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Last updated: July 11, 2025
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CURRENT EVENTS/NEws
Hysteria | Crooked Media (CURRENT EVENTS/FEMINISM)
The Daily Beans | (NEWS/PROGRESSIVE/WOMAN-OWNED)
Lovett or Leave It | Crooked Media (COMEDY SHOW/CULTURE)
What a Day | Crooked Media (MORNING NEWS)
Without a Country | (CURRENT EVENTS/POLTICS/POP CULTURE)
ON With Kara Swisher | VOX (JOURNALISM: BUSINESS/TECH/MEDIA/POLITICS)
POLiTICS
Cognitive Dissonance | (NEWS/POLITICS/LEFTIST)
The Skepticrat | (NEWS/POLITICS/FAR CENTER)
Pod Save America | Crooked Media (POLITICS/PROGRESSIVE-CENTER)
The Bulwark Podcast with Tim Miller | (POLITICS/CENTER RIGHT)
538 Politics | (POLITICS/POLLING)
The Lincoln Project | (POLITICS/CENTER RIGHT)
The New Abnormal | The Daily Beast (US POLITICS/COMEDY/LEFTIST)
Political Gabfest | Slate Magazine (US POLITICS/PROGRESSIVE CENTER)
Left, Right & Center | KCRW (US POLITICS/CENTER)
Pod Save The World | Crooked Media (WORLD POLITICS/FOREIGN POLICY)
The Majority 54 | (POLITICS/PROGRESSIVE)
Hacks on Tap | (POLITICS/CENTER MIXED RIGHT)
The Home Front with Reed Galen | (POLITICS/CENTER MIXED RIGHT)
The Rest Is Politics: US | (POLITICS/CENTER MIXED RIGHT)
Politicology | (POLITICS/LEFT)
EVERYTHING ELSE
Guys We F*cked | (COMEDY/FEMINISM/NSFW)
Flightless Bird | Armchair Expert (CULTURAL & SOCIAL COMMENTARY)
Strict Scrutiny | Crooked Media (LAW/SCOTUS COVERAGE)
Offline with Jon Favreau | Crooked Media (ONLINE CULTURE/SOCIAL COMMENTARY)
Armchair Expert (POP CULTURE/PHILOSOPHY/BEING HUMAN)
America Dissected | Crooked Media (SOCIETY/CULTURE)
Citations Needed | (MEDIA/PR/POWER)
The Scathing Atheist | (RELIGION/POLITCS/CURRENT EVENTS/PHILOSOPHY)
Flightless Bird with David Farrier | (PERSPECTIVES ON AMERICA FROM A KIWI)
GastroPod | (FOOD/COOKING/FOOD CULTURE)
Better Offline | (TECHNOLOGY)
The Economics of Everyday Things | Freakonomics | (ECONOMICS/SOCIETY)
The Future Of Everything | The Wall Street Journal | (SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY)
No Stupid Questions | Freakonomics | (RANDOM)
Speaking of Psychology | American Psychology Association | (PSYCHOLOGY)
Behind the Bastards | (HISTORY)
a16z Podcast | (TECHNOLOGY)
Hard Fork | (TECHNOLOGY)
Smartless | A Test Pattern Media | (COMEDY/POPCULTURE)
The Weekly Show with John Stewart | (COMEDY/POLITICS)
The Wirecutter Show | New York Times | (Product Reviews)
Kill List | Wondery | (True Crime, Dark Web)
The Jordan Harbinger Show | (Society)
Trashfuture | (Anti-Capitalist)
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🌟 = Recently Listed 🔥 = New & Hot
🆕 CURRENT EVENTS/IMMEDIATELY RELEVANT 🆕
CORRUPTION WATCH
All The President's Side Hustles | TODAY, EXPLAINED (May 15, 2025)
At Best It's Just a Grift Fest | THE JOHN FUGELSANG (December 18, 2024)
Donald Trump Is Using The Presidency To Get Rich | THE POLITICAL SCENE (May 2, 2025)
Historic Corruption | MAJORITY 54 (May 8, 2025)
Jonathan Rauch: Focus On The Corruption | THE BULWARK WITH TIM MILLER (April 23, 2025)
Make Hungary Great Again | TRUMPLAND WITH ALEX WAGNER (May 1, 2025)
Michael Weiss: All Bribes Accepted | THE BULWARK WITH TIM MILLER (May 15, 2025)
The For-Profit Presidency | THE WEEKLY SHOW WITH JON STEWART (May 15, 2025)
This Is the Most Obvious Corruption Ever (w/ Sen. Brian Schatz) | BULWARK TAKES (May 14, 2025)
Tracking Trump's Global Grift | POD SAVE THE WORLD (May 28, 2025)
Trump's America: Presidency For Profit | THE REST IS POLITICS US (May 7, 2025)
Trump's Pay-To-Play World Tour | BULWARK TAKES (May 15, 2025)
