In the 90s, the party took a turn to the right, taking the working and middle class base for granted. Instead they went for Trump in 2024. Clinton hurt this former base with austerity, and poorly thou

Why do they feel a need for violence to prove their manhood? Whats the connection between an angry Germany after the First World War and what many young men are feeling in 2025? Why do they see equal

Theres a reason the same voters were undecided between Bernie and Trump in 2016. People wanted real change. And in 2024, Democrats walked into a trap. As bad as it looks today, writing in Newsweek, t

Its not just politics but arts and a free culture that makes real change. Sure there are the leaders we all know, MLK and Malcolm X, but in his new paperback edition of The Jazz Men: How Duke Ellingt

Society would rather not see them. Like people in prison, the foster care system makes hundreds of thousands of kids invisible. And the system is doing them great damage for life. On this show, author

Starting a trade war is just stupid. But maybe Trump simply doesnt really care about tanking the economy. On this show, Washington Monthly politics editor Bill Scher points out that the current presi

There is in fact great abundance in America. The problem is not just the greed of the top percent but also the 21st century version of real estate redlining. Many are shut out. There is a huge demand

May is Mental Health Month, and the Trump/Musk regime is pouring gasoline on our already widespread national crisis. The police-state ICE raids are indicative of a strategy to create fear. On this sho

If he really aims to cut waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal bureucracy, theres a lot of low hanging fruit. But Elon Musk has prioritized eliminating one of the smallest yet most effective program

To normalize the horrific, it takes lots of people going along. From the history of leaders lying, the current regime has learned that spewing new lies many times a day works to make reality conform t