#1309 Facing Our Existential Dread Head On (Trump and Climate Anxiety)
Air Date: 10–1-2019
Today we take an unflinching look at two of the major sources of anxiety in modern life, Donald Trump and the climate crisis, and some of what we can do to find a degree of calm.
Read more#1308 Understanding America by Understanding 9/11
Air Date: 9–27-2019
Today we take a look at the legacy of 9/11; the war on terror, the PATRIOT Act, our collective PTSD and our desperate clinging to American Exceptionalism™
Read more#1307 The Melting Pot Goes to the Polls (The 2020 Electorate)
Air Date: 9–24-2019
Today we take a look at the 2020 electorate. Not the election, not the candidates, the electorate - the people voting.
Read more#1306 Kochland: How We All Became Residents of a Libertarian Fever Dream
Air Date: 9–17-2019
Today we take a look at the lives and legacies of the Koch Brothers. Or, put more pointedly, we look at how two decedents of a bonafide conspiracy theorist have almost single-handedly doomed us to endure runaway climate chaos while suffering from severely degraded labor standards and a broken democracy.
Read more#1305 How to Build an Empire (A History of American Expansion)
Air Date: 9–13-2019
Today we take a look at the history and the process of the building of an American empire that currently spans the globe but allows as few people of color to vote as possible.
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