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#1163 Strange Bedfellows: Looking at why Ethno-Nationalists Admire Israel and the Violence Inflicted on Gaza (Throwback)
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2024-03-05
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Bonus Sample: #293 I love you, man
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2024-03-03
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#1615 Envisioning a Leftisț Economic Future of Postcapitalism, High-Tech Automation, Universal Basic Income and a World (Mostly) Without Work
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2024-03-01
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#1614 Deep-Fakery and Deep Consequences for Democracy: AI-generated fake news threatens elections around the world and makes people question the ability to know what is real
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2024-02-28
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Bonus Sample #292 Techno Authoritarians vs Interoperabilities
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2024-02-25
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#1613 Breathless Speculation: Biden's Baggage, Trump's Tyranny, Misleading Media, Courts and Criminality
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2024-02-23
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#1612 New Tech and the New Luddite Movement; Inequitable Distribution of Benefits from New Technology Always Sparks Demands from Labor and AI is Rekindling the Old Arguments
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2024-02-20
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Bonus Sample #291 Recommendations and Manipulations
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2024-02-19
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#1611 Higher Education: the Myths, McCarthyism, and Change Makers at a time when education is under attack for free speech, DEI and CRT but arguably needs changes to meet a changing world
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2024-02-17
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#1610 The Border, and Our Border Politics, Are a Mess - As Trump and MAGA-driven misunderstanding and panic about the nature of immigration dominates election concerns.
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2024-02-14
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#1609 The Post-Roe World is Bad But it Could Still Get Worse - Abortion Bans in the US Are Causing Widespread Suffering for Both Patients and Doctors Attempting to Navigate the New Normal
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2024-02-10
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#1608 Widespread Loneliness is a Solvable Social Problem - Urban Design, Architecture, Co-housing, and Community Action and Support Can Make Our Towns Better
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2024-02-07
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Bonus Sample #289 A Cul-de-Sac of Ignorance
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2024-02-06
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#1607 The Tangled, Flammable Web of War in the Middle East
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2024-02-03
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Bonus Sample #288 Make the Children Cry in Order to Save Them
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2024-01-28
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#1606 Biden's Barriers and Boons to Reelection
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2024-01-26
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#1605 Our Prison System is a Demonstrable Failure
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2024-01-23
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#1529 Monopolies Run By Morons (Repost)
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2024-01-20
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#1604 The Border Crisis is Manufactured for Political Opportunity
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2024-01-17
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Bonus Sample #286 Looking to the Past to See Ourselves
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2024-01-15
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