Facepalm America

Author of The United States of War, Professor David Vine joins us to talk about the World Cup in Qatar and the lack of media coverage regarding U.S. military bases.

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Steph Curry opposes afforable housing in the town where he lives and I think the minimum wage should be even higher than Bernie Sanders does.

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Co-founder of the independent news app OptOut Walker Bragman joins us to discuss the pandemic's influence on social media and journalism.

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Yes, that's right - Facebook is giving Trump his account back. Whether he'll use it is another question. What he IS using, it turns out, is his phone... to text people for the first time. This doesn't end well...

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Beowulf discusses why eggs are so expensive, talks with Jared Yates Sexton, author of "The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis," and Stephen Semler, author of "Over the Holidays, Congress Gave the Military an $860 Billion Budgetary Gift" from Jacobin Magazine (his proposal to convert a chunk of Pentagon budget into stimulus checks is here.)

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We speak with Jared Yates Sexton about extremism, the establishment, and his book The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis.

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Nurses win in New York and Senators warn against medical credit cards.

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More unions, more strikes, and less exploitation for prisoners are a good start for the New Year!

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A D.C. watering hole offers the coveted "Speaker of the Pub" gavel for sale and Elon Musk won't pay his rent.

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We speak with Dr. Nancy Fraser, author of Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet and What We Can Do About It.

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