TARRIFFS/ECONOMY
America's Factory Reset with Adam Tooze And Sohrab Ahmari | THE WEEKLY SHOW WITH JON STEWART (March 20, 2025)
🌟Burgers, Bills & Billionaires | HACKS ON TAP (July 1, 2025)
Buyer Beware | DAILY BEANS (November 25, 2024)
Donald Trump Get's A "Spanking" from the Bond Market | THE POLITICAL SCENE (April 11, 2025)
Tariffs Hit Like A Mack Truck | TODAY, EXPLAINED (April 30, 2025)
The Day After "Liberation Day" | TODAY, EXPLAINED (April 3, 2025)
The DOGE Backlash Begins | WHAT NEXT (February 26, 2025)
🌟 The Genocide Budget (And How To Stop It) | IT COULD HAPPEN HGER (July 7, 2025)
The Two Dolls Economy | TODAY EXAPLINED (May 6, 2025)
🌟Trump Vs The Dollar: A Battle He Can't Win | THE ERST IS POLITICS: US (July 3, 2025)
Why America Will Lose Its Trade War With China | PLAIN ENGLISH (April 16, 2025)
Why Does Trump Love Tariffs | THE BRIEFING ROOM (BBC) (January 9, 2025)
Will Trump's Tariffs Trigger A Recession | THE POLITICAL SCENE (March 12, 2025)
🌟Yes, Shelves Will Be Empty | WHAT NEXT (May 8, 2025)
HEALTH/SOCIETY
🌟Baby Boom or Bust | AMERICA DISSECTED (May 1, 2025)
Breaking Up With Your Parents | TODAY, EXPLAINED (November 22, 2024)
🌟Deportations And The Death Of Due Process | STRICT SCRUTINY (March 24, 2025)
Fascism, Modern Masculinity, and TikTok with Jonathan Buchwalter | THE HOME FRONT (February 6, 2025)
🔥How Opportunities And Outrage Are Fueling The Youth Gender Gap With Abby Tracy | THE HOME FRONT (July 10, 2025)
ICE ICE BABY! Ft. Immigration Lawyer Jacklyn Garcia | WITHOUT A COUNTRY (February 1, 2025)
Jeffrey Goldberg and Peter Wehner: What's Going On With Our National Security | THE BULWARK PODCAST WITH TIM MILLER (March 25, 2025)
🌟Project 2025's Plan For Your Family | WHAT NEXT (April 14, 2025)
🌟Senator Chris Murphy: "This Is How Democracy Dies - Everybody Just Gets Scared | THE POLITICAL SCENE (March 31, 2025)
🔥The Quiet Apocalypse Of Global Depopulation With Dean Spears | THE JORDAN HARBINGER SHOW (July 8, 2025)
🔥The Red Scare Returns? Lessons From McCarthyism In the Age of Trump 2.0 | ON WITH KARA SWISHER (July 3, 2025)
🔥What RFK Jr Doesn't Understand About Autism | THE POLITICAL SCENE (June 9, 2025)
ELON
Elon's Company Town | TODAY, EXPLAINED (January 2, 2024)
🌟Elon Was Right: Trump Is Compromised And Knows It | THE DAILY BEAST PODCAST (June 9, 2025)
Elon Wellness Check, The Anti-DOGE Revolt, and Some Actual Good News | OFFLINE WITH JON FAVREAU (February 27, 2025)
Mike Murphy: The Chinese Own Elon | THE BULWARD PODCAST WITH TIME MILLER (February 27, 2025)
TBD - Elon's Endgame | WHAT NEXT (February 21, 2025)
🌟The Cult of Elon Musk (Part 2) | SOUNDS LIKE A CULT (July 1, 2025)
TRUMP
Derek Thompson: Trump's War On Dolls | TH EBULWARK PODCAST WITH TIM MILLER (May 2, 2025)
🌟 How President Trump Is Trying To Change Elections | CIVICS 101 (May 27, 2025)
Inside Donald Trump's Mass-Deportation Plans | THE POLITICAL SCENE (December 9, 2024)
The Cons & Cons of Trump with Gov. Chris Christie | THE WEEKLY SHOW with JOHN STEWART (January 30, 2025)
The Dawn of Trump's America | THE REST IS POLITICS (January 24, 2025)
🌟The Sinister Source Of Trump's Autocracy Playbook | THE DAILY BEAST (June 12, 2025)
🌟The Trump Lacky Knows He Isn't Telling The Truth | THE DAILY BEAST (June 2, 2025)
Trump's Animal-Spirit Economy | WHAT NEXT (March 20, 2025)
Trump Backs Down - Tariffs Frozen | THE REST IS POLITICS US (April 9, 2025)
Trump Blinks On China | RAGING MODEATES WITH SCOTT GALLOWAY AND JESSICA TARLOV (May 13, 2025)
🌟Trump Brags About Insane Plot To Screw Musk: Wolff | THE DALY BEAST (July 2, 2025)
