Abdul El-Sayed Isn’t Messing Around About Healthcare
Last week, The Lever’s David Sirota traveled to Michigan to meet with Democratic Senate candidate and former public health official Abdul El-Sayed, who has become a political lightning rod as he campa...
2 Jul 51min
What New York’s Socialists Know That Democrats Don’t
Candidates backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani swept the state’s Democratic primaries this week, to the chagrin of corporate interests and party elite. Pundits are calling the political insur...
25 Jun 56min
Why Is Newsom Fighting California’s Billionaire Tax?
California voters are poised to vote on a one-time billionaire tax that would fund schools, food assistance, and Medicaid. Silicon Valley is spending big to keep the precedent-setting initiative off t...
18 Jun 55min
The Movie Trope That Explains American Politics
Perhaps the key to understanding modern American politics isn't an academic think tank report, but instead rambunctious cult classic films, like Caddyshack and Animal House, that pit low-status underd...
11 Jun 55min
Hawaii Is Overthrowing Citizens United
Hawaii just enacted a groundbreaking law challenging Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision that unleashed unlimited corporate spending in elections. It’s a major victory against big money’s grip...
4 Jun 34min
The Spy Planes That Helped Jeffrey Epstein Take Off
Everyone knows Jeffrey Epstein as a sex trafficker who died in 2019. But Epstein’s story goes further back than most people realize — and includes surprising links to the Iran-Contra scandal of the 19...
28 Mai 35min
The Democratic Party’s New Dark Money Machine
It’s primary season, and powerful political forces within the Democratic Party are stomping into local races, trying to pick winners and losers. Today on Lever Time, we’re diving into The Lever’s excl...
21 Mai 53min
Will The Strait Of Hormuz Sink The American Empire? (With Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison)
Despite recent claims from President Donald Trump that the war in Iran has “terminated,” hundreds of ships are still stranded in the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, and the ceasefire has never fully...
14 Mai 49min
