#1828 The Cornell 7 and How Rape Culture Runs on the Men Who Don't Rape
Air Date: 10-13-2026
Today we look at rape culture as a system that contains far more than the crimes. This topic was prompted by the Cornell 7 story but it starts with little boys annoying girls and having it excused as affection, runs through the “nice guy” who treats kindness as a down payment, and ends with the false claim that men can’t be expected to control their sexual urges. We're organizing the episode a little differently than normal, with the material everyone should hear in the first hour and the deeper dives being reserved for that which men particularly need to face but that assault victims may want to skip.
Read more#861 More Reasons Than You Should Need to Oppose the Death Penalty (Throwback)
Publish Date: 10-11-2026
Original Air Date: 9-16-2014
Today we dig through the archives to give context to the news that the Pentagon plans to execute the Fort Hood shooter by firing squad, the first U.S. military execution in more than 60 years.
Read more#1827 Deep Cuts: Exxon Knew - The History Behind the Case to Make Polluters Pay
Air Date: 10-7-2026
Today we trace the "Exxon Knew" story through a decade of our own archive, because that history is what the Supreme Court is weighing in Suncor v. Boulder in their first case this term. Exxon's scientists confirmed the climate science in the early eighties and the company chose to manufacture doubt. Communities like Boulder County have paid ever since and the question before the Supreme Court is whether any lawsuit like this will be allowed to go to trial.
Read more#1826 The Mechanics of Complicity from Nazis to Newsrooms to Fandoms
Air Date: 10-3-2026
Today we examine the mechanisms of complicity. We're not all complicit in the worst atrocities but we are complicit in something so it's good to know how it works. Good people go along with bad ideas and thoughtful people allow themselves to be thoughtless all the time. The reasons are often structural but they can be resisted on both the personal level and collectively.
Read more#1825 We Are Still the 99%: Occupy Wall Street's Unfinished Business, 15 Years Later
Air Date: 9-30-2026
Today we look at the legacy of Occupy Wall Street, which was in full swing 15 years ago and changed how the country talks about inequality and the 1%. In the meantime, the cumulative wealth of the 1% in the US has roughly tripled and Trump has the wealthiest cabinet in history running the country, so the concerns expressed at Occupy have only come into sharper relief.
This miniseries helped inspire today's episode, check it out!
Occupy! An Unfinished Uprising
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