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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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 7 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, 7 months ago
Start Making Sense: Fintan O’Toole on the Next Insurrection; Katha Pollitt on “She Said”
If you were planning a future coup, what could you learn from the failure of Trump’s efforts on January 6? Fintan O’Toole says it would need a better…
3 years, 7 months ago
Nelson Lichtenstein's Post-Mortem on the UC Strike and Andrew Bacevich on America’s “Very Long War”
Teaching Assistants and other grad student employees at the University of California won a historic victory in their strike last month. What does tha…
3 years, 7 months ago
Best of 2022: Elie Mystal on the Constitution, plus Kelly Lytle Hernández on “Bad Mexicans”
For our end-of year show, we are featuring a couple of our favorite book segments from 2022. First, a Black guy’s guide to the Constitution: Elie Mys…
3 years, 8 months ago
UC Strike Settlement? Nelson Lichtenstein; plus Sean Wilentz on Bob Dylan’s Xmas Album
The biggest strike in the country this year, and the biggest in the history of American universities, may be over. After five weeks of picketing and …
3 years, 8 months ago