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Counterfeit Populism: Trump, the 2026 Primaries, and the Era That's Ending (Transcript)
Episode 1801
Air Date: 6/17/2026
Today we trace a pattern that repeated across half a dozen states this primary season: working-class candidates running on the co…
2 months, 1 week ago
How Capitalism Created Loneliness and How To Joyfully Organize Our Way to Community
Episode 1800
Air Date: 6/12/2026
Today we examine how America caused a loneliness epidemic by tearing down the places where people used to find each other, how bi…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The US and China Are Fighting Over Taiwan, Semiconductors, and Africa's Minerals
Episode 1799
Air Date: 6/10/2026
Today we explore how Taiwan's own people are stuck between the US and China. Fewer and fewer of them want to rejoin China but the…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
FIFA Sportswashing Fascism: The World Cup from Mussolini to Trump
Episode 1798
Air Date: 6–5-2026
Today we explore sportswashing past and present, from fascist dictators who first weaponized the World Cup to FIFA's modern extrac…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
AI Spent $540 Billion to Make You Lonelier: Betting Against Jobs, Art, and Community
Air Date: 6–3-2026
Today we examine the AI industry's economic house of cards, the ideology Silicon Valley uses to sell a broken product, and the ver…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
1.8 Billion for the Mob and a Kill List for Dissent: Trump's payout fund and counterterrorism strategy, decoded
Episode 1796
Air Date: 5–30-2026
Today we examine how Trump turned a sham lawsuit into a $1.8 billion reward fund for his political allies who attacked the Capito…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
You Say You Want A Revolution: Successful Revolutions are the Boring Ones
Episode 1795
Air Date: 5–26-2026
Today we examine what separates successful revolutions from failed ones, ask why so many revolutions of the 2010s fell short, und…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
From MAHA to Measles: RFK's Public Health Purge Will Make America Sick Again
Episode 1794
Air Date: 5–23-2026
Today we examine the real-world cost of dismantling America's public health infrastructure, the dangerous pseudoscience driving R…
3 months ago
#1793 Anti-Immigrant Brutality Costs Countries More Than Their Morals: ICE, Mass Deportation, and the Global Far-Right
Episode 1793
Air Date: 5/20/2026
Today we examine how the Trump administration is quietly reshaping its unpopular immigration crackdown by moving enforcement out …
3 months ago
Capitalist Class Warfare: AI, Billionaire Capture, and the How to Fight Back
Episode 1792
Air Date: 5/15/2026
Today we examine what it would actually take to claw back democracy from billionaire capture — and why some people think it's mor…
3 months, 1 week ago