Laws intended to fight mafia crime are being used to crush legitimate protest. Weve all seen excessive police force on campuses, and many legislators are also doing their part to chill our treasured

For many decades the Supreme Court was reliably on the side of voting rights. Incrementally, quite steadily, the justices have chipped away at our constitutional rights. On this show Professor Josh Do

Another Earth Day has come and gone, and how are we doing? The 19th and 20th century systems of control of the earth have failed; theres a connection between famines, global warming and empire. Espe

Listening to working peoples concerns is key. Democrats have almost always won this constituency. That is until recently. Bidens shift to the economic left is connecting and can yield electoral succ

Democracy is itself largely improvisation. Pushing back against the powers that be; the mainstream. Our guest Randy Fertel, author of the new book Winging It; Improvs Power and Peril in the Age of Tr

Truman was down and nearly out. Then he did a campaign whistle stop tour of America and beat the odds. TV eye candy is one thing but seeing a president in the flesh connects far better, and connection

The Right gets it; where are Democrats? In his new book What it Took to Win, author and history professor Michael Kazin looks at the last hundred or so years and says its clear what has and still wo

After decades in a coma, the nuclear industry is back. But the truth is nuclear power is not an acceptable stopgap measure, its a diversion from real, actually economic, safer solutions. On this show

In the current American version of capitalism, all of us are thingified: our only value being as digits on the way to corporate profits. This reflects a core bias in the system toward serving the ve

Its basic to the very essence of America. On this show Constitutional Law Professor John O. McGinnis argues that commerce was the mothers milk of the American Revolution and that the virtues of comm