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#1460 The Growing Threat of Minority Rule (Throwback)
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2024-06-18
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Bonus Sample #308 Let the Kids (and Adults) Play
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2024-06-16
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#1636 The Supreme Court Is In Bad Shape. Like, Really Bad. And SCOTUS Is Going To Take Us All Down With Them
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2024-06-14
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#1635 Democracy on the Decline: The US is not alone in facing threats to democracy, others countries are showing how democracies fail
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2024-06-11
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Bonus Sample #307 Uncertain and Powerless
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2024-06-09
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#1634 Abortion as the Tip of the Iceberg: the fight for privacy, bodily autonomy, and functional democracy after Dobbs overturning Roe v Wade
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2024-06-07
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#1633 Fights for Fair Pay, Journalism vs Sensationalism, Billionaire Bailouts, and Addiction Capitalism: Sports are a Microcosm of the Ills of Society
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2024-06-04
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Bonus Edition #305 Solved It! Conspiracy Theorists, Comment Sections, and Trump
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2024-06-02
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#1134 Unnatural Disasters (Hurricanes and Humans) (Throwback)
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2024-05-31
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#1632 SiliCON Valley: The False Promises, Enshittification Economics, and Misguided Adventures of the Twits of Tech
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2024-05-28
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Bonus Sample #304 Not everything that counts can be counted
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2024-05-26
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#1631 Body Neutrality in the World of Ozempic: Reassessing Weight, Body Positivity, Physical and Mental Health, and even the Economics of Body Size
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2024-05-24
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#1630 Unrivaled Global Arms Dealer: Officially and Illegally Exporting the US Gun Culture Around the World
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2024-05-21
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#929 Looking to avert further tragedy (War on Drugs™) (Throwback)
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2024-05-19
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Bonus Sample #303 At the Carwash: Living in a World Not Built for Humans
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2024-05-17
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#1629 Hitting Where it Hurts in Our Era of Negative Partisanship: Messaging left-wing politics amid cultish politics
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2024-05-15
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#1628 New Era of Antitrust for a New Era of Capitalism, Mega-Corporations and Big Tech
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2024-05-12
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#1627 Campus Protests and the Crackdown: Civil resistance against Israeli genocide in Gaza, responses from university presidents to Biden
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2024-05-07
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Bonus Sample #302 Satire requires a clarity of purpose and target lest it be mistaken for and contribute to that which it intends to criticize.
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2024-05-05
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#1626 Remix - Protest Crackdown: Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand and the Response is Predictable
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2024-05-03
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