#1244 A Nation of (Criminalized) Immigrants
Air Date: 1–25-2019
Today we take a look at the past and present of our immigration system to understand the paradigms within which the entire debate takes place
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#1241 The Price of Empire (US Foreign Policy)
Air Date: 1–15-2019
Today we take a look at the history and mechanics of US empire and the military-industrial-congressional complex that gleefully perpetuates it.
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#1240 The bare-knuckle fight for democracy itself
Air Date: 1–11-2019
Today we take a look at the small-D anti-democratic power grabs implemented by many GOP-led legislatures during the lame-duck session with the explicit intention of subverting the will of the voters and the most significant democracy reform bill since the Watergate era meant to help restore eroded democratic norms that was introduced by the new congress' House Democrats as their first order of business.
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#1238 Bailouts, Tea Parties, Torture, Fear, Health Care and Citizens United (A Look Back at 2009)
Air Date: 1/4/2018
Today we take a look back at the year 2009 in our annual 10-years-past retrospective to see what we may learn.
Read more#1236 The War on Christmas™ 2018
Air Date: 12–18-2018
Today, as we do each year, we take a look at the current state of the War on Christmas™ but with more of an historical focus on how we got here
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#1235 A Counterbalance to Canonization (The Political Life of George H.W. Bush)
Air Date: 12–14-2018
Today we take a look critically at the life and times of George H.W. Bush
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#1234 Neoliberalism and the fascism it breeds (Brazilian Election)
Air Date: 12–11-2018
Today we take a look at the election of a true neofascist to be president of Brazil and some of the economic and political realities that lead us to this point
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#1225 The origins of the libertarian plan to remake America
Air Date: 11–6-2018
Today we take a look at the movement behind the anti-government, pro-wealthy campaign to remake America that dates back much farther than the Koch Brothers.
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#1223 How and why conspiracy theories infiltrate our politics
Air Date: 10–30-2018
Today we take a look at the phenomenon of conspiracy theories from several different angles including psychology, political necessity and some of the conspiracies de jour.
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#1222 A crisis of illegitimacy of our institutions
Air Date: 10–26-2018
Today we take a look at the crumbling trust in the Supreme Court in the wake of the Kavanaugh confirmation, not to mention the undemocratic electoral college, undemocratic Senate and a whole slew of anti-democracy GOP dirty tricks that have been used to acquire and intrench power for a conservative minority
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