Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen
Democracy is not a spectator sport, it requires informed participating citizens. On Keeping Democracy Alive, we delve into dynamics that both inhibit democracy and reinvigorate it. looking into issues from: domestic economic issues to foreign, labor, trade, and education policy, NSA spying, the drug war, prison, police, and judicial issues, electoral and protest politics, middle east realities, right and left wing populism, environmental and energy issues, the wealth gap, and internet issues. Including such issues and movements as the Occupy Movement, Citizens United, safe energy, Jewish Voice for Peace, Agent Orange Relief and Responsibility Campaign, Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Spiritual Progressives, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, Foreign Policy In Focus, Institute for Policy Studies, Wealth for the Common Good, Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, BDS, Campaign for America’s Future, TransPacific Partnership, NORML and MPP, the OffNow Coalition, The World Bank and IMF, The Birch Society, and many more. We talk with authors of important new history books for insight into current dilemmas. The idea is to empower listeners with facts behind current problems and with specific opportunities for them to make positive change to revitalize democracyGuests of note include: Gore Vidal, George McGovern, Claire Conner, Medea Benjamin, Adam Hochschild, Ben Cohen, Bernie Sanders, Anna Gyorgy, Marjorie Cohn, Elias Isquith, Zaid Jilani, Merle Ratner, Peter Van Buren, Brian Kahn, Allen Brownfeld, Michael Hill, Joyce Horman, Debra Sweet, Ken Gloss, Zephyr Teachout, Rev. Bruce Shipman, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Steven Jonas, Alex Pareene, Michael Kazin, Richard Eskow, Patrick Smith, Jules Feffer, Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, Eric Zuesse, Guy Saperstein, Richard Rothstein, Chuck Collins, Astra Taylor, Bryan Stephenson, Margaret Flowqers, Kevin Zeese, Roger Hickey, Bob Borosage, Bruce Dancis, Philip Smith, Sean McElwee, Amanda Marcotte, Shane Trejo, Noam Chomsky, MJ Rosenberg, Hedrick Smith, Ellen Brown. Subscribe to RSS Feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/BurtCohen
Podcasts
2024: The Positive Breakdown of Rules Based Order.
Published: Jan. 2, 2024, 8:30 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 37 seconds
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The Rise and Stunning Fall of Moms for Liberty
Published: Dec. 29, 2023, 8:26 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 33 seconds
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The Cellphone Camera: The Power of Truth that Cant Be Stopped
Published: Dec. 27, 2023, 8:30 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 54 seconds
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Mainstream Jewish Americans Opposed Creation of Israel
Published: Dec. 20, 2023, 6:17 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 46 seconds
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Must our political leaders really be stars?
Published: Dec. 20, 2023, 3:50 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 8 seconds
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Must Our Politicians Be TV Stars?
Published: Dec. 20, 2023, 3:43 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 8 seconds
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The Self Serving Purpose of Philanthropy
Published: Dec. 15, 2023, 2:30 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 54 seconds
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The Case Before the SupCo That Could Hjiack a Wealth Tax
Published: Dec. 13, 2023, 7:11 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 2 seconds
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Who Defines the Jewish Self?
Published: Dec. 8, 2023, 6:45 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 19 seconds
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Parallels: Israel and India; Bibi and Modi
Published: Dec. 5, 2023, 6:22 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 58 seconds
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Israels American Objective: Create Fear Among Students
Published: Dec. 1, 2023, 8:51 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 49 seconds
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From 2016: Israel Conflates Religion with Nationalism
Published: Nov. 28, 2023, 8:20 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 46 seconds
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Palestine is Not The Only Middle East Nation Denied
Published: Nov. 22, 2023, 3:04 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 41 seconds
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Critical Race Theory: Scopes Trial Redux?
