#1367 The Post Office and the Census, Unmaking the American Institutions That Most Bind Us Together
Air Date: 9–15-2020
Today we take a look at two of America's oldest institutions which are both under attack, the US Post Office and the Census. The clear through-line of the attacks on both is a classic struggle over power.
Read more#1365 White Supremacy, Authoritarians, Trump and the Coming Election
Air Date: 9–8-2020
Today we take a look at the dynamics of the white nationalist movement, authoritarian psychology, the legacy of Richard Nixon and the uncertainty of a peaceful election.
Read more#1362 Politics is Pointillism, Stand Back to See it Clearly (Voter Suppression)
Air Date: 8–22-2020
Today we take a look at the long history and motivations for voter suppression, explain why it tends to help one party over the other and why vote-by-mail is the best solution to the majority of our voting problems.
Read more#1341 Bernie and the Billionaires (Democratic Primary Election)
Air Date: 3–3-2020
Today we take a look at the election through the lens of billionaire politics, from the candidates in both parties to the heads of media organizations to the way a pro-billionaire mentality trickles down to the establishment class on the media and Democratic Party. And what has all of this money been able to buy in terms of opposition research and narrative building against Bernie Sanders? Red-baiting at its most naked and pathetic.
Read more#1319 Democrats and Plutocrats, Wealth Tax and Wall Street
Air Date: 11–15-2019
Today we take a look at the proposals from Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders for a Wealth Tax and how those proposals run afoul of not just Republican Fats Cats but Democratic Fat Cats as well
Read more#1316 Winning the messaging war for a just, moral health care system
Air Date: 11–1-2019
Today we take a look at how the debate over our health care system has been framed and how we should frame it.
Read more#1077 Witnessing an Emerging Autocracy (Trump’s America)
Air Date: 2-3-2017
#1064 Desperate times, desperate measures (Voting Rights and the Electoral College)
Air Date: 12-13-2016
Today we look at the systematic suppression of voting rights during the election and the hail mary attempt to avert a Trump presidency through the electoral college
Read more#1060 We should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings (Godwin’s Law)
Air Date: 11-25-2016
Today we look at the comparison between the rise of Hitler and the rise of Trump, not to say that they are the same but to try to learn from the past in order to see farther into our own future and avoid the terrible ends that are possible
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