#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 month and we thought we'd do something that only we can, which is dip into our archives and pull out the best of the Occupy coverage we played in real time as it was happening as well as some other retrospective coverage that aired 10 years later.
Read more#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 going after news outlets for the stories they choose to run. On the other, politically friendly buyers are taking ownership of major networks to turn them into free-market versions of state media.
Read more#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 elections and what it actually takes to fight back. The lawyers fighting in court against the efforts to destroy our democracy are clear-eyed that you cannot litigate your way to a free election. The most durable defense is a turnout margin too large to plausibly contest, and organizers are building toward it now.
Read moreSOLVED! #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.
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