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Back to SearchWhat 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, 10 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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 bo…
1 year, 11 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 indispensa…
1 year, 11 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 co…
1 year, 11 months ago
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…
1 year, 11 months ago
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…
1 year, 11 months ago