Episodes
Friday Apr 21, 2023
How Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene compete for QAnon followers
Friday Apr 21, 2023
Friday Apr 21, 2023
- Ma: "Freedom"
- Sampa The Great: "Final Form"
- Mollie Tuttle: 'She's a Rainbow'
Friday Apr 14, 2023
Young red-state Dems are teaching their party to fight
Friday Apr 14, 2023
Friday Apr 14, 2023
Then Sabrina Talukder, Director of the Women’s Initiative at the Center for American Progress, helps us understand how an activist Trump judge hand-picked by a religious-right litigation group has seized the power to regulate abortion drugs from the FDA--and tells us where the case could go from here.
Playlist
- Wet Leg: "Wet Dream"
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Leon Bridges: "Smooth Sailin'"
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Wu-Tang Clan: "C.R.E.A.M."
Friday Apr 07, 2023
Marcy Wheeler: Special counsel Jack Smith ’very close’ to charging Trump
Friday Apr 07, 2023
Friday Apr 07, 2023
- Patti Smith: "Redondo Beach"
- Caro Emerald: "Perfect Day"
- Joy Oladokun & Noah Kahan: "We're All Gonna Die"
Friday Mar 24, 2023
Dave Karpf on how ’savvy’ tech-bros blew up their favorite bank
Friday Mar 24, 2023
Friday Mar 24, 2023
Friday Mar 17, 2023
Violent right-wing ’groomers’ are weaponizing young Americans
Friday Mar 17, 2023
Friday Mar 17, 2023
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