🌟Trump's Emergency Powers Grab | TODAY, EXPLAINED (May 14, 2025)
🌟Trump's Centrally Planned Economy: Justin Wolfers | THE BULWARK PODCAST (May 13, 2025)
Trump's Trillion Dollar Market Meltdown | THE REST IS POLITICS US (April 7, 2025)
Trump’s Putin-Like Cull of the White House Press Pool | THE POLITICAL SCENE (February 28, 2025)
Trump's Theory of Presidential Power | FIVETHIRTYEIGHT POLITICS (February 18, 2025)
🌟Trump's Trade War In Limbo | Raging Moderates With Jessica Tarlov and Scott Galloway (June 3, 2025)
🌟Trump's Trade War Is Like Nothing America's Ever Seen | PLAIN ENGLISH WITH DEREK THOMPSON (April 8, 2025)
🌟Trump's Understanding Of The Economy Is Like A Toddler | THE BULWARK TAKES (April 30, 2025)
🌟Unchecked and Unbalanced: Trump’s Executive Power Moves and the Rule of Law | ON WITH KARA SWISHER (January 13, 2025)
GENERAL
Amanda Carpenter: MAGA'S Bad Week | THE BULWARK WITH TIM MILLER (May 9, 2025)
An Unnatural Disaster | TRUMPLAND WITH ALEX WAGNER (April 10, 2025)
Bezo 2.0 | WHAT NEXT (March 23, 2025)
David French: We Are in the Bad Multiverse | THE BULWARK PODCAST with TIM MILLER (December 5, 2024)
🌟Epstein Sent This Ominous Notes Just Before He Died | THE DAILY BEAST PODCAST (July 9, 2025)
🌟Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #23 | IT COULD HAPPEN HERE (July 2, 2025)
🌟For The Whitehouse, When You're Wrong, You're Right | LEFT RIGHT & CENTER (April 18, 2025)
From Reagan to Trump: America's Slow Divorce From Europe | THE REST IS POLITICS: US | February 18, 2025)
Highest of Low Regard (feat. Wajhat Ali) | THE DAILY BEANS (December 3, 2024)
🌟History Meets Galaxy With Tony Gilroy and Mike Duncan | THE WEEKLY SHOW WITH JON STEWART (July 10, 2025)
How Trump's Policies Will Shape the Stock Market with Aswath Damodaran | ON WITH KARA SWISHER (February 27, 2025)
🌟"I Started To Die". Trump Talks "White Genocide" With South African President In Oval Office | BULWARK TAKES (May 21, 2025)
🌟Josh Barro: Total Idiocy | THE BULWARK PODCAST WITH TIM MILLER (April 15, 2025)
Know Your Rights (feat. Monica Hopkins) | THE DAILY BEANS (December 26, 2024)
🌟 LA Protests | FLIGHTLESS BIRD (June 17, 2025)
Make Authoritarianism Great Again? With Maria Ressa | THE WEEKLY SHOW WITH JON STEWART (March 6, 2025)
🌟Make Hungary Great Again | TRUMPLAND WITH ALEX WAGNER (May 1, 2025)
🌟Natural Disaster-izing the Deliberate US-Israeli Starvation Campaign in Gaza | CITATIONS NEEDED (June 19, 2025)
Putin's Wildest Dreams Come True | POD SAVE THE WORLD (February 19, 2025)
RFK Jr Breaks The Medical System | IT COULD HAPPEN HERE (April 1, 2025)
🌟RFK's September Surprise | AMERICA DISSECTED (April 17, 2025)
Should You Flee The United States | IT COULD HAPPEN HERE (March 25, 2025)
🌟Surveillance Dollars Are Here | POLITICOLOGY (June 27, 2025)
🌟The 3.5% Protest Rule That Could Bring Down Trump | POD SAVE AMERICA (June 15, 2025)
The Book Mark Zuckerberg Doesn't Want You To Read | OFFLINE WITH JON FAVREAU
The Reality Showification of the Government: Heather Cox Richardson | THE BULWARK PODCAST (December 19, 2024)
🌟The Refugees Fleeing South Africa's "White Genocide" | IT COULD HAPPEN HERE (May 13, 2025)
🌟The Totally Very Real White Genocide in South Africa with Dan Corder and Eugene Khoza | WHAT NOW? WITH TREVOR NOAH (June 25, 2025)
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ARTIFICAL INTELEGENCE & TECH
A Flood of A.I. Slop | Hard Fork (October 11, 2024)
Algorithms Are Everywhere. How You Can Take Back Control | THE FUTURE OF EVERYTHING (JANUARY 23, 2023)
