We've Got Issues
135 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsFocusing on issues, not tweets, Joshua Holland talks politics and culture with newsmakers, journalists and academics.
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Thom Hartmann: This is what a fascist American government would look like
June 10, 2022 04:00 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBThis week, Joshua Holland offers a few easy predictions for the first hearings of the January 6 Select Committee. Then, if a far-reaching executive order to ramp up America's renewable energy production falls in the forest, does it make a sound? Maya Golden-Krasner, deputy director of the Center for Biological Diversity's Climate Law Institute, tells us all about an encouragingly bold move the Biden administration made this week on climate that barely registered as a news story. And then ...
Will Bunch: Uvalde cops 'illustrated what policing in America is really like'
June 03, 2022 04:00 - 52 minutes - 48 MBThis week, Joshua Holland kicks off the show noting that Canadian security experts are becoming nervous about the potential for their big, heavily armed neighbors to the South to experience democratic collapse--and warn that America's conservative media is helping fuel a rise in right-wing extremism that's now dribbling over the border. Then we speak with Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch about what the horrific slaughter of 19 children in a Texas elementary school tells us about t...
Ari Rabin-Havt on campaigning with Bernie and swimming with sharks
May 27, 2022 04:00 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MBThis week, we're joined by Ari Rabin-Havt, a longtime advisor to Sen. Bernie Sanders--and the progressive firebrand's deputy campaign manager in 2020--to talk about his book, The Fighting Soul: On the Road with Bernie Sanders, and his love of diving with and photographing sharks. (Check out some of Ari's amazing images of these beautiful and misunderstood animals here.) Then we're joined by Laura Chapin, who has had enough of DC pundits lecturing people who have long been fighting for the r...
Jeff Sharlet: Racist massacres are infectious by design
May 20, 2022 04:00 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBThis week, Joshua Holland kicks off the show with a look at what he argues is the most destructive myth in America: that white people will soon be a minority of the population. Then we're joined by author and journalist Jeff Sharlet to discuss the latest outbreak of white supremacist violence--this week's terror attack in Buffalo--and why these horrors keep happening. And last but not least, Lindsay Owens, executive director of The Groundwork Collaborative, tells us that while Americans a...
Joan Walsh: The elite panic over 'civility' obscures growing GOP extremism
May 13, 2022 04:00 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBThis week, Joshua Holland kicks off the show with a roundup of recent news from America's thin blue line--and the corrupt police culture those stories reveal. Then we are joined by Joan Walsh, The Nation's national affairs correspondent, to talk about her latest column, "F*&k Civility!" Joan pushes back on the maddeningly bipartisan effort to paint peaceful pro-choice protesters as a threat to Supreme Court justices' safety. Playlist Durand Jones & The Indications: "Is It Any Wonder?" S...
Women in red states advised to hide pregnancies ahead of Supreme Court ruling
May 06, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 58 MBAs an author, activist and operations director at a women's health clinic in the deep South, Robin Marty knows more about the abortion wars than anyone. She joins us this week to talk about how a maximalist Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v Wade would have far-reaching impacts on people in blue states as well as those living under Republican rule. Then we speak with Michael Tomasky, the editor of The New Republic, about Democrats' hesitancy to describe the American right's assaults on...
Does Putin believe his own conspiracy theories? | Why the next Marine Le Pen could win
April 29, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 59 MBThis week, we speak with the authors of two New York Times opinion pieces, published in the past week, that look at different aspects of the authoritarian far-right in Europe. First, Ilya Yablokov, a lecturer at the University of Sheffield and author of “Fortress Russia: Conspiracy Theories in the Post-Soviet World,” tells us that Vladimir Putin once used propaganda instrumentally to maintain support at home, but he and his inner circle appear to believe their own conspiracy theories now--a...
The scary link between Tucker Carlson's testicle tanning and authoritarianism
April 22, 2022 04:00 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MBThis week, we take another dive into the fever swamps! First up, Muckrake Podcast co-host Jared Yates Sexton joins us to talk about Tucker Carlson's bizarre new obsession with America's entirely imaginary "masculinity crisis." Sexton warns that while Carlson's new program, The End of Men, is easy to mock--and indeed, was designed to earn liberal derision--it fits into a long historical pattern of right-wing movements capitalizing on male insecurity to recruit new members and prepare them t...
