Air Date: 4-26-2025

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For those of us who knew that Trump was lawless and deeply racist in his desire for mass deportations of brown people, we're getting exactly what we expected. For others, at least the lawlessness is coming as a bit of a surprise, and yet, here we are.

Air Date: 4-22-2025

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We knew for decades before the overturning of Roe v. Wade that Republicans wanted to repeal abortion rights. But I recall an argument I heard many years ago from someone ostensibly on the left about how wrong the left was to worry about it because George W Bush had been in office for 8 years and didn't stop abortions. I knew that was a profoundly uninformed point at the time but it's also evidence that some people just don't understand the time horizons over which plans to dismantle cherished rights and government programs play out. George W. Bush also proposed privatizing Social Security and didn't succeed there either. But in both cases, groundwork was being laid as part of a multi-decade effort that would, they hoped, pay off in the future. So don't be surprised when they come for your earned benefits programs just as they came for the fundamental right to bodily autonomy.

Air Date: 4-18-2025

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Before the election, I heard interviews and statistics about Trump supporters responding to his stated desire to weaponize the government against his political enemies. Their response was that 1) they didn't want him to do that and 2) didn't think he would. Now that everything the anti-Trumpers warned about is coming true, I suggest against shaming people for having been wrong. That's not the way to build an inclusive coalition that will end up including disillusioned Trump voters. Tell people that we were right, not to make them feel bad but as a reminder for why we should be listened to now.

Air Date: 4-14-2025

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Everything, it turns out, is a double-edged sword. Democracy and freedom are great, but they also contain the keys to their own destruction. Love is pretty good, but it turns out that only love can break your heart. And technology, which has freed people from countless hours of menial labor, also has the power to subsume our economy, our politics, and much of our everyday lives. It may even be said to have supplanted capitalism itself.

Air Date: 4-8-2025

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Today we take a look at how the illiberalism of the Israeli government has alienated the vast majority of democratic nations and individuals who support human rights, leaving the country with some of the most far-right, fascist, white-supremacist, anti-Semitic people in the world as their only remaining allies.