Being Human in the Age of AI | THE GRAY AREA (May 8, 2023)
Black Box of Doom | FLIGHTLESS BIRD (January 7, 2025)
🆕Breaking The Internet | TODAY, EXPLAINED (February 19, 2025)
Can AI Be Regulated? | ON POINT (May 1, 2023)
Ghosts in the Machine: Artificial Intelligence Consciousness, & Capitalism | REVLEFT RADIO (April 10, 2024)
🆕Good Robot (4 Parts) | UNEXPLAINABLE
#1: The Magic Intelligence In The Sky (March 12, 2025)
#2 Everything Is Not Awesome (March 15, 2025)
#3 Let's Fix Everything (March 19, 2025)
#4 Who, Me? (March 22, 2025)
🆕God, The Devil, And AI Feat. Miles Klee | QAA PODCAST (May 9, 2025)
How The Internet Is Radicalizing Young Men | OFFLINE WITH JON FAVREAU (April 23, 2023)
🆕How to Poison an A.I. Machine | FREAKONOMICS RADIO (January 24, 2025)
🆕Is America Ready for a Full-Blown Cyberwar? with Nicole Perlroth, Michael Schmidt & Lt. Col. Vindman | ON WITH KARA SWISHER (March 20, 2025)
Legal Consequences Of Generated Content | PRACTICAL AI: MACHGINE LEARNING, DATA SCIENCE (July 18, 2023)
Lina Khan on Fighting Big Tech | OFFLINE WITH JON FAVREAU (January 12, 2025)
Put Your Phone Away: Yondr CEO on the Philosophy Behind Phone-Free Spaces | ON WITH KARA SWISHER (January 16, 2025)
Real or AI? The Tech Giants Racing to Stop the Spread of Fake Images | THE FUTURE OF EVERYTHING (September 15, 2023)
Robocab | TODAY, EXPLAINED (August 17, 2023)
The Communication Epidemic Pt 1 | CHAMPAGNE SHARKS (April 30, 2023)
The Deepfake Dilemma: The Technology, Policy, and Economy | a16z PODCAST (October 11, 2024)
The Man That Destroyed Google Search | BETTER OFFLINE (April 25, 2024)
🆕The Night Is Dark And Full Of Dire Wolves | De-Extinction, AI, and Space Miso | THE DEBRIEF WEEKLY REPORT (April 8, 2025)
The Old Internet Is Dying, and Something Worse Is Being Born | CYBER (December 13, 2023)
The Rot Society | BETTER OFFLINE (NOVEMBER 20, 2024)
Two Writers Wonder If They’ll Be Replaced By AI | OFFLINE WITH JON FAVREAU (January 15, 2023)
Using AI As A Tool For Creativity | LIFE AND ART (May 9, 2024)
What's Eating The Economy | WHAT NEXT (June 17, 2024)
When AI Hears A Problems | IN MACHINES WE TRUST (May 16, 2023)
When AI Watches the Streets | IN MACHINES WE TRUST {May 19, 2023)
When Your Flight's GPS Gets Spoofed | WHAT NEXT (December 1, 2024)
🆕 Will Sam Altman and His AI Kill Us All | BULWARK TAKES (May 23, 2025)
🆕You've Been Deepfaked | WHAT NEXT (May 18, 2025)
🆕You Should Be Traveling With A VPN | THE WIRECUTTER SHOW (June 2, 2025)
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FOOD - HEALTH
🆕A Grand, Unified Theory on Why Americans Are So Unhealthy | PLAIN ELGLISH WITH DEREK THOMSPN (June 18, 2025)
All You Can Eat: The True Story Behind America's Most Popular Seafood | GASTROPOD (April 16, 2024)
America's Toxic Food System | SOME MORE NEWS (August 10, 2023)
🆕Anti-Science Mugging On The Right and the Ascent of American Anti-Intellectualism | CITATIONS NEEDED (May 28, 2025)
A Nutritionist Clarifies Some Common Health Claims | SCIENCE FRIDAY (November 27, 2024)
Are We All Addicted to Ultra-Processed Foods? | NO STUPID QUESTIONS (March 12, 2023)
🆕 Autism: The Real Reason It's Going Up | SCIENCE VS (June 19, 2025)
Bird Flu, Baby Formula and The Bully Pulpit | AMERICA DISSECTED (March 27, 2025)
Butchers | THE ECONOMY OF EVERYDAY THINGS (January 5, 2025)
Cheddar Cheese | SECRETLY INCRIBLY FASCINATING (January 20, 2025)
Cocktail Recipes, Ancient Beers, Forever Chemicals | GOOD FOOD (September 13, 2024)
Controlling The Chatter In Your Head | ALL IN THE MIND (February 5, 2022)