Oliver Willis: The Dems are sleep-walking their way to oblivion
April 15, 2022 04:00 - 50 minutes - 46 MBThis week, Joshua Holland kicks off the show with a look at Texas Governor Greg Abbott's performative approach to governing--and the very real harms it's causing all of us. Then we're joined by Oliver Willis, senior writer at The American Independent, to talk about the sad state of play heading into the 2022 midterms, and help us figure out why neither the Democrats nor the legacy media seem to have a sense of urgency as we watch American democracy teeter on the brink of collapse. Playlis...
Progressives are finally learning how to make their case to rural America
April 01, 2022 04:00 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MBJoshua Holland kicks off this week's show with a look at how the media are sucking up to insurrectionist Republicans in anticipation of Democratic losses in the upcoming midterms. He also argues that Trump's social media venture, ironically called "Truth Social," has been a smashing success and considers some stunningly clueless punditry about Russia's disastrous assault on Ukraine. Then we are joined by Jaisal Noor, a correspondent with The Real News Network, to talk about his series of r...
Elie Mystal: Let's stop worshipping the 'slavers' Constitution'
March 25, 2022 04:00 - 52 minutes - 48 MBJoshua Holland kicks off this week's show with a look at why the war in Ukraine is likely to be intractable for a long while to come. (We hope he got this one wrong.) Then we're joined by Elie Mystal, The Nation's justice correspondent and author of the new book, Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution, to talk about this week's confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson and why a good Constitution wouldn't require us to keep fighting overt basic rights for o...
Are right-wing culture warriors shooting blanks? | The Red State murder wave
March 18, 2022 04:00 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBThis week, Joshua Holland kicks off the show with a look at a new study which found that living in states governed by Republicans can have serious consequences for your health. Then we're joined by Have You Heard co-host Jennifer Berkshire, who reported for The Nation that the GOP and some deep-pocketed astroturf groups tried out a key midterm strategy in New Hampshire school board races last week--running against "critical race theory" and school mask mandates and other contrived grievanc...
Red states turn their assaults on minorities up to 11
March 11, 2022 05:00 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBJoshua Holland kicks off this week's show with a look at an effort by Idaho Republicans to take over a local Democratic Party and destroy it from within. Then we're joined by University of Maryland political scientist Brian Grodsky to talk about the potential pitfalls inherent in the most punishing sanctions regime the world has ever pursued in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. And then we welcome Jessica Mason Pieklo, executive editor of the Rewire Newsgroup and co-host of Boom,...
When the KKK managed public health | Ukraine shockwaves just beginning
March 04, 2022 05:00 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MBThis week, Joshua Holland welcomes Global Dispatches host Mark Leon Goldberg to talk about how Russia's invasion of Ukraine is spurring a rapid and dramatic reorganization of the international order and is poised to send shockwaves through the global economy. Then we are joined by Muhlenberg College historian Jacqueline Antonovich who recently unearthed the largely forgotten history of the Ku Klux Klan's deep involvement with public healthcare and symbiotic relationship with many prominent...
The far left and hard right agree: Ukraine is all about Joe Biden
February 25, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBThis week, Joshua Holland kicks off the show with a look at how a tough primary contest is pushing Texas Governor Greg Abbott to launch a brutal assault on not only transgender kids, but also their parents and doctors. Then we are joined by Heather Hurlburt, director of New America's New Models of Policy Change project, to talk about what caused Russia to invade Ukraine, what the consequences might be and how the shallow foreign policy discourse in the US does a poor job of informing Ameri...
What one young Republican learned in Mississippi’s only CRT class
February 18, 2022 05:00 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBThis week, Joshua Holland kicks off the show explaining why you should take the lazy punditry to come as we approach the midterms with more than a grain of salt. Then Mississippi Today’s Molly Minta tells us about what a stalwart young conservative in one of America’s reddest states discovered when she actually looked into what Critical Race Theory is really about. And then economic writer Noah Berlatsky joins us to separate inflation fact from inflation fiction. Playlist 5 Years Time:...
