#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.
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Occupy! An Unfinished Uprising
Read more#1824 The Next Gilded Age: AI Doomsday and the Insatiable Business Model
Air Date: 9-26-2026
Today we explore the layers of chaos surrounding the AI industry, including the idealistic nerds-turned-nazis, the grift, bubble, and doom-marketing business model, and what people are doing to fight back.
Read moreMonthly-ish Mix #12 The Great American Heist
Air Date: 9-22-2026
The Monthly-ish Mix™ is here to get you caught up on the news from July and August without being overwhelming! Organized around a single idea: ask who the system is for, and every story this summer gives the same answer. The administration rewrites the national story while libraries lose their funding. Corporations fence off ideas as private property. Latin America gets treated like a portfolio and Greenland like a drilling site. Police cameras put every driver under permanent investigation. The seats it all runs from are held until death, and the fixes on the table aim at prying some of them open.
Covering: July–August 2026
Read more#1823 Deep Cuts: Occupy Wall Street in Real Time, 15 Years Later
Air Date: 9-18-2026
Today we're doing something new and different but also very old. Occupy Wall Street just hit its 15th anniversary this month and we thought we'd do something that only we can, which is dip into our archives and pull out the best of the Occupy coverage we played in real time as it was happening as well as some other retrospective coverage that aired 10 years later.
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