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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
#1816 IP'd to Death: How Intellectual Property Law Went from a Protection to a Weapon
Aug 20, 20263h 31m
#1815 Sanctioned Ignorance: The Assault on Museums, Libraries, and American Memory
Aug 16, 20263h 14m
#1814 Open Imperialism in Latin America: Trump Says the Whole Hemisphere Is His to Run
Aug 13, 20263h 11m
#1813 Suffering is the Strategy: ICE, Mass Deportation, and Demographic Engineering
Aug 9, 20263h 32m
#1434 Confronting Climate Chaos Through Time (Throwback)
Aug 5, 20261h 6m
#1812 Democracy or This Supreme Court, But Not Both
Aug 2, 20262h 58m
#1811 Country for Old Men: Gerontocracy By Design and the Democracy Problem
Jul 29, 20263h 4m
Monthly-ish Mix #11 The Loneliest Superpower: What America Gets for Pushing Everyone Away
Jul 26, 20264h 58m
#1810 Post-American Europe: How to Lose Friends and Influence People to Protect Themselves Against You
Jul 23, 20263h 31m
#1809 Democrats Seek a Blue Wave, Progressives Push Democratic Socialism, GOP Revive the Red Scare
Jul 19, 20263h 56m
#1634 Abortion as the Tip of the Iceberg (Throwback)
Jul 15, 20262h 21m
#1808 Billionaires vs. Democracy: They're Not Coming For Your Job, They're Coming For Your Government (And The Entire Economy)
Jul 11, 20264h 19m
#1807 What the World Cup Exposes: Identity, Colonialism, and Racism in 2026
Jul 7, 20263h 37m
#1806 America at 250: The Declaration, the Constitution, and our Crisis of Democracy
Jul 4, 20263h 55m
#1805 Trump Giving Iran $300 Billion to End His Own War
Jul 2, 20263h 14m
#1804 Elon Musk, the First Trillionaire, and the Broken System That Made Him
Jun 28, 20263h 49m
#1803 Monthly-ish Mix: Manufactured Legitimacy and the Fight to Reclaim It
Jun 25, 20264h 38m
#1802 Department of Injustice: Revenge Prosecutions, Judges Threatened, and Incompetence All the Way Down
Jun 20, 20263h 2m
#1801 Counterfeit Populism: Trump, the 2026 Primaries, and the Era That's Ending (Transcript)
Jun 18, 20263h 48m
#1800 How Capitalism Created Loneliness and How To Joyfully Organize Our Way to Community
Jun 12, 20263h 56m
#1799 The US and China Are Fighting Over Taiwan, Semiconductors, and Africa's Minerals
Jun 10, 20263h 2m
#1798 FIFA Sportswashing Fascism: The World Cup from Mussolini to Trump
Jun 6, 20262h 53m
#1797 AI Spent $540 Billion to Make You Lonelier: Betting Against Jobs, Art, and Community
Jun 3, 20263h 22m
#1796 1.8 Billion for the Mob and a Kill List for Dissent: Trump's payout fund and counterterrorism strategy, decoded
May 30, 20262h 44m
#1795 You Say You Want A Revolution: Successful Revolutions are the Boring Ones
May 27, 20263h 55m
#1794 From MAHA to Measles: RFK's Public Health Purge Will Make America Sick Again
May 24, 20262h 58m
#1793 Anti-Immigrant Brutality Costs Countries More Than Their Morals: ICE, Mass Deportation, and the Global Far-Right
May 21, 20263h 45m
#1792 Capitalist Class Warfare: AI, Billionaire Capture, and the How to Fight Back
May 16, 20263h 18m
#1791 Jim Crow 2.0 — SCOTUS Kills the Voting Rights Act and Unleashes the Gerrymandering War
May 13, 20263h 10m
#1790 Assassin Nation: How Political Violence Got Normalized And How To Reverse It
May 10, 20263h 6m