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Digby and I Get at the Real Problem — And It's Frightening
Season 26 Episode 707
Heather 'Digby' Parton joins me today, and we start with something genuinely moving — a reworked "Star-Spangled Banner" from the Marsh family in Eng…
1 month ago
Emptywheel Friday with Marcy Wheeler on the Day Before Independence Day
Season 26 Episode 703
It's Emptywheel Friday on the day before the 4th, and Marcy Wheeler and I have plenty to dig into. Top of the list: Trump's "Freedom 250" — the priva…
1 month, 1 week ago
How to Be a Dissident in These Ugly Times (with Julia Angwin & Ami Fields-Meyer)
Season 26 Episode 702
I'm still not feeling great, but today's guests and subject matter were too important to postpone.
Julia Angwin and Ami Fields-Meyer are the authors o…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Day SCOTUS Hit Us with Citizens United (and Killed Air America Too!)
Season 26 Episode 701
With the Supreme Court ending their term yesterday with what I call the sequel to Citizens United, NRSC v FEC, which will make things exponentially w…
1 month, 1 week ago
Lisa Graves Joins Us as SCOTUS Screws Us Once More in This Term
Season 26 Episode 630
The Supreme Court actually finished its term on time this year — and handed down four rulings on the very last day. Our favorite legal expert Lisa Gr…
1 month, 1 week ago
Score One From SCOTUS, But Tomorrow's One Last Day
Season 26 Episode 629
It's the penultimate day of this Supreme Court term and it wasn't as bad as they've been lately. Dr. Art Jipson from the University of Dayton joins…
1 month, 1 week ago
Emptywheel Friday with Marcy Wheeler
Season 26 Episode 626
It's Emptywheel Friday, and Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net is back to help us wrap up another ridiculously absurd and awful week. We cover the Supr…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
SCOTUS Goes Full Alito (just about) and It's All Bad
Season 26 Episode 625
It's Alito's world and we're just living in it. The formerly Supreme, now Extreme Court handed down four of the remaining 12 opinions this morning, a…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Deflecting Pool, Democrats & Dylan: Driftglass and Nicole Discuss it All
Season 26 Episode 624
It's Wednesday, which means Driftglass is here — and today's conversation went deep and wide.
We started with Trump's "deflecting pool" — his preferre…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
To Dylan or Not to Dylan? Variety's Chris Willman Joins Me to talk Music that Heals
Season 26 Episode 623
Music is the medicine I needed today. Variety's senior music writer and chief critic Chris Willman joins me for a wide-ranging conversation about Bob…
1 month, 2 weeks ago