Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen

Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen


Latest Episodes

Why Mamdani May Revitalize the Democratic Party: 1911 CA Precedent
August 18, 2025

After 2024, the mainstream of the Democratic Party is in the wilderness, but Zohran Mamdani may lead a way out. This weeks guest Fred Glass, talks about what early 20th century California history can

“Just Following Orders”?
July 28, 2025

American military service members certainly did not sign up to fight the American people. Yet with the massive deployment of national guard and marines to stop protests in Los Angeles, that was indeed

How The Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back
July 21, 2025

What mainstream Democrats dont understand is that anti-elites are economically progressive, while the elites are economically conservative. NYCs Mamdani won the primary by building an economic coalit

The Power of Photographs and the Truth That Threatens Dictators
July 14, 2025

Its called airbrushing history and all dictators do it to erase the truth. Sometimes it can be petty. One example is that Pete Hegseths Pentagon deleted photos that were on their website of the firs

His Insatiable Appetite for Prisons
July 07, 2025

The appalling criminalization of ordinary people. No charges, no conviction, just sweep up people who, as he said: look like illegals. Blatantly circumventing constitutional law. And in the big, ugl

Can One Have Meat and A Conscience Too?
June 30, 2025

The right wing is heavily invested in the meat industry. After all, it has the essential components: dominance, violence, destruction of the planet. In his new provocative book: The Omnivores Decepti

Democrats Can Win Again: If…
June 23, 2025

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

Under Water Now, Democrats Have to Become the Party of Change
June 09, 2025

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

How Their Music Toppled Jim Crow
June 01, 2025

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

It’s Not the Kids, It’s the Foster Care System That’s Damaged
May 26, 2025

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