Air Date: 2–26-2019

Today we take a look at the process of systematic, government-sponsored genocide against the native peoples of North America that kicked off the wealth-accumulating, territory-expanding American empire we know and love today

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.

Air Date: 11–27-2018

Today we take a look at the literal and figurative bloody messes of the history of Thanksgiving and the identities of native peoples

Air Date: 10–5-2018

Today we take a look at the rarely-told, real legacy of Christopher Columbus and some of the reverberations from his actions that can still be felt to this day

Air Date: 7–27-2018

Today I do something a little different and present to you (with permission) the entire first episode of the second season of the outstanding podcast, Offshore. Offshore is produced by Honolulu Civil Beat, a nonprofit and non-partisan investigative news site in Hawaii and I especially think the BotL audience will appreciate their telling of the story of the mountain protectors of Mauna Kea, The Sacred Mountain, on the big island of Hawaii.

Today we take a look at one of the most important and least understood problems with our broken democracy, gerrymandering, including some ideas to fix it

Today we look at the many ways conservatives across the country are systematically chipping away at the rights of all people who require access to any kind of reproductive health services

Today we revisit the old idea that if voting mattered they wouldn’t let you do it and the fact that that is exactly what they’re trying to do. Between allowing the chaos and uncertainty caused by hackable and unverifiable voting machines and systematic voter suppression efforts it seems clear just how much they don’t want people to trust or participate in the system

Today we look at gender dysphoria, transitioning, de-transitioning and the various perspectives on these phenomena

Today we look at the current state of voting rights and the full press efforts being made to expand voter suppression far and wide across the country