Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
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Bonus Sample #295 Cause it's all about control
Mar 21, 202416 min
#1617 The Profitable and Political Moral Panic Around Trans People: Debunking Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, Groomers, and Detransitioning Misconceptions
Mar 19, 20241h 3m
#1616 The Party of Putin and the Propaganda Leading the GOP to Trump and the US to Russian-Style Autocracy
Mar 15, 202457 min
Bonus Sample #294 Answering men's cry for help
Mar 11, 202412 min
#1165 To Exist is to Resist: Life and Activism in Occupied Palestine Working Toward Rights and Democracy For All in Israel (Throwback)
Mar 8, 202458 min
#1163 Strange Bedfellows: Looking at why Ethno-Nationalists Admire Israel and the Violence Inflicted on Gaza (Throwback)
Mar 5, 202447 min
Bonus Sample: #293 I love you, man
Mar 3, 202416 min
#1615 Envisioning a Leftisț Economic Future of Postcapitalism, High-Tech Automation, Universal Basic Income and a World (Mostly) Without Work
Mar 1, 202459 min
#1614 Deep-Fakery and Deep Consequences for Democracy: AI-generated fake news threatens elections around the world and makes people question the ability to know what is real
Feb 28, 202456 min
Bonus Sample #292 Techno Authoritarians vs Interoperabilities
Feb 25, 202414 min
#1613 Breathless Speculation: Biden's Baggage, Trump's Tyranny, Misleading Media, Courts and Criminality
Feb 23, 20241h 1m
#1612 New Tech and the New Luddite Movement; Inequitable Distribution of Benefits from New Technology Always Sparks Demands from Labor and AI is Rekindling the Old Arguments
Feb 20, 202459 min
Bonus Sample #291 Recommendations and Manipulations
Feb 19, 202412 min
#1611 Higher Education: the Myths, McCarthyism, and Change Makers at a time when education is under attack for free speech, DEI and CRT but arguably needs changes to meet a changing world
Feb 17, 20241h 4m
#1610 The Border, and Our Border Politics, Are a Mess - As Trump and MAGA-driven misunderstanding and panic about the nature of immigration dominates election concerns.
Feb 14, 20241h 2m
#1609 The Post-Roe World is Bad But it Could Still Get Worse - Abortion Bans in the US Are Causing Widespread Suffering for Both Patients and Doctors Attempting to Navigate the New Normal
Feb 10, 20241h 14m
#1608 Widespread Loneliness is a Solvable Social Problem - Urban Design, Architecture, Co-housing, and Community Action and Support Can Make Our Towns Better
Feb 7, 202459 min
Bonus Sample #289 A Cul-de-Sac of Ignorance
Feb 6, 202411 min
#1607 The Tangled, Flammable Web of War in the Middle East
Feb 3, 202458 min
Bonus Sample #288 Make the Children Cry in Order to Save Them
Jan 28, 202411 min
#1606 Biden's Barriers and Boons to Reelection
Jan 26, 20241h 3m
#1605 Our Prison System is a Demonstrable Failure
Jan 23, 202452 min
#1529 Monopolies Run By Morons (Repost)
Jan 20, 20241h 10m
#1604 The Border Crisis is Manufactured for Political Opportunity
Jan 17, 20241h 0m
Bonus Sample #286 Looking to the Past to See Ourselves
Jan 15, 202412 min
#1603 Clarence Thomas and the Highest Court in the Land with the Lowest Standards of Ethics
Jan 13, 202453 min
#1535 We Don't Do Accountability (Trump and GOP Crimes That Go Unpunished) (Repost)
Jan 9, 20241h 3m
Bonus Sample #285 The Christians and the Pagans
Jan 8, 202413 min
#1602 What Happens in Israel and Gaza Doesn't Stay in Israel and Gaza
Jan 5, 20241h 8m
#1601 Christian Nationalism is not Christianity, it is Fascism
Jan 2, 202455 min
Bonus Sample #284 First they came for the Italian babies
Jan 1, 202417 min
#1532 Accelerationism is the Brick on the Gas Pedal of the Runaway Car of Society (Repost)
Dec 29, 20231h 13m
#1533 How Theocracies Begin and End (Rise of the Far-Right + Demanding Women's Rights in Iran) (Repost)
Dec 26, 20231h 17m
#1600 Housing Cannot be a Fundamental Human Right and a Commodity at the Same Time
Dec 23, 20231h 4m
#1599 Taming the Beast: AI Regulation Before Human Relegation
Dec 20, 202357 min
Bonus Sample #283 Meaningless rituals are useful but self-driving cars are more questionable
Dec 16, 202316 min
#1598 Kiss of Death: Henry Kissinger's Bloody Legacy of Indifference
Dec 13, 202356 min
Bonus Samples #281 and 282 No one likes how this is going | Not Worth It
Dec 11, 202331 min
#1597 The rise of fascism around the world driven by economic insecurity
Dec 8, 202358 min
#1596 Building a positive future by first envisioning it and then designing it
Dec 6, 20231h 4m
#1519 International Fascist Movement on the Move (Throwback)
Dec 2, 20231h 13m
#1595 Pushing for Medicare For All in the Laboratories of Democracy
Nov 29, 202355 min
#1594 Testing New Climate Solutions: Geothermal and Geo-Engineering
Nov 26, 20231h 12m
#1518 Ronald Reagan, It Turns Out, Was Bad (Repost)
Nov 22, 20231h 16m
Bonus Sample #280 Tracking people and animals in order to save them and ourselves
Nov 17, 202318 min
#1593 Beyond Neoliberalism: Dreaming a new economic system into being
Nov 15, 20231h 1m
#1592 Israel and Palestine are less complicated than you think: Standing for international law while condemning crimes against humanity, war crimes, antisemitism, and apartheid.
Nov 11, 20231h 5m
#1591 Broken News: Understanding traditional media and social media reporting on the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza
Nov 6, 20231h 4m
#TBT #1510 Avoiding Accountability: How the powerful in the US have almost always been allowed to skate by (Throwback)
Nov 1, 20231h 23m
#TBT #1507 Installing Loyalists: The Multi-Pronged Destruction of Our Democracy Already in Progress (Throwback)
Oct 27, 20231h 8m