Oct 30, 2020
The Lincoln Project charlatans are getting their next grift ready for after the election. Another South American country inspires the world: A conversation with activist and film director Hernan Caffiero on the movement to rewrite the Chilean constitution. Preparing for the possibility that Republicans will steal the...
Oct 23, 2020
Socialists in Bolivia won the presidential election this week just 12 months after Evo Morales was overthrown in a coup. La Paz-based journalist Camila Escalante joins us to discuss the historic victory. We also chat with an organizer who helped shut down eviction courts in Kansas City. Upward failure features on this...
Oct 16, 2020
Militia members were accused by the FBI of plotting to kidnap Michigan’s governor. We take a look at the militant far-right with Brendan O’Connor, author of a forthcoming book on the subject, Blood Red Lines: How Nativism Fuels the Right. Amy Coney Barrett tried to keep a lid on her bad opinions at her confirmation...
Oct 9, 2020
Kamala Harris reassures everyone that Joe Biden will not do the good and correct thing by banning fracking in a depressing VP debate. GOP union busters take after Pete Buttigieg and try to get unions to publicly disclose how much is in their strike fund. Some Q-Anon drama highlights the true class composition of...
Oct 2, 2020
The security of voting machines gives us the willies. A progressive operator tips the scale to the center in one Congressional race. A filmmaker takes a closer look at the memory-holed 2001 anthrax attacks. Pill-pushing dick: This week’s Rich Dick hails from the pharmaceutical industry.