What's Controlling Your Inner Voice? Controlling "Chatter" Part Two | ALL IN YOUR HEAD (March 16, 2024)
🆕Could The NIH Plan For A 'Universal Vaccine' Really Work? | SCIENCE FRIDAY (May 28, 2025)
Counterfeit Foods | THE JORDAN HARBINGER SHOW (December 8, 2024)
Death Doulas | FLIGHTLESS BIRD (November 19, 2024)
🆕"Detox" Your Kitchen | THE WIRECUTTER SHOW ( April 30, 2025)
🆕Eric Topol Returns (On Longevity) | ARMCHAIR EXPERT (May 21, 2025)
🆕Fad Diets | THE JORDAN HARBINGER SHOW (April 13, 2025)
🆕Fake Foods | THE JORDAN HARBINGER SHOW (February 26, 2025)
Fat Free Foods | THE JORDAN HARBINGER SHOW (August 18, 2024)
Fighting For The Right To Die | WHAT NEXT (April 27, 2023)
🆕Fluoride: Is Your Water Safe | SCIENCE VS (April 10, 2025)
Food Contamination Is On The Rise. Here's What History Can Teach Us About How To Stop It | AMERICA DISSECTED (November 21, 2023)
Food Packaging | JORDAN HARBINGER SHOW (November 23, 2024)
Hidden Health Risk? The Truth About Emulsifiers With DR Federica Amati | ZOE SCIENCE & NUTRITION (July 11, 2024)
How Can You Be Kinder To Yourself | NO STUPID QUESTIONS (September 10, 2023)
How Do You Identify A Narcissist? | NO STUPID QUESTIONS (November 9, 2024)
How The Jalapeño Lost Its Heat | THE SPORKEFUL (May 19, 2025)
🆕ICE Raids On Taqueros, Creole Cooking, The Food Displacement | GOOD FOOD (June 20, 2025)
🆕IQ Tests | THE JORDAN HARBINGER SHOW (May 25, 2025)
Let's Go To Butter School | THE WIRECUTTER SHOW | (November 20, 2024)
Life After Death? | THE GRAY AREA with SEAN ILLING (May 20, 2024)
🆕MAHA Mia! Feat. Derek Beres | QAA PODCAST (May 30, 2025)
Meet The Most Famous American You've Never Heard of: His Legacy is Excellent French Fried and Monsanto | GASTROPOD (April 30, 2024)
Menopause: The Myths and the Madness | SCIENCE VS (October 17, 2024)
Michael Pollan's Long, Strange Trip From Food To Psychedelics | GOOD FOOD (January 3, 2024)
Microplastics: How Worried Should We Be? | SCIENCE VS (October 3, 2024)
Not Medically Necessary | COGNITIVE DISSONANCE (November 14, 2024)
Nowruz, Cabbage, Agricultural Policy, Whales vs Crabs | GOOD FOOD (March 14, 2025)
🆕Outwardly Impressive, Losing It On The Inside? The Cognitive Distortions Of A High Achiever | ALL IN THE MIND (May 10, 2025)
🆕Plant-Based Diets | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW (May 13, 2025)
RFK's Band of Bros. H5N1 Drives Egg Prices. A Big Conversation About Smallpox | AMERICAN DISSECTED (December 5, 2024)
🆕RFK at HHS | AMERICA DISSECTED (February 20, 2025)
RFK to HHS. H5N1 in Canada. And Why You Should Be #Resistance Training | AMERICA DISSECTED (November 21, 2024)
The Abortion Pill: How Dangerous Is It Really? | SCIENCE VS (May 23, 2024)
The Anxious Generation w/Jonathan Haidt | THE PSYCHOLOGY PODCAST (July 4, 2024)
🆕The Anxious Generation With Jonathan Haidt | WHAT NOW? WITH TREVOR NOAH (May 14, 2025)
🆕 The Carnivore Diet: Can We Live On Meat Alone? | SCIENCE VS (June 12, 2025)
The End of the Calorie (Encore) | GASTROPOD (January 17, 2023)
The Failures of 'Organic" Farming | TBD (April 28, 2024)
🆕The Grifters Behind The Fake Autism "Cure" Industry | BEHIND THE BASTARDS (April 1, 2025)
The Hidden Battle over Grocery Store Shelves | THE SPORKFUL (January 15, 2024)
The Inflammation Theory of Disease | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW (May 16, 2023)
The Pill: Is It Messing Up Our Bodies | SCIENCE VS (November 21, 2024)
🆕The Problem With "Do Your Own Research" | AMERICA DISSECTED (May 7, 2025)
🆕The Psychology Of Swearing, With Richard Stephens, PhD | SPEAKING OF PSYCHOLOGY (April 9, 2025)
