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Apr 12, 2022 • 59min
STAFF PICKS: Cassie Thornton / Peer-to-peer feminist care.
Lindsey replays artist Cassie Thornton explores the revolutionary potential of The Hologram - a peer-to-peer system of care between people as equals in an unequal society. [First broadcast August 4, 2020]

Apr 11, 2022 • 1h 8min
STAFF PICKS: Adofo Minka / Prison uprisings and self emancipation.
Chuck returns! Plus Producer Alex replays Assistant Public Defender Adofo Minka on prisoner uprisings in St. Louis and across the United States [First broadcast April 29, 2021]

Mar 2, 2022 • 1h 32min
Cryptocurrency Will Not Liberate Us / Hadas Thier
Writer and Activist Hadas Thier talks to Chuck about her Dollars & Sense Article "Cryptocurrency Will Not Liberate Us." Jeff Dorchen sees a phantom. Or was it a famine? Everyone wrestles with how to pronounce "paczki."
http://dollarsandsense.org/archives/2022/0122thier.html

Mar 2, 2022 • 1h 17min
On cannabis corporatization / Mary Jane Gibson
Writer Mary Jane Gibson on her article "Inside California's Cannabis Crisis" for Rolling Stone.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/california-weed-cannabis-crisis-emerald-triangle-1302545/

Mar 1, 2022 • 1h 15min
Capital's migration policy / Daniel Melo
Immigration lawyer Daniel Melo on his article "The Capitalist Imperative Driving Cruel and Bipartisan US Migration Policies" for Black Agenda Report.
https://blackagendareport.com/capitalist-imperative-driving-cruel-and-bipartisan-us-migration-policies

Feb 25, 2022 • 1h 24min
Medical AI and automating mental healthcare / Os Keyes
Writer Os Keyes on their Real Life article "Condition Critical," and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen flags your non-Jewish privilege.
https://reallifemag.com/condition-critical/

Feb 23, 2022 • 1h 16min
On prison education / Daniel Fernandez
Writer Daniel Fernandez on his article "The Classroom and the Cell" for The Baffler.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-classroom-and-the-cell-fernandez

Feb 23, 2022 • 1h 25min
Race and space in America / Elijah Anderson
Sociologist Elijah Anderson on his book "Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life" from University of Chicago Press.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo119245209.html

Feb 10, 2022 • 1h 24min
Fire and the modern world / Daniel Immerwahr
Historian Daniel Immerwahr on his Guardian article "‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen bites the handbook that feeds.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/03/a-deranged-pyroscape-how-fires-across-the-world-have-grown-weirder

Feb 8, 2022 • 1h 21min
Maritime insurers and the US founding / Hannah Farber
Historian Hannah Farber on her book "Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding" from the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press.
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469663630/underwriters-of-the-united-states/