James Traub: When the Bough Breaks
John welcomes author James Traub to discuss his latest book, βThe Cradle of Citizenship: How Schools Can Help Save Our Democracy.β Traub describes the year…
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Josh Tyrangiel: AI, What is it Good For? Absolutely Something (Say It Again)
John welcomes former Bloomberg Businessweek editor and current Atlantic staff writer Josh Tyrangiel to discuss his new book, βAI for Good: How Real People Are…
▶️ Watch →What Does Activism Actually Cost Us? | MiniPod
The toll that making a stand can take is real. Often, it comes in the form of personal sacrifices, like boycotts and strikes. When is…
▶️ Watch →America Owes a Debt | NLP Replay
Congresswoman Summer Lee [PA-12] explains why some Democrats stand in the way of reparations.Β Β Read Rep. Summer Leeβs Reparations Bill: https://summerlee.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/rep-summer-lee-colleagues-advocates-reintroduce-reparations-now-resolution Β Join hosts…
▶️ Watch →The Only Free Advice James Talaricoβs Gonna Get | NLP Replay
Folks are saying that Texas senate candidate James Talarico has the best chance in decades to flip a Texas senate seat blue; his opponent, Ken…
▶️ Watch →Where Are the REAL Allies? | Angela Rye SoloPod
With the Voting Rights Act in tatters, will corporate America reaffirm their commitment to our right to vote? The Congressional Black Caucus thinks they mightβ¦Β …
▶️ Watch →Delaney Hall Exposes the Real America
On episode 134 of Native Land Pod, we travel to the protests outside Delaney Hall detention center, where migrants are being given rotten food, inadequate…
▶️ Watch →Episode 3: “The Meanest, Dirtiest, Low-Down Stuff”
Republicans claim the election was stolen. They use those claims to justify suppressing peopleβs right to vote. All of it happening amid a national reckoning…
▶️ Watch →Bag Man Bonus Episode: Indictment Edition
In 1973, in the throes of the Watergate scandal, three young federal prosecutors uncovered a separate criminal scheme being run inside the White House β…
▶️ Watch →Episode 4: βItβs a Very Short Pathβ
A new president with authoritarian tendencies packs the nationβs highest court, which then outlaws abortion β sparking not just a backlash, but a new coalition…
▶️ Watch →Episode 5: Taken for a Ride
As conservative governors try to score political points by depositing busloads and planeloads of migrants in liberal cities, it can seem like an unprecedented exercise…
▶️ Watch →Episode 6: βHello America, this is Addis Ababa.β
An authoritarian ruler moves to invade a smaller country and take it for himself. People around the world rally to that countryβs defense. European and…
▶️ Watch →Chapter 4: The Battle of Newburgh
In 1961, city officials in Newburgh, New York, declared war on their poorest residents by proclaiming, without evidence, that the city was overrun by welfare…
▶️ Watch →Chapter 5: Profits and Perverse Incentives
Antoine Dukes is a natural born salesman. And when he started working for a for-profit welfare company, he figured it was a good way to…
▶️ Watch →Chapter 6: The Welfare to Temp Work Pipeline
Since the 1990s, most cash welfare recipients have been required to get a job or do mandated βwork activitiesβ to receive their monthly check. These…
▶️ Watch →The $80 Million Acre (from βHow We Surviveβ)
This week, weβre dropping into your feeds to tell you about another podcast we make here at Marketplace that we think Uncertain Hour listeners will…
▶️ Watch →Integration Generation (bonus episode from βUnlocking the Gatesβ)
In a new collaboration between Marketplace and APM Studios called βUnlocking the Gates,βΒ host Lee Hawkins investigates how a secret nighttime business deal unlocked the gates…
▶️ Watch →This is Democracy β Episode 324: Universities Today
In today’s episode, Jeremi and Zachary discuss how U.S. universities are changing, delving into shifts in campus political culture, administrative growth around DEI, viewpoint diversity…
Read full article βThis is Democracy β Episode 323: βChristian Nationβ?
This week, Jeremi and Zachary speak with Dr. Daniel Hummel to address the claim of the US as a “Christian Nation” by many of its…
Read full article βThis is Democracy β Episode 321: Hungarian Elections
This week, Zachary and Jeremi speak with UT Austin professor Lorinc Redei about Hungaryβs recent election, in which longtime prime minister Viktor OrbΓ‘n was defeated…
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