The Real Anti-Inflammatory Diet | SCIENCE VS (December 12, 2024)
The Surprising Science of Personalized Nutrition: Eat This, Not That | GASTROPOD (June 10, 2019)
The WHO, What, and Why of Trump’s first Health Executive Orders | AMERICA DISSECTED (January 23, 2025)
Is America Switching From Booze to Weed? | FREAKONOMICS RADIO (October 16, 2024)
Is It Too Late To Escape "Forever Chemicals" | WHAT NEXT (April 18, 2024)
Is Ultra-Processed Food...Even Food | AMERICA DISSECTED (October 21, 2023)
Sugar's Dark Shadow | GASTROPOD | (May 28, 2024)
🆕Understanding Pathological Manipulation With Dr. Peter Salerno | INDOCTRINATION (March 19, 2025)
Understanding The Mind Of A Serial Killer, With Louis Schlesinger, PhD | SPEAKING OF PSYCHOLOGY (April 10, 2024)
🆕US COVID Vaccine Policy By Vibes | AMERICA DISSECTED (May 22, 2025)
Vaccine Conspiracies, Fluoride Myths, and America's Broken Public-Health Discourse | PLAIN ENGLISH WITH DEREK THOMPSON (November 22, 2024)
Wellness 2.0: Be Yourself | HIDDEN BRAIN (December 30, 2024)
Weight, Weight, Don’t Tell Me with Prof. Harriet Brown | AMERICA DISSECTED (January 24, 2023)
What Americans Ate When There Were No Food Laws | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW (February 13, 2024)
🆕What Drives People To Extremism? With Arie Kruglanski, PhD, and Sophia Moskalenko, PhD | SPEAKING OF PSYCHOLOGY (April 30, 2025)
What's The Buzz on Eating Bugs? Can Insects Really Save The World? | GASTROPOD (August 20, 2024)
When Vaginas Attack! | SCIENCE VS (December 5, 2024)
Where's the Beef? Lab-Grown Meat is Finally on the Menu | GASTROPOD (July 11, 2023)
Which Comes First, The Bird Flu or the Egg? | WHAT NEXT (November 27, 2024)
🆕Why Aren't WE Having More Babies? | FREAKONOMICS RADIO (June 13, 2025)
Why the Future of Mental Health Care Could Be in Your Gut | THE FUTURE OF EVERYTHING
Why Volunteering Is Worth It | TODAY, EXPLAINED (November 27, 2024) (February 17, 2023)
Your Arm Position Can Make Blood Pressure Reading Inaccurate | SCIENCE FRIDAY (November 12, 2024)
Your New Menopause Toolkit with Dr Mary Claire Haver & Dr. Sarah Berry | ZOE SCIENCE & NUTRITION (May 9, 2024)
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SCIENCE - ENVIRONMENT
Aliens From Earth? | UNEXPLAINABLE (March 6, 2024)
Are Animals Conscious | ALL IN THE MIND (March 30, 2024)
Compost Yourself | TODAY, EXPLAINED (January 17, 2023)
🆕Death of the Weather Forecast? | TBD WHAT NEXT (April 26, 2025)
How Climate Change Will Reshape Where Americans Live | FIVETHIRTYEIGHT POLITICS (May 4, 2023)
How NASA Sees Climate Change From Space | WSJ's THE FUTURE OF EVERYTHING (June 21, 2024)
How We're Learning to Talk to Animals | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW (August 15, 2023)
Is It Okay To Go To The Zoo? | THE WEEDS (October 2, 2024)
Is It Too Late To Escape "Forever Chemicals" | WHAT NEXT (April 18, 2024)
Love Canal: Even Dirtier Than It Sounds | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW (March 26, 2024)
Max Bennett (on the history of intelligence) | ARMCHAIR EXPERT (October 2, 2024)
NASA Plans to Bring Bits of Marks to Earth. It May Change How We See Space | THE FUTURE OF EVERYTHING (May 12, 2023)
🆕Plastic Rain, Plastic Rain | TODAY EXPLAINED (April 9, 2025)
Unraveling Mysteries in the Ocean's Darkest Depth with Susan Casey | THE JORDAN HARBINGER SHOW (April 30, 2024)
Who's The Daddy? There Isn't One | UNEXPLAINABLE (May 8, 2024)
Why Do We Cry | NO STUPID QUESTIONS (January 22, 2023)
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POLITICS - SOCIETY - LAW
