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Focusing on issues, not tweets, Joshua Holland talks politics and culture with newsmakers, journalists and academics.... more
FAQs about We've Got Issues:How many episodes does We've Got Issues have?The podcast currently has 204 episodes available.
March 25, 2022Elie Mystal: Let's stop worshipping the 'slavers' Constitution'Joshua Holland is joined by Elie Mystal, The Nation's justice correspondent, to talk about this week's confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. And then we get caught up on some good news about an important green energy initiative in New York by Jessica Azulay from Alliance for a Green Economy....more53minPlay
March 18, 2022Are right-wing culture warriors shooting blanks? | The Red State murder waveJoshua Holland is joined Have You Heard co-host Jennifer Berkshire for news about how a New Hampshire astroturf campaign against "critical race theory" fell flat. And then we speak with Jim Kessler about a new analysis which shows that the much-discussed spike in murders over the past couple of years has been more pronounced in GOP-leaning states...more42minPlay
March 11, 2022Red states turn their assaults on minorities up to 11Joshua Holland is joined by Brian Grodsky to talk about the potential pitfalls inherent in the most punishing sanctions regime the world has ever pursued in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. And then we welcome Jessica Mason Pieklo to take a bird's eye view of an alarming trend of red-state lawmakers pursuing an increasingly fascistic legislative agenda....more53minPlay
March 04, 2022When the KKK managed public health | Ukraine shockwaves just beginningJoshua Holland welcomes Global Dispatches host Mark Leon Goldberg to talk about how Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Then we are joined by Muhlenberg College historian Jacqueline Antonovich who recently unearthed the largely forgotten history of the Ku Klux Klan's deep involvement with public healthcare in the 1920s....more55minPlay
February 25, 2022The far left and hard right agree: Ukraine is all about Joe BidenJoshua Holland is joined by Heather Hurlburt, director of New America's New Models of Policy Change project, to talk about what caused Russia to invade Ukraine, what the consequences might be and how the shallow foreign policy discourse in the US does a poor job of informing Americans about the complex world in which we live....more1h 1minPlay
February 18, 2022What one young Republican learned in Mississippi’s only CRT classMolly Minta tells host Joshua Holland about what a young conservative in one of America’s reddest states discovered when she actually looked into what Critical Race Theory is really about. And then economic writer Noah Berlatsky joins us to separate inflation fact from inflation fiction....more56minPlay
February 11, 2022Ryan Grim on the killing of Amir Locke | US-style grievances are fueling Canada's trucksurrectionRyan Grim, The Intercept's DC bureau chief, joins Joshua Holland to talk about the parallels between the police slaying of Amir Locke in Minnesota last week and the killing of Breonna Taylor in Louisville two years ago. Then we talk to Grid Misinformation Reporter Anya van Wagtendonk about the far-right truckers laying siege to Ottawa....more46minPlay
February 04, 2022Why do American police agencies have veto power over investigations into dirty cops?Joshua Holland is joined by Eric Umansky, deputy managing editor at ProPublica. In 2019, Eric stumbled across a story when his family witnessed an incident in which some Black children were abused by the NYPD. Eric has followed the complaints that ensued for over two years, and he shares with us what he learned about police impunity in the process....more49minPlay
January 28, 2022The eye-opening humiliation of being a young fascistJoshua Holland is joined by Greg Sargent of the Washington Post to put the slew of vague, sloppily written gag orders that Republicans are passing across the country in order to whitewash history into a larger context. And then Vice Senior Writer Tess Owen gives us insights from a massive leak of internal texts from the neofascist youth group Patriot Front....more55minPlay
January 21, 2022How America can avoid a new civil warJoshua Holland is joined by Marquette University political scientist Julia Azari to talk about the unique challenges Joe Biden has faced in the first year of his presidency. Then Lee Drutman explains why America's system of governance is poorly equipped to support a healthy, multiethnic democracy....more57minPlay
FAQs about We've Got Issues:How many episodes does We've Got Issues have?The podcast currently has 204 episodes available.