Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Expertly-curated progressive politics, news, and culture produced by leftist humans, not algorithms or AI. This is an award-winning podcast that dives deeply into a wide range of national and international issues facing society and governments. We draw from hundreds of sources of progressive news and commentary. Est. 2006. Save time by listening to a range of perspectives on a focused topic in each episode and be introduced to new sources you will not have come across on your own!
#1671 The Non-Exclusive Impact of White Supremacy and Misogyny on the Election
#1670 A Refresher on the Sham of Conservative Economic Populism and the Left Alternatives (Remix)
#1669 Private Equity: The worst of capitalism, amplified
#1668 We Are Going Back: Team post-election analysis
#1667 Billionaires and Ballots: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
#1666 The Holy War Against America: The New Apostolic Reformation, Opus Dei, Evangelicals, Christian Nationalists, and the Worship of Donald Trump
Bonus Edition #326 Marketing: The Dirty Public Restroom of the Internet
#1665 The GOP Is A Grift And Was Long Before Trump
#1543 Capitalism doesn't live up to the hype (Throwback)
#1664 All That Gets Wrongly Blamed on Immigrants: Lies about the economy, crime, election integrity, Social Security, and more!
Bonus Edition #325 A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing
#1491 Mismanaging Capitalism Can Lead to Fascism (Inflation and the Working Class)(Throwback)
#1663 Recovering from Disaster(ous) Policy Amid Disinformation: Hurricanes and Wild Fires at the forefront of our climate emergency
Bonus Edition #324 The Mess Joe Made
#1662 Renewing the Nuclear Age: Weapons, Energy, Climate Mitigation, and Risk
To See Each Other: A Beloved Nursing Home
#1661 Immigration is Actively Good for the Country Unless You're Racist
Bonus Sample #323 Solving Antisemitism
#1660 Criminalizing Pregnancy: The high cost in health, freedom, and even lives of the campaign to keep people pregnant.
#1659 Conflagration Through Escalation: Israel expands the war to Lebanon to defend their ongoing genocide in Gaza
Bonus Sample #322 Things That Go Vroom
#1658 Pileup on the Information Superhighway: Information Dispensation in the Age of Deep Doubt
#1657 Modeling Positive Masculinity: Between Tim Walz and the Manosphere, boys are looking for guidance
Bonus Sample #321 Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty
#1550 Red States, Where Democracy Goes to Die and Terrible Legislation is Born (Throwback)
Bonus Sample #320 Calculated Misery
#1656 How Far He Will Go: Election lies, intimidation, interference, insurrection
#1655 A Pivotal Moment for Big Tech, Both Old and New: Google Search, the A.I. Boom, Antitrust, and Regulation
#1654 Demographics of Democracy: Decoding cohorts of voters that will decide the election (Updated)
Bonus Sample #319 If you can't stand the heat, someone will profit from your misery
#1653 Money-N-Politics: SuperPACS, Crypto, Billionaires, and Public Funding of Elections
#1219 How the GOP became the most destructive force in the world (Throwback)
Bonus Sample #318 Staring Unblinkingly Into the Future
#1652 Denial, Delusion, and Devastation: Israeli genocide made possible by a nurtured ignorance and deft dehumanization
#1651 The Politics of Migration in the Age of Insecurity: From the UK riots to GOP fear-mongering
#1650 The Vibes Election Explained: Harris is up, Trump is down and Gaza will not be forgotten
#1579 Positive masculinity is a process that is underway (Throwback)
Bonus Sample #317 Don't Forget the Philosophers (AI in our politics, art, and humanity)
#1649 Race in America and the Moral Clarity of James Baldwin
#1648 Power Grabs, Elections Optional: The threat of minority rule through election denialism
Bonus Sample #316 How are you gonna fix that garden?!