Published: Nov. 16, 2023, 9:30 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 47 seconds
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Rabbi in The West Bank Calls for Torat Tzedek, An End to Settler Brutality
Published: Nov. 9, 2023, 8:48 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 16 seconds
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The Left Can Win a Moral Revival
Published: Nov. 7, 2023, 9:14 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 43 seconds
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Powerful Left-Labor Coalition Emerging
Published: Nov. 2, 2023, 7:30 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 57 seconds
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Heather Cox Richardson: Yes, Democracy Is Awakening
Published: Oct. 31, 2023, 7:30 p.m.Duration: N/A
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Horror and Absurdity: Revisiting Kurt Vonneguts Slaughterhouse 5
Published: Oct. 26, 2023, 7:30 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 48 seconds
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The Rights Latest Target: Unmarried Women
Published: Oct. 24, 2023, 8 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 52 seconds
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The Mystery that is Cuban History
Published: Oct. 19, 2023, 7:33 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 34 seconds
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Wealth Supremacy is On Autopilot: Time to Change
Published: Oct. 17, 2023, 7:30 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 32 seconds
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The Useful Struggle for American Democracy
Published: Oct. 12, 2023, 7:50 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 34 seconds
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Racism Built Into Americas Medical System
Published: Oct. 10, 2023, 7:25 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 1 second
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Whos Your State Legislator? It Matters More Than You Think.
Published: Oct. 6, 2023, 7:45 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 8 seconds
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Is Water Not a Human Right?
Published: Oct. 3, 2023, 6:24 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 30 seconds
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Todays Gun Culture: The South Won
Published: Sept. 28, 2023, 7:30 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 49 seconds
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American Midnight: The Early 20th Century Model for Trump?
Published: Sept. 21, 2023, 9 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 4 seconds
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The Demise of Neoliberalism: Its About Real National Security.
Published: Sept. 20, 2023, 7:34 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 53 seconds
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Wither American Arts?
Published: Sept. 13, 2023, 10 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 57 seconds
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The First September 11th: 50 Years Ago
Published: Sept. 11, 2023, 1:28 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 2 seconds
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What Is Racial Capitalism?
Published: Sept. 7, 2023, 5:57 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 9 seconds
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Real Democracy and Infertility
Published: Sept. 5, 2023, 7:25 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 11 seconds
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More Democracy Can Prevent Climate Collapse of Civilization
Published: Aug. 31, 2023, 7:32 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes
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Happy Birthday Henry?
Published: Aug. 29, 2023, 12:10 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 second
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2023: A Turning Point for Israel/Palestine?
Published: Aug. 24, 2023, 5:20 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 8 seconds
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Is Education Quantifiable?
Published: Aug. 22, 2023, 12:43 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 45 seconds
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US Powers Split on China Policy
Published: Aug. 17, 2023, 5:24 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 31 seconds
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Get Back to Americas Founding Ideals? No; Leave the Standard Story Behind
Published: Aug. 16, 2023, 5:04 a.m.Duration: 57 minutes 14 seconds
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Blaming Caregivers When Its the System
Published: Aug. 9, 2023, 9:30 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 32 seconds
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War Policy: Keeping the Fog on Our Windshield
Published: Aug. 7, 2023, 7:37 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 57 seconds
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Time to End Family Court?
Published: Aug. 2, 2023, 7 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 55 seconds
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Finding Unexpected Bravery and Tenacity Among the Homeless
Published: July 31, 2023, 9:32 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 34 seconds
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Biden is Not Royalty. Neither is Democracy
Published: July 13, 2023, 7:50 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 54 seconds
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This Supreme Court May Preemptively Ban Wealth Tax
Published: July 11, 2023, 8:31 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 14 seconds
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A Revolution in Public Power
Published: July 7, 2023, 6:55 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 22 seconds
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Its Costing Taxpayers Billions. Prespond To Effects of Climate Change.
Published: June 29, 2023, 9 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 45 seconds
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Righting a Century Old Wrong: Free Kurdistan From Middle East Prison
Published: June 29, 2023, 1:07 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 55 seconds
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Democracy Lost to Powerful Men in 2000, but Women Saved it in 1937
Published: March 18, 2021, 7 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 49 seconds
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Jewish Israeli: Time to Hold Israel Accountable at The Hague
Published: March 15, 2021, 5:59 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes
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A Carnival of Breaking Stuff and Lynching: January 6th
Published: March 11, 2021, 6:20 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 43 seconds
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Patriotic Millionaires Boosting Democracy through HR 1 And More
Published: March 9, 2021, 7:19 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 24 seconds
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We’re Not at the Head of the Table Anymore
Published: March 4, 2021, 9 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 13 seconds
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What Happens to the Nukes if The US Splits Up?