Ryan Grim on the killing of Amir Locke | US-style grievances are fueling Canada's trucksurrection
February 11, 2022 05:00 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBThis week, Ryan Grim, The Intercept's DC bureau chief, joins us to talk about the parallels between the police slaying of Amir Locke in Minnesota last week and the killing of Breonna Taylor in Louisville two years ago, and run down America's long history of trampling on African Americans' right to defend themselves. Then we talk to Grid Misinformation Reporter Anya van Wagtendonk about the far-right truckers laying siege to Ottawa, some curious and inauthentic organizing surrounding the pr...
Why do American police agencies have veto power over investigations into dirty cops?
February 04, 2022 05:00 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBThis week, Joshua Holland gets a thing or two off his chest about the widespread belief that you can just wish away a historic public health crisis that is very much ongoing, and about the press's discomfort blaming right-wing propaganda for drawing out the Coronavirus pandemic. Then we're joined by Eric Umansky, deputy managing editor at ProPublica. In 2019, Eric stumbled across a story when his family witnessed an incident in which some Black children were abused by the NYPD. Eric has fo...
The eye-opening humiliation of being a young fascist
January 28, 2022 05:00 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MBJoshua Holland kicks off this week's show laying out why he's ultimately bullish on American democracy--if decent people stay engaged. Then we're joined by Greg Sargent of the Washington Post to put the slew of vague, sloppily written gag orders that Republicans are passing across the country in order to whitewash history into a larger context. And then Vice Senior Writer Tess Owen gives us insights from a massive leak of internal texts from the neofascist youth group Patriot Front. It ...
How America can avoid a new civil war
January 21, 2022 05:00 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MBJoshua Holland kicks off this week's show with a couple of developments in the quest for accountability for the MAGA coup attempt. Then we are joined by Marquette University political scientist Julia Azari to talk about the unique challenges Joe Biden has faced in the first year of his presidency, and the reasons why the conventional wisdom about the upcoming midterms could prove to be wrong. Finally, Lee Drutman, a lecturer at Johns Hopkins and fellow at New America, explains why America...
Researcher finds largest divide ever between whites and Blacks over fear of police
January 14, 2022 05:00 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBThis week, Joshua Holland kicks off the show with a look at the first sedition charges filed in relation to the January 6 coup attempt, and stunning new charges that Republican officials submitted forged election documents in an attempt to keep Trump in power. Then we're joined by Justin Pickett, a professor of criminal justice at SUNY Albany, to discuss his new research examining fear of police violence across different communities and how the perception that the cops are a serious danger...
Marcy Wheeler: DOJ 'getting closer' to proving Trump attempted a coup
January 07, 2022 05:00 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBJoshua Holland kicks off this week's show with a look at yet another example of the right-wing-cop-to-conservative-media feedback loop. This time, it's new revelations about the Seattle police. Then we are joined by legal analyst Marcy Wheeler to talk about the sprawling prosecutorial efforts to bring the perpetrators of the January 6 attack, and the attempted coup surrounding it, to justice. Wheeler pushes back on critics who say the Department of Justice is only focused on bringing the MA...
Historian: Civil war is not the worst-case scenario for America's future
December 24, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBJoshua Holland kicks off this week's show with some important good news from the frontline in our battle for American democracy--and a warning. Then we are joined by Dr. William Horne, a post-doctorate fellow at Villanova and the founder and editor of The Activist History Review, to talk about why even talk of another civil war doesn't necessarily capture the worst-case scenario for the United States. Playlist Ramones: "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)" RUN DMC: "Christmas...
Ex-US prosecutor believes DOJ will prosecute Trump for coup attempt
December 17, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 60 MBJoshua Holland kicks off this week's show with a look at several efforts to sue the Proud Boys and other violent extremist groups into oblivion. Then we're joined by former Assistant US Attorney Richard Signorelli to talk about some of the recent revelations about events surrounding MAGA's attempted January 6 coup. Signorelli tells us that he's frustrated that the Department of Justice hasn't already pursued charges against Trump but believes that what we've learned from the House's Januar...
'Labor shortage' or a revolt by America's fed-up workers?
December 10, 2021 05:00 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MBJoshua Holland kicks off this week's show with a look at some of the problems that are plaguing the 4,000 bored national guard troops who were sent to the Mexican border by Red State governors to serve as props in the right's propaganda war against the Biden administration. Then we are joined by David Dayen, the executive editor of The American Prospect, to discuss his in-depth piece on how the pandemic has spurred millions of American workers to say 'enough is enough' and strike, quit the...
