Episodes

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Friday Mar 10, 2023
Will Ron DeSantis’ culture warrior schtick play nationally?
Friday Mar 10, 2023
Friday Mar 10, 2023

Friday Mar 03, 2023
Democracy dies in lazy journalism
Friday Mar 03, 2023
Friday Mar 03, 2023

Friday Feb 24, 2023
This simple formula can stop emboldened far-right extremists in their tracks
Friday Feb 24, 2023
Friday Feb 24, 2023
And then Jennifer Mercieca, a professor of communications and journalism at Texas A&M, helps us understand how fascist movements use control of the language to normalize their extreme ideology and justify their cruelty toward "the other." Think about the American right's current obsession with "wokeness" or obsession with "groomers." But as Mercieca tells us, there are some straightforward strategies to thwart them.

Friday Feb 17, 2023
How conservative ’culture wars’ whitewash glaring American fascism
Friday Feb 17, 2023
Friday Feb 17, 2023
This week, Joshua Holland offers a rant about all of the nearly identical pieces he's read about how the law is about to catch up to Donald Trump and his minions.
Then we speak with Dan Froomkin about how normalcy bias and both-sideism makes America's political press an enabler for an energized far-right movement that poses an ongoing threat to our democratic tradition.
And then we're joined by The American Prospect's Jarod Facundo to talk about how the right's relatively new propaganda about "critical race theory" and "wokeness" in our schools is just thin cover for its longstanding project to undermine public education and destroy teachers' unions--and how it isn't working out quite like they'd hoped.
Playlist
- The National: "Tropic Morning News"
- Maneskin: "Beggin'"
- Paulina Singer: "Milkshake"

Friday Feb 10, 2023
Biden, Democrats are fortunate in their opponents
Friday Feb 10, 2023
Friday Feb 10, 2023

Friday Feb 03, 2023
Elon Musk is on a collision course with reality
Friday Feb 03, 2023
Friday Feb 03, 2023

Friday Jan 27, 2023
How Dems forced Europe into a ’race to the top’ on climate
Friday Jan 27, 2023
Friday Jan 27, 2023

Friday Jan 20, 2023
You won’t believe how extreme some red states’ new anti-trans bills are
Friday Jan 20, 2023
Friday Jan 20, 2023

Friday Jan 13, 2023
Far-right opponents of democracy thwarted again in Brazil
Friday Jan 13, 2023
Friday Jan 13, 2023
This week, Joshua Holland kicks off the show with a look at the right's latest culture war idiocy—and how the legacy media is amplifying it.
Then we are joined by journalist Euan Marshall from São Paulo, Brazil, to discuss the similarities and differences between this week's riots by supporters of the defeated authoritarian Jair Bolsonaro and the MAGA Insurgency of Dunces almost exactly two years earlier.
And then Heather "Digby" Parton previews the next two years of relentless nonsense from the GOP-controlled House of Representatives and talks to us about the maddening false equivalence surrounding the discovery of a handful of classified documents in Joe Biden's old records.
Playlist:
- The Black Keys: "Weight of Love"
- ZZ Ward: "Tin Cups"
- Blondie: "Dreaming"