The Trumpist right today has had no small success erasing the productive history of liberalism. Todays guest is author, lecturer, and journalist for The Washington Monthly David Masciotra who in this

Though most of us never see it, instead of doing ethical justice, theres a whole factory system routinely, intentionally turning injustice into revenue. On this show law professor, lawyer, and advoca

Children have fewer filters: when they see and experience injustice theyre not scared to draw pictures of the truth. In her new book Drawing Deportation Art and Resistance among Immigrant Children a

Is the US is merely a procedural, but not a substantive democracy? On part one, Franklin and Marshall history professor Van Gosse asks: what are the factors why we lack more actual democracy? And on p

Private Security Firms; just part of doing business, right? Blackwater was Americas version in Iraq; The Wagner Group is Russias today in Ukraine and Africa. Atrocities in the Donbass region of Ukra

All refugees lives are threatened equally, so why are Ukrainians handed the welcome mat as it is denied to most others? On this show, Columbia University Professor and co-author Helen Benedict shares

Despite the obvious divides, both sides in todays fierce split may actually share a lot in common and can be pulled together for a better America by something traditional called Civic Republicanism.

Suddenly in 2023, the aspiration of being the only democracy in the middle east is unraveling itself from within. With its turn to the far right, antidemocratic political Zionism is overpowering trad

In her CounterPunch essay, Medea Benjamin co-founder of CodePink writes of surprisingly good things that happened in 2022. On this show, she cites many genuinely positive developments and some hopeful

How did so many blue collar regions go from Obama 2012 to Trump 2016? Our guest today Robin Johnson, himself of the mid-west, says Thomas Franks was wrong judging and dismissing this demographic; Demo