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Latest Episodes

Yanni Chen on TikTok Ban, Richard Mendel on Youth and Crime
December 20, 2024

Does banning TokTok threaten First Amendment freedoms? A judge says the government acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation.

Iman Abid on Israeli Genocide
December 13, 2024

While not the first to ask us to see the assault on Palestinians as genocide, Amnestys report offers an opening to ask why some are so invested in saying it isnt.

Arlene Martinez on Amazon Misconduct, Neil deMause (2019) on Amazon HQ Fight
December 06, 2024

When a corporate behemoth like Amazon buys one of the countrys national newspapers, its a conflict writ large as can or should be.

Katherine Gallagher on Abu Ghraib Verdict
November 29, 2024

A federal jury has just found military contractor CACI responsible for its part in Abu Ghraib abuse, in a ruling being called exceptional in every sense of the term.

Amos Barshad on Legalized Sports Betting
November 22, 2024

Legal sports gambling is the apple of the eye of many corporate and private state actorsbut how does it affect states, communities, people?

Adam Johnson on Charlottesville March (2017), Jacinta Gonzalez on Criminalizing Immigration (2018)
November 15, 2024

If we're to believe the chest-thumping, high on Trump's agenda will be the enforced criminalization of immigration.

Julie Hollar and Jim Naureckas on Placing Blame for Trump
November 08, 2024

We talk about what just happened, and corporate medias role in it, with Julie Hollar, senior analyst at the media watch group FAIR, and FAIRs editor Jim Naureckas.

Nicole Foy on Immigration and Labor
November 01, 2024

News media start with the premise of immigration itself as a crisis, with the only debate around how to "stem" or "control" it.

Shawn Musgrave, Orion Danjuma on Vote Fraud Hoax as Voter Suppression
October 25, 2024

Trumps Big Lie attorneys are not so much returning to the field, but actually never left.

Chip Gibbons on Gaza First Amendment Alert
October 18, 2024

Defending Rights & Dissent has started a project called the Gaza First Amendment Alert, which is going to come out every other Wednesday.