Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
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#1642 Tumultuous Year of Democracy: Left-Wing victories in the UK, France and Mexico with lessons for the US
Jul 17, 20242h 9m
Bonus Sample #312 In a Dinghy of Hope
Jul 14, 202421 min
#1641 Green Energy and Public Transport: Feeling blue and seeing red about the inevitable messiness of transitioning to a low-carbon economy
Jul 12, 20241h 52m
#1247 The Fight for the Four Freedoms (FDR vs. Libertarianism) (Throwback)
Jul 9, 20241h 1m
Bonus Sample #311 Primal Scream of Catharsis
Jul 7, 202418 min
#1640 China Explained: From Cars to Computer Chips, Communism to Carbon Emissions, the South China Sea to Space, and Clinton to Biden
Jul 5, 20242h 54m
#1639 Migrants and Refugees on Fortress Earth: Our politicized, fortified, industrialized borders in the US and Europe
Jul 2, 20242h 6m
Bonus Sample #310 - The Torment Nexus
Jun 30, 202414 min
#1638 AI: From Killer Apps to Killer Robots, the Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence Spans the Spectrum
Jun 28, 20242h 21m
#1590 Red Caesar and Project 2025: A fascist fever dream by the Claremont Institute and the Heritage Foundation (Throwback)
Jun 25, 20241h 1m
Bonus Sample #309 Of Kidults and Puppets
Jun 23, 202423 min
#1637 Shifting Populations, Shifting Politics: The European elections show a shift toward the hard right over fears of immigration and scarcity
Jun 21, 20241h 48m
#1460 The Growing Threat of Minority Rule (Throwback)
Jun 18, 20241h 7m
Bonus Sample #308 Let the Kids (and Adults) Play
Jun 16, 202417 min
#1636 The Supreme Court Is In Bad Shape. Like, Really Bad. And SCOTUS Is Going To Take Us All Down With Them
Jun 14, 20243h 6m
#1635 Democracy on the Decline: The US is not alone in facing threats to democracy, others countries are showing how democracies fail
Jun 11, 20243h 9m
Bonus Sample #307 Uncertain and Powerless
Jun 9, 202413 min
#1634 Abortion as the Tip of the Iceberg: the fight for privacy, bodily autonomy, and functional democracy after Dobbs overturning Roe v Wade
Jun 7, 20242h 23m
#1633 Fights for Fair Pay, Journalism vs Sensationalism, Billionaire Bailouts, and Addiction Capitalism: Sports are a Microcosm of the Ills of Society
Jun 4, 20242h 22m
Bonus Edition #305 Solved It! Conspiracy Theorists, Comment Sections, and Trump
Jun 2, 202417 min
#1134 Unnatural Disasters (Hurricanes and Humans) (Throwback)
May 31, 202454 min
#1632 SiliCON Valley: The False Promises, Enshittification Economics, and Misguided Adventures of the Twits of Tech
May 28, 20242h 21m
Bonus Sample #304 Not everything that counts can be counted
May 26, 202416 min
#1631 Body Neutrality in the World of Ozempic: Reassessing Weight, Body Positivity, Physical and Mental Health, and even the Economics of Body Size
May 24, 20242h 0m
#1630 Unrivaled Global Arms Dealer: Officially and Illegally Exporting the US Gun Culture Around the World
May 21, 20241h 59m
#929 Looking to avert further tragedy (War on Drugs™) (Throwback)
May 19, 202446 min
Bonus Sample #303 At the Carwash: Living in a World Not Built for Humans
May 17, 202418 min
#1629 Hitting Where it Hurts in Our Era of Negative Partisanship: Messaging left-wing politics amid cultish politics
May 15, 20242h 6m
#1628 New Era of Antitrust for a New Era of Capitalism, Mega-Corporations and Big Tech
May 12, 202453 min
#1627 Campus Protests and the Crackdown: Civil resistance against Israeli genocide in Gaza, responses from university presidents to Biden
May 7, 20242h 55m
Bonus Sample #302 Satire requires a clarity of purpose and target lest it be mistaken for and contribute to that which it intends to criticize.
May 5, 202417 min
#1626 Remix - Protest Crackdown: Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand and the Response is Predictable
May 3, 20241h 14m
#1625 Society of Extreme Wealth and its Discontents: Tax avoidance, wealth inequality and the detrimental effects felt by us all
May 1, 202458 min
Bonus Sample #301 War Is the Continuation of Policy with Other Means
Apr 29, 202414 min
#1513 The Morality of Debt and Forgiveness (Throwback)
Apr 26, 20241h 13m
#1624 Island Fervor: Cuba and Haiti Struggle for Economic and Political Self-Determination in the Face of Respective Histories of Exploitation and Embargo
Apr 24, 202459 min
Bonus Sample #300 My People are Humans
Apr 23, 202414 min
#1623 Burning American Credibility on Support for Israel's Genocidal War in Gaza - Biden, Netanyahu, and the double standards of the rules-based order
Apr 20, 202457 min
Bonus Sample #299 Selling Bliss
Apr 18, 202418 min
#1249 Understanding the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli mistreatment of Palestinians (Throwback)
Apr 16, 20241h 3m
#1622 Capitalism Culture Catastrophes On Land, Sea, And In The Sky - Baltimore Bridge Collapse, Boeing Blowout, and the Continuing Threat to Railway Workers
Apr 12, 20241h 7m
#1621 How Democrats Lost Their Way On Economics And Are Starting To Find It Again
Apr 9, 20241h 1m
Bonus Sample #292 Someone is Wrong on the Internet
Apr 7, 202414 min
#1379 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Democracy in America (Throwback)
Apr 5, 20241h 8m
#1620 Threatening the 2024 Election to Subvert Democracy, from Legal Maneuvers in Congress and Unconstitutional Congressional Maps to Violent Threats Against Election Workers
Apr 3, 202456 min
Bonus Sample #297 No Laughing Matter
Apr 1, 202416 min
#1619 A Guide to Protests Against Injustice from the Peaceful to the Deadly
Mar 30, 202454 min
Bonus Sample #296 Coping: Magic Mushrooms, Bath Time, Perpetual Therapy, and Pain Killers
Mar 28, 202414 min
#1463 People Are Waking Back Up To The Need For Labor Unions (Throwback)
Mar 26, 20241h 9m
#1618 Forget Equality, Embrace the Feminism of Freedom - Breaking entirely free from the structures of White supremacy and heteropatriarchy
Mar 23, 202455 min