#1464 Fighting to Preserve Democracy With Only Democrats to Turn To
Air Date: 1–5-2022
Today we take a look at a few of the recent failures and challenges facing the Democratic Party in the face of an oncoming wave of anti-democratic forces bent on establishing an entrenched, minority-rule government through aggressive gerrymandering and voter suppression.
Read more#1402 Racism or Classism? Caste Explains that it is Both (Repost)
Air Date: 3–6-2021
Today we take a look at the origins of race and the building of a caste system in the US based largely on the lessons from Isabel Wilkerson, author of "Caste: The Origins of our Discontent"
Read more#1387 Hyper-Partisanship is Baked Into the System, Not a Result of Bad Actors (Repost)
Air Date: 12–15-2020
Today we take a look at the current state of hyper-partisanship and its origins. The system seems broken because it is broken and it was never designed to work this way in the first place. And what about that bygone era of bipartisanship? It's likely that was a fluke and the result of one-party dominance in the New Deal era, it is not the norm throughout history.
Read more#1390 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Our Second Founding (Reconstruction) (Repost)
Original Air Date: 1–5-2021
Today we take a look at the often-overlooked decade of Reconstruction in the wake of the Civil War. After hundreds of years of slavery, Reconstruction was a brief moment of relative democracy and equality before the white power structure reasserted itself and instated the policies that would be known as "Jim Crow Laws" which would last another 80 years.
Read more#1463 People Are Waking Back Up To The Need For Labor Unions
Air Date: 12–22-2021
Today we take a look at some of the history of labor struggles in America and the current wave of strikes that is giving renewed energy to the labor union movement and the struggle for better working conditions for all.
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