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Mar 21, 2025 • 28min

Nancy Altman on Social Security Attacks

All that’s in the balance are human lives and health, and the ability of working people to plan for our futures.
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Mar 14, 2025 • 28min

David Perry on MAGA & Disability, Kehsi Iman Wilson (2023) on ADA

Policy impacts on people with disabilities are overwhelmingly an afterthought for corporate media, though it’s a community anyone can join at any moment.
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Mar 7, 2025 • 28min

Eric Blanc on Worker-to-Worker Organizing

Federal workers, presumed to be easy targets, are also on the front lines of the fightback against the Trump/Musk federal smash and grab.
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Feb 28, 2025 • 28min

Kirk Herbertson on Big Oil’s Lawsuit Against Environmentalism

Fossil fuel corporations' lawsuits against those who challenge their destruction take aim at our ability to speak out about anything.
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Feb 21, 2025 • 28min

Gregory Shupak on Palestine Ethnic Cleansing, Portia Allen-Kyle on Tax Unfairness

Corporate media can't bring themselves to call Trump's illegal, inhumane plan what it is: ethnic cleansing.
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Feb 14, 2025 • 28min

Luke Charles Harris on Critical Race Theory (2021)

Corporate news media presented a campaign openly defined as uninterested in truth or humanity as a totally valid, “grassroots” perspective.
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Feb 7, 2025 • 28min

Ezra Young on Trans Rights Law, Anne Sosin on RFK Jr. and Rural Health

The Trump campaign against transgender people lands in an elite media climate in which trans lives have long been deemed "subject to debate."
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Jan 31, 2025 • 28min

David Kass on Billionaire Election-Buying

The increasing influence of the super rich on the politics and policy we all have to live with is an urgent story, if not a new one.
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Jan 24, 2025 • 28min

Silky Shah on the Attack on Immigrants

Immigration itself is now not a human rights story, or even an economic one, but yet another story about “their” crimes and “our” safety.
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Jan 17, 2025 • 28min

Derek Seidman on Insurance and Climate (2024); Ariel Adelman on Disability Civil Rights (2024)

Many are calling out insurance companies that take folks’ money, but then hinder their ability to come out from under when these predictable and predicted crises occur.

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