#1248 There you go again. Venezuela and America's addiction to imperialism (Throwback)
#1647 How to Eliminate Homelessness While Maintaining Our Humanity
Bonus Sample #315 You Do You, You Weirdos
#1646 The Kamalanomenon and the Inevitable Misogynoir Backlash of Racism and Sexism
#1645 J.D. Vance, Faux Republican Economic Populism And The Real Pro-Worker Policies We Need
Bonus Sample #314 The Lesson of The Grinch
#1644 State of Play: The RNC Cultish Clown Show, Continued Calls for Violence, and Biden Bows Out
#1526 A History of Political Violence in the US (Throwback)
Bonus Sample #313 Consistency When it Matters
#1643 Extremism Comes in Many Forms: SCOTUS goes hard-right, Project 2025 in the spotlight, and Christian Nationalism unmasked in Assassination Nation
#1642 Tumultuous Year of Democracy: Left-Wing victories in the UK, France and Mexico with lessons for the US
Bonus Sample #312 In a Dinghy of Hope
#1641 Green Energy and Public Transport: Feeling blue and seeing red about the inevitable messiness of transitioning to a low-carbon economy
#1247 The Fight for the Four Freedoms (FDR vs. Libertarianism) (Throwback)
Bonus Sample #311 Primal Scream of Catharsis
#1640 China Explained: From Cars to Computer Chips, Communism to Carbon Emissions, the South China Sea to Space, and Clinton to Biden
#1639 Migrants and Refugees on Fortress Earth: Our politicized, fortified, industrialized borders in the US and Europe
Bonus Sample #310 - The Torment Nexus
#1638 AI: From Killer Apps to Killer Robots, the Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence Spans the Spectrum
#1590 Red Caesar and Project 2025: A fascist fever dream by the Claremont Institute and the Heritage Foundation (Throwback)
Bonus Sample #309 Of Kidults and Puppets
#1637 Shifting Populations, Shifting Politics: The European elections show a shift toward the hard right over fears of immigration and scarcity
#1460 The Growing Threat of Minority Rule (Throwback)
Bonus Sample #308 Let the Kids (and Adults) Play
#1636 The Supreme Court Is In Bad Shape. Like, Really Bad. And SCOTUS Is Going To Take Us All Down With Them
#1635 Democracy on the Decline: The US is not alone in facing threats to democracy, others countries are showing how democracies fail
Bonus Sample #307 Uncertain and Powerless
#1634 Abortion as the Tip of the Iceberg: the fight for privacy, bodily autonomy, and functional democracy after Dobbs overturning Roe v Wade
#1633 Fights for Fair Pay, Journalism vs Sensationalism, Billionaire Bailouts, and Addiction Capitalism: Sports are a Microcosm of the Ills of Society
Bonus Edition #305 Solved It! Conspiracy Theorists, Comment Sections, and Trump
#1134 Unnatural Disasters (Hurricanes and Humans) (Throwback)
#1632 SiliCON Valley: The False Promises, Enshittification Economics, and Misguided Adventures of the Twits of Tech
Bonus Sample #304 Not everything that counts can be counted
#1631 Body Neutrality in the World of Ozempic: Reassessing Weight, Body Positivity, Physical and Mental Health, and even the Economics of Body Size
#1630 Unrivaled Global Arms Dealer: Officially and Illegally Exporting the US Gun Culture Around the World
#929 Looking to avert further tragedy (War on Drugs™) (Throwback)
Bonus Sample #303 At the Carwash: Living in a World Not Built for Humans
#1629 Hitting Where it Hurts in Our Era of Negative Partisanship: Messaging left-wing politics amid cultish politics
#1628 New Era of Antitrust for a New Era of Capitalism, Mega-Corporations and Big Tech
#1627 Campus Protests and the Crackdown: Civil resistance against Israeli genocide in Gaza, responses from university presidents to Biden
Bonus Sample #302 Satire requires a clarity of purpose and target lest it be mistaken for and contribute to that which it intends to criticize.
#1626 Remix - Protest Crackdown: Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand and the Response is Predictable
#1625 Society of Extreme Wealth and its Discontents: Tax avoidance, wealth inequality and the detrimental effects felt by us all
Bonus Sample #301 War Is the Continuation of Policy with Other Means
#1513 The Morality of Debt and Forgiveness (Throwback)
#1624 Island Fervor: Cuba and Haiti Struggle for Economic and Political Self-Determination in the Face of Respective Histories of Exploitation and Embargo
Bonus Sample #300 My People are Humans
#1623 Burning American Credibility on Support for Israel's Genocidal War in Gaza - Biden, Netanyahu, and the double standards of the rules-based order
Bonus Sample #299 Selling Bliss
#1249 Understanding the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli mistreatment of Palestinians (Throwback)
#1622 Capitalism Culture Catastrophes On Land, Sea, And In The Sky - Baltimore Bridge Collapse, Boeing Blowout, and the Continuing Threat to Railway Workers
#1621 How Democrats Lost Their Way On Economics And Are Starting To Find It Again
Bonus Sample #292 Someone is Wrong on the Internet
