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2025's Word of the Year (with Savi Namboodiripad and Daniel Midgley)
Season 1 Episode 60
Caitlin and Trent chat with linguistics scholars Savi Namboodiripad and Daniel Midgley on what word most exemplifies 2025. Was it a new coinage? A pr…
7 months ago
Understanding Stephen Miller (with Greg Sargent)
Season 1 Episode 59
Trent and Caitlin catch up with Greg Sargent from The New Republic about his recent piece exploring the family history and ideology of Stephen Miller…
7 months, 1 week ago
The U.S. in Venezuela: The International Community and the Donroe Doctrine (with Mark Copelovitch)
Season 1 Episode 58
Caitlin and Trent speak with Mark Copelovitch, a political science professor from University of Wisconsin–Madison. They discuss the problem of a worl…
7 months, 1 week ago
The U.S. in Venezuela: Why Is Corporate Media Being So Weird? (with Marisa Kabas)
Season 1 Episode 57
Trent and Caitlin check in with the Handbasket’s Marisa Kabas about the year that has been the first week of 2026. What are we doing in Venezuela, an…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
The Imaginary "War on Science"—and the Real One (with Nathan Oseroff-Spicer)
Season 1 Episode 56
Trent and Caitlin talk with philosophy of science expert Nathan Oseroff-Spicer about his review of the book "The War On Science," how the book misses…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
What Do Republicans Know? (with Matthew Sheffield)
Season 1 Episode 55
Caitlin and Trent talk with Matthew Sheffield about his experiences as a former Republican strategist and the information he wants progressives to kn…
8 months ago
Touring America with Border Patrol and ICE (with Amanda Moore)
Season 1 Episode 54
Trent and Caitlin catch up with journalist Amanda Moore to hear about her tour of American cities that have been targeted for ICE and Border Patrol o…
8 months, 1 week ago
Sick in America: Is Everyone Else Lying to You? (with Jonathan Howard)
Season 1 Episode 53
Caitlin and Trent talk with Jonathan Howard, a neurologist, psychiatrist, and author of *Everyone Else Is Lying to You* and *We Want Them Infected*, …
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Modern Gangsters of Capitalism and the Imperial Boomerang
Season 1 Episode 52
Trent and Caitlin talk with journalist and author Jonathan Katz about the gangsters of capitalism, the imperial boomerang, and the moral injuries inf…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
National Delirium: NatSec in Post-9/11 America, from Dubya to Donny
Season 1 Episode 51
Trent and Caitlin speak with journalist Spencer Ackerman about the CIA, DHS, and other parts of the US government ostensibly protecting us from terro…
9 months ago