Radio and PodcastLive Radio & PodcastsOpening Radio and Podcast...
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & PodcastsFetching podcast shows and categories...
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & PodcastsFetching podcast episodes...
A progressive, historically-minded look at the news and events of the day.
Caught in an externality trap, Facebook is fighting against the only thing that can save it.
We are the future’s past…
Even as our city weathers this crisis, it is vital to reflect on how it came about, and what we can do in the future to improve the resilien...
Will the 2018 midterms be fair?
The highest bidder isn’t always American.
A progressive, historically-minded look at the news and events of the day.
The family separations are a statement of intent.
These kids are going to save lives. Maybe they'll change everything.
One wonders what an observer as keen as Ulysses Grant would say about our present moment. Probably not "lol, nothing matters."
The loved ones of the victims of mass shootings have earned the right to mourn.
Among its other ruinous effects, Graham-Cassidy would turn Medicaid into a slush fund for state governments. We know this because it's happe...
Donald Trump isn’t the worst president in American history. He’s not even the worst president of this century.
Last year, Donald Trump ran for president. Now I'm a different person. If nothing else, the last year and a half have been a humbling lesson...
How Does the US Move Past the 2016 Election?
The TSA is the enforcer for the airline industry. Proposed new security regulations will make sure you pay up.
Every second of every day, hundreds of American servicemen and women around the world wait in readiness for a presidential order to launch a...
As a historian, I rely on federal data to help tell stories about our collective past. So I am proud to work with Data Rescue Austin (#DataR...
The Republican Party has won for itself all three branches of national government by a combination of chicanery and sedition. They have secu...
In the landmark 1974 Supreme Court case United States v. Nixon , the embattled President Nixon invoked executive privilege to stop the relea...
When the United States elects someone mentally and morally unfit for civic leadership as its top official, it invites a reckoning about the...
So Trumpism is a thing now. The specifics of Trumpist ideology are still unclear, since the president-elect himself is too obtuse, dishonest...
Rage is not conducive to peaceful self-governance.
“ For some months, I have traveled and traversed the border in every sense of the word. I have seen, investigated, and inquired about the ne...
Compensated by contact hour, adjuncts are paid to lecture. But they're still expected to teach.
It wouldn't be the first time a foreign power tried to sway the results of an American election by tapping into the political impulse of iso...
American cops kill lots of people because there are lots of guns in America.
A progressive, historically-minded look at the news and events of the day.
About a week after any particularly shocking or spectacular mass shooting, the nation is usually treated to the thoughts of Wayne LaPierre o...
In a now-infamous 1981 interview , Republican strategist Lee Atwater opined that the New Right no longer needed to be explicitly racist to c...
In 2013--about the same time that the State of Michigan enacted a law enabling 'emergency managers' to take over financially-distressed muni...
To talk public policy in the context of Donald Trump's presidential campaign kind of misses the point of Trump-as-politician. This should wo...