#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.
Read more#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 of exclusive rights to a creation has become a system that kept a pandemic vaccine from reaching poorer countries and where entertainment conglomerates and technology giants fence off and sell our own culture back to us.
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