#1379 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Democracy in America (Throwback)
#1620 Threatening the 2024 Election to Subvert Democracy, from Legal Maneuvers in Congress and Unconstitutional Congressional Maps to Violent Threats Against Election Workers
Bonus Sample #297 No Laughing Matter
#1619 A Guide to Protests Against Injustice from the Peaceful to the Deadly
Bonus Sample #296 Coping: Magic Mushrooms, Bath Time, Perpetual Therapy, and Pain Killers
#1463 People Are Waking Back Up To The Need For Labor Unions (Throwback)
#1618 Forget Equality, Embrace the Feminism of Freedom - Breaking entirely free from the structures of White supremacy and heteropatriarchy
Bonus Sample #295 Cause it's all about control
#1617 The Profitable and Political Moral Panic Around Trans People: Debunking Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, Groomers, and Detransitioning Misconceptions
#1616 The Party of Putin and the Propaganda Leading the GOP to Trump and the US to Russian-Style Autocracy
Bonus Sample #294 Answering men's cry for help
#1165 To Exist is to Resist: Life and Activism in Occupied Palestine Working Toward Rights and Democracy For All in Israel (Throwback)
#1163 Strange Bedfellows: Looking at why Ethno-Nationalists Admire Israel and the Violence Inflicted on Gaza (Throwback)
Bonus Sample: #293 I love you, man
#1615 Envisioning a Leftisț Economic Future of Postcapitalism, High-Tech Automation, Universal Basic Income and a World (Mostly) Without Work
#1614 Deep-Fakery and Deep Consequences for Democracy: AI-generated fake news threatens elections around the world and makes people question the ability to know what is real
Bonus Sample #292 Techno Authoritarians vs Interoperabilities
#1613 Breathless Speculation: Biden's Baggage, Trump's Tyranny, Misleading Media, Courts and Criminality
#1612 New Tech and the New Luddite Movement; Inequitable Distribution of Benefits from New Technology Always Sparks Demands from Labor and AI is Rekindling the Old Arguments
Bonus Sample #291 Recommendations and Manipulations
#1611 Higher Education: the Myths, McCarthyism, and Change Makers at a time when education is under attack for free speech, DEI and CRT but arguably needs changes to meet a changing world
#1610 The Border, and Our Border Politics, Are a Mess - As Trump and MAGA-driven misunderstanding and panic about the nature of immigration dominates election concerns.
#1609 The Post-Roe World is Bad But it Could Still Get Worse - Abortion Bans in the US Are Causing Widespread Suffering for Both Patients and Doctors Attempting to Navigate the New Normal
#1608 Widespread Loneliness is a Solvable Social Problem - Urban Design, Architecture, Co-housing, and Community Action and Support Can Make Our Towns Better
Bonus Sample #289 A Cul-de-Sac of Ignorance
#1607 The Tangled, Flammable Web of War in the Middle East
Bonus Sample #288 Make the Children Cry in Order to Save Them
#1606 Biden's Barriers and Boons to Reelection
#1605 Our Prison System is a Demonstrable Failure
#1529 Monopolies Run By Morons (Repost)
#1604 The Border Crisis is Manufactured for Political Opportunity
Bonus Sample #286 Looking to the Past to See Ourselves
#1603 Clarence Thomas and the Highest Court in the Land with the Lowest Standards of Ethics
#1535 We Don't Do Accountability (Trump and GOP Crimes That Go Unpunished) (Repost)
Bonus Sample #285 The Christians and the Pagans
#1602 What Happens in Israel and Gaza Doesn't Stay in Israel and Gaza
#1601 Christian Nationalism is not Christianity, it is Fascism
Bonus Sample #284 First they came for the Italian babies
#1532 Accelerationism is the Brick on the Gas Pedal of the Runaway Car of Society (Repost)
#1533 How Theocracies Begin and End (Rise of the Far-Right + Demanding Women's Rights in Iran) (Repost)
#1600 Housing Cannot be a Fundamental Human Right and a Commodity at the Same Time
#1599 Taming the Beast: AI Regulation Before Human Relegation
Bonus Sample #283 Meaningless rituals are useful but self-driving cars are more questionable
#1598 Kiss of Death: Henry Kissinger's Bloody Legacy of Indifference
Bonus Samples #281 and 282 No one likes how this is going | Not Worth It
#1597 The rise of fascism around the world driven by economic insecurity
#1596 Building a positive future by first envisioning it and then designing it
#1519 International Fascist Movement on the Move (Throwback)
#1595 Pushing for Medicare For All in the Laboratories of Democracy
#1594 Testing New Climate Solutions: Geothermal and Geo-Engineering
#1518 Ronald Reagan, It Turns Out, Was Bad (Repost)
Bonus Sample #280 Tracking people and animals in order to save them and ourselves
#1593 Beyond Neoliberalism: Dreaming a new economic system into being
#1592 Israel and Palestine are less complicated than you think: Standing for international law while condemning crimes against humanity, war crimes, antisemitism, and apartheid.
