, Anti-Semitism, and a Progressive Foreign Policy

263

Why Won’t the Media Discuss Trump’s Mental Instability?

264

The Truth About Islam and Democracy

265

Who’s Really Afraid of Socialism?

266

Is It Time For Kamala Harris To Reckon With Her Right-Wing Past?

267

Intercept Podcast Special: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

268

What You Can't Say About Israel (with Marc Lamont Hill)

269

When Do We “Impeach the Motherf*cker”? (with Rashida Tlaib)

270

Introducing Murderville

271

Is This the Democrat Who Can Beat Trump in the Rust Belt in 2020?

272

George H.W. Bush: The Inconvenient Truth

273

The Senate Just Took a Major Step Toward Ending the War In Yemen

274

Trump’s Top Ten Lies and Why They Matter (with Daniel Dale)

275

Why the Democrats Can (and Should) Impeach Trump

276

Midterms Special: Who Won, Who Lost, and What Happens Next?

277

Race or Class: What Will Drive Trump Voters in the Midterms?

278

Is Trump Inciting Far Right Terror In the U.S.?

279

From Caravans to Cages: Why Trump Bashes Migrants

280

Why Won't Trump Condemn the Saudis? (Hint: It's Israel. Also, Iran)

281

Live Special: Are the Democrats Ready to Get Radical?

282

The Right Won the Battle Over Kavanaugh. Can the Left Win the War?

283

Riz Ahmed on Politics, Identity, and Being Brown in Hollywood

284

What The Kavanaugh Scandal Says About America

285

Is Ilhan Omar Donald Trump’s Worst Nightmare?

286

Why is America Helping to Kill Kids in Yemen?

287

The White Supremacy Court Upholds the Muslim Ban

288

Confronting the Consequences of Obama’s Foreign Policy

289

Will the U.S. Ever Give Up Its Nukes?

290

Elizabeth Warren v. the District of Corruption

291

The War on Immigrants

292

Edward Snowden on Privacy in the Age of Trump and Facebook

293

How The Trumps Screwed Palestine

294

Is Trump Trying to Start a War with Iran?

295

Will the Media Ever Stand Up to Trump? (with Judd Apatow)

296

The Killing Fields of Gaza

297

How Bad Is The News? (With Hasan Minhaj)

298

Is Trump About To Start An Illegal War With Syria?

299

Why Black Lives Still Don't Matter

300

Will John Bolton Get Us All Killed?

301

We Need to Talk About Inequality (with Bernie Sanders)

302

Coming Soon: Deconstructed with Mehdi Hasan