September 16th, 2026 - Robert Hockett | Mark Hays | Donald Moynihan
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20 of 600 episodesSeptember 15th, 2026 - Robert Young Pelton | Daryl Kimball | Peter Beinart
Trump Hangs MbS Out to Dry After Jared "Peacemaker" Kushner Has Made Billions From Gulf Potentates Now at the Mercy of Iran | The U.S. Has J...
September 14, 2026 - David Daley | Yaqiu Wang | Michael Kimmage
Trump and Mike Johnson's Plan to Steal the Election, Not On November 3 But On January 3, 2027 | Trump Rejects Guardrails on AI In a Race To...
September 13, 2026 - Dr. Annelle Sheline | Dr. Justin Bullock | SarangShidore
Iran's Proxies in Yemen and Iraq Shut Down Saudi Oil Exports as Trump and Netanyahu's War Is Hit With More Losses With Iran Now Controlling...
September 10, 2026 - Scott Hibbard | Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark | Eric Schlosser
25 Years Later What We Have Learned From 9/11 and What We Have Not Learned From Successive U.S. Government Cover Ups of Saudi Involvement |...
September 9, 2026 - Steven Simon | Chandra Manning
Pressure on Netanyahu from MbZ Revealing His Warning About the Hamas Attack Was Ignored and Sanctions by the UK, Canada and France on Trade...
September 8, 2026 - Luke Harding | Thomas Ferguson | Brian Levin
Why Do Trump, Kushner and Witkoff Show Such Slavish Deference to Putin? | The Macroeconomic Roots of the Collapse of the Political Center in...
September 7, 2026 - Kim Phillips-Fein | John Nichols
While Americans Fight Back Against Big Tech and Billionaire Bros, Some Resort to Violence in This New Era of Class Warfare | The Bipartisan...
September 6, 2206 - Thomas Berger | Tamar Jacoby | Karl Loftus
Germany's Far Right, Supported by Musk, Vance and Putin, Is On the Rise | Russia's Strike on Ukraine's Intel HQ and the Shootout Between Riv...
September 3, 2026 - Moira Donegan | Alexandra Hutzler | Dr. Henry Abrahams
The Death of Gloria Steinem and Her Legacy in the Battle For Women's Rights | A Whistleblower Warns That Trump and DHS Are Using the USPS to...
September 2, 2026 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Paul Glastris | Ilya Somin
September 2, 2026 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Paul Glastris | Ilya Somin by Ian Masters
September 1, 2026 - Harold Meyerson | Thomas Homer Dixon | Aaron Regunberg
Every Insecure American Should Have a "Binky" Like Trump's Natalie Harp | With Google Caving to Trump to Rename Lake Ontario Lake America, C...
August 31, 2026 - Sasha Abramsky | William Hartung | Javier Corrales
The Same DHS Trying to Rig the Election For Trump, Increases Its Cruelty, Sending Haitians Back to a Failed State Run By Violent Gangs | Pen...
August 30, 2026 - Molly White | Pavlina Tcherneva | Jennifer Kavanagh
The Crypto and AI Billionaire Bros Are Buying the November Election With Fake Money | Can the Fed Chairman and the Secretary of the Treasury...
August 27, 2026 - Manju von Rospatt | Marc Lynch | J.B. Branch
A Report From Nepal on the Horrific Wall of Water That Swept Away Thousands of Lives | How Biden Lost Our Moral Authority in the Middle East...
August 26, 2026 - Gregory Treverton | Robert Kuttner | Sacoby Wilson
Trump Bought Into Netanyahu's War Against the Advice of His Top Intel and Military Officials | The Gospel of Love Enters Political Campaigns...
August 25, 2026 - David Walbert | Orville Schell | Will Bunch
Trump Has Chief Justice Roberts' Blessing to Have DHS Create a Master List of All Voters Which Will Be Purged Then the USPS Will Send Mail-I...
August 24, 2026 - Stephen Marche | Hossein Askari | Gil Duran
Trump Wages the "Dumbest Trade War In History" Against Canada | Treasury Secretary Bessent Declares Economic Warfare on Iran, Likening it to...
August 23, 2026 - Dr. Thaer Ahmad & Dr. Feroze Sidhwa | Sidney Blumenthal
Two Subjects of American Doctor, a Film That Makes Us Face Our Complicity in Gaza | How The Tate Brothers Fan Barron Trump Helped Get Out th...
August 20, 2026 - Michelle Berenfeldt | Dean Baker
Lesson From the Roman Republic of Emperor Augustus As Trump, With the Help of a Gutless Senate, Turns Our Republic Into a Tyranny | Our $40....