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Time to Stop Trashing the Luddites?

Subscribe to our podcast to listen on your favorite podcast platform. Twenty-three minutes. That’s how long it takes for your brain to refocus after shifting from one task to the next. Check your email, glance...

Right or Wrong Polls Aren’t Good

Subscribe to our podcast to listen on your favorite podcast platform. Who were the biggest losers of the midterms? The media! wrote Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank November 9. The vast majority of political journalists were...

Democrats Miss the Message

Subscribe to our podcast to listen on your favorite podcast platform. Win, lose or draw, the allure of the “white working class voter” never dulls for big D Democrats. Whatever happens in election season, the party’s...
Election Deniers Aren't Born, They're Bred

Election Deniers Aren’t Born, They’re Bred

Subscribe to our podcast to listen on your favorite podcast platform. Here’s a term that’s messing with our thinking: election denier. As the midterm race enters its final weeks, that phrase is turning up in...

A.M. Homes’ The Unfolding: On War and Also Walking Away

Subscribe to our podcast to listen on your favorite podcast platform. This summer we learned that the largest-ever political donation — $1.6b in shares of an about-to-be-sold business — was given to a non-profit set...
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Democracy is Under Siege in Small Town USA

Subscribe to our podcast to listen on your favorite podcast platform. Can a racist coup happen in America? I was in Wilmington, North Carolina on the day the congressional hearings into the events of January...

Extreme Supremes Have Something Against Bodies

Subscribe to our podcast to listen on your favorite podcast platform. “Tribal governments can do what states and the federal government cannot.” That comment, from Wes Martel of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition gave me comfort...
F-Word: From SCOTUS to Shireen: Linda Sarsour: Same Extremism. Same Threat.

From SCOTUS to Shireen: Linda Sarsour: Same Extremism. Same Threat.

Subscribe to our podcast to listen on your favorite podcast platform. I don't know about you but so many things seem to be happening all at once in our world right now that it feels...

Inflating Hopes & Dreams in Manchin Country?

Subscribe to our podcast to listen on your favorite podcast platform. Something exciting is happening in McDowell County, West Virginia. There, in what used to be coal country, the American Federation of Teachers is leading...

Russia: A Nation of Informers. Texas Too?

Subscribe to our podcast to listen on your favorite podcast platform. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has a lot of people thinking about authoritarianism. It’s sometimes described as strongman rule, but it’s not exactly that....

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