Its a puzzling mystery why so many working class people in the midwest go for Trumpism. Some answers are in Imagining the Heartland; White Supremacy and the American Midwest by anthropologist author

It was a crime to even be a member of the One Big Union. But even Helen Keller was a member of the IWW, the Industrial Workers of the World. On this show, Ahmed White talks about his new book

Nothing in this story makes sense, but its all too real. So says todays guest Jordan S Rubin whose new book is titled Bizarro: The Surreal Saga of Americas Secret War on Synthetic Drugs and the F

The pressure to prevent active curiosity is a serious threat to democracy. Our guests today are authors Perry Zurin and Dani Bassett whose new book is Curious Minds, The Power of Connection. The push

From a vaunted Latin American pink wave, Colombias new president Gustavo Petro and vice president Francia Marquez realized that even with socialised profits, more extraction does not equal more wea

Bushs lies gave Trump moral scaffolding; today Americans believe big lies. On this show Thanassis Cambanis, a reporter who was in Iraq at the invasion, details the harm Bush and Cheney did to America

We may accept todays economic system as just part of the natural order; but in truth capitalism started with overt violence. Centuries later it has morphed into what our guest calls Mute Compulsion.

When Republicans win power, they use it. Obama tried bipartisanship. There was little, if any, perceptible change. In the following campaign in 2016, Trump said I made a promise to the forgotten men

Shock and Awe was launched on this date by then President George W Bush. Over a hundred thousand Iraqis died along with 4,000 Americans. But what about the veterans today? On this rebroadcast, author

Authoritarians that they are, its not a huge surprise todays Trump/DeSantis Republicans are pro-Putin. But as noted historian Michael Kazin points out, some alleged leftists are linking up with the