Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen

Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen


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Mental Health Essential for National Security
May 05, 2025

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

Musk’s Chain Saw Does Not Think
April 28, 2025

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

Mindless Banality Spreads Quickly. And It’s Evil.
April 21, 2025

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

Addressing the Unique Stigma on Youth Impacted by Incarceration, Detention, and Deportation
April 14, 2025

Locking people up and deporting immigrants is on the rise. The adults face punishment (as if that works) and their children hide from the judgement and stigma of other kids and school administrators.

Washington Post Changes Bigly: Refuses $115,000 Ad
April 07, 2025

Remember when we could count on the Washington Post to boldly take the lead on political corruption? And can you imagine a newspaper turning down a really big ad buy? Welcome to Trumpworld 2.0. As Com

More Than Play: What’s Wrong With American Youth Sport
March 31, 2025

We think of it as pure fun but the reality is great pressure and there are overtraining injuries. Coaches often lack crucial training. Non-athlete kids feeling less-than. And since kids dont have a v

Europe Now Squeezed By Trump and Putin’s Pincer
March 24, 2025

There are two petrostate oligarchies linking up and gravely threatening what had been a rock solid alliance: Europe and the US. The traditionally shared moral universe of Europe and the rest of the F

School Suspension: More Often for Black Kids
March 17, 2025

Kicking out troublemakers. It backfires. It certainly increases the likelihood of negative outcomes. And it is not applied equally. In this discussion author and researcher Aaron Kupnik talks about hi

Is Freedom of the Press Doomed?
March 10, 2025

In being careful to avoid a monarchy or dictatorship, Americas founders adamantly insisted on each government agency being independent. The Federal Communications Commission act of 1934 was created t

The Time is Now. Left-Populists: Unshackle Your Imaginations
March 03, 2025

You may have noticed a continuing trend of Democratic candidates sheepishly rushing to some imaginary center, and how well that hasnt worked! On this show, Richard Eskow, former head writer for the B