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Latest Episodes

Phyllis Bennis on Gaza Ceasefire Resolution, Robert Weissman on Boeing Scandal
March 29, 2024

A senior UN human rights official says there is a "plausible" case that Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, a war crime.

Evlondo Cooper on Climate Coverage, Rick Goldsmith on Stripped for Parts
March 22, 2024

Elite media still cant quite connect images of floods or fires to the triumphant shareholder meetings of the fossil fuel companies.

Gay Gordon-Byrne on Right to Repair, Suyapa Portillo Villeda on Honduran Ex-President Conviction
March 15, 2024

Industry still argues that that cellphone isn't really "yours," in the sense that you can't fix it if it breaks.

Ian Millhiser on Supreme Court Trump Protection, Alfredo Lopez on Radical Elders
March 08, 2024

Donald Trump could declare himself above the lawand thats just been enabled by a recent Supreme Court ruling.

Victor Pickard on the Crisis of Journalism
March 01, 2024

If we dont ask different questions about what we need from journalism, we will arrive at the same old unsatisfactory responses.

Gregory Shupak and Trita Parsi on Gaza Assault
February 23, 2024

As the US falls more out of step with the world, many in the US press seem divorced from the idea of US responsibility.

Ariel Adelman on Disability Civil Rights
February 16, 2024

Acheson v. Laufer is another example of weaponizing the courts to dismantle labor protections, housing rights and health guidelines.

Media That Benefit From Inequality Prefer to Talk About Other Things
February 14, 2024

The rapid rise in inequality over recent decades should have generated deep alarm in news media. But theres little sign of distress.

Rakeen Mabud on Greedflation
February 09, 2024

The same people who earn wages also buy groceries, and pretending that were pitted against one another is not just mis- but disinformation.

Aron Thorn on Texas Border Standoff
February 02, 2024

What if there isnt a "border crisis" so much as an absence of historical understanding, of empathy, of community resourcing?