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Focusing on issues, not tweets, Joshua Holland talks politics and culture with newsmakers, journalists and academics.
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David Cay Johnston: Trump is going to be convicted of financial crimes from 2022-02-21T08:35:08.175665
This week, Liz Preza and Joshua Holland kick off the show with a sad, very disappointed look at the nightmarish first -- and in a perfect world, last -- debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
Greg Sargent: Is Mitch McConnell manipulating Trump to kill Covid relief and stick Biden with a devastated economy? from 2022-02-21T08:35:08.174565
This week, Liz Preza and Joshua Holland survey the damage from Wednesday's unpleasant vice presidential debate, and talk about Trump bailing on the second presidential wrangle.
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Heather 'Digby' Parton: Top Republicans enabled Trump's presidency and can never be forgiven from 2022-02-21T08:35:08.171218
This week, we talk about election, the election and then discuss some details about the 2020 election. There's no other news anyway.
Liz Preza and Joshua Holland kick things off recounti...
Jeff Hauser: Joe Biden's putting together the most progressive team in the modern era from 2022-02-21T08:35:08.168370
We kick off the show with a look at what was truly a banner week in right-wing tantrums, with Trump lambasting Attorney General Bill Barr for not backing his election fraud conspiracy theories, a c...
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An insurgency of dunces: Adele Stan on the deadly Capitol Hill MAGA riot from 2022-02-21T08:35:08.164844
Joshua Holland kicks off this week's show marveling at the emotional rollercoaster of winning two Senate runoffs in Georgia just before Trump incited a violent insurgency that shook the country.
Imani Gandy on impeachment | Study finds that insecure men are drawn to right-wing politics from 2022-02-21T08:35:08.161037
Imani Gandy weighs in on Trump's second impeachment and Eric Knowles talks about research on masculinity in politics.
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Republicans are flooding the zone with phony outrages from 2022-02-21T08:35:08.157724
Joshua Holland and Vice's Tess Owen discuss the scapegoating of Antifa. Then Ko Bragg of The 19th talks about the women who participated in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
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The tawdry, bizarre Matt Gaetz scandal has unleashed so much schadenfreude from 2022-02-21T08:35:08.154250
Joshua Holland talks with The Washington Post's Paul Waldman about Joe Biden's big infrastructure and jobs bill. Then Kaili Joy Gray joins Joshua to run through Rep. Matt Gaetz's latest bizarre sca...
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Glenn Kirschner: Convicting Trump of negligent homicide is 'entirely doable' from 2022-02-21T08:35:08.153465
Glenn Kirschner joins Joshua Holland to talk about how corporate America is pushing back on Republican efforts to make it harder to vote. And then we speak with Dr. Brandy Schillace about the macab...
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Everything you thought you knew about Trump and white working-class voters is wrong from 2022-02-21T08:35:08.150735
Joshua Holland is joined by author Natasha Lennard to talk about the right's latest phony threat, critical race theory, and the very real danger of white backlash politics. And then Vanderbilt Univ...
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Inside the right-wing smear machine targeting Black Lives Matter from 2022-02-21T08:35:08.146532
Joshua Holland is joined by Heather "Digby" Parton to talk about how the Democrats don't seem to have the sense of urgency about safeguarding American democracy that this moment calls for. And then...
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How to beat back a soft coup from 2022-02-21T08:35:08.140633
Joshua Holland speaks with author Billy Corriher about how a GOP takeover of the courts was defeated in North Carolina. Then Daniel Nichanian runs down some big wins for candidates running on Judic...
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How the pandemic broke your brain (and how to fix it) from 2022-02-21T08:35:08.136189
We speak with science writer Dana Smith about how the pandemic has literally altered our brains. Then we are joined by Lindsay Owens to get us up to speed on the Democrats' long slog toward Infrast...
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Disinformation expert: We're witnessing a 'global far-right power-grab' from 2022-02-21T08:35:08.131961
Joshua Holland is joined by Imani Gandy, Rewire News Group's senior legal editor, to talk about how Texas Republicans are effectively banning abortion. Then we speak with TruthOrFiction.com Managin...
