Wide Awake America for 05/05/2026
Wide Awake America features authors, thinkers, change-makers, and witnesses discussing the toughest social and political topics with an eye open to the way forward.
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The AI End Game: How Work is Changing with Ethan Mollick
Should we think of AI as a co-intelligence and digital coworker rather than just a chatbot? Ethan Mollick, a professor at Wharton and author of…
▶️ Watch →The AI End Game: Two-Year-Olds vs. AI with Alison Gopnik
Tech billionaires love to claim that artificial intelligence is getting smarter by the day. But according to cognitive scientist and UC Berkeley professor Alison Gopnik,…
▶️ Watch →AI and the Public Good with Ezra Klein
Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing virtually every facet of our lives. While thereβs a lot of doom and gloom predictions, what does a futureΒ look like if…
▶️ Watch →The AI End Game: The Ethics of AI with Timnit Gebru
Timnit Gebru founded the Distributed AI Research Institute after her high-profile exit from Googleβs Ethical AI team. Sheβs been a vocal critic of the systemic…
▶️ Watch →The AI End Game: Is Your Chatbot Conscious?
David Chalmers, one of the most preeminent philosophers and researchers in cognitive science, argues that nothing prevents machines from becoming truly conscious. Chalmers, who has…
▶️ Watch →White Supremacy in the Classroom
This week, Danielle is looking back at some of her favorite conversations from the last few years of Woke AF Daily. Today, Danielle revisits a…
▶️ Watch →Beyond Unprecedented Times
This week, Danielle is looking back at some of her favorite conversations from the last few years of Woke AF Daily. To close out the…
▶️ Watch →Opportunities in Obstacles
Woke AF Daily producer Andrew Marshello returns to the guest seat one last time to look back with Danielle on seven years of Woke AF.…
▶️ Watch →Get Woke and Stay Woke AF
For seven years, Danielle Moodie has brought you the unvarnished truth. Now, it is time for rest and transformation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
▶️ Watch →White Supremacy and Creeping Fascism
This week, Danielle is looking back at some of her favorite conversations from the last few years of Woke AF Daily. Today, Danielle revisits one…
▶️ Watch →Ep. 141: Dr. Mary Trump on Escaping the Nightmare Black Hole That is the Age of Trump and the MAGAverse
This is special joint episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show and The Truth Report. Dr. Mary Trump is a clinical psychologist and businesswoman. She is…
▶️ Watch →Ep. 138: How Professional Wrestling Helps to Explain the Upcoming Debates Between President Biden and Aspiring Dictator Donald Trump
On this episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares a version of his recent essay at Salon, “How Professional Wrestling Helps to Explain the…
▶️ Watch →Ep. 139: Heather Cox Richardson Warns That We Can Still Stop Dictator Trump and the American Fascist Movement
Heather Cox Richardson is Professor of History at Boston College. She is the author of numerous books including her most recent, Democracy Awakening. Richardson’s Substack…
▶️ Watch →Ep. 140: Felon Donald Trump and The Mainstream News Media’s Dangerous Obsession With “The Vibes”
On this episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares a version of his recent essay at Salon, “Making sense of the post-Trump conviction polls”.…
▶️ Watch →Ep. 137: Glenn Kirschner Warns That (Convicted Felon) Donald Trump and the Republican Party MAGA Fascists Are Trying to Murder American Democracy
Last Thursday, Donald Trump was found “guilty” in his New York hush-money and election interference trial. He is now the first former or sitting president…
▶️ Watch →8647 Flag Flies High (feat. Brandon Brockmyer)
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026 Today, Californian, Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota head to the polls in the 2026 primaries; a federal…
▶️ Watch →Bring Back Shame (feat. Ophira Eisenberg)
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026 Today, Todd Blanche says DOJ isnβt moving forward with the $1.8B Slush Fund BUT that the βsettlementβ giving Trump and his…
▶️ Watch →SCOTUS Sanctioned Racism (feat. Ericka Kopp)
Thursday, June 4th, 2026 Today, the Supreme Court is allowing Alabama to use the racist map the they outlawed just three years ago; votes are…
▶️ Watch →Beans Talk | Hunter Biden Really Has the Hang of this Twitter Thing
Friday, June 5th, 2026 Hunter Biden Takes to Twitter Β Subscribe to the MSW YouTube Channel – MSW Media – YouTube Dr. Allison Gill –…
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