We began this segment with MAHA influencer Jillian Michaels reacting to Donald Trump’s February 18, 2026, executive order ramping up the production and distribution of the glyphosate, often sold as…
We begin this episode with President Donald Trump’s pledge, issued in Dallas last week at the GOP midterm convention, to give adult citizen of the United States $5,000, should the Republicans keep…
We began this episode with a clip from a 1972 press conference in which Gloria Steinem protested an abortion reform bill passed by the New York State Legislature designed to circumvent the feminist…
Our opening segment is from “Drawing on the Archive: Tillie Walden’s Charity & Sylvia,” a short video featuring cartoonist Tillie Walden explaining the experience of creating a graphic novel from the…
I posted this as a podcast so that I could re-up an interview I did last year with Martha Ackman, Dolly Parton’s biographer. You can read the show notes here, and purchase Ain’t Nobody’s Fool: The…
We opened with a clip from former Vermont Governor Howard Dean announcing his bid for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination in Burlington, Vermont on June 23, 2003.Today’s theme music is “Go,…
We began this episode with a February 2016 clip of South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham speaking to the Washington Press Club Foundation. In a darkly funny speech, Graham warned…
Dear subscribers: This post was supposed to go out last week, but due to a family emergency I had to suspend writing and publishing temporarily. All paid subscribers will receive an extra week in…
You just heard an excerpt from Vice President Kamala Harris’s response to the new standards for teaching African American history in Florida. Released by that state’s Department of Education on…
That was a February 2011 news segment recorded by journalist Sam Ford for WJLA TV, an ABC affiliate in the Washington D.C. area. In the first of two episodes about slavery among indigenous nations…
