Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
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#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
#1566 Wrestling with Ethical Consumption Under Capitalism
Jun 14, 20231h 8m
#1565 Co-Housing Builds Community and Fights Loneliness
Jun 10, 202353 min
#TBT #1243 The story of Socialism in America (Throwback)
Jun 9, 20231h 3m
#1564 How Marketing Has Shaped Our World for the Worse
Jun 7, 20231h 4m
Bonus Sample #271 Infantile Engineers
Jun 5, 202317 min
#1563 Putting Our Kids to Work for Corporate Profits
Jun 4, 20231h 12m
#TBT #1080 Corporate media's fight for legitimacy in the age of Trump (Throwback)
May 18, 202348 min
#1560 Immigration Crisis: Biden vs. Trump, Undocumented Workers, Anti-Immigrant Hate, Migrant Abuse, and the Economic Fallout of Florida's New Law
May 17, 20231h 3m
#1559 Company Towns are a Bad Solution to a Real Problem
May 14, 202358 min
#TBT #1133 Understanding Authoritarianism (Throwback)
May 11, 202358 min
Bonus Edition #270 I'd Like to Phone a Friend
May 11, 202317 min
#1558 States of Hate, Right-Wing Legislatures Go Full-Tilt While the Courageous Fight Back
May 10, 20231h 12m
#1557 Tactics and Counter-Tactics of the Struggle for Labor Rights
May 6, 20231h 4m