Why Politics is Failing
Esteemed Political professor and author of the new book Why Politics Fail, Ben Ansell, joins democracyish to discuss why our collective desires are being thwarted by our individual needs. We want clim...
15 Jun 202329min
The Transgender Panic
It doesn't matter who the Republican candidate is the message is clear--their war on transgender Americans is here to stay. From Nikki "Not a Chance in Hell" Haley to Communion Wafer Mike Pence the Re...
8 Jun 202336min
Roses from Concrete
What happens when speaking truth to power gets you cancelled?!? What happens when sharing your experience of oppression and white supremacy get you silenced?!? We are living at the breaking point of a...
1 Jun 202338min
Are Travel Warnings Necessary?
This week the storied civil rights organization, The NAACP, issued a travel warning to Black Americans and LGBTQ+ folks for the state of Florida. With now, presidential candidate Ron DeSantis waging w...
25 Mai 202331min
No Pushback for White Nationalism
Elon Musk to Kaitlan Collins the mainstreaming or white nationalist ideology has never been stronger. With so much at stake with our democracy real journalism is needed now more than ever--but will we...
18 Mai 202331min
Grab Him by the Wallet!
Well, well, well it seems that the Teflon on "Teflon Don" has begun to disintegrate. In a win for women and sexual assault survivors everywhere journalist E. Jean Carroll had her day in court AND WON ...
11 Mai 202330min
Is Easy Money Really Easy?!
We have been learning a lot about grifting in America--from Donald Trump and his flock to the Supreme Court, everyone seems to be on the get rich or die trying bandwagon--it's this American capitalist...
4 Mai 202336min
Tucker Gets the Boot!
We haven't seen a news cycle like this week in a while. Mercury is in retrograde and shaking up cable news. What was once thought unthinkable has occurred--Tucker Carlson, white supremacist golden boy...
27 Apr 202327min