#1591 Broken News: Understanding traditional media and social media reporting on the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza
#TBT #1510 Avoiding Accountability: How the powerful in the US have almost always been allowed to skate by (Throwback)
#TBT #1507 Installing Loyalists: The Multi-Pronged Destruction of Our Democracy Already in Progress (Throwback)
#1590 Red Caesar and Project 2025: A fascist fever dream being given a vaguely respectable coat of paint by the Claremont Institute and the Heritage Foundation paving the way for an unconstrained, lawless, authoritarian Republican president
Bonus Sample #279 Complainers gonna complain, creepers gonna creep
#1589 War in the Holy Land: Context Behind the Atrocities, Crimes Against Humanity, and the Possible Escalation That Will be Detrimental to All Sides in the Wake of the Hamas Attack Israel is Calling Their "9-11"
#1588 The Shutdown That Wasn't And The Chaos That Is: The far-right of the GOP has been intent on not governing for a long time and eating their own, like McCarthy most recently, is their go-to maneuver.
#TBT #1545 Agents of Chaos: The New Congress (Throwback)
#1587 What Conservatives Think of When They Think of the Children: Child Labor, Child Brides, Child Mothers, Childhood Poverty, Child Indoctrination
#1586 Cop City is the Backlash to the Backlash Against Police Brutality and Murder, the Atlanta Community is Fighting Back and Creating a Blueprint for Change in the Process
Bonus Edition #278 Obfuscating Reality Through Layers of Fantasy
#1585 Workers Rights Ascendent Amid Writers and Actors Strikes in Hollywood and the UAW Strikes Against the Big 3 US Automakers all While the Sociopathic Reality of Capitalism is Laid Bare by CEOs Explain How Exploiting Workers is Intrinsic to the System
#1584 Israel's Political Upheaval, Supreme Court Power Struggle, US Support, and the Normalization of Apartheid
#TBT #1360 Redefine, Unburden and #DefundThePolice: With Copy City renewing debate over policing, we look back at the counterargument (Throwback)
#1583 Alluring Conspiracy Culture vs Capitalism: The Driving Forces that are Attracting People into Conspiratorial Thinking About Trump, COVID, Economics, Military Affairs and More.
#TBT #1190 Island Recovering From Disaster: Hurricane Maria laid bare the colonialism and capitalism in Puerto Rico (Throwback)
#1582 Maui Fire Sale: Hawaiian Colonization, Disaster Capitalism, and the Climate Crisis Fueling Wildfires and Housing Insecurity in Native Hawaiian Communities on Maui and Beyond
Bonus Sample: The human condition since the Christianization of Europe
#1581 Indicted Authoritarianism Up For Debate: GOP presidential candidates debate the future of the party just in case Donald Trump is found guilty of any of his many crimes and somehow manages to lose the GOP primary or is barred from office.
#1580 Bet Your Life: Sports betting is opening new and expensive ways to waste your time and destroy your mental health. The impacts of gambling are straining the legitimacy of sports and how they're reported by ESPN and beyond.
#TBT #1152 Rise of the Oligarchs Like the Ones Taking Clarence Thomas on Trips: From the Libertarians of the Chicago School and the Push for Market Fundamentalism to the Megadonors Pulling the Strings of Politicians Today (Money in Politics) (Throwback
#1506 Native Landback for a Healthier Society and Environment (Repost)
#1504 Neurodiversity is Strength: Autism, ADHD and Beyond (Repost)
#TBT #1209 How to Debate Your Values: Being part of the solution in an age of hyper-polarization as we enter a new election cycle (Throwback)
#1579 Positive masculinity is a process. Many boys hear more about what they shouldn't say, how they shouldn't act, but without a strong alternative example which opens the door for the purveyors of toxic masculinity like Andrew Tate to fill the gap.
#1578 A.I. is a big tech airplane with a 10% chance of crashing, should society fly it? ChatGPT was only the starter pistol but it has shown the sloppiness of these companies and the need for regulate artificial intelligence for the public good.
#TBT #1323 Maui Fire and Power to the People: The Future of Public Ownership and Local Control (Throwback)
Bonus Sample #276 There Are No Mild-Mannered People on the Internet
#1577 Trump's historic third indictment containing three counts of conspiracy and one of obstruction regarding the 2020 election and Jan 6th, 2021
#TBT #1054 What Drives Trump Conservatives - "Strangers in Their Own Land" (Throwback)
#1499 January 6th Insurrection Hearings (Everyone Knew The Lie Was A Lie) (Repost)
#1576 How Florida's education reform works to maintain unjust power imbalances
Bonus Sample #275 Alternate Universes
#1575 Cluster Headache, Matching War Crimes with War Crimes Against Russia in Ukraine
#1497 A Healthier Humanity Through a Wellness Economy (Repost)
#TBT #1250 Teachers at the forefront of a resurgent progressive labor movement (Throwback)
#1574 Creative vs Control: Hollywood strikes for livable wages and the future of human creativity
#1573 Confronting Climate Chaos with Action and Adaptation
#TBT #1311 Our Culture and Our Economy are Making Us Depressed (Throwback)
#1572 Building a circular, sustainable economy for all
Bonus Sample #274 The good news is that the end is nigh
#1571 Understanding what we lost with the repeal of affirmative action
#1570 The overpopulation debate is more philosophical than empirical
#TBT #1155 Leisure, Desperation or a Reorientation (The Future of Work) (Throwback)
#1569 Winning Progressive Policies with Better Messaging
Bonus Sample #273 Marriage Proposals
#1495 No One Supports the Economic Interests of Rural America (Repost)
#1568 The Shifting Landscape of the Religion-Conservative-Political Complex
#TBT #1247 The Fight for the Four Freedoms (FDR vs. Libertarianism) (Throwback)
#1567 How to Sell an Immoral Economic System to the Masses
Bonus Sample #272 Billionaires Selling the System
#1482 The New Hotness in Scam Culture (Crypto Currency and NFTs)(Repost)
#TBT #1333 An Examination of Fear, Anger, Forgiveness and Grace (Also, Mr. Rogers) (Throwback)
#1566 Wrestling with Ethical Consumption Under Capitalism
#1565 Co-Housing Builds Community and Fights Loneliness
#TBT #1243 The story of Socialism in America (Throwback)
#1564 How Marketing Has Shaped Our World for the Worse
Bonus Sample #271 Infantile Engineers
#1563 Putting Our Kids to Work for Corporate Profits
#TBT #1080 Corporate media’s fight for legitimacy in the age of Trump (Throwback)
#1560 Immigration Crisis: Biden vs. Trump, Undocumented Workers, Anti-Immigrant Hate, Migrant Abuse, and the Economic Fallout of Florida's New Law
#1559 Company Towns are a Bad Solution to a Real Problem
#TBT #1133 Understanding Authoritarianism (Throwback)
Bonus Edition #270 I'd Like to Phone a Friend
#1558 States of Hate, Right-Wing Legislatures Go Full-Tilt While the Courageous Fight Back
#1557 Tactics and Counter-Tactics of the Struggle for Labor Rights
#1556 Oil Wealth and Oligarchy, Over 100 Years of Polishing Unredeemable Reputations
#1555 The Kids Are Not Alright (Boys, Girls, Culture and Social Media)
Bonus Sample #269 Tell Good Stories and Jokes
#1554 Destroying Education and Democracy for Fun and Profit
#1553 The Nuremberg Trials of J.K. Rowling: Misogyny and Authoritarianism in the Bizarro World
#1484 Elon Musk is Not Your Savior and He Is Actually Awful (Repost)
Bonus Sample #268 Making Corrections
#1480 The Cyberwar Did Not Begin with Cyber Pearl Harbor (Repost)
#1552 Invasion of Iraq, 20 years later
#1476 The Disinformation War We Are Not Fighting (Repost)
#1551 Making sense of the senseless war in Ukraine
Bonus Edition: Absurdity on top of absurdity
#1550 Red States, Where Democracy Goes to Die and Terrible Legislation is Born
#1549 Fox News is worse than we imagined or: they all knew they were lying
Bonus Sample #266 AI may destroy society and capitalism will help
#1548 The War on Woke Pits the GOP Against Their Usual Allies in Big Business
#1547 Shaping the Future of the Internet
#1546 Exist, Resist, Indigenize, Decolonize: A story of colonialism, cultural renaissance and modernity
#1466 The Faustian Bargain of Technological Advancement and Societal Degradation (Repost)
Bonus Sample #265 The Laughter to Darkness Ratio
#1545 Agents of Chaos: The New Congress
#1544 Block History Month: The Campaign to Erase Uncomfortable Truths About Black History
#1543 Capitalism doesn't live up to the hype
#1542 Despair and violence in Israel's illiberal and exclusionary "democracy"
Bonus Sample #264 How To Talk About The Super Bowl
#1541 Tear down paradise and put up a dystopian police state (Cop City)
#1540 The Grift of Life (Scam Culture™ and the Economy it has built)
Bonus Sample #263 Capitalism Culture and System Failure
#1539 Stolen Children is Stolen History, Heritage, and Culture (Indian Child Welfare Act)
#1538 Authoritarian Coup Attempts Around the World
#1461 Neoliberalism is Hanging on for Dear Life in Changing Times (Repost)
#1537 All Your Faves Were Radicals (Beyond Martin Luther King Jr)
#1536 Your Food Choices Are Not Your Food Choices
#1535 We Don't Do Accountability (Trump and GOP Crimes That Go Unpunished)
#1534 Every Move You Make (Facial Recognition, TikTok, and Surveillance Capitalism 2.0)
Bonus Sample #261 Join the Indoctri-Nation!
