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America’s Secret Socialism
Season 9 Episode 70
The Secret Safety Net We Pretend Doesn’t Exist
You can live your whole life in this country without ever seeing the crawlspace you’re standing on. Ame…
1 year, 3 months ago
Borrowed Time: USAID, Bono & The End of America’s Soft Empire
Season 9 Episode 65
Foreign aid is dead — long live foreign aid. On July 1st, 2025, the U.S. Agency for International Development — USAID — shut its doors for good. An i…
1 year, 3 months ago
Theater Kids, Flitty Floofs, and the New Masculinity
Season 9 Episode 63
We always thought the real cultural coup would come from the ivory tower, the professors, the think tanks. Or maybe from the so-called “gay agenda” —…
1 year, 3 months ago
Manufactured Dissent
Season 9 Episode 55
How old ghosts, new lines, and our hungry machines keep us replaying the same pain
Some family stories hum so loudly through the floorboards you never…
1 year, 3 months ago
Poverty Fatigue: America's Moral Math and the Trump Vote
Season 9 Episode 53
America’s exhausted — and not just from inflation, rent, or the nine-to-five that turned into a nine-to-nine. There’s another kind of exhaustion we d…
1 year, 3 months ago
Be Careful What You Ask For
Season 9 Episode 50
Reference Source: NPR Code Switch: Dispatches from the living memory of trans people of color
Identity, Stealth, and Staying Submarine When the Wolves…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Buddha You Never Saw Is the One Who Saved You
Season 9 Episode 43
Enlightenment Isn’t Loud. It Mops Floors.
There’s a saying in Zen: “If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.” It sounds violent, but it isn’t. It…
1 year, 3 months ago
What Kind of Commie Am I?
Season 9 Episode 42
I Am Whatever Kind of Commie Kurt Vonnegut Was
Am I a commie? Yes—but not the kind they warned you about. Not the doctrinaire type. Not the utopian. N…
1 year, 3 months ago
Who Paints the Target? Who Points the Spotlight?
Season 9 Episode 40
We act like the missiles decide their targets. As if the Hellfire drone strike has free will. But in modern warfare—and in modern narrative warfare—t…
1 year, 3 months ago
Beyond the Fascism Checklist, Sweetiepie
Season 9 Episode 36
You’ve seen the checklist. It’s been screenshotted, shared, color-coded, made into TikToks, and dropped into Reddit threads like gospel. “The 14 Sign…
1 year, 3 months ago