🆕A History of Christian Nationalism | THROUGHLINE (October 10, 2024)
America Keeps Me Up at Night with Dr. Richard Haass | OPEN BOOK WITH ANOTHONY SCARAMUCCI (April 2, 2023)
America’s Midlife Crisis with Tom Nichols | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (March 23, 2023)
Andrew McCabe on the Potential "Kash Damages" | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (December 23, 2024)
Are Drag Queens Coming For Your Kids? | SOME MORE NEWS (June 21, 2023)
🆕A Right-Wing Economist Makes His Case | THE GRAY AREWA WITH SEAN ILLING (June 9, 2025)
🆕Art Of The (Iran) Deal | TODAY, EXPLAINED (April 15, 2025)
A Slow Civil War with Jeff Sharlet | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (April 12, 2023)
A Sociopath's Guide to Death, Sex, and Money | DEATH. SEX & MONEY (April 16, 2024)
A Surgeon General Warning = Is Disinformation Winning? = The CryptoPACs Are Coming | HARD FORK (June 21, 2024)
Blame Capitalism (3 Parts) | TODAY, EXPLAINED - VOX
Blame Capitalism: Profit Over Everything (September 15, 2023)
Blame Capitalism: The 99% (September 22, 2023)
Blame Capitalism: Degrowing Pains (September 29, 2023)
Can America Survive Another Season of the Trump Show? Variety's Ramin Setoodeh Tells Us | OPEN BOOK WITH ANTHOMNY SCARAMUCCI (July 24, 2024)
Capital Punishment | FLIGHTLESS BIRD (October 6, 2024)
China, Russia, and America: Where Do We Go From Here? | OPEN BOOK WITH ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI (June 12, 2024)
Citizenship | FLGHTLESS BIRD (April 30, 2024)
🆕Creating A Unified Front With Yevgeny Simkin | THE HOME FRONT (May 4, 2025)
Could Ranked Choice Voting Fix Our Elections? | EXPLAIN IT TO ME (November 20, 2024
Cults and Coercive Control | ALL IN THE MIND (March 23, 2024)
Defending Socialism: A Logical Critique of Capitalism | REVLEFTRADIO (May 28, 2024)
🆕DEI? You're Fired! With Heather McGhee | THE WEEKLY SHOW WITH JON STEWART (April 17, 2025)
🆕Donald Trump's "Golden Dome" | TODAY, EXPLAINED (June 3, 2025)
Don't Fall For Mark Zuckerberg's Rebrand w/Karl Bode | TECH WON'T SAVE US (October 3, 2024)
Election 2024: How Secure Is Your Vote? | THE WEEKLY SHOW WITH JON STEWART (October 10, 2024)
Elon Musk Unmasked | TECH WON'T SAVE US (November 17, 2023)
Escaping America | CANADALAND (April 24, 2023)
Escaping Surveillance Capitalism (w/ Matthew Crain) | BAD FAITH (May 9, 2024)
🆕Faith, Lies & Power with Katherine Stewart | OPEN BOOK WITH ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI (March 12, 2025)
🆕Fear Is The Economy Killer | TODAY, EXPLAINED (March 27, 2025)
George Will: Democracy Rests on Persuasion | THE BULWARK PODCAST WITH TIM MILLER (November 26, 2024)
🆕Grafter Math Edition | THE SKEPTICRAT (May 19, 2025)
Greedflation Is Real | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW (April 2, 2024)
🆕Hegseth Disaster! Trump's Big Parade! Rep Jason Crow Talks All | BULWARK TAKES (June 11, 2025)
How Big Was The Hammer SCOTUS Just Took to Government As We Know It | AMERICA DISSECTED (July 23, 2024)
How Peter Thiel Became the Right's Tech-Authoritarian Kingmaker | OFFLINE WITH JON FAVREAU (August 25, 2024)
How To Get Under a Strongman's Skin, With George Conway | THE POLITICAL SCENE (September 13, 2024)
How To Read Polls in 2024 | 538 POLITICS (September 26, 2024)
How To Talk Politics With Your Dad (Without Yelling) Pt 1 - Encore | HOW TO (December 24, 2024)
How To Talk Politics With Your Dad (Without Yelling) Pt 2 - Encore | HOW TO (December 31, 2024)
How We Got Here | POLITIX (January 3, 2024)
Inflation Frustration as Fed Cuts Rates | THE WEEKLY SHOW W JON STEWART (September 19, 2024)
