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Chuck Opens a Bloated Mailbag / The Greatest Audience in Hell & Chuck Mertz

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Worker Resistance in Big Tech / JS Tan & Clarissa Redwine

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An Indicted Minneapolis 15 Defendant Speaks Out / Cal Robinet

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Building Socialism Requires Dismantling Empire / Sudip Bhattacharya

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Another Brazilian Coup Attempt Underway / Brian Mier

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Breaking ICE / Sonali Kolhatkar

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15 Million Excess Deaths from US For-Profit Health Insurance / Nick Smolek

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The Bail Trap / Robin Steinberg & Robin Camilo

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The Long Fight Against Equality in the United States / Kim Phillips-Fein

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"Genocidal Enjoymment" on Display in IDF Social Media from Gaza / Raúl Pérez

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Israel's $1 Billion Hasbara Influence Machine since October 7th / Nick Cleveland-Stout

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Imperialist Realism / Daniel Bessner

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Trump's War on Boats / Adam Isacson & John Walsh

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Sponsoring The Genocide In Palestine / Fintan Drury

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The Winners And Losers In The Future Of Drugs / Kojo Karam

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White Supremacy At The US Border / John Washington

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Canada and its Asshole Neighbor + Chuck Gets Interviewed / Dónal Gill

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How To Think About AI Before It’s Too Late / Cory Doctorow

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Nativism Shapes Scarcity, Hierarchy, and Belonging Under Capitalism / Peter Bloom

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The Anti-Defamation League & The Racial State / Emmaia Gelman

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Gerontocracy / Samuel Moyn

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A History of Conspiracy Theory / Andrew McKenzie-McHarg

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Chicago's Conviction Machine / Flint Taylor

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The Story Of The Jewish Bund / Molly Crabapple

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Inventing Antifa / Lauren Fadiman

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US Media’s Complicity In The Gaza Genocide / Robin Andersen

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We Are Being IP-ed to Death / Vicky Osterweil

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Immigration Detention Expansion During Trump’s Second Term / Nayna Gupta & Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

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The Politics of Police Reform in Minneapolis / Michelle Phelps

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How Money Dominates Human Lives Everywhere / Arjun Jayadev

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Another Bag of Mail / Chuck Mertz & the World's Best Audience

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How The British Made The Far Right Acceptable / Daniel Trilling

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The Death of Asylum / Tanvi Misra

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Reshaping War For The 21st Century / Shana Marshall

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Internationalism from Below / Leila Al-Shami & Benjamin

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The Authoritarian Coalition’s Strategy Of Power Consolidation / Rakeen Mabud

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Elon Musk Is a Symptom / Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff

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Loyola University Union Thugs pt. 2 / Paige Warren

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The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy + Loyola Union Thugs pt. 2 / A.J.A. Woods

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Labor Struggle in Higher Ed: An Update from Loyola University Chicago SEIU 73 Faculty Forward Union

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Colonialism Continues From Oil To Cancer In Kenya / Nelly Madegwa

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AI Grifters in Power & Reactionary Third Way Centrist Dems / Henry Burke

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Ukraine Going From Maidan To War / Volodymyr Ishchenko

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Death by AI / Andy Worthington

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Fighting Against The Corporate Monsters Of Plastic / Diane Wilson

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2026 Listener Favorites (so far): Imperial Boomerangs / Séamus Malekafzali

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2026 Listener Favorites (so far): Escape from Capitalism / Claire Mattei

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Trump's Imperial Presidency / Mohamad Bazzi

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On the Ground in Venezuela / Brian Mier

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Only US Enemies Can Be Drug Lords or Terrorists / Laleh Khalili

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Breaking The Earth To Steal The Future / Timothy Mitchell

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White America's Attachment to Lethal Self-Defense / Caroline Light

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World War X / Alex De Waal

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Uncovering The Epstein Files & A Life Full Of Exploitation / Julie K. Brown

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Overcoming America's Long History of Criminalizing Dissent and Protest / Whitney Bauck

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Dept of Labor Betrays Its History Thru Anti-Immigration / Kim Kelly

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Trump's Mass Deportation Campaign One Year In / Nicole Foy

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A Silent Killer Named Plastic / Judith Enck

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Cold War on Five Continents / Aflred McCoy

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How Humanity Needs To Be Rescued From Capitalism / Clara E. Mattei

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The Assassination That Paved the Way for Trump’s Venezuela Attack / Séamus Malekafzali

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The Adventures Of The Narco-Elite / Maureen Tkacik

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Coroners Complicit in Obscuring Violent Deaths in State Custody / Terence Keel

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The Trail Of Sickness Thru Navajo Nation / Sarah Lazare

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The BBC's Gaza Fiasco / Daniel Trilling

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A Trillion Dollar War Machine Keeps Americans Poor and at War / William Hartung & Ben Freeman

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American Football's Long, Violent History / Michael Oriard

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The Downfall Of Liberal Civilization / Richard Seymour

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How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy / Ray Madoff

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How The Prison Industry Dehumanizes And Profits / Bianca Tylek

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Can One Change The World When Elections And Protests Fail? / Sasha Davis

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Genocide and the Illusion of Western Civilization / Hamid Dabashi

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How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease / Brent Z. Kaup & Kelly F. Austin

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The Great White Hoax / Philip Kadish

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The Fascist Attempt To Take Over Yoga / Stewart Home

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Enshittification / Cory Doctorow

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AI's Environmental Footprint / Ashley Dawson

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How Western Ignorance Has Been Plundering Africa / Bronwen Everill

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The Global Economy Runs on Extraction / Laleh Khalili

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The Destruction of Democracy to Christianize America / Matthew Boedy

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US Big Tech Supports Israeli Settler Colonialism / Omar Zahzah

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The Political Economy of Immigration Detention / Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon

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Corporate Science Wants You to Buy the World a Coke / Susan Greenhalgh

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On "Squirty Cream" and Other Items from the Mailbag / Chuck Mertz & the World's Best Audience

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The Rich are Falling in Love with Antiracism / Jennifer C. Pan

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The New Racial Regime / Alana Lentin

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The American Dream Taken Over By Private Equity / Megan Greenwell

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The Gaza Genocide in World-Historical Perspective / Gilbert Achcar

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US Sanctions Kill as Many People as Wars / Mark Weisbrot & Francisco Rodriguez

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You're on Your Own: MAHA Dismantles Public Health / Rob Wallace & Rita Valenti

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Climate Justice Through Collective Liberation / Mikaela Loach

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Building Community to Sustain Liberation in Atlanta / Kamau Franklin

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How the War in Gaza is Becoming the Crime of the Century / Suzy Hansen

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Deep Background on Bukele's Gulags in El Salvador / John Washington

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2020 Flashback: Generalized Precarity and Subversive Pragmatism / Albena Azmanova

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Resisting "Cop City" in America's Most Surveilled, Unequal City / Micah Herskind

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The Right's War on Gender is Also a War on Government / Paisley Currah

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Fake Work / Leigh Claire La Berge

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Inventing "Invasion" / Molly Redden

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Atlanta's Cop City Brought to You by Southern Capital / Mariah Parker

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