American Democracy Under Occupation
When heavily armed agents of the federal government arrived in Minneapolis, the people of the Twin Cities responded with surprising strength. In this episode, residents describe what drove them to a...
6 Feb 27min
Elections Distorted
The Trump White House is changing the rules of our political system through intimidation, the distortion of information, financial corruption, and the dismantling of government offices. In the final e...
6 Feb 32min
Rise of the Trump Loyalist
Kathleen Walters was only 23 days away from qualifying for early retirement at the IRS when she decided to quit, rather than acquiesce to a Trump-administration request that she break the law and comp...
30 Jan 31min
Reality Reshaped
Joan Brugge has worked for nearly 50 years as a cancer scientist, studying the earliest signs that someone might become sick. Then the Trump administration canceled her lab’s funding. The administrati...
23 Jan 29min
Crypto Corruption
Brandon LaRoque kept his life savings in a cryptocurrency account. One morning, as he went to check his balance, he discovered that it was all missing. LaRoque is one of many victims of the unregulate...
16 Jan 30min
ICE and the National Guard Are Acting with Impunity
The transformation of ICE into a type of national police force, backed, in some cases, by soldiers from the National Guard, has been covered as immigration story—but these forces are reshaping democra...
9 Jan 29min
Coming Soon: Season 3 of Autocracy in America
The Trump administration is making radical, unprecedented changes to American institutions. By doing so, it is seeking to transform the American political system as well. To explain Donald Trump’s pro...
15 Dec 20251min