Published: March 2, 2021, 9:34 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 33 seconds
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Plagues And Extremism: A Perfect Storm
Published: Feb. 26, 2021, 5:28 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 53 seconds
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A Surprising Team for Justice: Malcolm X and Martin Luther King
Published: Feb. 23, 2021, 7:20 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 40 seconds
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Can it Happen Now: Real National Security, an End to Endless Wars?
Published: Feb. 18, 2021, 9:30 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 39 seconds
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After the Winter of Trump: A Masculine Spring?
Published: Feb. 16, 2021, 9:03 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 49 seconds
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Poverty: Change the Structure of the Game
Published: Feb. 10, 2021, 10:25 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 36 seconds
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The Price of Mythologizing Former Presidents
Published: Feb. 9, 2021, 10:36 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 21 seconds
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Demilitarizing Our Democracy
Published: Feb. 3, 2021, 9:27 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 41 seconds
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January 6th: Not Who We Are?
Published: Feb. 1, 2021, 9:02 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 43 seconds
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Two-fer: Senate Trial Realities and Biden’s China Conundrum
Published: Jan. 28, 2021, 8:04 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 41 seconds
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Broke In America: Policies Not People Are To Blame
Published: Jan. 25, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 44 seconds
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We Can Make the Popular Vote Rule
Published: Jan. 21, 2021, 10:01 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 28 seconds
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One Nation Indivisible: Really? Forever?
Published: Jan. 19, 2021, 7:27 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 13 seconds
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Occupy Wall St. 2011 Was Just The Start
Published: Jan. 18, 2021, 5:45 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 49 seconds
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New President: New Better Mideast Policy?
Published: Jan. 15, 2021, 10:59 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 41 seconds
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The UK’s Jeremy Corbyn: What Now?
Published: Jan. 14, 2021, 8:40 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 46 seconds
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Brothers from Another Mother: Trump and Kaiser Wilhelm II
Published: Jan. 14, 2021, 3:45 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 52 seconds
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2020 Not the Worst Election; 1876 Was
Published: Jan. 7, 2021, 9 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 33 seconds
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Why Democrats Should Listen to Deep Red Nebraska
Published: Jan. 5, 2021, 10:59 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 26 seconds
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Trump and Pompeo Dictate New Map on Africa//Franco Still Dead
Published: Dec. 31, 2020, 5:25 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes
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Stop American War Billions Marching Us To Disaster
Published: Dec. 28, 2020, 2:30 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 53 seconds
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After 50 years, A Tipping Point for the Defeat of Fossil Fuels?
Published: Dec. 18, 2020, 9:30 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 4 seconds
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Biden’s Better Foreign Policy?
Published: Dec. 16, 2020, 10:30 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 57 seconds
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The Beginning of the End for National Cruelty?
Published: Dec. 14, 2020, 11:14 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 40 seconds
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Now’s the Time to Make Democracy Better
Published: Dec. 10, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 44 seconds
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Strongmen: From Mussolini to Trump’s Republicans
Published: Dec. 8, 2020, 9:15 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 45 seconds
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The Danger of Trumpism After Trump
Published: Dec. 3, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 22 seconds
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The Push Biden’s Going to Need
Published: Dec. 2, 2020, 9:30 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 38 seconds
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4 Day Work Week: Beneficial Effect of Covid?
Published: Dec. 1, 2020, 4:47 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 24 seconds
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Thomas Frank’s New Book On Elitist Anti-Populism: “The People, NO”
Published: Nov. 24, 2020, 7:40 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 51 seconds
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Treason: What Is It Really?
