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Air Date 9/6/2024 We're living in the world that dark money in politics and Citizen's United built. But since that... more
Original Air Date: 10/16/2018 Today we take a look at the distant and recent history of conservatism in America and... more
Air Date: 9-1-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - The ever-stranger headlines about RFK Jr. ...and dead animals... more
Air Date 8/30/2024 Israel's assault on Gaza is fueled by pain, rage, trauma... a desire for safety, a desire for... more
Air Date 8/27/2024 People feel lots of ways about immigration. Sometimes it's fear of the other, other times it's not... more
Air Date 8/23/2024 The vibes of this election are nothing anyone could have predicted a month ago. And yet, some... more
Original Air Date: 8/23/2023 For decades, we have rightly been focused on dialing back endemic misogyny and poking holes in... more
Air Date: 8-19-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - How we likely all have COVID and can't believe... more
Air Date 8/17/2024 James Baldwin's 100th birthday passed by recently and we're using the occasion to draw on his moral... more
Air Date 8/13/2024 Spirits among Kamala Harris supporters, Democrats, and anyone opposing Trumpism are at an all-time high right now.... more
BestOfTheLeft.com/Support (Hear the Full Show, Members Get Bonus Shows + No Ads!) Air Date: 8-11-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon, and... more
Original Air Date: 2/8/2019 Amid the ongoing fallout of a contested presidential election, we take a look back, briefly, at... more
Air Date 8/6/2024 After the recent Supreme Court ruling that allowed governments to constitutionally purge unhoused people from public spaces,... more
BestOfTheLeft.com/Support (Hear the Full Show, Members Get Bonus Shows + No Ads!) Air Date: 8-4-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and... more
Air Date 8/2/2024 The Kamala Harris presidential campaign has been on a wild ride since it unexpectedly began less than... more
Air Date 7/30/2024 The Republican Party is making it sound like they're trying to transform themselves into the party of... more
BestOfTheLeft.com/Support (Hear the Full Show, Members Get Bonus Shows + No Ads!) Air Date: 7-29-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and... more
Air Date 7/26/2024 It's clear where the vast majority of violent rhetoric is coming from in the country and it's... more
Original Air Date: 11/15/2022 Today, we take a look at our extremely steady history of political violence from the Revolution,... more
Air Date: 7-21-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda, and Deon (Erin couldn't join us) discuss: - Deon's hatred of old people -... more
Air Date 7/20/2024 Extremism comes in many forms and we live in an era in which way too many of... more
Air Date 7/17/2024 Recent elections in the UK, France and Mexico spanned the spectrum from confirming inevitabilities to completely upending... more
BestOfTheLeft.com/Support (Hear the Full Show, Members Get Bonus Shows + No Ads!) Air Date: 7-14-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda, and Deon... more
Air Date 7/12/2024 From solar scams to controversial congestion pricing and the smart grid that's needed to connect it all,... more
Original Air Date: 2/5/2019 Today we take a look at the history of FDR's "Four Freedoms" and "Economic Bill of... more
Air Date: 7-7-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - Some stuff that we planned and A LOT more... more
Air Date 7/5/2024 China is an undeniable force in the world relating to several major political issues and to address... more
Air Date 7/2/2024 Border security around the world continues to take turns for the dark and dystopian as right-wing sentiment... more
Air Date: 6-30-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - the baffling trend of tech companies using cautionary tales... more
Air Date 6/28/2024 AI, like all new technologies, won't be all good or all bad. In fact, my favorite understanding... more
Original Air Date: 10/23/2023 The people who want to pull the country in directions that are only supported by a... more
Air Date: 6-23-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - The Kidult trend in depth (since we had to... more
Air Date 6/21/2024 The European elections could have been worse but they weren't great. Shifting politics among mainstream parties is... more
Original Air Date: 12/11/2021 Today we take a look at the many structures of American government that tilt to favor... more
Air Date: 6-16-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - The importance of unsupervised playtime for children and why... more
Air Date 6/14/2024 We're in the middle of Supreme Court opinion season, which is not going well for non-extreme conservatives... more
Air Date 6/11/2024 Democracies don't break all of a sudden in a moment of crisis, they fail slowly over time... more
Air Date: 06-09-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - how focusing on the "politics" of an event trivializes... more
Air Date 6/7/2024 Banning abortion is wildly unpopular and also one of the primary motivators for the group most strongly... more
Air Date 6/4/2024 The problems that arise within the systems of sports are the same problems we all face everywhere... more
Air Date: 6-2-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - How one MIT study used AI to reduce belief... more
Original Air Date: 9/19/2017 Today we look not so much at hurricanes and the climate science behind them (though we... more
Air Date 5/28/2024 Today we look at the most disappointing yet most idolized false heroes of our day, the titans... more
Air Date: 5-26-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - the con of supply and demand economics being about... more
Air Date 5/24/2024 Assessing the impacts of new diet drugs on physical and mental health in the context of our... more
Air Date 5/21/2024 Whether by the US government playing matchmaker for the domestic weapons industry or through the illegal trade... more
Original Air Date: 5/9/2015 Today we take a look at the continuing failure that is the War on Drugs™ as... more
BestOfTheLeft.com/Support (Hear the Full Show, Members Get Bonus Shows + No Ads!) Air Date: 5-16-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and... more
Air Date 5/15/2024 In an age of cultish in-group/out-group politics and media, we seek to find messaging for progressive partisans... more
Air Date 5/11/2024 The effort to turn theory into practice that will open up new ways of thinking about antitrust... more
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Air Date 5/15/2024 In an age of cultish in-group/out-group politics and media, we seek to find messaging for progressive partisans to achieve... more