Jennifer Jewell, author of What We Sow: On the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds, joins us to explain the many significances of seeds. We discuss seed patents, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, and how to recognize the impact of seeds and greenery in your life.

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Note: This is a reupload of an episode originally aired 10/09/23.

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Susanne Posel, host of This Week Again, joins us to talk rent caps, con artists in the Republican party, and Missouri's racist reasoning behind their law preventing pregant women from getting divorces.

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"Since 2010, lawyers in America have assumed that SuperPACs are required by the First Amendment. But this assumption is based on a clear mistake," Equal Citizens founder and Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig joins us to discuss SuperPACs and the Equal Citizen's crowdfunded video competition to promote the need for their regulation.

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Luke Nichter, author of The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968, joins us to break down the 1968 presidential race and the contentious battle between vice president Hubert Humphrey, Republican Richard Nixon, and former Alabama governor George Wallace.

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John Rothmann, host of Around The Political World, joins us to discuss the Supreme Court returning Trump to the ballot in Colorado, the Supreme Court's upcoming decision about presidential immunity, and much more.

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Guest Garrett Neiman, author of RICH WHITE MEN: What It Takes to Uproot the Old Boys’ Club and Transform America, goes into what it means to be a non-profit entrepuneur, someone who convinces the rich to put their money toward good causes. He breaks down how rich white men think about capitalism, tending to finances, and how these views influence politics.

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Susanne Posel, host of This Week Again, joins us to talk Mitch McConnell, technology, Trump, and Tony The Tiger.

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We speak with Marianne Williamson who has relaunched her 2024 Democratic presidential campaign to discuss why she decided to get back in the race. More information at https://marianne2024.com/ Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/facepalm-america--5189985/support.

We speak with Paul Waldman about his new book, White Rural Rage, and what the media gets wrong about it. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/facepalm-america--5189985/support.

Ieva Jusionyte, author of EXIT WOUNDS: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence across the Border, joins us to discuss her experiences as an EMT-paramedic on the US-Mexico border, the hold that gun associations have on politicans, and the influence that gun violence has on citizens.

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