Published: Nov. 20, 2020, 9:54 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 26 seconds
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Ending the Drug War Got More Votes Than Biden or Trump
Published: Nov. 17, 2020, 7:41 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 12 seconds
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After A Right Wing Coup, Social Democracy Makes a Comeback
Published: Nov. 13, 2020, 9 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 18 seconds
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We Beat Trump, Now the Battle for the Soul of the Democratic Party
Published: Nov. 10, 2020, 10:40 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 52 seconds
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What Are Right Wing Men Afraid Of?
Published: Nov. 6, 2020, 5:11 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 21 seconds
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The Day After: The War on Democracy Itself
Published: Nov. 4, 2020, 7:10 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 42 seconds
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Greek Fascist Party Convicted as a Criminal Gang
Published: Oct. 29, 2020, 9:37 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 40 seconds
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What A Defiant and Bold Democratic Party Looks Like
Published: Oct. 27, 2020, 4:22 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 24 seconds
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Supreme Court: The Power to Obstruct Democracy
Published: Oct. 22, 2020, 7:47 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 33 seconds
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Trump Floods the Mid-East with US Weapons
Published: Oct. 20, 2020, 7:51 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 54 seconds
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Europe Going Its Own Way: Good for America Too?
Published: Oct. 15, 2020, 6:23 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 44 seconds
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Voting in Indian Country, A View from the Trenches
Published: Oct. 13, 2020, 6:52 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 45 seconds
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Trump: Mobster in Chief
Published: Oct. 8, 2020, 8 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 51 seconds
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Restoring Democracy: It’s a Tough But Do-Able Fight
Published: Oct. 7, 2020, 1 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 16 seconds
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How Trump’s “Patriotic Education” is Anti-American
Published: Oct. 2, 2020, 6:02 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 42 seconds
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Can Democrats Address What Fuels Angry Populism?
Published: Oct. 1, 2020, 6 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 55 seconds
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Could the Military Save Us From Civil War?
Published: Sept. 28, 2020, 6:24 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 44 seconds
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Anti-Racist Feminism Key To Covid, Environmental Solutions
Published: Sept. 23, 2020, 4:30 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 38 seconds
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Women Lead March to Health Coverage
Published: Sept. 20, 2020, 9:30 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 41 seconds
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Trump and Netanyahu’s “Peace Deal”
Published: Sept. 16, 2020, 5:53 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 51 seconds
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A New CCC to Save the Planet?
Published: Sept. 14, 2020, 7:42 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 29 seconds
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Unsafe to Protest? Realities Behind the Portland Picture
Published: Sept. 11, 2020, 7:33 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 51 seconds
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The Pandemic is Boosting Unions in the South
Published: Sept. 9, 2020, 7:27 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 44 seconds
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Racism in the Women’s Suffrage Movement
Published: Sept. 3, 2020, 9 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 20 seconds
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Why is Sexual Freedom So Frightening?
Published: Sept. 1, 2020, 7:27 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 53 seconds
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The Attack on Democracy: What’s Behind Trumpism
Published: Aug. 27, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 34 seconds
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Armed Poll Watchers: To Protect or Intimidate?
Published: Aug. 25, 2020, 9:25 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 32 seconds
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Black and Indian, Kamala Harris: A New Mandate?
Published: Aug. 20, 2020, 7:23 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 45 seconds
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Crowds Win in Waves Over Time
Published: Aug. 18, 2020, 7:37 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 31 seconds
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“Homeland Security:” Ideal Authoritarian Tool
Published: Aug. 13, 2020, 8:08 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 40 seconds
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What If Trump Loses? A Future for the Republican Party?
Published: Aug. 11, 2020, 8:12 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 20 seconds
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The Jewish Tradition of Anti-Zionism
Published: Aug. 7, 2020, 1 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 50 seconds
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Lessons from Portland: Notice What Our Power Is
Published: Aug. 4, 2020, 4:13 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 31 seconds
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Covid 19 and Authoritarianism
Published: July 29, 2020, 7:29 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 38 seconds
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Joe McCarthy: Prelude to Trumpism
Published: July 27, 2020, 2:33 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 34 seconds
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Defund Police? How Dangerous is That?!
Published: July 24, 2020, 4:10 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 51 seconds
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“Prison Reform” We Can Do Lots Better. Now.
Published: July 22, 2020, 5:06 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 22 seconds
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