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Back to SearchSteve Hayes & Damon Linker: The Hole Truth
Steve Hayes and Damon Linker debate whether Trump's demolition of the White House East Wing is another norm-busting outrage or just a gaudy renovation. They argue over visuals versus substance in ant…
Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Barista Michelle Eisen on Face Tattoos, Short Staffs, and Union Shots Fired
Michelle Eisen, barista-turned-organizer from Buffalo’s first unionized Starbucks, breaks down how Workers United grew from one store to hundreds—and why the real fight now is over pay, scheduling, a…
Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Jeremy Workman — “Walking Every Block, Hiding in a Mall”
Two conversations with documentarian Jeremy Workman: first on The World Before Your Feet (a quest to walk every NYC block), then on Secret Mall Apartment (artists who built a hidden flat inside Provi…
Published on 2 months ago
Funny You Should Mention: Ariel Elias
Kentucky-raised, New York-forged, and newly “A Jewish Star,” Ariel Elias breaks down how outsider status becomes comic superpower. We talk growing up Jewish in the Bluegrass, explaining Kentucky to N…
Published on 2 months ago
No Capes, Real Peace: U Thant's UN and What We Lost
Historian and grandson of third secretary-general of the United Nations U Thant, Thant Myint-U, discusses Peacemaker: U Thant and the Forgotten Quest for a Just World—how the UN once brokered real ce…
Published on 2 months ago
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Carnegie Endowment’s Alicia Wanless argues that disinformation isn’t new—it’s just our latest pollutant. In The Information Animal, she maps centuries of “information ecosystems,” from King Charles I…
Published on 2 months ago
Michael Kirk — "RFK Jr.'s Latest Addiction: Attention"
Frontline's Michael Kirk discusses The Rise of RFK Jr., charting Kennedy's path from sex and drug addiction to what Kirk calls "an addiction to validation." He describes a man driven by grievance, an…
Published on 2 months ago
Michael Townsend & Jeremy Workman: "Secret Mall Apartment"
Michael Townsend and director Jeremy Workman tell the wild true story of an eight-artist collective that built a hidden home inside Providence Place Mall—part prank, part art project, and a pointed r…
Published on 2 months ago
Chris Murphy: “Congress needs to take war powers back.”
Mike revisits his 2019 conversation with Senator Chris Murphy on the AUMF — the two-decade-old law still used to justify U.S. military strikes from Yemen to the Caribbean. Plus, a new strike on a Ven…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Lisa Graves: On The Roberts Court's Power Play
Lisa Graves joins to discuss Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights—from court "capture" networks to why she sees the rece…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago