Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
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#1590 Red Caesar and Project 2025: A fascist fever dream being given a vaguely respectable coat of paint by the Claremont Institute and the Heritage Foundation paving the way for an unconstrained, lawless, authoritarian Republican president
Oct 24, 20231h 4m
Bonus Sample #279 Complainers gonna complain, creepers gonna creep
Oct 21, 202316 min
#1589 War in the Holy Land: Context Behind the Atrocities, Crimes Against Humanity, and the Possible Escalation That Will be Detrimental to All Sides in the Wake of the Hamas Attack Israel is Calling Their "9-11"
Oct 17, 20231h 14m
#1588 The Shutdown That Wasn't And The Chaos That Is: The far-right of the GOP has been intent on not governing for a long time and eating their own, like McCarthy most recently, is their go-to maneuver.
Oct 13, 202359 min
#TBT #1545 Agents of Chaos: The New Congress (Throwback)
Oct 10, 20231h 9m
#1587 What Conservatives Think of When They Think of the Children: Child Labor, Child Brides, Child Mothers, Childhood Poverty, Child Indoctrination
Oct 7, 202358 min
#1586 Cop City is the Backlash to the Backlash Against Police Brutality and Murder, the Atlanta Community is Fighting Back and Creating a Blueprint for Change in the Process
Oct 4, 20231h 9m
Bonus Edition #278 Obfuscating Reality Through Layers of Fantasy
Sep 29, 202319 min
#1585 Workers Rights Ascendent Amid Writers and Actors Strikes in Hollywood and the UAW Strikes Against the Big 3 US Automakers all While the Sociopathic Reality of Capitalism is Laid Bare by CEOs Explain How Exploiting Workers is Intrinsic to the System
Sep 26, 202359 min
#1584 Israel's Political Upheaval, Supreme Court Power Struggle, US Support, and the Normalization of Apartheid
Sep 24, 20231h 0m
#TBT #1360 Redefine, Unburden and #DefundThePolice: With Copy City renewing debate over policing, we look back at the counterargument (Throwback)
Sep 22, 202359 min
#1583 Alluring Conspiracy Culture vs Capitalism: The Driving Forces that are Attracting People into Conspiratorial Thinking About Trump, COVID, Economics, Military Affairs and More.
Sep 18, 20231h 1m
#TBT #1190 Island Recovering From Disaster: Hurricane Maria laid bare the colonialism and capitalism in Puerto Rico (Throwback)
Sep 16, 202357 min
#1582 Maui Fire Sale: Hawaiian Colonization, Disaster Capitalism, and the Climate Crisis Fueling Wildfires and Housing Insecurity in Native Hawaiian Communities on Maui and Beyond
Sep 13, 202356 min
Bonus Sample: The human condition since the Christianization of Europe
Sep 8, 202317 min
#1581 Indicted Authoritarianism Up For Debate: GOP presidential candidates debate the future of the party just in case Donald Trump is found guilty of any of his many crimes and somehow manages to lose the GOP primary or is barred from office.
Sep 7, 20231h 0m
#1580 Bet Your Life: Sports betting is opening new and expensive ways to waste your time and destroy your mental health. The impacts of gambling are straining the legitimacy of sports and how they're reported by ESPN and beyond.
Sep 3, 20231h 0m
#TBT #1152 Rise of the Oligarchs Like the Ones Taking Clarence Thomas on Trips: From the Libertarians of the Chicago School and the Push for Market Fundamentalism to the Megadonors Pulling the Strings of Politicians Today (Money in Politics) (Throwback
Aug 31, 202354 min
#1506 Native Landback for a Healthier Society and Environment (Repost)
Aug 30, 20231h 25m
#1504 Neurodiversity is Strength: Autism, ADHD and Beyond (Repost)
Aug 27, 20231h 18m
#TBT #1209 How to Debate Your Values: Being part of the solution in an age of hyper-polarization as we enter a new election cycle (Throwback)
Aug 25, 202358 min
#1579 Positive masculinity is a process. Many boys hear more about what they shouldn't say, how they shouldn't act, but without a strong alternative example which opens the door for the purveyors of toxic masculinity like Andrew Tate to fill the gap.
Aug 24, 20231h 6m
#1578 A.I. is a big tech airplane with a 10% chance of crashing, should society fly it? ChatGPT was only the starter pistol but it has shown the sloppiness of these companies and the need for regulate artificial intelligence for the public good.
Aug 20, 20231h 4m
#TBT #1323 Maui Fire and Power to the People: The Future of Public Ownership and Local Control (Throwback)
Aug 18, 20231h 14m
Bonus Sample #276 There Are No Mild-Mannered People on the Internet
Aug 16, 202317 min
#1577 Trump's historic third indictment containing three counts of conspiracy and one of obstruction regarding the 2020 election and Jan 6th, 2021
Aug 12, 20231h 5m
#TBT #1054 What Drives Trump Conservatives - "Strangers in Their Own Land" (Throwback)
Aug 10, 20231h 1m
#1499 January 6th Insurrection Hearings (Everyone Knew The Lie Was A Lie) (Repost)
Aug 9, 20231h 3m
#1576 How Florida's education reform works to maintain unjust power imbalances
Aug 7, 202359 min
Bonus Sample #275 Alternate Universes
Aug 4, 202317 min
#1575 Cluster Headache, Matching War Crimes with War Crimes Against Russia in Ukraine
Aug 2, 20231h 0m
#1497 A Healthier Humanity Through a Wellness Economy (Repost)
Jul 31, 20231h 14m
#TBT #1250 Teachers at the forefront of a resurgent progressive labor movement (Throwback)
Jul 28, 202341 min
#1574 Creative vs Control: Hollywood strikes for livable wages and the future of human creativity
Jul 26, 202354 min
#1573 Confronting Climate Chaos with Action and Adaptation
Jul 22, 20231h 2m
#TBT #1311 Our Culture and Our Economy are Making Us Depressed (Throwback)
Jul 19, 20231h 15m
#1572 Building a circular, sustainable economy for all
Jul 16, 202356 min
Bonus Sample #274 The good news is that the end is nigh
Jul 14, 202316 min
#1571 Understanding what we lost with the repeal of affirmative action
Jul 12, 20231h 1m
#1570 The overpopulation debate is more philosophical than empirical
Jul 9, 20231h 3m
#TBT #1155 Leisure, Desperation or a Reorientation (The Future of Work) (Throwback)
Jul 7, 202356 min
#1569 Winning Progressive Policies with Better Messaging
Jul 4, 202353 min
Bonus Sample #273 Marriage Proposals
Jul 2, 202314 min
#1495 No One Supports the Economic Interests of Rural America (Repost)
Jun 28, 20231h 19m
#1568 The Shifting Landscape of the Religion-Conservative-Political Complex
Jun 25, 202354 min
#TBT #1247 The Fight for the Four Freedoms (FDR vs. Libertarianism) (Throwback)
Jun 23, 20231h 1m
#1567 How to Sell an Immoral Economic System to the Masses
Jun 21, 202353 min
Bonus Sample #272 Billionaires Selling the System
Jun 19, 202317 min
#1482 The New Hotness in Scam Culture (Crypto Currency and NFTs)(Repost)
Jun 18, 20231h 21m
#TBT #1333 An Examination of Fear, Anger, Forgiveness and Grace (Also, Mr. Rogers) (Throwback)
Jun 15, 20231h 14m