#1344 Everything is Political (Social Safety Net in a Time of Pandemic)
Air Date: 3–20-2020
Today we take a look at the social safety net we need in the face of Coronavirus and the forces preventing us from having it.
Read more#1343 Bread and Roses (Socialism is Freedom and Firefighters)
Air Date: 3–10-2020
Today we take a look at Democratic Socialism and how to explain it because socialism and the freedoms it provides is a lot more American than we tend to think.
Read more#1342 What Coronavirus Reveals About the Structures of Our World
Air Date: 3–7-2020
Today we take a look at the Coronavirus through the lens of the systems it is affecting including the incompetence of a government that doesn't believe in governing, the dangers of the lack of universal access to medical care and the interdependency of our economies regardless of the inevitable racism that flares up in times of panic.
Read more#1340 The Border Between Socialism and Barbarism (Immigration and Empire)
Air Date: 2–28-2020
Today we take a look at the historical through-line that has brought us to the present state of border barbarism we're now witnessing. An empire of perpetual expansion has finally reached its limit and decided to close the door. Meanwhile, well-meaning liberals have been playing on the nationalists' turf for far too long.
Read more#1338 Budgets are Moral Documents, Trump Budgets are Immoral
Air Date: 2–22-2020
Today we take a look at Trump's recently-proposed budget and rule changes targeting the most vulnerable recipients of Social Security benefits. The budget has no chance of passing as it is because, thankfully, a Democratically-controlled House of Representatives will not allow it. However, it is still very valuable to understand what kind of budget and rules Trump and the GOP would pass if they were in complete power.
Read more#1336 Throwing Our Weight Around (The Future of Trade)
Air Date: 2–15-2020
Today we take a look at the ways Trump is working to rewrite the rules of trade with NAFTA 2.0 (The USMCA), a post-Brexit agreement with the United Kingdom and what's emerging from the ongoing trade war with China.
Read more#1324 State of the Unions and the 2020 Elections
Air Date: 12–10-2019
Today we take a look at the labor movement as energy and power continue to build and more workers continue to strike to demand better conditions for themselves and all of society in an intersectional movement for social justice. Though not much thanks can be given to either political party.
Read more#1323 Power to the People: The Future of Public Ownership and Local Control
Air Date: 12–07-2019
Today we take a look at the reaction to decades of the fetishization of privatization in the form of a reinvigorated movement for public ownership of institutions meant to serve the public such as utilities, banks, train systems and so on. But this isn't your grandfather's top-down public ownership, the new movement has bottom-up, accountable, democratic control of institutions at the very core of its mission.
Read more#1322 Freedom of Speech vs Freedom of Reach (Regulating Facebook)
Air Date: 12–04-2019
Today we take a look at some solutions to our social media problems of fake news, propaganda and hate in all forms spreading like wildfire through society
Read more#1321 Decolonization is for Everyone
Air Date: 11–23-2019
Today we take a look at just a few forms the decolonization movement is taking from finance to cartography to the internet and beyond.
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