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Arguing the Politics of Climate with Bill McKibben
What if climate policy can’t survive voters, courts, and NIMBYs?
Bill McKibben is a pioneering climate writer and activist whose books and campaigns h…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Why Free Speech Is Losing on the Left and the Right
Why is free speech losing ground? From crackdowns on immigrants, protesters, and law firms to campus speech codes, social-media “jawboning,” and gove…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Trump's Tariffs, Explained
Economics writer Joey Politano joins host Jerusalem Demsas to explain the great tariff comeback story. From bananas and coffee to washing machines an…
6 months ago
The Battle to Rewrite COVID-19
Was everything we did during COVID-19 a mistake — or are critics rewriting history? In this episode, Jerusalem Demsas talked with The Atlantic's Roge…
6 months, 1 week ago
RFK, Tylenol, and America’s Autism Panic
Last week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. the Trump administration's Health Secretary, outdid himself. During a Thursday Cabinet meeting, he alleged that "chi…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Why even (some) liberals are worrying about the debt
The day-to-day chaos of the Trump administration can make it easy to ignore slow-moving threats on the horizon — like the $37 trillion national debt.…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Liberalism Under Pressure w/ Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, & Derek Thompson
In our very first live show in Washington, D.C., Derek Thompson, Ezra Klein, and Matt Yglesias joined host Jerusalem Demsas for a disagreement-ridden…
7 months ago