#1451 The Foxification of American Media (Fox News 25th Anniversary) (Repost)
#1533 How Theocracies Begin and End (Rise of the Far-Right + Demanding Women's Rights in Iran)
The Last Resort (The Story of Cal-Exit)
Bonus Sample #260 Don't Call Me Out My Name
#1532 Accelerationism is the Brick on the Gas Pedal of the Runaway Car of Society
#1531 The Labor Movement is a Hot Mess and Democrats Are Not Much Help
#1454 The Problem with Facebook is Facebook (Repost)
#1530 The Pillars of Polarization and Persuasion
#1529 Monopolies Run By Morons
Bonus Sample #259 Political Movements
#1528 The Ugly Underbelly of The Beautiful Game (Qatar World Cup)
#1230 Thanksgiving and cultural heritage (Repost)
#1527 Making Antisemitism Great Again with Ye, Kyrie Irving and Dave Chapelle
#1265 Moving beyond tragedy by surviving and adapting (Repost)
#1526 A History of Political Violence in the US
#1525 Don't Panic: Irrational Fear and Panic in the US
#1524 An Historic, World-Shaping Election, Of Sorts (China, Xi Jinping)
Bonus Sample #258 Chatbots and Catbots
#1523 Pocketbook Pain and Corporate Profits
#1522 An extremist cult conspired to destroy the United Kingdom from within
#1521 The election of a lifetime for this year
Bonus Sample #257 The Fascist Hobbit and the Conservatism of Storytelling
#1440 The Physical Structures of Structural Racism and the Fight for Environmental Justice (Repost)
#1435 A History of White Violence in Policy and Practice (Repost)
#1520 Demanding Rights for Women in Iran
Bonus Sample #256 Life is a Series of Tasks
#1447 Settler Colonialist Structures Around the World (Repost)
#1519 International Fascist Movement on the Move
#1518 Ronald Reagan, It Turns Out, Was Bad
#1517 Reverse Freedom Rides (Human Trafficking Asylum Seekers)
Bonus Sample #255 Good Questions and Bad Answers
#1516 The Clean-Up Crew (The System of Activist Judges Defending Trump)
#1515 Set the Sun on the British Empire (Queen Elizabeth II)
#1514 Creating a Digital World of our Worst Habits
#1513 The Morality of Debt and Forgiveness
#1512 Ownership and Rights in a Digital World
#1511 Economic Underclass, Political Pawns (Immigration and Asylum Seeking)
#1436 The Long Legacy of Making Deals with the Devil (Bipartisanship) (Repost)
#1510 Avoiding Accountability
#1509 Preparing for the next proxy-war (China and Taiwan)
Bonus Sample #253 Bill Maher vs George Carlin
#1508 On the Questionable Usefulness and Longevity of NATO
#1507 Installing Loyalists: The Multi-Pronged Destruction of Our Democracy Already in Progress
#1433 The legacy of White Supremacy in schools, health care and public pools (Repost)
#1506 Native Landback for a Healthier Society and Environment
#1505 The Largest Investment in Climate Mitigation in US History
#1504 Neurodiversity is Strength
#1422 Teach No Evil, Protest No Evil, Vote Not At All (Repost)
#1503 The Supremely Extreme Court
#1502 Conflict, Climate, Capitalism and Famine
Bonus Edition #203 The Fog of Work (Repost)
#1501 Navigating Post-Roe America
Bonus Sample #252 The Assumptions of Capitalism Culture
#1500 America, A Beginner's Guide
#1424 Fighting with at least two hands tied (Conservative Democrats Manchin and Sinema) (Repost)
#1287 Mitch McConnell is the Forking Worst (Reposted)
#1499 Everyone Knew The Lie Was A Lie (January 6th Insurrection Hearings)
#1498 Pride and Prejudice
#1497 A Healthier Humanity Through a Wellness Economy
#1496 Home Is Where The Hardship Is (Housing Crisis)
#1495 No One Supports the Economic Interests of Rural America
#1494 Progressives and the Primaries
Bonus Sample #251 Tales of Panic
#1493 Marketing, Messaging and Mass Shootings
#1492 The Great Replacements (Conspiracy vs Reality)
#1491 Mismanaging Capitalism Can Lead to Fascism (Inflation and the Working Class)
Bonus Sample: #250 Tell Me A Story
#1416 The Disneyfication of Our Past, Present and Future (Repost)
#1411 Our Democracy is Filibusted, Time to Kill the Filibuster (Repost)
#1490 What To Do As We Enter A Post-Roe World
#1489 Journalism, Social Media and the Billionaire Business Model
#1488 Seeking Approval from the GOP Fringe is Making Them Mainstream
#1487 Oceans Rise, Empires Fall (The Coming New World Order)
#1486 Unionizing is a Labor of Love
Will Be Wild, a Deep Dive into January 6th
#1485 The Politics We Have, The Politics We Need (Socializing the Oil Industry)
