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Expertly-curated progressive politics, news, and culture produced by leftist humans, not algorithms or AI. This is an award-winning podcast that dives deeply into a wide range of national and international issues facing society and governments. We...

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#1788 Monthly-ish Mix: The America That Almost Was—Empire Abroad, Control at Home, and the Long Arc of Resistance

#1787 The American President vs The American Pope: Leo XIV, Trump, and the MAGA-Catholic Rift

#1786 Defeating Viktor Orbán in Hungary and the Authoritarian Playbook Worldwide

#1329 Our Longest War Has Been a Lie All Along (The Afghanistan Papers) (Throwback)

SOLVED! SAMPLE! #38 - Keepin' it Class-y: How Class Structure and Wealth Inequality Keep Us Stuck

#1785 Iran and the Chain Reaction: The War Nobody Thought Through (Or, Bomb First, Think Never)

#1784 Who Gets to Be American, Who Gets to Vote, and Who Decides

#1783 The Ideology of a Cancer Cell: AI, Surveillance, and Silicon Valley's Psychopath Problem

SOLVED! SAMPLE! #37 - Solidarity Forever: Boycotts, Strikes, & the Labor Movement We Need

#1683 Oligarchy Unmasked: President Musk, the crackup of capitalism, and the MAGA meltdown (Throwback)

#1782 Cuba's Crisis: Trump's Deadly Embargo, Blackouts, and Dream of Regime Change

#1781 Your Team Is a Hedge Fund Now: How Gambling and Billionaires Captured American Sports

ALMOST SOLVED! SAMPLE! #1 - Liberation Theology & What Redemption Really Looks Like

#1780 Cynicism Is a Scab: Hope, Solidarity, and the Labor Fight That Never Stopped

#1779 Community After God: Why the Left Needs What Church Provided

SOLVED! SAMPLE! #36 - Bribery Jazz - Corruption is the Water We Swim In

#1778 AI, the Pentagon, Labor and Capitalism: The Fight Over Who Controls the Future

#1777 How Christian Nationalism, Oil, and Zionism Built The War Against Iran

#1776 Trump's Pharaoh Complex, Our Flawed Constitution, and the 250th Anniversary

SOLVED! FROM THE ARCHIVES - "Collaborators, Internal Exiles, and Dissidents" (Original Air Date: 01-26-25)