#1386 Out With The Old Foreign Policy, In With The Even Older
Air Date: 12–12-2020
Today we take a look at the prospects for Biden's foreign policy looking forward which seems to be mostly looking backward to an era of American over-confidence and self-ascribed "exceptionalism" that may never have been warranted, the fact of which becomes clearer with every passing year, something people living outside the US have known for decades.
Read more#1385 The Lost Causes of the Confederacy and the Forty Fives
Air Date: 12–9-2020
Today we take a look in real-time at the construction of the world's newest Lost Cause narrative, the failed re-election of Donald Trump. This is not our country's first experience with Lost Causes and it's not, contrary to popular opinion, even our second connection to a Lost Cause narrative because we didn't invent the first one, we borrowed it from somewhere else and I will tell that story today.
Read moreURGENT ANNOUNCEMENT! BotL in financial trouble and how you can help for free!
Today's short announcement explains the financial hit the show unexpectedly took recently and lays out all of the ways you can help us get through it, one of which will cost you no money at all.
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#1384 Beyond Trump. Radical Authoritarianism in America.
Air Date: 12–5-2020
Today we take a look at what's behind Trump and his autocratic instincts. The enablers, the supporters and the long lineage of authoritarianism.
Read more#1383 The Work That Wins Elections (Political Organizing)
Air Date: 12–1-2020
Today we take a look at some of the highlights of how the 2020 election was won, the people doing the work and what's still at stake.
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