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Flock Cameras, ICE, and the Surveillance State Targeting Everyone
Episode 1818
Air Date: 8/25/2026
Today we explore the resistance to Flock cameras and mass surveillance as a whole. Communities across the country are voting to c…
5 hours ago
Worse on Purpose: Trump is Killing Our Response to the Climate Emergency
Episode 1817
Air Date: 8/22/2026
Today we look at how the Republican Party made climate denial its policy more than twenty years ago and is now removing the gover…
4 days, 6 hours ago
IP'd to Death: How Intellectual Property Law Went from a Protection to a Weapon
Episode 1816
Air Date: 8/19/2026
Today we trace the corporate capture of ideas themselves. What began as a brief legal incentive granting fourteen years of exclus…
1 week ago
Sanctioned Ignorance: The Assault on Museums, Libraries, and American Memory
Episode 1815
Air Date: 8/16/2026
Today we look at what Toni Morrison called "sanctioned ignorance," the deliberate manufacture of a version of the past that keeps…
1 week, 3 days ago
Open Imperialism in Latin America: Trump Says the Whole Hemisphere Is His to Run
Episode 1814
Air Date: 8/12/2026
Today we follow the latest in Western Hemisphere imperialism. American presidents from Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump have in…
1 week, 6 days ago
Suffering is the Strategy: ICE, Mass Deportation, and Demographic Engineering
Episode 1813
Air Date: 8/8/2026
Today we examine the mass deportation machine that's been intentionally designed to inflict suffering, from the conditions inside …
2 weeks, 4 days ago
#1434 Confronting Climate Chaos Through Time (Throwback)
Episode 1434
Publish Date: 8-5-2026 Original Air Date: 8–13-2021
Today we dig through the archives to give context to the news of the 2021 IPCC report ringing the…
3 weeks ago
Democracy or This Supreme Court, But Not Both
Episode 1812
Air Date: 8/1/2026
Today we investigate how the argument moved from what the Supreme Court decides to whether the Court should be rebuilt. Only about…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Country for Old Men: Gerontocracy By Design and the Democracy Problem
Episode 1811
Air Date: 7/25/2026
Today we look at the idea that America has become a gerontocracy, a country run by the old, and then interrogate the premise a bi…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
Monthly-ish Mix #11 The Loneliest Superpower: What America Gets for Pushing Everyone Away
Episode 11
Air Date: 7/25/2026
The Monthly-ish Mix™ is here to get you caught up on the news from June and July without being overwhelming! Organized around a s…
1 month ago