"I think we also have to be wary of not taking advantage of this moment, because it’s unveiling what the system truly is meant to do."

"In addition to all of the environmental problems, and the public health issues, the climate issues that we just mentioned, the business model that fracking is built upon is essentially almost a Ponzi scheme."

"The Nixon administration went about policing drugs...as if it were a real war. The same way that we would fight foreign adversaries, we were fighting our own citizens."

That Bolivia's MAS won this month’s election in an apparent landslide hasn’t meant an end to US media hostilities.

In our final pre-election show,  we use the lens of one issue, immigration, to look back at four years of Trump policy and of coverage.

By accepting "court packing" as "the term for" expanding the court, journalists lend a hand to anti-democratic forces.

Corporate media prioritize the supposed "risks" to the electoral prospects of Democrats who call for banning fracking over the prospects for human civilization’s survival.

"The media often talk about these things in a very abstract way, and do not talk about the real-world consequences for ordinary people, and there are very huge real-world consequences for ordinary people."

"It's not to anyone's benefit to intimidate voters. It's not to anyone's benefit to have armed, non-publicly accountable individuals, private armies, on the streets."

Understanding how we got to this place requires looking behind the curtain of the "partisan tug of war" narrative corporate media present every day, to see how a powerful minority in this country manages to use public institutions to do unpopular things.