Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhy Did We Invade Iraq? (w/ Dennis Fritz)
Episode 337
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Dennis Fritz is the author of the new book Deadly Betrayal: The Truth About Why the United State…
1 year, 7 months ago
Understanding Biden's Foreign Policy (w/ Richard Beck)
Episode 336
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Richard Beck is a senior writer for N+1 magazine and the author of the forthcoming book Homeland…
1 year, 7 months ago
How to Read Nietzsche (And How The Left Should Feel About Him)
Episode 335
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Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most influential philosophers of all time. Interestingly, thi…
1 year, 7 months ago
How 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…
1 year, 7 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 Po…
1 year, 7 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 …
1 year, 7 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. UNFT…
1 year, 7 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 …
1 year, 7 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…
1 year, 7 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,…
1 year, 7 months ago