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Back to SearchHow Fox News Turns People Terrified and Paranoid (w/ Kat Abughazaleh)
Episode 334
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Kat Abughazaleh has watched a lot of Fox News. As an analyst for Media Matters, her job was to monitor the Fox primetime shows, producing videos documen…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Jeffrey Sachs on What's Wrong With U.S. Foreign Policy
Episode 333
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Jeffrey Sachs is an economist at Columbia University and the author of the book A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism, which argues…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
What Biden's Changes to Asylum Mean For Immigrants
Episode 332
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick is the Policy Director of the American Immigration Council and a leading expert on U.S. immigration law. He has testified b…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
How "Pharmacy Benefit Managers" Are Extorting Us (w/ Max from UNFTR)
Episode 331
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Max (just Max) is the host of Unfucking the Republic (UNFTR), one of our favorite podcasts. UNFTR publishes intensively-researched deep dives into…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Why Everyone Feels So Rotten About the Economy (w/ Kyla Scanlon)
Episode 330
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Kyla Scanlon is a leading online economics commentator and Bloomberg contributor, who regularly publishes TikTok explainers helping people underst…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Nuclear Countdown, or, Why We Need to Start Worrying and Stop the Bomb
Episode 329
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Nuclear weapons are always lurking there in the background, out in remote places where we don't have to think about them, but ready to be fired a…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Why No One Gets To Retire Anymore (w/ Teresa Ghilarducci)
Episode 328
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Teresa Ghilarducci is an economist at the New School for Social Research and the author of Work, Retire, Repeat, which shows how the possibilities…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
The Authoritarian Nightmare Donald Trump Is Planning (w/ Radley Balko)
Episode 327
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Radley Balko is one of America's leading journalists on policing and criminal punishment. His book The Rise of the Warrior Cop is a remarkable exp…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
What Americans Don't Know About Iran (w/ John Ghazvinian)
Episode 326
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John Ghazvinian is the leading historian of U.S.-Iranian relations, the author of the indispensable study America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Is It 1968 All Over Again? (w/ Charles Kaiser)
Episode 325
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With antiwar protests jeopardizing a Democratic president's reelection and an upcoming party convention in Chicago, 2024 has some eerie echoes of…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago