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S3E47: Homelessness in America - How Did It Get So Bad?

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S3E46: Thanksgiving, the Real Story

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S3E45: America's Concerts & Cultural Icons - From Taylor Swift to 19th Century Opera Megastars

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S3E44: Palestine's People - From Islam's Conquest To End of Ottomans

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S3E43: From Royalty of Persian Jews to Home Libraries of Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews to A Medieval Jewish Kingdom Outside Israel

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S3E42: The Unwanted FIFA Kiss - Spanish Women's Long Struggle for Equal Rights

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S3E41: Does urban ground war advantage the defending, weaker party?

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S3E40: When did Jewish people live in this land? When did they leave it?

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S3E39: UAW History, U.S. President and The Big Three

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S3E38: China's Military & Geopolitical History

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S3E37: China's Economic History - Why China's Innovation Fell Behind Europe's

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S3E36: How Humans Fear Their Own Creations - From Frankenstein to Artificial Intelligence

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S3E35: Spain - From Global Empire To "El Desastre" To A Kingdom Without A King

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S3E34: Violent Gangs and Predatory Republics - From Haiti to Africa

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S3E33: How Sweden Stayed Out of War For 209 Years!

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S3E32: Why Do Governments Go In Debt?

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S3E31: Really! Dieting Was A Thing In History?

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S3E30: Israel's Supreme Court - A Professional or Political Institution?

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S3E29: The Magic of the Movies... Is It Gone?

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S3E28: Sudan's History - A country classified as a condominium!

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S3E27: Recession! What recession?

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S3E26: Does the Supreme Court function as intended by our Founders?

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S3E25: History of July 2nd. Sorry, I meant July 4th.

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S3E24: What the hell happened to San Francisco!

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S3E23: Classified Information, Espionage Act, Executive Orders & the Constitution

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S3E22: Who can regulate immigration, states or D.C.?

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S3E21: Crime of Rape - Its Legal & Cultural History

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Who is Janet Yellen? | S3E20

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S3E19: Is Türkiye Still A Democracy?

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S3E18: Do immigrants commit more crime than native-born Americans?

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S3E17: What Kind of Kings Crown Themselves?

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Upcoming Episodes and...what is Self-Coronation?

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S3E16: How a defamation suit prevented coverage of a state's civil rights movement!

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S3E15: Are gun regulations the exception or the norm in America’s history?

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S3E14: Mass Opposition To Mr. Netanyahu's Judicial Reform. Israel's History of Democracy & Politics.

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S3E13: 62 to 64! Mass Protests in France. History of French revolts & revolutions - from Bastille (1789) to retirement reform (2023)

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Upcoming Episodes & More...

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S3E12: Bank Runs. America Before FDIC. America After FDIC. And... what's a free banking system?

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S3E11: Persian or Iranian New Year? How Muslim Arabs Conquered Iran & China's Historic Alliance With Iran.

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S3E10: How Does A Superpower's Power Infrastructure Fail?

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S3E9: History of Antitrust - Big Corps Stifling Competition? Amazon, Google, Meta...

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S3E8: History of Long Wars & Attrition Warfare. From Napoleon's Invasion of Russia to WWI, WWII & the Vietnam War and now... Ukraine, Year 2!

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S3E7: History of Aerial Spying - form the French Revolution to Balloons in the US Civil War, U-2 High Altitude Aircraft, US-China Air Collision and China's Spy Balloon

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S3E6: History of Tanks: from WWI trenches to WWII's frozen Eastern Front to Iraqi Deserts to Ukraine...

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S3E5: Brazil's Modern History & A Cautionary Tale For America. Is America Becoming Brazilianized?

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S3E4: To Seek, Or Not Seek A 2nd Term - Biden Compared To Prior US Presidents

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S3E3: How Podcasts Are Changing Journalism - History of Podcasting

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S3E2: History of US Air Force - Pentagon Unveils B-21 Raider, A New Stealth Bomber

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S3E1: Republican Party's History & Founding Principles - Chaos In The People's House!

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S2E42: Iran - dichotomy of an Islamic state pretending to be a republic. And how CIA’s 1953 coup impacted the 1979 Revolution?

