Episode 175: Selective Humanitarianism and the US Role in Afghanistan's Post-Occupation Famine
"History will cast a shadow over Biden's decision to withdraw from Afghanistan," the Washington Post's David Ignatius warned in April of 2021. "Biden's Betrayal of Afghans Will Live in Infamy," George...
1 Feb 20231h 31min
Episode 174: How Your Favorite 1990's "Very Special" Anti-Drug Episode Was Probably Funded by the US Government
On a Very Special Episode of "Home Improvement," Tim and Jill lecture their son about the dangers of marijuana after he's caught smoking a joint. On a powerful episode of ABC's "Sports Night," written...
25 Jan 20231h 27min
News Brief: 'Tough Love' Used to Justify Abusing Children and Surplus Black Population in Alabama
In this News Brief, we talk with Josie Duffy Rice about her new podcast, "Unreformed: The Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children," incarceration as racial disciplining mechanism, an...
18 Jan 202339min
Episode 173: How to Sell Police Crackdowns on Homeless People to Liberals
"The city has had 125 daily interactions," New York Mayor Eric Adams tells the Daily News. "We're working to solve the homelessness crisis, with innovative mental health interventions," San Francisco ...
21 Dec 20221h 23min
Episode 172: The Foundational Myth Machine - Indigenous Peoples of North America and Hollywood
Soldiers from the US Cavalry defeat the Plains Indians, securing new territory for their burgeoning empire. A group of settlers fends off an armed Indigenous tribe on horseback in their intrepid effor...
14 Dec 20221h 30min
News Brief: Biden, Congressional Dems Partner with GOP, Media to Discipline Rail Labor
In this News Brief, we are joined by Real News' Mel Buer and Max Alvarez to discuss the media campaign to obscure Biden and Congressional Dems selling out rail workers.
30 Nov 202257min
News Brief: Law & Order's Boring Anti-Bail Reform Diatribe
Five days before the midterm elections, the long-running NBC staple removed all subtlety and character work and explicitly lobbied against bail reform in a ham-fisted, boring slog of an episode. With ...
23 Nov 202243min
Episode 171: The Vacuity of "Radical Libs Forced Voters Into the Arms of the Right" Discourse
"How The Left Created Trump," revealed Rob Hoffman in Politico in November 2016. "Blame liberals for the rise of Donald Trump," insisted S.E. Cupp in The Chicago Tribune the year before. "How the left...
16 Nov 20221h 16min
