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#1641 Green Energy and Public Transport: Feeling blue and seeing red about the inevitable messiness of transitioning to a low-carbon economy
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2024-07-12
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#1247 The Fight for the Four Freedoms (FDR vs. Libertarianism) (Throwback)
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2024-07-09
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Bonus Sample #311 Primal Scream of Catharsis
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2024-07-07
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#1640 China Explained: From Cars to Computer Chips, Communism to Carbon Emissions, the South China Sea to Space, and Clinton to Biden
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2024-07-05
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#1639 Migrants and Refugees on Fortress Earth: Our politicized, fortified, industrialized borders in the US and Europe
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2024-07-02
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Bonus Sample #310 - The Torment Nexus
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2024-06-30
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#1638 AI: From Killer Apps to Killer Robots, the Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence Spans the Spectrum
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2024-06-28
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#1590 Red Caesar and Project 2025: A fascist fever dream by the Claremont Institute and the Heritage Foundation (Throwback)
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2024-06-25
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Bonus Sample #309 Of Kidults and Puppets
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2024-06-23
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#1637 Shifting Populations, Shifting Politics: The European elections show a shift toward the hard right over fears of immigration and scarcity
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2024-06-21
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#1460 The Growing Threat of Minority Rule (Throwback)
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2024-06-18
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Bonus Sample #308 Let the Kids (and Adults) Play
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2024-06-16
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#1636 The Supreme Court Is In Bad Shape. Like, Really Bad. And SCOTUS Is Going To Take Us All Down With Them
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2024-06-14
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#1635 Democracy on the Decline: The US is not alone in facing threats to democracy, others countries are showing how democracies fail
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2024-06-11
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Bonus Sample #307 Uncertain and Powerless
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2024-06-09
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#1634 Abortion as the Tip of the Iceberg: the fight for privacy, bodily autonomy, and functional democracy after Dobbs overturning Roe v Wade
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2024-06-07
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#1633 Fights for Fair Pay, Journalism vs Sensationalism, Billionaire Bailouts, and Addiction Capitalism: Sports are a Microcosm of the Ills of Society
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2024-06-04
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Bonus Edition #305 Solved It! Conspiracy Theorists, Comment Sections, and Trump
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2024-06-02
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#1134 Unnatural Disasters (Hurricanes and Humans) (Throwback)
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2024-05-31
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#1632 SiliCON Valley: The False Promises, Enshittification Economics, and Misguided Adventures of the Twits of Tech
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2024-05-28
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