Meet the Real Robed Tyrants
December 03, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 64.5 MBJoshua Holland kicks off this week with some rare good news coming out of Georgia, a state undergoing a dramatic political shift. Then we are joined by veteran journalist Kaili Joy Gray to recap this week's arguments at The Supreme Court that are almost certain to lead to Roe v Wade being overturned and millions of women being denied access to vital reproductive healthcare because of someone else's religious beliefs. Finally, University of Maine political scientist Amy Fried talks to us ...
Mary Trump: 'Donald is one of the most boring people who's ever lived'
November 19, 2021 05:00 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBJoshua Holland kicks off this week's show recounting how his much-needed vacation turned out to be an awkward MAGA cruise. Then we are joined by Mary Trump, who answers the pressing question of which Trump spawn is the dumbest, explains how someone who has enjoyed a pampered life of privilege like Donald Trump could be so full of resentment and says that her uncle's carefully curated media image was largely his father's creation. Playlist Wannadies: "Blister In The Sun" Eek A Mouse: "Ru...
Undercover activist Lauren Windsor on her thriving crusade to expose GOP liars
November 12, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 71.6 MBGuest host Michael Rogers is joined by activist Lauren Windsor to talk about how her team has used undercover video to expose the lies of public officials. Then Raw Story founder John Byrne discusses new reporting on the dark underbelly of TikTok. Playlist Bruce Springsteen: "Born in the U.S.A." Bruce Springsteen: "Born to Run"
Is the fix in on the Kyle Rittenhouse trial?
November 05, 2021 04:00 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MBThis week, Joshua Holland kicks off the show with a small rant about the right-wing scare campaign around what they call "Critical Race Theory." Then we're joined by WaPo's Paul Waldman to help us sift through the flood of lazy punditry that has followed this week's off-year elections. And then Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch talks to us about what is really at stake in the trial of accused murderer and right-wing folk hero Kyle Rittenhouse--and offers some alarming details abou...
'Constitutional Sheriffs': Another reactionary threat to American democracy
October 29, 2021 04:00 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBIs it possible to enact $4 trillion in new spending on popular policies and piss everyone off in the process? Joshua Holland kicks off this week's show noting that Democrats are poised to achieve the unlikely feat. Then we're joined by David Pepper, former chair of the Ohio Democratic Party, to talk about his new book, Laboratories of Autocracy: A Wake-Up Call from Behind the Lines. It's a siren warning that if we don't pay a lot more attention to state and local politics, we will pay a st...
An armed Black militia claimed it stood against tyranny — the backlash was swift
October 22, 2021 04:00 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MBJoshua Holland kicks off this week's show with a rundown of the many lawsuits and scandals swirling around Facebook and its senior leadership. It's possible that the company that has contributed so much to the decline of liberal democracy may finally be facing a reckoning. Then we are joined by USA Today reporter Will Carless to talk about the Not Fucking Around Coalition, a black militia that grabbed headlines and caused a lot of controversy during the summer of Black Lives Matter protest...
'Accountability is coming': Greg Sargent on the Jan. 6 Select Committee
October 15, 2021 04:00 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBJoshua Holland kicks off this week's show with a look at an internal Department of Homeland Security report detailing how senior officials politicized the agency's response to Black Lives Matter protests in Portland, Oregon and directed DHS intelligence personnel to embrace bogus right-wing conspiracy theories about antifa. We then continue to focus on Portland with Nation contributor Zoë Carpenter, who wrote about how the right's relentless propaganda about The Rose City's supposed crises...
Empathy battles schadenfreude when anti-vaxxers die from Covid
October 01, 2021 04:00 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MBThis week, Joshua Holland kicks off the show with his ongoing quest to find some positive developments in our dystopian present. Then we are joined by Lili Loofbourow to talk about the growing popularity and moral ambiguity of the Herman Cain Awards, which chronicle the Covid deaths of hardcore anti-vaxxers and belligerent anti-maskers in great detail. And finally veteran border reporter Melissa del Bosque joins us to explain how Border Patrol officials work with right-wing media outlets...
