Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
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#1556 Oil Wealth and Oligarchy, Over 100 Years of Polishing Unredeemable Reputations
May 2, 20231h 6m
#1555 The Kids Are Not Alright (Boys, Girls, Culture and Social Media)
Apr 27, 20231h 10m
Bonus Sample #269 Tell Good Stories and Jokes
Apr 22, 202316 min
#1554 Destroying Education and Democracy for Fun and Profit
Apr 20, 20231h 8m
#1553 The Nuremberg Trials of J.K. Rowling: Misogyny and Authoritarianism in the Bizarro World
Apr 17, 20231h 18m
#1484 Elon Musk is Not Your Savior and He Is Actually Awful (Repost)
Apr 12, 20231h 25m
Bonus Sample #268 Making Corrections
Apr 8, 202314 min
#1480 The Cyberwar Did Not Begin with Cyber Pearl Harbor (Repost)
Apr 5, 20231h 19m
#1552 Invasion of Iraq, 20 years later
Apr 1, 20231h 17m
#1476 The Disinformation War We Are Not Fighting (Repost)
Mar 29, 20231h 29m
#1551 Making sense of the senseless war in Ukraine
Mar 27, 202359 min
Bonus Edition: Absurdity on top of absurdity
Mar 24, 202317 min
#1550 Red States, Where Democracy Goes to Die and Terrible Legislation is Born
Mar 22, 20231h 0m
#1549 Fox News is worse than we imagined or: they all knew they were lying
Mar 18, 202355 min
Bonus Sample #266 AI may destroy society and capitalism will help
Mar 16, 202317 min
#1548 The War on Woke Pits the GOP Against Their Usual Allies in Big Business
Mar 15, 20231h 4m
#1547 Shaping the Future of the Internet
Mar 9, 20231h 3m
#1546 Exist, Resist, Indigenize, Decolonize: A story of colonialism, cultural renaissance and modernity
Mar 4, 20231h 8m
#1466 The Faustian Bargain of Technological Advancement and Societal Degradation (Repost)
Mar 2, 20231h 1m
Bonus Sample #265 The Laughter to Darkness Ratio
Feb 25, 202317 min
#1545 Agents of Chaos: The New Congress
Feb 23, 20231h 8m
#1544 Block History Month: The Campaign to Erase Uncomfortable Truths About Black History
Feb 18, 20231h 0m
#1543 Capitalism doesn't live up to the hype
Feb 14, 20231h 7m
#1542 Despair and violence in Israel's illiberal and exclusionary "democracy"
Feb 10, 20231h 4m
Bonus Sample #264 How To Talk About The Super Bowl
Feb 8, 202316 min
#1541 Tear down paradise and put up a dystopian police state (Cop City)
Feb 5, 20231h 10m
#1540 The Grift of Life (Scam Culture™ and the Economy it has built)
Feb 1, 20231h 11m
Bonus Sample #263 Capitalism Culture and System Failure
Jan 28, 202319 min
#1539 Stolen Children is Stolen History, Heritage, and Culture (Indian Child Welfare Act)
Jan 25, 20231h 7m
#1538 Authoritarian Coup Attempts Around the World
Jan 22, 20231h 1m
#1461 Neoliberalism is Hanging on for Dear Life in Changing Times (Repost)
Jan 18, 20231h 22m
#1537 All Your Faves Were Radicals (Beyond Martin Luther King Jr)
Jan 14, 20231h 12m
#1536 Your Food Choices Are Not Your Food Choices
Jan 11, 20231h 8m
#1535 We Don't Do Accountability (Trump and GOP Crimes That Go Unpunished)
Jan 7, 20231h 4m
#1534 Every Move You Make (Facial Recognition, TikTok, and Surveillance Capitalism 2.0)
Jan 3, 20231h 12m
Bonus Sample #261 Join the Indoctri-Nation!
Dec 31, 202219 min
#1451 The Foxification of American Media (Fox News 25th Anniversary) (Repost)
Dec 27, 20221h 28m
#1533 How Theocracies Begin and End (Rise of the Far-Right + Demanding Women's Rights in Iran)
Dec 24, 20221h 2m
The Last Resort (The Story of Cal-Exit)
Dec 22, 20228 min
Bonus Sample #260 Don't Call Me Out My Name
Dec 20, 202218 min
#1532 Accelerationism is the Brick on the Gas Pedal of the Runaway Car of Society
Dec 17, 20221h 7m
#1531 The Labor Movement is a Hot Mess and Democrats Are Not Much Help
Dec 13, 20221h 7m
#1454 The Problem with Facebook is Facebook (Repost)
Dec 11, 20221h 23m
#1530 The Pillars of Polarization and Persuasion
Dec 7, 20221h 10m
#1529 Monopolies Run By Morons
Dec 4, 20221h 6m
Bonus Sample #259 Political Movements
Dec 2, 202218 min
#1528 The Ugly Underbelly of The Beautiful Game (Qatar World Cup)
Dec 1, 20221h 8m
#1230 Thanksgiving and cultural heritage (Repost)
Nov 26, 20221h 13m
#1527 Making Antisemitism Great Again with Ye, Kyrie Irving and Dave Chapelle
Nov 23, 20221h 16m
#1265 Moving beyond tragedy by surviving and adapting (Repost)
Nov 20, 20221h 15m