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Back to SearchHow Big Pharma Makes a Killing From Letting People Die (w/ Nick Dearden)
Episode 277
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Nick Dearden's Pharmanomics is an essential primer on how the pharmaceutical industry works, ta…
1 year, 11 months ago
What Makes For a "Strong Town"? (w/ Allison Lirish Dean)
Episode 276
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Allison Lirish Dean is a journalist and urban planner in North Carolina. She is the author of a…
1 year, 11 months ago
How White Supremacist Ideology Made Its Way Into Music Theory (w/ Philip Ewell)
Episode 275
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Philip Ewell is a professor of music theory and the author of the new book On Music Theory, and…
1 year, 11 months ago
Gary Younge's 30-Year Panorama of the African Diaspora
Episode 274
Gary Younge spent three decades as a reporter and columnist for The Guardian, where he became one of the publication's most incisive and widely-read …
1 year, 11 months ago
Why The Cop City Indictment Threatens Everyone's Freedom (w/ Christopher Bruce)
Episode 273
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Originally aired 9/19/2023
Dozens of protesters in Atlanta have recently been hit with serious c…
2 years ago
Why We Need Utopias (w/ Kristen Ghodsee)
Episode 272
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Kristen Ghodsee is Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylv…
2 years ago
ZINNOPHOBIA - Why So Many Still Fear "A People's History of the United States" (w/ David Detmer)
Episode 271
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David Detmer is the author of the book Zinnophobia: The Battle Over History in Education, Polit…
2 years ago
Why Do We Have Any Poverty In America When It's Such a Solvable Problem? (w/ Matt Desmond)
Episode 270
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Matthew Desmond's bestselling book Poverty, By America poses a straightforward question: Why is…
2 years ago
Mini-Cast: Ending Period Poverty Through the "Menstrual Equity for All" Act (w/ Grace Meng)
Episode 269
"I’m pretty sure that some of my colleagues have signed on to my bill because they wanted me to stop talking about periods on the floor of the House.…
2 years ago
There Is No Alternative to Ending Fossil Fuel Use (w/ Lorne Stockman)
Episode 268
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Lorne Stockman is the research co-director at Oil Change International, which is dedicated to e…
2 years ago