Saving Democracy Isn't Sexy
September 24, 2021 04:00 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MBJoshua Holland kicks off this week arguing that getting stressed out by the endless stories about the Democratic agenda teetering on the precipice isn't going to help--and offers some reasons to be optimistic they'll get a big package of good stuff through. Then we speak with HuffPost Senior Reporter Jennifer Bendery about the Biden Administration's early successes making the federal judiciary more reflective of America after four years of Trump appointing mostly white, male wingnuts to th...
MAGA sets its sights on another key democracy | Lessons from the CA recall
September 17, 2021 04:00 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBJoshua Holland kicks off this week's show with a look at some fresh crime statistics that blow up some of the media's favorite narratives. Then we're joined by HuffPost reporter Travis Waldron to talk about the growing ties between key figures in the MAGA movement and their allies in Brazil, which is standing up to a very Trumpian threat to its young democracy. Finally, Democratic strategist Dante Atkins tells us about what lessons we should take away from California Governor Gavin New...
How the rural North came to embrace the Confederacy
September 10, 2021 04:00 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBThis week, Joshua Holland kicks off the show with a report from Portland, where locals argue with their Fox News-loving parents over whether their city has really been burned to the ground--and fail to convince them that it hasn't. Then we are joined by Will Wilkinson, a senior fellow, at the Progressive Policy Institute, to talk about how America's growing urban-rural divide--and rural America's embrace of Southern Culture--are redrawing our ideological battle lines from their traditional ...
Disinformation expert: We're witnessing a 'global far-right power-grab'
September 03, 2021 04:00 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBBelieve it or not, Joshua Holland has yet more grievances with the mainstream media's coverage of the Afghanistan withdrawal, and he kicks off this week's show airing them. Then we are joined by Imani Gandy, Rewire News Group's senior legal editor, to talk about how Texas Republicans are effectively banning abortion. No matter how extreme and ridiculous you thought this new law was, Imani will surprise you with some of the details. A really creative but of wingnuttery. Then we speak with ...
Here's what people who take Covid seriously should know about their risk with Delta
August 27, 2021 04:00 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBThis week, we are joined once again by Dr. Stephanie Langel from Duke University's Center for Human Systems Immunology. But this time, we're going to change things up a bit and ignore the loud minority who "do their own research" on Youtube and focus instead on what people who take Covid seriously should know about this new phase of the pandemic. Then we welcome Eric Boehlert, founder and editor of Press Run, back to the show to talk about why ostensibly neutral journalists feel so comfort...
America's pro-war press is losing its collective mind over Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal
August 20, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBThis week, Joshua Holland kicks off the show arguing that political reporters' desperate desire to prove to their critics on the right that they weren't biased against Donald Trump is leading many of them to create a narrative of crisis around the Biden administration. Working the refs is as effective as ever. Then we decided to go outside the box and welcome a guest to discuss Afghanistan who doesn't have undisclosed ties to the defense industry and isn't an advocate for permanent war. Ste...
Tucker Carlson is mainstreaming the far-right's infatuation with Viktor Orbán
August 13, 2021 04:00 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MBThis week, Joshua Holland kicks off the show with an accountability moment and a look at some things that he got so very wrong this week. Then Michigan Advance Editor-in-Chief Susan Demas joins us to talk about how responsible Americans are losing their patience with the anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers who are prolonging the Covid-19 pandemic and potentially threatening the rest of us with new variants. And finally, journalist and author Sarah Posner discusses the religious right's infatua...
How the pandemic broke your brain (and how to fix it)
August 06, 2021 04:00 - 50 minutes - 46 MBThis week, we speak with science writer (and brain expert) Dana Smith about how the relentless stress and isolation of the Covid-19 crisis may have altered our brains in ways that really help explain a lot about what many people have experienced over the past year and a half. The good news is that the old noodle is really resilient, and Smith offers some insights into how we can help it heal. Then we are joined by Lindsay Owens, executive director of The Groundwork Collaborative, to get us...
Neofascists are putting in the work to change America -- will their opponents do the same?
