#1176 The Gun Debate Is Less of a Debate Than We Think (Throwback)
Publish Date: 10/22/2026 Original Air Date: 4/6/2018 Today we look back to the spring of 2018, when a conservative listener called in lookin...
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#1829 Poverty Is Hard on Purpose in America and We All Pay the Time Tax
Air Date: 10/17/2026 Today we look at how being poor in America is made harder on purpose. The hours of paperwork it takes to keep food assi...
#1828 The Cornell 7 and How Rape Culture Runs on the Men Who Don't Rape
Air Date: 10/13/2026 Today we look at rape culture as a system that contains far more than the crimes. This topic was prompted by the Cornel...
#861 More Reasons Than You Should Need to Oppose the Death Penalty (Throwback)
Publish Date: 10-11-2026 Original Air Date: 9-16-2014 Today we dig through the archives to give context to the news that the Pentagon plans...
#1827 Deep Cuts: Exxon Knew - The History Behind the Case to Make Polluters Pay
Air Date: 10/7/2026 Today we trace the "Exxon Knew" story through a decade of our own archive, because that history is what the Supreme Cour...
#1826 The Mechanics of Complicity from Nazis to Newsrooms to Fandoms
Air Date: 10/3/2026 Today we examine the mechanisms of complicity. We're not all complicit in the worst atrocities but we are complicit in s...
#1825 We Are Still the 99%: Occupy Wall Street's Unfinished Business, 15 Years Later
Air Date: 9/30/2026 Today we look at the legacy of Occupy Wall Street, which was in full swing 15 years ago and changed how the country talk...
#1824 The Next Gilded Age: AI Doomsday and the Insatiable Business Model https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1824
Air Date: 9/26/2026 Today we explore the layers of chaos surrounding the AI industry, including the idealistic nerds-turned-nazis, the grift...
Monthly-ish Mix #12 The Great American Heist
Air Date: 9/22/2026 The Monthly-ish Mix™ is here to get you caught up on the news from July and August without being overwhelming! Organized...
#1823 Deep Cuts: Occupy Wall Street in Real Time, 15 Years Later
Air Date: 9/18/2026 Today we're doing something new and different but also very old. Occupy Wall Street just hit its 15th anniversary this m...
#1822 The State Media Playbook: The FCC and Billionaires Are Waging a War on the Free Press
Air Date: 9/13/2026 Today we trace the two-front war on the American press. On one side, government regulators and members of Congress are g...
#1821 Election Sabotage, Voting System Vulnerabilities, and the Defense of the 2026 Midterms
Air Date: 9/9/2026 Today we look at the strategies being deployed by the Trump administration and their enablers to undermine the midterm el...
SOLVED! #39 - Why You Should Care About Prisons in the Fight for a Better World (Throwback)
Re-Air Date: 8/5/26 Original Air Date: 4/24/26 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon, and Erin discuss: Ch. 1 - Why victims of crime are underserved and...
#1820 Science and Public Health Under Attack by Our Own Government
Air Date: 9/2/2026 Today we look at how public health is being gutted by a system that took ordinary parental worry and organized, radicaliz...
#1819 Coerced Sterilization, Abortion Bans, and the New Pronatalism: Who Controls American Reproduction (Transcript)
Air Date: 8/29/2026 Today we examine what happens when the state wants to decide whether a person reproduces. A century ago, American courts...
#1818 Flock Cameras, ICE, and the Surveillance State Targeting Everyone
Air Date: 8/25/2026 Today we explore the resistance to Flock cameras and mass surveillance as a whole. Communities across the country are vo...
#1817 Worse on Purpose: Trump is Killing Our Response to the Climate Emergency
Air Date: 8/22/2026 Today we look at how the Republican Party made climate denial its policy more than twenty years ago and is now removing...
#1816 IP'd to Death: How Intellectual Property Law Went from a Protection to a Weapon
Air Date: 8/19/2026 Today we trace the corporate capture of ideas themselves. What began as a brief legal incentive granting fourteen years...
#1815 Sanctioned Ignorance: The Assault on Museums, Libraries, and American Memory
Air Date: 8/16/2026 Today we look at what Toni Morrison called "sanctioned ignorance," the deliberate manufacture of a version of the past t...
#1814 Open Imperialism in Latin America: Trump Says the Whole Hemisphere Is His to Run
Air Date: 8/12/2026 Today we follow the latest in Western Hemisphere imperialism. American presidents from Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trum...