SOLVED! #39 - Why You Should Care About Prisons in the Fight for a Better World SOLVED! #39 - Why You Should Care About Prisons in the Fight for a Better World (Throwback)
Re-Air Date: 9-5-26
Original Air Date: 4-24-26
Welcome to this throwback edition of Solved, the short-lived show too beautiful for this world, hosted by the producers of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast. We wanted to share this episode, Why You Should Care About Prisons in the Fight for a Better World, while we take a break, because the ICE detention and deportation regime is continuing to get worse, and it's not just an immigration story. It's also a carceral one. There have been more than 50 deaths in a 500-day period, making it worse than peak COVID. Detainees have no access to grievance systems, and the private prison companies are making billions. So here's what the Best of the Left team had to say about prisons back in April of this year.
Read more#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, radicalized and monetized it into an anti-science "wellness" movement large enough to seize real political power.
Read more#1819 Coerced Sterilization, Abortion Bans, and the New Pronatalism: Who Controls American Reproduction
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 sanctioned the forced sterilization of women deemed unfit to reproduce. 60 years ago, a communist dictator ran a pronatalist experiment with disastrous results. Now, abortion access is collapsing and a new pronatalist movement is rising to wreak havoc.
Read more#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 voting to cancel their tracking-camera contracts, others are filing records requests to drag secret police deals into daylight, and some people stopped waiting and went out at night with wire cutters.
Read more#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 the government's ability to see the problem at all. The Environmental Protection Agency under Bush refused to regulate carbon in 2003, and now the Trump administration is dismantling the science that would help us both avoid worsening the climate emergency and mitigate the inevitable destruction to lives and property now baked into the system.
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