All Episodes

#79 - OK Election-Eve Analysis

#78 - Fear: Trump's Motivation And Main Offering

#77 - An Eyeroll At Pro And Anti - Israel Activists Attacking The DNC

#76 - *Insert Walz Pun Here* - Initial OK Take On The VP Pick

#75 - On Good Journalism, Bad Journalism, Bigotry, And Israel

#74 - On Republicans' Weird Obsession With Reproducing

#73 - On The Craziest Week In Political History

#72 - Down Goes Bowman: Normie Dems Strike Back

#71 - Implications Of A Court Gone Mad

#70 - Group Therapy/Bedwetting: Half-Awake Reactions to the First Debate (W. Robert Gerrard)

#69 - The EU Elections: An OK Take

#68 - GUILTY! Trump's Manhattan Conviction And What It Could Mean

#67 - Why Third Parties Haven't Succeeded And How One Could (w. Spencer Morin Reynolds)

#66 - The Major Threat From Minor Parties

#65 - Tit-For-Tat Theory, And Protests Gone Overboard

#64 - Israel's War In Gaza: How Narratives Born of Flawed Coverage Undercut Peace

#63 - Rejecting Antisemitism and the Myth Of "Two Sides" In The Israel-Palestine Conflict

#62 - OK Takes April 2, 2024

#61 - OK Takes March 25 2024

#60 - 2023 In Review: A Bad Year For Democracy

#59 - Mexico's Women In Politics Moment (w. Marta Treviño And Edgar Lopez)

#58- Bad Numbers For Biden, Good Elections For Democrats – What Does It Mean?

#57 - GOP Speaker Switch: From Hack To Lunatic In Just 3 Weeks!

#56 - Week In Review: Bad Coverage And Chaos

#55 - Political Earthquake in Europe: Poland Chooses Democracy (w. Weronika Paszewska)

#54 - The 10/7 Terrorist Attacks And What Comes Next

#53 - On Crises And Kevin McCarthy

#52 - Shutdown For What

#51 - This Week In GOP Hypocrisy: Trump Scribbles vs Hillary's Emails Edition

#50 - The Biden Age Narrative Is Getting REALLY... Old

#49 - Extreme Homophobia in Uganda, The Beginning of Medicare Negotiations, & The End of Prigozhin

#48 - The Devil *Will* Be Going Down To Georgia, And Other Thoughts On Indictment #4

#47 - Republicans: The Anti-Choice Dog That Caught The Car

#46 - Better Late Than Never: Trump Charged For J6

#45 OK Talks About Assorted End-Of-July News?

#44 - WTF Is Happening In Spain (Pre - Election Edition W. Júlia Juan)

#43 - This Week In GOP Hypocrisy: Military & Small Government Edition

#42 - (Part II) Against Julian Castro And The Biden Doubters

#41 - (Part I) Against Julian Castro And The Biden Doubters

#40 - GOP Hate Liberals More Than They Love The US: 2023 Debt Ceiling Edition

#39 - Turkey's Chance To Save Democracy (W. Gökhan Dilek)

#38 - Carlson's Out; Biden's In: 24 Great Hours for Liberal Democracy

#37 - WTF Is Happening In Israel (W. Omri Lavi)

#36 BREAKING - Trump Indicted! Why This Must Be First Of Many

#35 - WTF Is Happening In Mexico (W. Edgar Lopez)

#34 - WTF Is Happening In Peru (W. Darwin Cruz)

#33 - A Year In, Ukraine Keeps Showing Us Democracy's Worth Fighting For

#32: Who Is Kevin McCarthy And Why Are We All Laughing At Him

#31 - Why Is Kyrsten Sinema (Abandoning The Democratic Party)?

#30 - Women, Life, Freedom - Digging Into The Iran Protests (W. Khatere Gorji)

#29 - BREAKING Midterms So Far: Bad, But Not A Massacre

#28 - November '22: Elections Going Wrong Everywhere!

#27 - 2022: A Rough Year For Women's Rights (Pt. II)

#26 - 2022: A Rough Year For Women's Rights (Pt. I: Roe)

#25 BREAKING: Russia Annexes Captured Territory - Life in Occupied Ukraine (with Katya Firsova)

#24 - I Read Putin’s Bonkers Speech So You Don’t Have To

#23 - A Good Week For Democracy Fans

#22 - The Dark Metaphor of Gorbachev's Passing

#21 - Back Under Construction

#20 Blue Team Blues in Virginia (Reflections on Afghanistan and Potential "Wokelash")

#19 Crime: Threat to the Left, Gift to the Right

#18 Republicans: Exempt From Their Own Rules (Here Comes The Debt Ceiling)

#17 - Democrats: Good At Policy, Bad At Power Politics

#16 - Reflecting on 9/11 Two Decades Out

#15 - Workers of the World, Take Off!

#14 - For The People (Part 3): Obstacles

#13 - For The People (Part 2): Solutions (feat. Democrats Abroad Global Chair Julia Bryan)

#12 - For The People (Part 1): ID'ing Flaws in U.S. Democracy

#11 - Trump's Presidency is Over - Here's Why We Can't Forget

#10 - The Attack on the Capitol from the Outside Looking In

#9 - Avenging the Census: The Democrats Should Play Redistricting Hardball

#8 - Can American Democracy Survive 2020?

#7 - Implications of the Passing of a Notorious Titan

#6 - BREAKING(ish): Reactions to the Israel-UAE Deal (feat. Professor Andrew Latham)

#5 - Bounties for Dead American Soldiers is Just Russia's Latest (feat. Professor Andrew Latham)

#4 - Foreign Policy and Biden's VP Pick: How the Democrats could own the NatSec space

#3 - The Democrats vs. The Anti-Democrats

#2 - Why Does America Treat Right-Wing and Left-Wing Protestors So Differently?

#1 - The Trump of the East Meets COVID-19

OK Talks Introduction