Anti-Asian hate crimes, and the role of guns
In today's show, the big topic is of course hate crimes, particularly anti-Asian bigotry on the rise over the past year, and of course, the horrible mass shooting in Atlanta. Cliff talks a bit about h...
20 Mar 202148min
Defending the stimulus, and defending voting rights
On today's show, Cliff and I talk about: - My Covid vaccine, I got one! (But it was J&J, and I'm still unsure about it.) - Biden learning from the past, and understanding he needs to defend the Covid ...
12 Mar 202130min
Liberal Super PAC MeidasTouch joins us to talk about liberal advocacy in the post-Trump era
We had a great Zoom conversation today with two of the founders of liberal Super PAC MeidasTouch -- brothers Jordy and Brett Meiselas -- about what led them to form MeidasTouch, how liberal advocacy c...
10 Mar 20211h 17min
If you transplant a head do you transplant the soul?
The viability of human head transplantation, and its impact on the soul, is seriously the topic of today's podcast interview with Dr. Brandy Schillace, an expert on death and dying, and the author of ...
5 Mar 20211h 20min
How to turn America green, a chat with energy expert Daniel Dicker
Self-professed "liberal" energy expert Daniel Dicker -- author of the book, "Turning Oil Green: A Market-Based Path to Renewables" -- joins us to talk about how to turn American energy green, and the ...
4 Mar 202130min
Daily Kos' Joan McCarter explains the Covid stimulus bill
We are joined today by our longtime friend and colleague Joan McCarter (aka McJoan), senior political writer at Daily Kos, who will be talking to us at length about the Covid/Economic stimulus bill th...
27 Feb 20211h 4min
Eric Boehlert on Limbaugh's death and media bias
Media critic Eric Boehlert, founder and editor of PressRun.Media, joins us to talk about: Rush Limbaugh's death, and the fact that the man was truly a blight on our body politic; how the media is no l...
23 Feb 202131min
Ted Cruz's excellent adventure
In today's episode, we speak with Sarah Reese Jones, the editor-in-chief of PoliticusUSA, about: What does Ted Cruz’s behavior during the Texas power outage tell us about the republican party, who’s i...
19 Feb 20211h 20min
