Given the way Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy is genuflecting to  White-supremacist MAGA trolls like Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican Party can fairly be described by the idiom “Lunatics have taken over the asylum.”

Only this explains putatively sane Republican minorities like Nikki Haley and Tim Scott sounding more racist than Greene these days. This, in their craven and cynical attempt to challenge MAGA leader Donald J. Trump for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

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Length: 13 min 45 sec

For hundreds of years, Europeans explored, plundered, and colonized Africa. But decolonization offered the opportunity for Africans to reclaim not only their sovereignty but their right to self-determination. To say they have squandered it would be an understatement. But only that explains Pope Francis traveling there to save Africans from themselves.

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Length: 14 min 20 sec

White Australians are finally beginning to reckon with the historical fact that their ancestors did not discover Indigenous peoples. This, just as White Americans have been reckoning with the historical fact that theirs did not discover Indigenous peoples either.

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Length: 10 min 49 sec

He will never admit it. But I am convinced Tom Brady will spend the rest of his life ruing the day he decided to betray his wife and children to play football … for a 23rd season. This episode explains why.

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Length: 12 min 18 sec

A key feature of the genocidal war Russia is waging in Ukraine is the United States announcing one installment after another of hundreds of millions (and sometimes billions) in military aid to Ukraine. But that’s the problem. Because everyone in Ukraine, military personnel and civilian alike, will tell you they could have won this war months ago if the United States had provided the amount and kind of aid Ukraine began requesting from day one.

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Length: 10 min 56 sec

Granted, the belief that famous people die in threes was always a silly superstition.

On the other hand, you’d be forgiven the belief that they are dying in droves lately. Our interconnected world certainly makes it seem that way. This because, thanks to social media, we experience the deaths even of famous people we never met as if they were personal friends.

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Length: 13 min 59 sec

May the comfort and joy of just being with loved ones have far greater meaning than any gift you could possibly bring to them...

Note: This episode was originally published on December 23, 2021.

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Length: 6 min 17 sec

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

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Length: 5 min 14 sec

What does it profit a man, if he gains political power, but his country loses its soul..? Alas, for men like Bibi Netanyahu and Donald Trump, their profit is worth the country's loss.

Netanyahu began his "reign" by giving former President Jimmy Carter just cause to admonish him about turning Israel into an apartheid state. He now seems hellbent on vindicating Carter's admonition. Which clearly makes him condemning Trump for anything more hypocritical than righteous.

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Length: 15 min 47 sec

Given the way Western media are covering the protests raging across China, you’d be forgiven for thinking they portend revolutionary change. But they are just sound and fury signifying … relatively little. This episode explains why.

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Length: 19 min 42 sec