Putin's Staying Power
The popular unrest following the arrest of opposition politician Alexei Navalny provoked a heavy-handed police crackdown in Russia, where more than 10,000 demonstrators were arrested. More than 20 yea...
11 Helmi 202124min
Understanding Socialism
Few words in the American political lexicon are as freighted with fear as socialism. It can conjure thoughts of diabolical Communism, the horrors of Stalin and Mao, and the Iron Curtain. In some quart...
9 Helmi 202126min
Impeachment, Nixon to Trump
The historian who drafted an open letter, signed by more than 1,000 scholars, calling for Donald Trump's impeachment explains why experts on the past should weigh in on the present. A must-listen, as ...
4 Helmi 202128min
The GameStop Revolution
A decade after the Occupy Wall Street protesters called out the reckless greed that brought down the economy, a different kind of anti-Wall Street, populist uprising is happening online -- on comment ...
2 Helmi 202120min
Recovering the Radical King
King sharply criticized capitalism. He condemned the Vietnam War, referring to the U.S. government "as the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today" in a powerful oration at a historic church ...
28 Tammi 202121min
The First 1,000 Days
The fate of President Biden's ambitious legislative agenda will depend on whether Congress embraces his FDR-like call for bold government action to deal not only with the immediate economic fallout of...
26 Tammi 202119min
Trumpism After Trump
Donald Trump is out of power but it seems certain Americans will continue to talk and think about him, at least in the short term. How long what is already called Trumpism remains a force in American ...
21 Tammi 202117min
Inauguration
The peaceful transition of power is a pillar of American democracy. But 2021 begins with a fear of violence hanging over Washington as Joseph Biden prepares to take the oath of office. Like Lincoln in...
19 Tammi 202119min
