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Back to SearchHow Corporations Suck the Welfare State Dry (w/ Anne Kim)
Episode 322
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Anne Kim's book Poverty For Profit: How Corporations Get Rich Off America's Poor gives a partial…
1 year, 11 months ago
Why Thomas Sowell is a Terrible Economist (w/ Cahal Moran)
Episode 321
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Thomas Sowell may be the best-selling economics writer of our time. For decades, the Hoover Inst…
1 year, 11 months ago
Why Do We Have a "Viral Underclass"? (w/ Steven Thrasher)
Episode 320
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Steven Thrasher is a professor of journalism at Northwestern University and the author of The Vi…
1 year, 11 months ago
Is Trump an "Aberration" Or the Logical Conclusion of the Right-Wing Project? (w/ David Austin Walsh)
Episode 319
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Today we talk to David Austin Walsh, a postdoc at Yale and the author of Taking America Back: T…
1 year, 11 months ago
What Will New Weight-Loss Drugs Do to Us? (w/ Johann Hari)
Episode 318
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Bestselling author Johann Hari, whose Lost Connectionsand Stolen Focus have previously been dis…
2 years ago
Inside the MAGA Movement on the Ground (w/ Isaac Arnsdorf)
Episode 317
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Who actually comprises the MAGA movement? Where do Trumpian politicians come from? How do they …
2 years ago
How The Dollar Became America's Most Powerful Weapon (w/ Saleha Mohsin)
Episode 316
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When we think of American power, we often think of missiles, guns, and tanks. But operating in …
2 years ago
In Praise of Excess (w/ Becca Rothfeld)
Episode 315
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Becca Rothfeld is the nonfiction book critic for the Washington Post. Her new essay collection,…
2 years ago
What Would a Left Foreign Policy Look Like? (w/ Van Jackson)
Episode 314
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We know the left is, generally speaking, anti-war and anti-imperialist. But if a left-wing gove…
2 years ago
How Cars Make Life Worse (w/ Daniel Knowles)
Episode 313
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Daniel Knowles is a reporter for The Economist (yes, that one). His book Carmageddon: How Cars …
2 years ago