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Mar 15, 2024 • 28min

Gay Gordon-Byrne on Right to Repair, Suyapa Portillo Villeda on Honduran Ex-President Conviction

Industry still argues that that cellphone isn't really "yours," in the sense that you can't fix it if it breaks.
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Mar 8, 2024 • 28min

Ian Millhiser on Supreme Court Trump Protection, Alfredo Lopez on Radical Elders

Donald Trump could declare himself above the law—and that’s just been enabled by a recent Supreme Court ruling.
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Mar 1, 2024 • 28min

Victor Pickard on the Crisis of Journalism

If we don’t ask different questions about what we need from journalism, we will arrive at the same old unsatisfactory responses.
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Feb 23, 2024 • 28min

Gregory Shupak and Trita Parsi on Gaza Assault

As the US falls more out of step with the world, many in the US press seem divorced from the idea of US responsibility.
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Feb 16, 2024 • 28min

Ariel Adelman on Disability Civil Rights

Acheson v. Laufer is another example of “weaponizing the courts to dismantle labor protections, housing rights and health guidelines.”
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Feb 9, 2024 • 28min

Rakeen Mabud on Greedflation

The same people who earn wages also buy groceries, and pretending that we’re pitted against one another is not just mis- but disinformation.
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Feb 2, 2024 • 28min

Aron Thorn on Texas Border Standoff

What if there isn’t a "border crisis" so much as an absence of historical understanding, of empathy, of community resourcing?
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Jan 26, 2024 • 28min

Monifa Bandele on Reimagining Public Safety, Svante Myrick on Roadblocks to Voting

Communities are hard at work reimagining public safety without punitive policing. There’s new work on those possibilities.
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Jan 19, 2024 • 28min

Gregory Shupak on Gaza and Genocide

How does the New York Times’ assertion that “what Israel is fighting to defend is a society that values human life” stand up now?
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Jan 12, 2024 • 28min

Sebastian Martinez Hickey on Minimum Wage, Saru Jayaraman on History of Tipping

Elite reporters are so removed from daily reality that they assume a raise in wages means fast food employees have to lose their jobs.

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