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Feb 7, 2025 • 3min
Listen to This Article - America's Smear Machine Put on Trial
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsA week of heated confirmation hearings served as a referendum on America's Reputational Death Star
Feb 6, 2025 • 7min
Listen to This Article - About Those Onesies
A brief note to Senator Bernie SandersNarrated by Jared Moore This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Jan 31, 2025 • 30min
America This Week, Jan 31, 2025: "The Apostate Hearings: RFK, Warren, and Democrat-on-Democrat Crime"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsWalter attends the Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. hearings. We discuss highlights and (mostly) lowlights. Also, "Dark-Brown Dog," by Stephen Crane
Jan 24, 2025 • 31min
America This Week, Jan 24, 2025: Walter and Matt Review Donald Trump’s Executive Orders
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsUndoing the Great American Cluster$&%k? Also, “Alyosha the Pot” by Lev Tolstoy
Jan 22, 2025 • 3min
Listen to This Article - Goodbye to Joe Biden, and Whoever Was President the Last Four Years
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsThe "Invisible Presidency" is an all-time criminal, and must not be allowed to fleeNarrated by Jared Moore
Jan 19, 2025 • 3min
Listen to This Article - Hollywood's Dumb Scare
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsIn Hollywood, self-pity abounds, but there's no remorse for unfairly ruined careers, as Oscar writer Sasha Stone found outNarrated by Jared Moore
Jan 17, 2025 • 31min
America This Week, Jan 17, 2025: "The Annotated Final Speech of Joe Biden"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsA historically peculiar presidency ends on an oddly half-assed note. Plus, the chilling "Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta," by Kate Braverman
Jan 10, 2025 • 30min
America This Week, Jan 10, 2025: "California Fires and America's Competency Crisis"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsLos Angeles is in flames, and California's leaders seem helpless, unmasking a generation of public investment in non-essential services. Also, "On Guard," by Evelyn Waugh
Jan 9, 2025 • 6min
Listen to This Article - Why is Russiagate's Origin Story Redacted?
In a parting gesture of defiance, the FBI releases a long-awaited document, blotting most of it out. Journalist Aaron Maté explains why the Bureau's FOIA follies matterNarrated by Jared Moore This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Jan 9, 2025 • 3min
Listen to This Article - Woke Elvis Resigns
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was an overgrown pick-up artist whose humiliating downfall will stand forever as a cautionary tale for menNarrated by Jared Moore
