We’ve Got Issues

This week, Joshua Holland kicks off the show noting that Canadian security experts are becoming nervous about the potential for their big, heavily armed neighbors to the South to experience democratic collapse--and warn that America's conservative media is helping fuel a rise in right-wing extremism that's now dribbling over the border.

Then we speak with Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch about what the horrific slaughter of 19 children in a Texas elementary school tells us about the real role of American policing. 

And then we're joined by historian and author Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz to talk about the real history of the 2nd Amendment. Dunbar-Ortiz is the author of Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment.

Playlist

• Black Pumas: "(Sittin' On)the Dock of the Bay"
• King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard: "Magenta Mountain"
• Bad Boy: "Marwa Loud"

Playlist
Kizz Daniel: "Eh God"
Lost Dogs: "Mad City"
MC STAN: "Regret"

This week, we speak with the authors of two New York Times opinion pieces, published in the past week, that look at different aspects of the authoritarian far-right in Europe.

Playlist
Dusty Leigh: "Like That"
Breland: "My Truck"
Jelly Roll: "Heaven"

This week, we take another dive into the fever swamps! 

First up, Muckrake Podcast co-host Jared Yates Sexton joins us to talk about Tucker Carlson's bizarre new obsession with America's entirely imaginary "masculinity crisis." Sexton warns that while Carlson's new program, The End of Men, is easy to mock--and indeed, was designed to earn liberal derision--it fits into a long historical pattern of right-wing movements capitalizing on male insecurity to recruit new members and prepare them to commit violence against their perceived enemies.