Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGender Ideology: A Pretext for Murder in Brazil
Episode 239
Just days before the anniversary of activist Marielle Franco's assassination in Brazil, prosecutors there charged two former police officers with her…
7 years, 2 months ago
F-Word: The Anti-Vaxx Epidemic
The State of Washington has declared a public health emergency due to spreading outbreaks of Measles. The World Health Organization credits "Vaccine …
7 years, 3 months ago
New Media, Old Problems: Buzzfeed, Vox, and Vice Unionize
Episode 238
The media layoffs are here. It's new media’s sky-is-falling moment. Instead of the promised golden age, we're seeing rolling cutbacks and massive lay…
7 years, 3 months ago
Exclusive Minicast: Clifford Rosenthal “Democratizing Finance: Origins of the Community Development Financial Institutions Movement”
CDFIs grew from church basements and kitchen tables to number more than 1,000 institutions with billions of dollars of capital. Joining us to explain…
7 years, 3 months ago
Sex, Pleasure, and Liberation: Desire in A World Transformed
Episode 237
Regulation, degradation, shaming, blaming - enough! Is it time for sexual liberation yet? We talk a lot about sex but not often enough about pleasure…
7 years, 3 months ago
F-Word: Making American Journalism Great and Different
The same miserable mob that mauled main street banks has plundered and pillaged newspapers across the country. Pursuing only profits, private hedge f…
7 years, 3 months ago
Tech: Existential Threat or Life Support?
Episode 236
Days of wonder, days of rage. We're living through an information revolution as profound as any since Gutenberg and the printing press, but are we th…
7 years, 3 months ago
Commoning Our Cities: Mary Miss, Silvia Federici, Peter Linebaugh
Episode 235
Reinventing our cities and re-enchanting the world. Who gets a say in designing where they live? What if more of us did? This week, we visit Mary Mis…
7 years, 3 months ago
F-Word: Time for Socialist History Month?
"We need to take a long, hard look at the ideology that underpins what we call capitalism," Laura Flanders' commentary, The F-Word.
Our goal is to th…
7 years, 4 months ago
NYC Organizers Say #NOHQ2 and Win
Episode 234
Amazon’s HQ2 in New York City's Long Island City neighborhood of Queens is off. In a conversation recorded before the news broke, we looked at the r…
7 years, 4 months ago