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#1750 "American's Backyard" - The War on Terror Meets the War on Drugs
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2025-11-07
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SOLVED! FROM THE ARCHIVES - “Transgressive Thoughts in a Villain Era” (Original Air Date: 1-6-25)
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2025-11-06
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#1749 Democracy: In Theory, In Practice, and Under Threat
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2025-11-04
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#1748 Patriotism in Peril: Democracy, the Military, and the Fight Over What America Means
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2025-11-02
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#1747 Racism in the United States, it turns out, is a problem
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2025-10-28
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#1746 What an actual attack on free speech looks like
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2025-10-25
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#1374 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Columbus and the Centrality of Colonialism (Throwback)
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2025-10-22
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SOLVED! SAMPLE! #25 - Trump’s “State Capitalism” is Just a Grift, NOT Socialism
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2025-10-21
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#1745 Fake New World: The Age of AI Slop, AI Education, and AI Fascism
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2025-10-20
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SOLVED! SAMPLE! #24 - Attacking the Medium is the Message: Trump’s Media Oligarchs and the Assault on Free Speech
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2025-10-14
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#1743 Trump and Project 2025: Blitzkrieg Against America
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2025-10-10
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#1742 Captured Court, Captured Nation: SCOTUS Serves Trump's Authoritarianism
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2025-10-07
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#1741 Global Uprisings: Dissatisfaction Roiling France, the UK, and Nepal
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2025-10-03
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#1740 Monthly-ish Mix: The Enemy Within and the Enemy Without—America's Two-Front
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2025-09-30
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SOLVED! SAMPLE! #23 - ROBBING YOU BLIND: ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ and Mass Consumer Manipulation
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2025-09-28
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#1526 A History of Political Violence in the US (Throwback)
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2025-09-26
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#1739 The Charlie Kirk Assassination and the Plans to Weaponize It
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2025-09-23
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SOLVED! #22 - The Culture Wars at 10,000 Feet
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2025-09-22
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#1738 Escalations: Russia, Israel, And What We Are Allowed to Say About It
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2025-09-20
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#1737 State of the Resistance: Labor, Anger, and Knowing That We've Been Here Before
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2025-09-16
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