#1649 Race in America and the Moral Clarity of James Baldwin
Air Date: 8-17-2024
James Baldwin's 100th birthday passed by recently and we're using the occasion to draw on his moral clarity and eloquence while we assess the state of race in America
Read more#1646 The Kamalanomenon and the Inevitable Misogynoir Backlash of Racism and Sexism
Air Date: 8-2-2024
The Kamala Harris presidential campaign has been on a wild ride since it unexpectedly began less than two weeks ago. Record fundraising, organic enthusiasm not seen since Obama, and the ugly pushback to match.
Read more#1526 A History of Political Violence in the US
Original Air Date: 11–15-2022
Today, we take a look at our extremely steady history of political violence from the Revolution, through the Civil War, Reconstruction and Jim Crow, into the Civil Rights era, the Militia Movement and domestic terrorism, and now to our current once-again-radicalized, right-wing movement willing to use and tacitly condone violence as a political tactic.
Read more#1626 Remix - Protest Crackdown: Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand and the Response is Predictable
Air Date: 5-3-2024
A look back at previous coverage of criminalizing protests, weaponizing civility, and violent responses to peaceful dissent.
Read more#1605 Our Prison System is a Demonstrable Failure
Air Date: 1-23-2024
The recent discovery of hundreds of bodies buried behind a jail in unmarked graves sparks a renewed discussion about the futility and counter-productiveness of our system of incarceration and the context of our history that has brought us to this point.
Read more#1604 The Border Crisis is Manufactured for Political Opportunity
Air Date: 1-17-2024
It is evident that the immigration debate is more about acquiring raw power than about immigration as demands from the Republican Party change along with whatever strategies they feel are most likely to get Republicans elected and in the age of Trump, that means the most draconian, harmful and, ultimately, pointless demands to date.
Read more#1532 Accelerationism is the Brick on the Gas Pedal of the Runaway Car of Society (Repost)
Original Air Date: 12–17-2022
Today, we take a look at the fringe philosophy of accelerationism that is having a bigger impact on society than you will likely have realized as it's been behind some of the worst terror attacks in recent years and is likely behind attacks on infrastructure targeting society as a whole.
Read more#TBT #1510 Avoiding Accountability: How the powerful in the US have almost always been allowed to skate by (Throwback)
Original Air Date: 8–31-2022
Today, as the news of Trump's various trials continues to drop out, we take a look back at this episode covering the long and illustrious history of powerful people avoiding prosecution in the United States.
Read more#1506 Native Landback for a Healthier Society and Environment (Repost)
Original Air Date: 8–10-2022
Origins of the European colonial land-grab, the need for the #Landback movement, and the benefits to society and the environment in the context of the climate crisis to return stewardship of the land to native peoples.
Read more#1578 A.I. is a big tech airplane with a 10% chance of crashing, should society fly it?
Air Date: 8–20-2023
Big tech is currently scrambling to bring untested A.I. products to market, over-promising, under-delivering, and working hard obscure and ignore any possible downsides for society. Big tech needs A.I. regulation now before we all suffer the easily foreseeable consequences as well as some unforeseeable ones.
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