#1484 Elon Musk is Not Your Savior and He Is Actually Awful
#1483 Coming Catastrophe at the Supreme Court
#1482 The New Hotness in Scam Culture (Crypto Currency and NFTs)
Bonus Sample: Hair of the Dog
#1481 A New Voice of Dissent on the Supreme Court (Ketanji Brown Jackson)
#1480 The Cyberwar Did Not Begin with Cyber Pearl Harbor
#1479 Torturing Children and Families in the Name of Protecting Them (Trans Rights)
#1478 Refugees, Borders, War, and the Climate Crisis
#1477 The Plot Against America
#1476 The Disinformation War We Are Not Fighting
Bonus Sample #246 Feeling Good About Feeling Bad
#1475 Fossil Fueled War
#1403 The American Empire Gets a Reboot (Foreign Policy Under Biden) (Repost)
#1474 Invasion of Ukraine: Some Context
#1473 How the GOP Became a Radicalized Strongman Cult
#1472 Some, but not enough, progress on gun violence in America
#1471 Taking Delight In Chaos (Trucker Protests Go International)
#1399 Myths are written by the victors, history by the scholars (1619 vs 1776) (Repost)
#1396 The Platforms of Our Discontent (Social Media, Social Destruction) (Repost)
#1470 Distorting History and Banning Books is a Power Play of Exclusion
#1469 Geopolitical Brinksmanship Rekindling The Cold War (Ukraine Crisis)
Bonus Edition #245 Nouning Discrimination
#1468 Winning battles against the forces of neoliberalism around the world
#1467 No One Asked For The Next Big Thing (Metaverse)
#1394 White Terrorism and Willful Ignorance (Repost)
#1391 The Road to Sedition (Repost)
#1466 The Faustian Bargain of Technological Advancement and Societal Degradation (Audio Fixed)
Sample Bonus 244 Come Correct or Not At All
#1465 Epidemic of Patent Protection and Propaganda
#1464 Fighting to Preserve Democracy With Only Democrats to Turn To
#1402 Racism or Classism? Caste Explains that it is Both (Repost)
#1387 Hyper-Partisanship is Baked Into the System, Not a Result of Bad Actors (Repost)
#1390 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Our Second Founding (Reconstruction) (Repost)
#1463 People Are Waking Back Up To The Need For Labor Unions
Bonus Sample: Mighty White
#1462 There Will Be No Reichstag Fire
#1461 Neoliberalism is Hanging on for Dear Life in Changing Times
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#1460 The Growing Threat of Minority Rule
#1459 Disability Is Not Merely Physical or Mental But Is Also Social
Bonus Sample #242 It's Always the Season for Male Supremacy
#1458 White Supremacy on Trial (Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Arbery Murder, Charlottesville Nazis)
#1385 The Lost Causes of the Confederacy and the Forty Fives (Repost)
#1457 GOP Authoritarianism Will Likely To Get Worse Before It Gets Better
#1456 Capitalism and Colonialism vs Climate Progress
Bonus Sample: You want it to be one way, but it's that other way
#1379 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Democracy in America (Repost)
#1455 How to End Homelessness
#1454 The Problem with Facebook is Facebook
Bonus Edition: Playing With Children
#1453 The Tea Party Too (School Board Backlash and the Dark Money Behind It)
#1452 Worked to Death: Pandemics Expose the Power of Labor
#1376 Tell Stories, Not Myths: America is a Force But Not Always For Good (Repost + Bonus Clips)
#1451 The Foxification of American Media (Fox News 25th Anniversary)
#1450 Tax the Mother-Forking Rich (Pandora Papers and other Financial Tricks)
Bonus Sample #239 You probably need a therapist
#1449 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, 2Spirit and Relatives (MMIWG2S+)
#1448 Pillars of Copaganda and the Lies We Are Told About Police
#1374 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Columbus and the Centrality of Colonialism (Repost + Bonus Clips)
#1447 Settler Colonialist Structures Around the World
#1446 Occupy Wall Street is Part of a Very Long Continuum
Bonus Sample: You Probably Need an Exorcism
#1445 A Crisis For Haitians, Not the US, on the Border
#1444 The Ongoing Coup and Other Ways to Destroy Democracy
#1443 Legacies of 9/11: War on Terror, Islamophobia and Conspiracy Theories
#1442 Health, Race, Class, Gender and Gaslighting at Work (Texas Abortion Law and SOCTUS)
#1373 Post-Roe: The Next Phase in the Fight for Reproductive Justice (Repost)
Bonus Sample: Constant Vigilance!
