Episodes

Monday Oct 18, 2021
What‘s wrong with the U.S. economy, honestly?
Monday Oct 18, 2021
Monday Oct 18, 2021
Not the pandemic. Not inflation. Not the global supply chain. The deep problem, says Peter Barnes, is a set of property rules that fails to recognize our co-inherited wealth.

Friday Oct 08, 2021
Forget Facebook (Ethan Zuckerman)
Friday Oct 08, 2021
Friday Oct 08, 2021
With Congress weighing a host of plans to curb the social-media giant, Ethan Zuckerman and his colleagues are laying the technological foundation of a whole new social-media universe. (Originally recorded in May 2021.)

Thursday Sep 30, 2021
The 2022 Elections (Mike Lux)
Thursday Sep 30, 2021
Thursday Sep 30, 2021
Handicapping and mobilizing for the midterms after a tough summer.

Wednesday Sep 22, 2021
A Civilian Climate Corps? (Neil Maher)
Wednesday Sep 22, 2021
Wednesday Sep 22, 2021
Congress will soon decide the fate and shape of legislation to (among many other things) create a modern-day CCC. The historian Neil Maher looks back at the profound political as well as environmental benefits of the original corps. (This episode was first cast in March 2021.)

Tuesday Sep 14, 2021
The Senate (Adam Jentleson)
Tuesday Sep 14, 2021
Tuesday Sep 14, 2021
The Republicans have rendered one chamber of Congress dysfunctional. What do we do about it?

Thursday Sep 09, 2021
Reconciliation Time (David Sirota)
Thursday Sep 09, 2021
Thursday Sep 09, 2021
The Biden administration has packed much of its domestic agenda into one giant package of legislation. The next few weeks could decide its fate.

Friday Sep 03, 2021
Can Blue America Talk to Red America? (George Goehl)
Friday Sep 03, 2021
Friday Sep 03, 2021
We've learned a thing or two about how to build support for progressive values and candidates in Trump country. (Originally recorded in May 2021.)

Wednesday Aug 25, 2021
The Quest for Multiracial Solidarity (Heather McGhee)
Wednesday Aug 25, 2021
Wednesday Aug 25, 2021
The author, activist and NBC News commentator spent three years exploring the costs of racism and mapping a path to economic justice for "The Sum of Us." (Originally cast on 1/25/21)

Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
Equality Imagined
Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
America was headed that way, not so long ago. What if we had stayed on course? A conversation with Sam Pizzigati, Sarah Anderson and Chuck Collins of the Institute for Policy Studies.

Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
Dreams and Scams (David Whitman)
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
The challenge of protecting students and taxpayers against predatory for-profit colleges.