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Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

Best of the Left: Perspectives on Politics, Culture, and Economics · Jay Tomlinson

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Show overview

Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy has been publishing since 2022, and across the 4 years since has built a catalogue of 575 episodes, alongside 84 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 960 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence.

Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 56 min and 2h 50m — with run-times ranging widely across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language News show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 94 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Jay Tomlinson.

Episodes
575
Running
2022–2026 · 4y
Median length
1h 10m
Cadence
Several per week

From the publisher

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 draw from hundreds of sources of progressive news and commentary. Est. 2006. Save time by listening to a range of perspectives on a focused topic in each episode and be introduced to new sources you will not have come across on your own!

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#1831 Midterm Madness: Defending the Vote, the Count, the Results, and the Certification

Oct 31, 20263h 10m

Monthly-ish Mix #13 Off the Hook: How the Powerful Duck the Blame and Where They Still Have to Answer

Oct 28, 20263h 20m

#1830 Power Play: The Women's Sports Boom Is About Power, Not Ratings

Oct 25, 20263h 19m

#1176 The Gun Debate Is Less of a Debate Than We Think (Throwback)

Oct 20, 20261h 5m

#1829 Poverty Is Hard on Purpose in America and We All Pay the Time Tax

Oct 17, 20263h 1m

#1828 The Cornell 7 and How Rape Culture Runs on the Men Who Don't Rape

Oct 14, 20264h 12m

#861 More Reasons Than You Should Need to Oppose the Death Penalty (Throwback)

Oct 10, 202654 min

#1827 Deep Cuts: Exxon Knew - The History Behind the Case to Make Polluters Pay

Oct 7, 20263h 29m

#1826 The Mechanics of Complicity from Nazis to Newsrooms to Fandoms

Oct 4, 20262h 58m

#1825 We Are Still the 99%: Occupy Wall Street's Unfinished Business, 15 Years Later

Sep 29, 20264h 27m

#1824 The Next Gilded Age: AI Doomsday and the Insatiable Business Model https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1824

Sep 26, 20263h 51m

Monthly-ish Mix #12 The Great American Heist

Sep 23, 20263h 22m

#1823 Deep Cuts: Occupy Wall Street in Real Time, 15 Years Later

Sep 19, 20263h 30m

#1822 The State Media Playbook: The FCC and Billionaires Are Waging a War on the Free Press

Sep 15, 20263h 7m

#1821 Election Sabotage, Voting System Vulnerabilities, and the Defense of the 2026 Midterms

Sep 10, 20262h 50m

SOLVED! #39 - Why You Should Care About Prisons in the Fight for a Better World (Throwback)

Sep 6, 20261h 29m

#1820 Science and Public Health Under Attack by Our Own Government

Sep 3, 20263h 1m

#1819 Coerced Sterilization, Abortion Bans, and the New Pronatalism: Who Controls American Reproduction (Transcript)

Aug 31, 20263h 25m

#1818 Flock Cameras, ICE, and the Surveillance State Targeting Everyone

Aug 26, 20263h 26m

#1817 Worse on Purpose: Trump is Killing Our Response to the Climate Emergency

Aug 22, 20263h 31m
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