#1263 Worker protections help (almost) everyone (Labor Rights)
Air Date: 4–9-2019
Today we take a look at the overwhelming benefits to society of labor, health and safety regulations and how they only people who don't come out ahead are those who have to pay for them
Read more#1261 Profitable Extremism (How Social Media Propagates Hate)
Air Date: 4–2-2019
Today we take a look at the so-called "Algorithms of Oppression." Not that they're made to be that way on purpose but that it is a natural outcome of a profit-based system that incentivizes people to post the most click-baity content while the system learns the viewer's weaknesses to ruthlessly feed them whatever will keep them engaged.
Read more#1259 The rebirth of the antitrust movement (Monopolies)
Air Date: 3–26-2019
Today we take a look at the story of Amazon's enormous growth, the history of how our anti-trust laws were neutered and how the former is making us rethink the latter
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Bonus Edition #142 The Nordic Theory of Love
Air Date: 3/1/2019
Today I share an unusual clip and talk for a while about how much better Scandinavia is than the US.
Read more#1256 A Green New Deal to build a new Common Sense
Air Date: 3–12-2019
Today we take a look at the development of the Green New Deal and its impacts on economics, labor, frontline communities climate mitigation and the politics of the possible
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#1253 The Joy of Tax (Comparing the US and Scandinavian Systems)
Air Date: 3–1-2019
Today we take a look at the social benefits of high taxation as the US gears up for our first genuine debate on raising taxes in a long time with an eye toward the life-improving programs that money could fund.
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#1250 Teachers at the forefront of a resurgent progressive labor movement
Air Date: 2–15-2019
Today we take a look at recent teachers union strike in the Los Angeles school district and see it as another event in an emerging pattern of progressive uprisings that have been stirring for the last decade, fighting back against the status quo, the neoliberal instinct to privatize everything for the ultimate benefit of billionaires.
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#1248 There you go again. Venezuela and America's addiction to imperialism
Air Date: 2–8-2019
Today we take a look, briefly, at the last 100 years of Venezuelan history to understand how they went from oil riches and inequality to revolution and social progress only to run afoul of American imperialism
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#1247 The Fight for the Four Freedoms (FDR vs. Libertarianism)
Air Date: 2–5-2019
Today we take a look at the history of FDR's "Four Freedoms" and "Economic Bill of Rights" that laid the groundwork for the fight for economic freedom for all that continues to this day.
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#1245 Don't call it a shutdown
Air Date: 1–29-2019
Today we take a look at the planned chaos and fever dream governing style cooked up by the radical, anti-government conservatives running the country, otherwise known as the shutdown
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