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Sorry Not Sorry tackles social, political and cultural issues from the perspective of unapologetic guests while highlighting activists doing amazing things throughout the country.
In the second of our "Story Not Sorry" episodes, writer Kate Tell shares something so many of us dread and must still experience: the hole i...
Friends, we took a little break, as you may have noticed. We used the downtime to put together something special: we asked writers to submit...
Alyssa and Ben have some rare disagreements as we discuss Texas' redistricting nonsense and California Governor Gavin Newsom's response to i...
Recently, Nobel-prize winning economist Paul Krugman warned that Trump's deportation policies could crush the economy, bringing more pain th...
It’s been a minute–Alyssa was away on vacation with her family and doing some cool political and creative work. But she didn’t miss anything...
Is Trump a fascist? Is MAGA a fascist movement? Give a listen to the first half of this two-parter and decide for yourself. In the 1990s, Um...
It’s been a minute since Alyssa’s been here–she’s been on a vacation and doing some really cool stuff in the entertainment world, but I’m su...
In recent weeks, Jeffrey Epstein has burst from the grave and back into the news. Trump made much of his campaign identity about releasing t...
A couple of weeks ago, Alyssa and Ben had a conversation about the challenges of creativity in times like we’re living in. Since t’s the las...
It’s Bastille Day - the " F ê te Nationale " in France. Its a day of liberation, of revolution, of oppressive systems coming down and libera...
Well, it’s been a month. June has seen so much happening–the protests across the country, Trump deploying the national guard, big supreme co...
The rule of law is the foundation of our society, and yet the Trump regime is shamelessly trying to undermine that rule at every turn. We've...
This episode was recorded on June 12, 2025. It has been 236 years, 3 months, and one week since the United States Constitution came into eff...
It’s been nearly three years since the Dobbs decision, which the Supreme Court used to strip women of the right to control our own bodies. I...
Memorial Day is past us, and we’re barrelling into Summer. So much has been happening over the past month, and so much is going to happen in...
Watching the news has been especially horrifying lately. We’re drowning in video of armed, masked ice agents charging into neighborhoods, re...
The archetype of “mother” is a weight many women carry-but it’s certainly not our whole story, or necessarily an accurate one. In fact, the...
The early part of this decade seemed like it might signify a realignment of the social and cultural power of Black Americans. But the realit...
The Trump regime built much of its identity–and certainly campaigned around–its hatred of LGBTQ Americans. Unfortunately, the success of tha...
It’s hard to overstate the danger the Trump regime is posing to Americans. This is especially true for Americans who rely on our healthcare...
There is a rapist presiding over the United States. That rapist has directed his government to gut federal efforts to protect women from vio...
Most weeks, we bring a guest onto speak in depth on a single issue. But every once in a while, there’s so much going on that Alyssa and Ben...
The United States executes more people than nearly any other country. In fact, in 2023, the only countries with more reported executions wer...
In late March, thousands of writers, publishers, students, and writing educators gathered in Los Angeles for the Association of Writers and...
In the two months since the Trump regime took power, it has worked feverishly to dismantle the higher educational apparatus in the United St...
Right now, our government is making dramatic slashes to the federal workforce. Tens of thousands have already lost their jobs, and healthcar...
Donald Trump won a second term in part because of a disingenuous populist message that was intended to harness the anger of poor Americans a...
Back in 2018, Ben and I started NoRA as we watched the Parkland school shooting unfold. In the work to reduce gun violence and the deadly in...
We’ve been talking a lot this year about effective resistance and the need for each of us to do something. That’s all well and good, but it...
Can you believe it’s barely been one month? Trump’s regime has only been in power a few weeks, and it has already done so much damage to the...
In the first of our new live format, Alyssa and Ben dig into the evils and incompetence of the early Trump regime, and the need for focused,...
Yes, the world is a hot mess--but we're not ALWAYS about political or social issues. Ok, we're always about political or social issues. And...
Like a bad penny, Trump is back in office–in part because of the xenophobic hate he spewed during the campaign and, sadly, the millions of A...
Los Angeles is experiencing an unprecedented tragedy. Thousands and thousands of homes and businesses have been destroyed by wildfires, and...
For the entirety of our existence as a nation, the United States has denied the full power of equal citizenship to women. Today, we have tak...
For most of human history, power has come from landholding. How land is allocated–or taken and reallocated–determines who controls entire cu...
Late last year, President Jimmy Carter passed away at the age of 100. President Carter exemplified a life of service, and we spend this epis...
If nothing else, this year has been momentus--potentially decisive as it pertains to the futre of American Democracy. All along, we've talke...
One of the most important things President Biden can do before the end of his administration is to direct the Archivist to publish the Equal...
Donald Trump has vowed to do away with the department of education. This will have wide-ranging impacts on students across the country. To t...
Kash Patel, Trump's FBI Director-Designate, has an enemies list--patriots he wants to prosecute for upholding the law and American values. T...
Hi Friends, While Alyssa was starring in Chicago on Broadway, she took some time away from the podcast - but now she's back! We catch up on...
This year, many of us are struggling to find gratitude. Perhaps we can find it in the story of Sara Josepha Hale, the women who made it her...
There seems to be no end to the violent conflict around the world. This violence seems to produce no end of human suffering, but as Stalin s...
Friends, it's a hard week. We lost, badly, and we learned more than we wanted to know about our neighbors. History gives us a lesson or two...
The election is this week. The choice is yours: do we elect a convicted felon who has been adjudicated responsible for rape, who tried to ov...
For most of the past 200 years, the United States has held itself in a nearly mythical esteem–and sometimes, used that esteem to justify doi...
Since the fall of Roe v Wade, the Republican extremists in Congress and in the states have been giddy at taking away the right to bodily aut...
The American right is weaponizing state-sponsored and endorsed vigilantism in an effort to impose Christian Nationalism in the United States...
You’ve seen his videos–the hilarious sendups of Trump and his cronies almost always with a particular musical flare. Well, Randy Rainbow has...