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Keeping democracy alive Democracy is not a spectator sport, it requires informed participating citizens. On Keeping Democracy Alive, we delve into dynamics that both inhibit democracy and re...
The national media was accused of hiding Biden’s age related slippage, but they’ve been positively sheepish on what the world se...
On this show Professor James K. Galbraith argues it has. The role of the military diplomatically is at least in question. Iran has clearly m...
Thanks in large measure to Donald Trump, there’s space opening up on the left. Far from becoming a 51st state, the Canadian New Democr...
They make billions despite their actual performance. While their workers are forced to live on subsistence wages, if that, taxpayers are als...
What is the rules based order anyway? According to our guest, Bob Borosage of the Campaign for America’s Future argues it’s a li...
It’s a long term necessity, but tragically, short term policy-makers put off a solution essential to a strong economy and restoration...
Did we give up on our president when 9/11 happened? Of course not, we rallied round the flag. Same thing is happening in Iran. Both Democrat...
In a world of smart homes and cities, data is the coin of the realm. Everyone is vulnerable, nothing is too private. We consumers are uninte...
What we’re seeing today is a far cry from justice. Today’s policy of cruelty toward immigrants is an abject failure, yet it’s impractical to...
Even Fox News is openly admitting that Donald Trump’s policies are destroying the American farm industry. The agricultural heartland has bee...
While the hard right has had significant success in rallying young people (mostly males), the anger at ICE and a desire for a sense of belon...
Why would an American president stab Americas signature industry in the back? Our guest today, Ryan Cooper senior editor of The American Pro...
After an assassination attempt, Ngo Dinh Diem saw proof that he was God’s agent. In some ways he did try to do well for his people, bu...
They were not victims of fascism, but characters who survived and eventually thrived. In this new book, The Secret Buttons, for young adults...
From tinny AM pop to stereo underground rock, WBCN was right at the vanguard. According to our guest, the legendary Charles Laquidara, it wa...
More and more people are coming to the conclusion that keeping power utilities in corporate hands no longer makes sense. Legislators in cons...
There is in fact a lush garden of American greatness and it is not MAGA. Though less well known, there is a proud history of successful diss...
You’ve seen the ads on network TV:Huge data centers bringing life to hollowed out communities. But the reality is these huge projects...
He’s only president of the United States, not the European Union, right? Unlike the US, there’s a longstanding bipartisan commit...
It’s a historical fact that Democrats win when there is a movement beneath the electoral process. Karishma Manzur is running for US Se...
We’re in Monroe Doctrine 2.0. Our guest on today’s show Terie Matson is in Mexico City, the other side of Rubio’s multipol...
After decades of having to look “Tough on Crime”by jailing teenagers, notably people of color, at last we’re seeing the en...
At the nearly two hundred fifty year mark, we’ve already lasted longer than most great nations. As with others which declined and fell...
This book actually changed my view of US History. The author says the Confederates and the January 6th assault are the inheritors of the ori...
Why do they feel a need for violence to prove their manhood? What’s the connection between an angry Germany after the First World War and wh...
Fear of the other. Fear of woke, of LGBTQ+, of Black liberation, and of course the old big fear: Communism. In the age of the Cold War, righ...
Think billionaires have no impact on your life? Think again. We never blame billionaires for our day to day problems even though they deserv...
Under Trump 2.0, we adults are taught to fear The Other, we must become a monolinguistic culture: English over all. But during this week of...
We all know what terrorism is. We’ve seen it on the ground in Israel. That’s terrorism on the cheap. Is the answer the most mode...
The far right got a major boost with the martyrdom of Charlie Kirk. What used to be the Republican party is no more. The young man’s a...
When America was indeed great, the federal government brought theater to all people. Free. In a mirror opposite of Trump 2.0, under FDR ther...
There is in fact a lush garden of American greatness and it is not MAGA. Though less well known, there is a proud history of successful diss...
England’s Labour Party is a lot like America’s Democratic Party: all over the map. Both used to be the party of laboring people....
Researchers are beginning to understand why some of us demonstrate what is called “moral courage” and others do not. In fact, mo...
After 2024, the mainstream of the Democratic Party is in the wilderness, but Zohran Mamdani may lead a way out. This week’s guest Fred...
Innumerable people have tried over many years to stop the forever wars between Israel and Palestine. With the world now horrified by the use...
It’s not in the headlines like starvation in Gaza, but in focusing on the billions facing food insecurity or worse, our guest today po...
American military service members certainly did not sign up to fight the American people. Yet with the massive deployment of national guard...
What mainstream Democrats don’t understand is that anti-elites are economically progressive, while the elites are economically conserv...
It’s called airbrushing history and all dictators do it to erase the truth. Sometimes it can be petty. One example is that Pete Hegset...
The appalling criminalization of ordinary people. No charges, no conviction, just sweep up people who, as he said: “look like illegals...
The right wing is heavily invested in the meat industry. After all, it has the essential components: dominance, violence, destruction of the...
In the 90s, the party took a turn to the right, taking the working and middle class base for granted. Instead they went for Trump in 2024. C...
Why do they feel a need for violence to prove their manhood? What’s the connection between an angry Germany after the First World War...
There’s a reason the same voters were undecided between Bernie and Trump in 2016. People wanted real change. And in 2024, Democrats wa...
It’s not just politics but arts and a free culture that makes real change. Sure there are the leaders we all know, MLK and Malcolm X,...
Society would rather not see them. Like people in prison, the foster care system makes hundreds of thousands of kids invisible. And the syst...
Starting a trade war is just stupid. But maybe Trump simply doesn’t really care about tanking the economy. On this show, Washington Mo...
There is in fact great abundance in America. The problem is not just the greed of the top percent but also the 21st century version of real...
May is Mental Health Month, and the Trump/Musk regime is pouring gasoline on our already widespread national crisis. The police-state ICE ra...