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Empathy battles schadenfreude when anti-vaxxers die from Covid from 2022-02-21T08:35:08.127592
Joshua Holland is joined by Lili Loofbourow to talk about the growing popularity and moral ambiguity of the Herman Cain Awards, which chronicle the Covid deaths of hardcore anti-vaxxers. Then veter...
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Is the fix in on the Kyle Rittenhouse trial? from 2022-02-21T08:35:08.122997
Joshua Holland is joined by WaPo's Paul Waldman to help us sift through the flood of lazy punditry that has followed this week's off-year elections. And then Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bu...
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Meet the Real Robed Tyrants from 2022-02-21T08:35:08.046770
Joshua Holland is joined by veteran journalist Kaili Joy Gray to recap this week's arguments at The Supreme Court that are almost certain to lead to Roe v Wade being overturned. Then University of ...
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Marcy Wheeler: DOJ 'getting closer' to proving Trump attempted a coup from 2022-02-21T08:35:08.042598
Joshua Holland is joined by legal analyst Marcy Wheeler to talk about the sprawling prosecutorial efforts to bring the perpetrators of the January 6 attack, and the attempted coup surrounding it, t...
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Why do American police agencies have veto power over investigations into dirty cops? from 2022-02-21T08:35:08.038198
Joshua Holland is joined by Eric Umansky, deputy managing editor at ProPublica. In 2019, Eric stumbled across a story when his family witnessed an incident in which some Black children were abused ...
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What one young Republican learned in Mississippi’s only CRT class from 2022-02-18T05:00
Molly Minta tells host Joshua Holland about what a young conservative in one of America’s reddest states discovered when she actually looked into what Critical Race Theory is really about. And then...
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Ryan Grim on the killing of Amir Locke | US-style grievances are fueling Canada's trucksurrection from 2022-02-11T05:00
Ryan Grim, The Intercept's DC bureau chief, joins Joshua Holland to talk about the parallels between the police slaying of Amir Locke in Minnesota last week and the killing of Breonna Taylor in Lou...
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The eye-opening humiliation of being a young fascist from 2022-01-28T05:00
Joshua Holland is joined by Greg Sargent of the Washington Post to put the slew of vague, sloppily written gag orders that Republicans are passing across the country in order to whitewash history i...
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How America can avoid a new civil war from 2022-01-21T05:00
Joshua Holland is joined by Marquette University political scientist Julia Azari to talk about the unique challenges Joe Biden has faced in the first year of his presidency. Then Lee Drutman explai...
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Researcher finds largest divide ever between whites and Blacks over fear of police from 2022-01-14T05:00
Joshua Holland is joined by Justin Pickett, a professor of criminal justice at SUNY Albany, to discuss his new research examining fear of police violence across different communities and how the pe...
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Historian: Civil war is not the worst-case scenario for America's future from 2021-12-24T05:00
Joshua Holland is by historian Dr. William Horne to talk about why even talk of another civil war doesn't necessarily capture the worst-case scenario for the United States.
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Ex-US prosecutor believes DOJ will prosecute Trump for coup attempt from 2021-12-17T05:00
Joshua Holland is joined by former Assistant US Attorney Richard Signorelli to talk about some of the recent revelations surrounding MAGA's attempted January 6 coup.
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'Labor shortage' or a revolt by America's fed-up workers? from 2021-12-10T05:00
David Dayen, the executive editor of The American Prospect, joins Joshua Holland to discuss his in-depth piece on how the pandemic has spurred millions of American workers to say 'enough is enough.'
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Mary Trump: 'Donald is one of the most boring people who's ever lived' from 2021-11-19T05:00
Joshua Holland is joined by Mary Trump, who answers the pressing question of which Trump spawn is the dumbest, explains how someone who has enjoyed a pampered life of privilege like Donald Trump co...
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Undercover activist Lauren Windsor on her thriving crusade to expose GOP liars from 2021-11-12T05:00
Guest host Michael Rogers is joined by activist Lauren Windsor to talk about how her team has used undercover video to expose the lies of public officials. Then Raw Story founder John Byrne discuss...
