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Jun 18, 2025 • 2h 23min
America This Week, Live on Monday 6/16/25
A recording from Monday's live show 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
Jun 18, 2025 • 3min
Listen to This Article: In Defense of Terry Moran
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsThe news business needs to make up its mind about whether or not it wants journalists to be personalities or reportersNarrated by Jared Moore
Jun 13, 2025 • 30min
America This Week, June 13, 2026: "Trumpship Troopers: New Riot Footage and the No Kings Protests."
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsMuch like early June 2020, the population awaits nationwide protests after a local conflagration. What will result? Plus, the confession of Winston Smith
Jun 10, 2025 • 2h 9min
America This Week, Live on Monday
A recording from last night’s live show 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
Jun 6, 2025 • 3min
Listen to This Article: The Memory-Holing of Everything, Even George Orwell
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsFrom democracy to vaccines to election results to Orwell himself, the rewriting of the past to fit current attitudes has become an incurable maniaNarrated by Jared Moore
Jun 6, 2025 • 31min
America This Week, June 6, 2025: "The War Party that Can't Talk to Men"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsWhile Democrats commission a study to describe alien life forms, America under Trump hurtles toward multiple crises. Also, gender relations in George Orwell's 1984
Jun 5, 2025 • 3min
Listen to This Article: Ending the World to Own Trump
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsUkraine's 18-month plan to execute "Russia's Pearl Harbor" leaves humanity at the edge of extinction, and Western analysts are giddyNarrated by Jared Moore
Jun 4, 2025 • 3min
Listen to This Article: Jake Tapper's Biden Book is Hilarious and Insane
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsJake Tapper and Alex Thompson's mass media apologia is leaps and bounds more demented than the book's subject, Joe BidenNarrated by Jared Moore
Jun 4, 2025 • 2h 4min
ATW Live on Monday 6-2-25
Thank you Nina Teicholz, Amanda Fortini, Tom Kudla, Hal Gill, Karl Tame, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. 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
May 30, 2025 • 30min
America This Week, May 30, 2025: "The Great American Fascism Panic"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.newsWalter and Matt on another hilarious propaganda scare and few chuckles over Jake Tapper's "Original Sin." Plus, the thrilling end of "The Quiet American," by Graham Greene.
