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Edge of Sports: Hooked On Women's Hoops with Kate Fagan
On this episode of the Edge of Sports podcast, we speak to author and sports opinionist Kate Fagan about her new illustrated history of the women in …
3 years, 2 months ago
Start Making Sense: Ron DeSantis says ‘The Left Made Me Do It”; plus our Oscar preview with John Powers
Ron DeSantis has written a political autobiography, “The Courage to be Free.” The Nation's DC Bureau Chief, Chris Lehmann calls it “a paranoid rant d…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Time of Monsters: Fox News and the Quicksand of Lies
The ongoing defamation suit launched by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News for its coverage of the 2020 election has already resulted in the re…
3 years, 2 months ago
Start Making Sense: Saree Makdisi on Israelis and Palestinians; Kimberlé Crenshaw on the Battle over Black Studies
Israel’s new far-right government, headed, again, by Benjamin Netanyahu, is working to undermine democracy for Israelis and advance Israel’s annexati…
3 years, 2 months ago
Start Making Sense: John Nichols on the Most Important Election Before 2024, plus Gregg Gonsalves on the End of the Covid Emergency
The most important election of 2023 is in Wisconsin next month, where voters can change the state's supreme court and end domination by conservatives…
3 years, 3 months ago
Start Making Sense: Black history banned in Florida; “The Crown” and the Royal Family: Robin Kelley on Ron DeSantis, plus Gary Younge on the monarchy
Black history, banned in Florida—and excluded from the College Board’s recommended AP Black Studies course. UCLA professor Robin Kelley will comment …
3 years, 3 months ago
Start Making Sense: QAnon & the Republicans, Ireland & the Irish: Chris Lehmann on politics, plus Fintan O’Toole on his ‘personal history’
“The government, media, and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex traffic…
3 years, 3 months ago
Start Making Sense: The Constitutional Solution to the Debt Limit Crisis, plus Victor Navasky Remembered
House Republicans are refusing to raise the debt limit, threatening that the US will default on its bond payments. But the Constitution has the solut…
3 years, 3 months ago
Start Making Sense: How to Defeat Kyrsten Sinema; Universal Basic Income in L.A.: Steve Phillips on politics, Sasha Abramsky on poverty
Kyrsten Sinema, the Arizona senator who quit the Democratic Party in December, is up for reelection next year, and will be challenged by progressive …
3 years, 4 months ago
Start Making Sense: Abortion rights battles return in the 2023 elections; plus wages at Walmart
Abortion rights voters are reshaping politics in the coming political season—starting with a special election to the Virginia State Senate. Also: the…
3 years, 4 months ago