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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 …

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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…

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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 …

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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…

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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,…

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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 bo…

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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 indispensa…

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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 co…

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The Toxic Legacy of Martin Peretz’s New Republic (w/ Jeet Heer)

Episode 324

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Jeet Heer has written two major essays about the intellectual legacy of the New Republic magazi…

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Jonathan Kozol on the Scandal of America's Apartheid Education System

Episode 323

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Jonathan Kozol is one of the leading critics of the U.S. education system, having written a ser…

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