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'Constitutional Sheriffs': Another reactionary threat to American democracy from 2021-10-29T04:00
Joshua Holland is joined by David Pepper, former chair of the Ohio Democratic Party, to talk about his new book, "Laboratories of Autocracy: A Wake-Up Call from Behind the Lines." Then attorney and...
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An armed Black militia claimed it stood against tyranny — the backlash was swift from 2021-10-22T04:00
Joshua Holland is joined by USA Today reporter Will Carless to talk about the Not F--king Around Coalition, a black militia that grabbed headlines during the summer of 2020. Then we speak with Geor...
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Saving Democracy Isn't Sexy from 2021-09-24T04:00
Joshua Holland speaks with HuffPost Senior Reporter Jennifer Bendery about the Biden Administration's early successes making the federal judiciary more reflective of America. Then we are joined by ...
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MAGA sets its sights on another key democracy | Lessons from the CA recall from 2021-09-17T04:00
Joshua Holland is joined by HuffPost reporter Travis Waldron to talk about the growing ties between key figures in the MAGA movement and their allies in Brazil. Then Democratic strategist Dante Atk...
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How the rural North came to embrace the Confederacy from 2021-09-10T04:00
Joshua Holland is joined by Will Wilkinson to talk about how America's growing urban-rural divide--and rural America's embrace of Southern Culture--are redrawing our ideological battle lines from t...
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Here's what people who take Covid seriously should know about their risk with Delta from 2021-08-27T04:00
Joshua Holland is joined by Dr. Stephanie Langel from Duke University's Center for Human Systems Immunology to talk about what people who take Covid seriously should know about this new phase of th...
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America's pro-war press is losing its collective mind over Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal from 2021-08-20T04:00
Joshua Holland welcomes Stephen Miles of Win Without War to have a very different conversation about Afghanistan than they're having over on the cable news networks.
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Tucker Carlson is mainstreaming the far-right's infatuation with Viktor Orbán from 2021-08-13T04:00
Michigan Advance Editor-in-Chief Susan Demas joins Joshua Holland to talk about how responsible Americans are losing their patience with the anti-vaxxers. Then author Sarah Posner discusses the rel...
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Neofascists are putting in the work to change America -- will their opponents do the same? from 2021-07-30T04:00
Joshua Holland is joined by author and political analyst Jared Yates Sexton to talk about the harrowing early testimony before the House's January 6 Commission.
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Why have Republicans and their media allies failed to lay a glove on Joe Biden? from 2021-07-23T04:00
Parker Molloy joins Joshua Holland to talk about how the last four years of chaos may have altered the American media landscape. Then we speak with Arkansas-based journalist Monica Potts about her ...
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Biden, Dems move a bold progressive agenda toward the end zone from 2021-07-16T04:00
Joshua Holland speaks to former Obama adviser Seth Hanlon about the $3.5 trillion infrastructure and jobs framework that Senate Democrats agreed to this week. Then journalist Kim Kelly talks about ...
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Can Republicans' latest racial panic deliver them a midterm win? from 2021-06-25T04:00
Joshua Holland is joined by Jeet Heer to talk about the right's heavily astroturfed campaign to terrify their voters to the polls with the specter of "Critical Race Theory."
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Ammon Bundy is poised to ignite America's next violent insurrection from 2021-06-18T04:00
This week, we have a special double-segment with Devin Burghart, the executive director of the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights. Devin and his colleagues have been tracking the ri...
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Anthropologist explains today's far-right: 'Fascism is scary because it can transform itself' from 2021-06-11T04:00
Joshua Holland is joined by journalist Rachel Cohen to talk about the spike in homicides and gun violence that America has seen in recent years. Next, we speak with anthropologist and filmmaker Sar...
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Right-wing doctors are fighting to keep your kids unvaccinated from 2021-05-28T04:00
Joshua Holland is joined by Audrey Clare Farley to talk about her piece in The New Republic about right-wing priests weaponizing Catholic rites against the left. And then Stephanie Mencimer from Mo...
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Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick: 'Nobody did more to defund the police than Donald Trump' from 2021-05-21T04:00
Joshua Holland kicks off this week's show with a look at our post-truth Republican Party. Then we're joined by Svante Myrick, the mayor of Ithaca, New York, who is leading one of the most ambitious...
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Judd Legum: Republicans are using 'mob-style tactics' to advance voter suppression laws from 2021-05-14T04:00
Joshua Holland speaks with Judd Legum about how corporate America is trying to move past the January 6 insurrection under intense pressure from the GOP. And then Alex Kane talks to us about why the...
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Conservative media's latest big lie is a sinister myth of American cities burning from 2021-04-23T04:42:55
Joshua Holland kicks off this week's show with a look at how conservative media is covering peaceful protests. Then we're joined by economist Dean Baker from the Center for Economic Policy and Rese...
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Civil rights attorney: Daunte Wright's killing is the 'inevitable consequence' of bad policing from 2021-04-16T04:00
Civil rights attorney Tahir Duckett speaks to Joshua Holland about the Derek Chauvin murder trial and the killing of Daunte Wright just miles away. Then journalist Katelyn Burns talks about a spate...
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Media malpractice and a border crisis that wasn't from 2021-03-26T04:00
The New Republic's Alex Shephard debunks the legacy media's border "crisis" narrative. Then Stephanie Langel of Duke University's Human Vaccine Institute joins Joshua Holland for an update on COVID...
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Are Trump's own Deep State loyalists fabricating a crisis at the Mexican border? from 2021-03-19T04:00
Eric Boehlert of PressRun joins Joshua Holland to talk about media coverage of the Biden administration. Then Joan McCarter from Daily Kos discusses next steps for Democrats now that President Joe ...
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Study finds Democrats and Republicans actually do live in different worlds from 2021-03-12T05:00
Joshua Holland speaks to Harvard professor Ryan Enos about why Democrats and Republicans tend to live in different areas. Then Eli Zupnick, a spokesperson for Fix Our Senate, discusses the grassroo...
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Ari Berman on the new Jim Crow | GOP desperate to move on from Jan 6 from 2021-02-26T00:00
Ari Berman joins Joshua Holland to talk about efforts to suppress the vote. And then Heather "Digby" Parton reflects on the Jan. 6 attack.
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Will a handful of Democratic Senators keep Mitch McConnell in the driver's seat? from 2021-02-19T00:00
Leah Greenberg joins Joshua Holland told talk about the vitally important fight for democratic reforms. Then we're joined by Leah Greenberg, co-founder of Indivisible.
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Senate expert explains why the Democrats must kill the filibuster this year from 2021-02-12T00:00
Adam Jentleson explains why Democrats must kill the filibuster and Keshav Poddar has a unique idea for taking on the Supreme Court.
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Hannah Fried: Election 'war games' predict Trump won't go quickly, quietly or easily from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week, Elizabeth Preza and Joshua Holland react to Steve Bannon's arrest, the Senate's bipartisan report on Russian election interference and the Democratic National Convention. Then Joshua spe...
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Mike Tomasky: Don't expect a vaccine to get us back to normal anytime soon from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week, Joshua Holland talks about why the most explicitly racist campaign in memory won't save Trump. Also: the plot to steal the election by sabotaging the postal service. Then we're joined...
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Amanda Marcotte on the NRA's grifting and Trump's dangerous conspiracy cult from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week, Elizabeth Preza and Joshua Holland kick off the show with a look at the Covid relief bill that's stalled in Congress amid Republican infighting and Trump's bonkers interview with Jonatha...
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Imani Gandy on the madness of the ‘cancel culture’ debate during a fascist crackdown on dissent from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week, Donald Trump floated the idea of postponing the election. Liz Preza and Joshua Holland kick off the show with some thoughts about his mental health and the politics of distraction. Th...
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Rep. John Sarbanes: Our fight to restore American democracy begins now from 2021-01-29T00:00
This week, we're joined by David Neiwert, the author of Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us, to talk about the heartbreak of losing a loved one to the...
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What can Biden do with a 50-50 Senate? | Why failed coups are often followed by success from 2021-01-22T00:00
This week, Joshua Holland kicks off our first show after the curtain fell on Donald Trump's failed presidency with a rant about the right's maddening weaponization of Joe Biden's promise to promote...
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Will America face an 'ongoing insurgency' by MAGA cultists? from 2021-01-15T00:00
There's one one story that matters this week.
First, we're joined by Crooks and Liars Managing Editor Karoli Kuns to talk about the second impeachment of Donald Trump, and where the MAGA...
How Joe Biden could box out Mitch McConnell and advance a progressive agenda from 2020-12-18T00:00
This week, we're joined by David Dayen, executive editor at The American Prospect, to talk about how the Biden administration could interpret existing laws to get around GOP obstruction in the Sena...
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Trump is sabotaging the Biden administration on his way out the door from 2020-12-11T00:00
This week, we're joined by ProPublica reporter Lydia DePillis to discuss Donald Trump's efforts to "burrow" loyalists into the federal civil service and pass or finalize a slew of federal rule chan...
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Sarah Ovaska on witnessing voter suppression by cops: 'I've never seen the type of aggression I saw' from 2020-11-26T00:00
This week, Cliff Schecter is our guest host while Joshua Holland and Elizabeth Preza have the week off.
Cliff speaks with Kim Lawson, senior editor at Courier, to talk about President-elect Joe...
Kevin Kruse: America is in uncharted waters with Trump's crackpot coup attempt from 2020-11-20T09:30:31
Liz Preza and Joshua Holland kick off this week's show lamenting how utterly exhausting it is that the Donald Trump show just keeps dragging on and on like a horror movie monster that just won't di...
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Did a Deep State dog eat Tucker Carlson's homework? from 2020-10-29T23:00
This week, Liz Preza and Joshua Holland talk about two murders — one imaginary and the other metaphorical — and the mysterious disappearance and miraculous discovery of some top secret Hunter Biden...
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Oliver Willis: If Trump Loses, the GOP will pretend they never heard of him from 2020-10-22T23:00
Liz Preza and Joshua Holland kick off this week's show by recoiling in horror at the thought of sexy-time with Rudy Giuliani -- and by wondering if Borat will end up saving the republic.
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Jill Filipovic watched the Amy Coney Barrett hearings so we wouldn't have to from 2020-10-15T23:00
This week, Liz Preza and Joshua Holland talk about Rudy Giuliani's clumsy attempt to make an October Surprise out of Hunter Biden's emails and the predictable outrage from the right when the legacy...
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Jessica Pieklo: 'I'm now fully radicalized' for court packing after Trump's SCOTUS power grab from 2020-09-24T23:00
This week, Joshua Holland kicks off the show arguing that Trump's relentless attempts to delegitimize the election--and recent refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses--are not...
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Eric Feigl-Ding: 'Almost our entire epidemic could have been prevented' from 2020-09-17T23:00
We kick off this week's show with a look at Attorney General Bill Barr's push to prosecute Democratic elected officials and charge protesters with sedition, and his preemptive defense of meddling i...
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The most important things people are overlooking in the most important election of our lives from 2020-09-10T23:00
This week, Joshua Holland kicks off the show with a discussion of the ripple effects that resulted from Trump lying to the American people about the dangers of Covid-19, and a look at how Bill Barr...
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Dean Baker on why Wall Street is blazing amid a brutal recession for Main Street from 2020-08-27T23:00
Liz Preza and Joshua Holland aren't easily shocked, but the conservatives' vile defenses of police shooting Jacob Blake seven times in the back as his children watched in horror, and then of a 1...
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Dean Baker on why Wall Street is blazing amid a brutal recession for Main Street from 2020-08-27T23:00
Liz Preza and Joshua Holland aren't easily shocked, but the conservatives' vile defenses of police shooting Jacob Blake seven times in the back as his children watched in horror, and then of a 1...
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Dean Baker on why Wall Street is blazing amid a brutal recession for Main Street from 2020-08-27T23:00
Liz Preza and Joshua Holland aren't easily shocked, but the conservatives' vile defenses of police shooting Jacob Blake seven times in the back as his children watched in horror, and then of a 17-y...
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