#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...
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#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...
#1813 Suffering is the Strategy: ICE, Mass Deportation, and Demographic Engineering
Air Date: 8/8/2026 Today we examine the mass deportation machine that's been intentionally designed to inflict suffering, from the condition...
#1434 Confronting Climate Chaos Through Time (Throwback)
Publish Date: 8-5-2026 Original Air Date: 8–13-2021 Today we dig through the archives to give context to the news of the 2021 IPCC report ri...
#1812 Democracy or This Supreme Court, But Not Both
Air Date: 8/1/2026 Today we investigate how the argument moved from what the Supreme Court decides to whether the Court should be rebuilt. O...
#1811 Country for Old Men: Gerontocracy By Design and the Democracy Problem
Air Date: 7/25/2026 Today we look at the idea that America has become a gerontocracy, a country run by the old, and then interrogate the pre...
Monthly-ish Mix #11 The Loneliest Superpower: What America Gets for Pushing Everyone Away
Air Date: 7/25/2026 The Monthly-ish Mix™ is here to get you caught up on the news from June and July without being overwhelming! Organized a...
#1810 Post-American Europe: How to Lose Friends and Influence People to Protect Themselves Against You
Air Date: 7/22/2026 Today we look at how three things Europe thought were features turned out to be leverage that could be held against them...
#1809 Democrats Seek a Blue Wave, Progressives Push Democratic Socialism, GOP Revive the Red Scare
Air Date: 7/18/2026 Today we examine recent primary elections and how the political smear of crying 'socialism' has been dusted off and aime...
#1634 Abortion as the Tip of the Iceberg (Throwback)
Re-Air Date: 7-14-2026 Original Air Date: 6-7-2024 Banning abortion is wildly unpopular and also one of the primary motivators for the group...
#1808 Billionaires vs. Democracy: They're Not Coming For Your Job, They're Coming For Your Government (And The Entire Economy)
Air Date: 7/10/2026 Today we look at what it means to live in an economy that has quietly split in two with a soaring stock market driven by...
#1807 What the World Cup Exposes: Identity, Colonialism, and Racism in 2026
Air Date: 7/7/2026 Today we use the 2026 World Cup to pull everything that runs under the game up into the light. Nearly a quarter of the pl...