Writer and researcher Samuel Woolley on his book "The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth" from PublicAffairs, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen vets the DNC's savior.

https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/samuel-woolley/the-reality-game/9781541768253/

International studies scholar Humberto Beck on the Dissent article "Year One of AMLO’s Mexico."

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/year-one-of-amlos-mexico

Sociologist Josh Seim on the work of paramedics under neoliberal precarity and his book "Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering" from University of California Press.

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520300231/bandage-sort-and-hustle

Political economist Martín Arboleda on the globalized system of resource extraction and economic imperialism, and his book "Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism"

www.versobooks.com/books/3078-planetary-mine

PLUS: Chuck falls off the Trump Unity Bridge, and this week in Rotten History..

Political economist Martín Arboleda on the globalized system of resource extraction and economic imperialism, and his book "Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism"

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3078-planetary-mine

PLUS: Chuck falls off the Trump Unity Bridge, and this week in Rotten History...

Civil Society and Community Studies scholar Jennifer Gaddis on the politics of school lunch programs in America, and her book “The Labor of Lunch Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools” from University of California Press.

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520300033/the-labor-of-lunch

Architect Stephanie Carlisle on the building industry's role producing climate change, and her article "I’ve been polluting the planet for years. I’m not an oil exec—I’m an architect" for Fast Company.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90435650/these-are-the-last-years-of-design-as-we-know-it

PLUS: In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen beholds the elder gods of American politics.

Civil Society and Community Studies scholar Jennifer Gaddis on the politics of school lunch programs in America, and her book “The Labor of Lunch Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools” from University of California Press.

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520300033/the-labor-of-lunch#about-author

Journalist Peter Ward on capitalism’s push to space, the future of exploitation, accumulation and the rest of us on planet Earth, and his book “The Consequential Frontier: Challenging the Privatization of Space” from Melville House.

https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/the-consequential-frontier/

PLUS: Chuck watches a newscast collapse time.

Historian Vincent Brown on the geopolitics of the transatlantic slave trade and its resistance movements, seeing our history (and our present) beyond borders, and his book “Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War” from Harvard University Press.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674737570

PLUS: Chuck reads the news you didn’t, and this week in Rotten History.