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S2E41: Presidential Comebacks - Jackson, Cleveland, Nixon and Trump

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S2E40: Russian Oil, OPEC's Power, Prices At the Pump - History of Petroleum

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S2E39: Polarization of America's Politics. Prediction: polarization will begin to end in 5-10 years

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S2E38: Chile's History of Polarized Politics - Hard Lessons For America

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S2E37: Mar-a-Lago Documents - History of Classified Information & Relative Powerlessness of U.S. Courts & Congress In National Security Matters

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S2E36: China's Leadership - History of Hubris, Insecurity, Blunders & Overreach

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S2E35: Puerto Rico's Ambivalence Toward the U.S. - History of A Nation Without Its Own Country

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S2E34: Iran's History of Hijab, Women's Rights, Marriage, Abortion

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S2E33: What is a 'REVOLUTION'? Who Were the Iranians of the 1979 Revolution? Was it an Islamic revolution?

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S2E32: History of Housing Booms & Busts, And Home Mortgages With Huge Balloon Payments

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S2E31: From Queen Victoria to Queen Elizabeth II - History of Royal Self-Imaging

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S2E30: History of U.S. floods - inland vs. coastal floods, and stories from Florida & Louisiana

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S2E29: China - history's longest superpower!

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S2E28: Viktor Orbán: "We do not want to become peoples of mixed race" - history of the Hungarian people

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S2E27: History of America's Election Violence, Electoral College & Why Our Elections Are Producing Minority Winners - As Opposed To Majority Winners

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S2E26: Strength of the U.S. Dollar - how does it impact the world?

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S2E25: Failed Nuclear Negotiations with Iran. And Why Iran & US Are In A Perpetual State of Conflict!

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S2E24: Awesome Political Power of Minority Interests - History of Prohibition & A US Census That Was Ignored

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Midseason Reflections & Highlights

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S2E23: Organizing in Starbucks, Amazon & More - History of Labor Unions in America

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S2E22: Finland Is Joining NATO - “Never Again Alone”, Finland’s History of War and Uneasy Peace with Russia

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S2E21: Congressional UFO Hearings - human history of UFO stories, searches & science

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S2E20: War Continues In Ukraine - 5 Reasons For Wars In History

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S2E19: Ukraine Was Part of A Country Lost To History - the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

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S2E18: Florida's History - from Disney to DeSantis to Special Districts

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S2E17: 50,00-plus space debris flying at 15x speed of a bullet - history & analysis of space environment & safety

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S2E16: Assassinate Putin? - history of Russia’s leaders, revolutions and people: "we can't live like this anymore!"

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S2E15: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Book Banned - French postcards, sex, race suicide & book burnings... America's history of censorship

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Trading With the Enemy! | S2E14

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S2E13: Saga of Nobel Laureates' Patents - CRISPR history, application, ownership & ethics

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S2E12: Bitcoins From A Volcano? History of Dollar's Dominance, Paper Dollars & Digital Dollars

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S2E11: 20% inflation! A History of Gold, Great Depression, Nixon, Volker, Bernanke & Free Banking

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S2E10: Why Was Civil War Pension Still Paid In 2020? History of America’s Entitlement Programs

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S2E9: What Does Putin Want? - evolution of his ideology

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S2E8: Wars in Ukraine, A History of Russian Imperialism And Insecurity

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S2E7: Why Don't We Have A Cure For Alzheimer's Disease - history & future

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S2E6: Have You Gotten Your Booster Shot? - who has the authority over vaccines, a legal history

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S2E5: Who Are Ukrainians? Kievan Rus'... Ukraine’s National Identity

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S2E4: 100,000 Overdose Deaths! - a clinical history of America’s opioid crisis. Chasing the White Dragon...

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S2E3: Who Are Kazakhs? Hummer Taxis, An Uprising & Russian Troops

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S2E2: Biden Is Forgiving Some Student Loans - history of why student loan programs were designed as a financial product

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S2E1: Do Economic Shocks Destabilize China's Authoritarian System? And Is China’s Real Estate Industry A Gigantic Ponzi Scheme?

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Reflecting On Season One

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S1E42: America’s water rights - the Colorado River... and was Tennessee stealing Mississippi’s water from under them?

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S1E41: vaccines in ‘50s, ‘60s & '70s… clamor & rush to get vaccinated

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S1E40: 400th anniversary of Thanksgiving... the REAL story!

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S1E39: defunding the police fails - our criminal justice systems & our "communities"?

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S1E38: COP26, US climate policies & history before the conference

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S1E37: 23,000-year-old footprints in New Mexico... Bible scholars, evolution and racist anthropologists.

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S1E36: Supply Chain Crisis Effect On Covid, Inflation & Democrats' Big Budgets