The Republican's 1964 Remix
What's old is new again and we're not just talking fashion. The Republican Party is remixing some of its worst hits when it comes to attacks on the education system, young people, people of color etc....
7 Juli 202328min
Muslims Going MAGA?!
Wajahat took pen to paper and wrote a recent piece for the NYT entitled: We Muslims Used to Be the Culture War Scapegoats. Why Are Some of Us Joining the LGBTQ Pile On? On this episode of #democracyis...
29 Juni 202333min
The "Free" Market?
Historian of Science and Tech and co-author of the book: The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market,Erik M. Conway, joins democracyish and takes Waj an...
22 Juni 202337min
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 Juni 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 Juni 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 Juni 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 Maj 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 Maj 202331min