July 30, 2021 04:00 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBJoshua Holland kicks off this week's show with a warning to be very skeptical about the press shoe-horning local races for office into their favorite national political narratives. Then we are joined by author and political analyst Jared Yates Sexton to talk about the harrowing early testimony before the House's January 6 Commission, the right's flexibility when it comes to supporting the police and why the MAGA insurrection provided the right with an opportunity to pull back from the bri...
Why have Republicans and their media allies failed to lay a glove on Joe Biden?
July 23, 2021 04:00 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBJoshua Holland kicks off this week's show with a look at some troubling polling for the Republican Party--and for American democracy. Then we're joined by Parker Molloy to talk about how the last four years of chaos may have altered the American media landscape--and why the GOP has struggled to get traction for their endless contrived scandals. And then we speak with Arkansas-based journalist Monica Potts about her piece in The Atlantic, "My Community Refuses to Get Vaccinated. Now Delta ...
Biden, Dems move a bold progressive agenda toward the end zone
July 16, 2021 04:00 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MBThis week, Joshua Holland kicks off the show with an important correction to some lazy journalism about inflation--and to the destructive conventional wisdom that it is fuelling. Then we are joined by Seth Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and former advisor to Barack Obama, to discuss the $3.5 trillion infrastructure and jobs framework that Senate Democrats agreed to this week. It is, as Joe Biden said of Obamacare, a big f**king deal. Finally, we speak with jou...
How to beat back a soft coup
July 09, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBThis week, Joshua Holland kicks off the show with a modest rant about the ludicrous idea that social media companies are stifling conservative voices. Then Billy Corriher, author of Usurpers: How voters stopped the GOP takeover of North Carolina's courts, joins us to discuss how North Carolina became the target of a Trumpian putsch years before Trump arrived on the scene, and how the effort was beaten back by a broad pro-democracy coalition. Corriher explains how other red states are follow...
Can Republicans' latest racial panic deliver them a midterm win?
June 25, 2021 04:00 - 39 minutes - 36 MBThis week, Joshua Holland kicks off the show with some surprising new data on how deeply entrenched Trump's stolen election narrative has become on the right. Then we're joined by Jeet Heer, national affairs correspondent for The Nation and Substacker, to talk about the right's heavily astroturfed campaign to terrify their voters to the polls with the specter of "Critical Race Theory." Will it work this time? It has in the past, but there are some important reasons to think it might not be ...
Ammon Bundy is poised to ignite America's next violent insurrection
June 18, 2021 04:00 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBThis week, we have a special double-segment with Devin Burghart, the executive director of the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights. Devin and his colleagues have been tracking the rise of Ammon Bundy's sprawling anti-government movement called "People's Rights," which is spoiling for another standoff with the federal government over a water rights dispute in the Klamath Basin in Oregon. Burghart says the group is developing into a kind of "Uber of the militia movement" with it...
Anthropologist explains today's far-right: 'Fascism is scary because it can transform itself'
June 11, 2021 04:00 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBTwenty-five years ago, Carl Sagan worried that America was sliding into idiocracy. Joshua Holland kicks off this week's show with a look at whether he was prescient. Then we're joined by journalist Rachel Cohen to talk about the spike in homicides and gun violence that America has seen in recent years, and look at some good and not-so-good explanations for why it's happening. Finally, we speak with anthropologist and filmmaker Sarah Riccardi-Swarz on her study of the growing fascist thre...
Inside the right-wing smear machine targeting Black Lives Matter
June 04, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBThis week, Joshua Holland kicks off the show with a look at a new study that helps explain how disinformation spreads so much faster and further than real news. Then we're joined by Heather "Digby" Parton to talk about how the Democrats don't seem to have the sense of urgency about safeguarding American democracy that this moment calls for. And then The Intercept's Robert Mackey talks about his investigation into "The Riot Squad," an informal group of videographers who feed the right-win...
Right-wing doctors are fighting to keep your kids unvaccinated
May 28, 2021 04:00 - 51 minutes - 46.8 MBJoshua Holland kicks off this week's show by administering a much-needed dose of reality to the discourse around Black Lives Matter protests. Then we're joined by journalist and author Audrey Clare Farley to talk about her piece in The New Republic about right-wing priests weaponizing Catholic rites against the left--and in support of the Blue Lives Matter crowd. And then Stephanie Mencimer from Mother Jones tells us about a new group of crank physicians that's joined forces with a motle...