For decades, Ben & Jerry's sold ice cream with a mission. Then its independent board refused to keep selling in illegal Israeli settlements. Ever since, its giant corporate owners have been dismantling everything that made Ben & Jerry's what it is. When the White House turned against climate and DEI, a lot of companies dropped it fast. Ben Cohen says that tells you they never meant it. Can businesses change the world?

The Ben & Jerry's co-founder discusses grossly excessive military spending, building a business with values in its DNA, and why staying neutral in the face of injustice means taking a side. freebenandjerrys.com

00:00 They Want the Ice Cream Without the Activism
01:15 Companies That Dropped DEI Never Meant It
03:17 Build Your Values In From Day One
07:33 Ignore the Experts
10:07 Unilever Pushed Out the Board
12:32 How the West Bank Started All This
17:10 Totally Nuts: The War Budget
22:24 A Democracy for the Many, Not the Few
24:38 Speaking Out When Everyone's Scared
26:50 What's the Doughboy Afraid Of?
29:48 What a Free Ben & Jerry's Would Do
33:15 Pass the Torch

Six years ago, Bernie Sanders was deemed too radical to nominate. Now his ideas are winning more primaries than ever. Faiz Shakir ran Bernie’s 2020 campaign. He walks us through the 2026 midterm map and explains how authenticity and working-class politics are winning. 

00:00 The Year Money Started Losing

05:46 The Cabinet Bernie Never Got to Name

09:32 If Cooper Loses, It's a Long Night

11:40 Fifteen People Got a Vote on Every Sentence

14:55 Michigan: The Loudest Race in the Country

28:19 She Won Spending Fifty Thousand Dollars

33:08 Where We Disagree About Climate

37:26 Inside the Club That Runs the Party

40:30 Bernie-Style Is Worth Twenty Points

46:54 A Trillion Dollars Is 32,000 Years

51:12 Most Media Treats People as Dumb

54:24 Pass the Torch

Billionaire Peter Thiel wrote in 2009 that he no longer believed freedom and democracy were compatible. Gil Durán has spent years documenting what the tech circle built once they stopped believing in voting. The result is The Nerd Reich — reported almost entirely from what these men have said out loud.

Silicon Valley is trying to get AI chatbots classified as having free speech rights. One lawyer is fighting to stop it in court. Meetali Jain's nonprofit now has over a dozen active cases against AI companies, including a Texas lawsuit in which a chatbot told a teenage boy it understood why kids kill their parents.

Trigger warning: this episode discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

Economist Emmanuel Saez wrote California's first-ever billionaire wealth tax. The Berkeley economist behind Prop 40 explains why a 1% wealth tax could raise $20 billion a year — and why Google's co-founders are spending millions to stop it.

David Fenton sits down with journalist Joy Reid, fired from MSNBC in 2025 after her outspoken coverage of Gaza. Now independent and "unfiltered," this is an unsparing conversation about censorship, tech oligarchy, and what independent media needs to survive.

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00:00 — Joy Reid

02:44 — The Real Reason She Got Fired From MSNBC

07:53 — Is It Genocide? Netanyahu, October 7, and Amalek

11:31 — Life After the Bubble: What "Unfiltered" Really Means

14:09 — Why the Democrats Need Their Own Tea Party

22:08 — Is Criticizing Mamdani Islamophobia?

26:30 — Objectivity Was Never Real

31:46 — The Deaths Nobody's Investigating

35:44 — Silicon Valley's Plantation Economy

40:07 — Can Independent Media Survive?

43:44 — Pass the Torch

Renowned climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann joins David Fenton to discuss the urgent reality of climate change, the coordinated attacks on climate science by fossil fuel interests, and why there's still hope for action. Mann, creator of the famous "hockey stick" graph, shares his personal experiences being targeted by climate deniers and explains why this is fundamentally a story of good versus evil - with a small group of fossil fuel executives threatening the planet's future for profit.

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Palestinian-Israeli journalist Rula Jebreal exposes the disturbing realities of Israel's expansionist agenda and its control over American foreign policy. Banned from major US networks for her critical reporting, Jebreal reveals how religious extremism, corruption, and potential blackmail operations have hijacked Middle East policy.

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Former Google engineer and "conscience of Silicon Valley" Tristan Harris warns we're at a critical crossroads with AI development. As co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology and featured expert in the new documentary "The AI Doc," Harris argues this may be our last moment to ensure AI serves humanity rather than replacing it. The conversation explores how to build a human movement to steer AI toward a beneficial future before tech feudalism becomes irreversible.

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Historian and journalist Adam Hochschild joins David Fenton to explore how America's darkest periods of repression and corruption mirror today's challenges. From Woodrow Wilson's mass arrests to immigration crackdowns that contributed to the Holocaust, Hochschild reveals how we've survived authoritarianism before and offers hope for resistance movements today.

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