Podcast Episodes

We Need to Talk About the Supreme Court

Last week’s big Supreme Court decisions walked back rights for individuals and the powers of the lower courts—and in aggregate made it ever more difficult to believe the court is anything other than …

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

Why Is ICE Masked Up?

ICE agents have begun concealing their identities in masks and plainclothes while making arrests. Experts—including a former ICE official—say that endangers those agents, and violates the trust betwe…

Published on 6 months ago

TBD | The FTC’s Merger Shakedown

Under a normal administration, a merger between two large advertising firms might attract the government’s interest for anti-monopoly reasons. Under this one, the Federal Trade Commission is creating…

Published on 6 months ago

TBD | The Other Iran-Israel War

In addition to the three-dimensional war of bombs and missiles, Iran and Israel—and the US—are squaring off in a cyber battle. With everything from water infrastructure to banking connected to the in…

Published on 6 months ago

Zohran Mamdani’s Former Boss Weighs In

How Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani upset the better-connected, better-funded, better-known candidate in New York’s Democratic mayoral primary—and how he might actually govern if he makes it into…

Published on 6 months ago

Even This Senator Had No Warning About Iran

When news broke that the United States had bombed Iran, members of Congress—the only people who can authorize war according to the Constitution—found out at the same time as the rest of us. What can …

Published on 6 months ago

The Lawsuit Scaring Protesters

A jury recently found Greenpeace liable for more than $660 million in damages to the company behind the Dakota Access pipeline for its role in the Standing Rock protests. 

But the ramifications exten…

Published on 6 months ago

Trump Bombed Iran. Are We at War?

The Trump administration bombed three Iranian nuclear sites. While the Pentagon says these facilities are severely damaged, a diplomatic end to the conflict and a nuclear disarmament agreement feel l…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

TBD | Airlines Are Selling Your Data to the Government

ARC, the data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, has been selling domestic flight data in the US to Customs and Border Protection. But in the contract, they told CBP not to reveal where th…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Bonus: The All New Electric … Hummer?

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America’s most machismo and gas-guzzling car, the Hummer, has been relaunched as an electric vehic…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago