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We Must Drain the Poison Out of Our Body Politic If There Is to Be a Better World After Trump

Podcast Episode · Autocratic Despair: The Podcast · September 10 · 1h 3m

Every journalist there knew it was a desperate, meaningless gambit. But most didn’t even give their audience a hint. I give out grades.

The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.

track by Debra Cowan

Health care workers fighting for a contract in Vermont have come to the table with not only their own demands for safe staffing and fair pay, but also a more unusual demand—one made in solidarity with...

YouTube video by Debra Cowan

Black lawmakers and activists in the Deep South say they are fighting an existential crisis on their own in the wake of a major Supreme Court ruling.

I laid it on thick yesterday.

This Independence Day, we’re face with a stark reality: the values and ideals that lay the foundation of our democracy are consistently being undermined by a corrupt, authoritarian president. The…

YouTube video by Congressman Jared Huffman

YouTube video by Debra Cowan

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It’s a good day to return to the question of the Supreme...

Podcast Episode · THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent · April 7 · 19m

Classic Folk with Mike Norris Classic Folk is unique. It mines a rich seam of wonderful folk and roots music and song from around 75 years of recordings. From the great source singers to the legends o...