#1441 There is Nothing New About Right-Wing Extremist Violence
#1440 The Physical Structures of Structural Racism and the Fight for Environmental Justice
#1439 Power, Policies and Prejudice in a World of Refugees
#1366 The Great Unhousing of America (Repost)
#1438 Afghanistan: Where We Go From Here
#1437 Afghanistan: The Long Road to Now (Remix)
#1436 The Long Legacy of Making Deals with the Devil (Bipartisanship)
#1435 A History of White Violence in Policy and Practice
#1434 Confronting Climate Chaos Through Time (Remix)
#1433 The legacy of White Supremacy in schools, health care and public pools
#1305 How to Build an Empire (A History of American Expansion) (Repost)
#1357 What Trump is Invoking When He Invokes Manifest Destiny (Repost)
#1432 Wishing Cuba well in one breath, enforcing the embargo in the next
#1431 Stealing Native Children and Their Future (Residential Schools)
#1430 Abortion laws are changing and so is how we talk about it
#1334 Your Life Will Have Been What You Paid Attention To (Attention Economy) (Repost)
Bonus Sample: Even Nazis Want to do a War Dance
#1429 The Grit, Glory and Gaslighting of the Olympic Games
#1361 Building a Better System of Justice (Repost)
#1428 Labor Shortages and the War to Keep Wages Low and Profits High
Bonus: Justifications rather than justice
#1427 The Consequences of Everyday Racism
#1426 The Liberation and Assimilation of Pride Month
#1425 Remembering and Learning from History (Tulsa Massacre and Juneteenth)
#1424 Fighting with at least two hands tied (Conservative Democrats Manchin and Sinema)
Value: Health Insurance companies and Surveillance Capitalism
#1423 A Microcosm of our Broken Society (Sports)
#1422 Teach No Evil, Protest No Evil, Vote Not At All
#1421 The Rise of China and the Freak Out of the West
#1420 Alexa Is Not Your Friend (Digital vs Democratic Futures)
#1286 The Rise of Christian Nationalism (Repost)
#1419 Losing support for the indefensible (Israel and Palestine)
#1418 The morality test of the COVID age (Vaccine Distribution)
#1417 Afghanistan, The 20-year War
#1358 How A System Of Power Defends Itself, A Case Study (Repost)
Sample Bonus Edition: Just don't make me think, I have to get to work.
#1416 The Disneyfication of Our Past, Present and Future
#1415 Accountability Not Justice, Continuing the Fight After the Chauvin Trial
#1362 Politics is Pointillism, Stand Back to See It Clearly (Voter Suppression) (Repost)
#1414 Go Home and Go Big (Infrastructure Investment, Jobs and Climate Mitigation)
#1413 Reflection on Insurrection (Police, White Supremacy and their Champions)
#1412 Trans People as Disposable Chess Pieces in a Despicable Political Game
ACTIVISM: Tell the Senate to Pass the #EqualityAct to Protect LGBTQ+ Rights, and More
#1411 Our Democracy is Filibusted, Time to Kill the Filibuster
#1410 Anti-Monopoly Activism for a New Era
Sample Bonus Edition: Vertical Shenanigans
#1353 Uprising, George Floyd was the spark that ignited the world (Repost)
#1409 The Change We Want and Deserve (Gun Violence)
#1408 Anti-Asian Hate and White Ignorance
#1407 Reclaiming the Streets (Defunding the Police and the Sarah Everard Outcry)
Sample Bonus Edition: Surviving the future while paying to ache for the past
#1406 RIP Austerity, the American Rescue Plan and the End of Reaganism
#1405 Biden Takes the Helm of Our Inhumane Immigration System
ACTIVISM: Shut Down Detention Centers: Join the #FirstTen to #CommunitiesNotCages Week of Action, March 22-26 via @DetentionWatch
#1293 Debating Democratic Socialism and How to Get There (Repost)