#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#1398 The Road to Justice Runs Through Accountability
Air Date: 2–13-2021
Today we take a look at the fallout from the January 6th insurrection, the case for impeachment and/or punishment for every single person involved and discussions for why this process is so important to the stability of the country.
Read more#1396 The Platforms of Our Discontent (Social Media, Social Destruction)
Air Date: 2–5-2021
Today we take a look at the role that social media plays in the radicalization of discontented communities and engage in the debate over content moderation and de-platforming of individuals.
Read more#1395 The Arab Spring, Bin Laden Killed, Giffords Shot, Occupy Wall St. and Birtherism (A Look Back at 2011)
Air Date 1/31/2021
Today we take a look back at the year 2011 in our annual 10-years-past retrospective to see what we may learn. 2011 was an enormous year of news which included the death of Osama Bin Laden, the manufactured budget crisis in Wisconsin, the shooting of Gabby Giffords, Occupy Wall Street, the birth of Trump's Birtherism and much more.
Read more#1392 The Coup Klux Klan and the January 6 Insurrection
Air Date: 1–16-2021
Today we take a look at the underlying fears and motivations for the insurrection that go beyond the Big Lie™ of a stolen election to the bedrock of white supremacy that has driven white riots for more than 100 years.
Read more#1391 The Road to Sedition
Air Date: 1–10-2021
Today, in our 15th-anniversary episode, we take a look at the years and years of warning signs we having been highlighting since 2006 that collectively predict the armed insurrection against the government as the natural end point for a radicalized, conspiratorial, White/Christian-supremacist, permanently-minoritarian political movement that has lost its ability to win power by legitimate means.
Read more#1388 The Cathartic, Angry Description of Our COVID Response That You Need to Hear
Air Date: 12–18-2020
Today we take a look at the abysmal response to the pandemic in the US, the unavoidable racial overtones inherent in that failed response, the lasting trauma the pandemic has inflicted and why nothing short of systemic change will suffice.
Read more#1386 Out With The Old Foreign Policy, In With The Even Older
Air Date: 12–12-2020
Today we take a look at the prospects for Biden's foreign policy looking forward which seems to be mostly looking backward to an era of American over-confidence and self-ascribed "exceptionalism" that may never have been warranted, the fact of which becomes clearer with every passing year, something people living outside the US have known for decades.
Read more#1385 The Lost Causes of the Confederacy and the Forty Fives
Air Date: 12–9-2020
Today we take a look in real-time at the construction of the world's newest Lost Cause narrative, the failed re-election of Donald Trump. This is not our country's first experience with Lost Causes and it's not, contrary to popular opinion, even our second connection to a Lost Cause narrative because we didn't invent the first one, we borrowed it from somewhere else and I will tell that story today.
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