🆕Is There Such A Thing As Good Estrangement? | NO STUPID QUESTIONS (April 26, 2025)
"Is Trump Insane?" with Anthony Scaramucci | UNCOMFRORTABLE CONVERSATIONS W JOSH SZEPS (April 11, 2023)
It's Only 13 Scaramucci's Until Election Day | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (June 13, 2024)
🆕It's Even Worse Than You Think With Alexis Coe (from Substack Live!) | THE HOME FRONT (June 3, 2025)
J. Edgar Hoover: Evil G-Man Pt 1 | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW | (May 21, 2024)
J. Edgar Hoover: Evil G-Man Pt 2 | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW | (May 23, 2024)
John Avlon's Four F's | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (December 2, 2024)
Jon Lovett: A Worst Case Scenario Comes Into View | THE BULWARK PODCAST WITH TIM MILLER (March 27, 2025)
🆕Kentucky On Track? With Gov. Andy Beshar | THE WEEKLY SHOW WITH JON STEWART (May 1, 2025)
Made In America | ON THE MEDIA (April 7, 2023)
Margaret Atwood on Good, Evil and Stupidity | OFFLINE WITH JON FAVREAU (March 12, 2023)
Mass Deportation How? | WHAT NEXT (November 21, 2024)
Matthew Desmond (on poverty) | ARMCHAIR EXPERT (January 11, 2024)
Meet the Media Prophets Who Preach Christian Supremacy | ON THE MEDIA (April 19, 2024)
🆕Michael Lewis (On The Gambling Epidemic) | ARMCHAIR EXPERT WITH DAX SHEPARD (May 7, 2025)
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical | THE BULWARK PODCAST with TIM MILLER (December 3, 2024)
News Brief: Media Incitement Against Haitian Migrants and JD Vance's Standpoint Theory for Bigoted Dopes | CITATIONS NEEDED (September 18, 2024)
News Brief: Trump's Anti-Migrant Terror PR Strategy, Dr Phil's ICE Reality Show & NYT's MAGA Assist | CITATIONS NEEDED (January 29, 2025)
🆕No Kids On The Block | TODAY< EXPLAINED (March 20, 2025)
Panic! At The Drugstore | THE WEEDS (May 15, 2024)
Plain History: The Smoot-Hawley Tariff and the Great Depression | PLAIN ENGLISH (April 11, 2025)
Polling, Parties, and Polarization with Alexander Theodoridis | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (JANUARY 26, 2023)
PragerU, the 'Product Of His Time' Defense and the White Guilt Amelioration Industrial Complex | CITATIONS NEEDED (September 27, 2023)
Prison Labor | THE ECONOMOICS OF EVERYDAY THINGS (November 10, 2024)
Project 2025 | STRICT SCRUTINY
900 Pages and 100% Deranged (July 29, 2024)
DEI for Men With Terrible Personalities (August 5, 2024)
How To Create a Geopolitical Hellscape & Back to School with Meredith Marks (August 19, 2024)
The Fascist Plan to Plunder the Government (August 26, 2024)
🆕 Pure Excess: Capitalism, Commodity Fetishism, And The Promise Of More | REVLEFT RADIO (March 7, 2025)
Putting The Ouch in Voucher Edition | THE SCATHING ATHIEST (June 13, 2024)
Republicans Are Getting Raunchy | TODAY, EXPLAINED (September 19, 2024)
Saving Democracy with David Pepper | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (May 25, 2023)
SCOTUS Hands Trump Presidential Immunity | STRICT SCRUTINY (July 1, 2024)
Selects: The Tulsa 'Race Riots' | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW (July 27, 2024)
Seller's Inflation and the Super Serious Economists Mocking "Greedflation""Conspiracies" | CITATIONS NEEDED (October 16, 2024)
Short Stuff: Hostile Architecture | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW (June 19, 2024)
🆕 Slavery - Skeptical Sunday | THE JORDAN HARBINGER SHOW (May 4, 2025)
Start The Steal? | TODAY EXPLAINED (September 23, 2024)
🆕Starved In Jail | COGNITIVE DISSONANCE (June 19, 2025)
State of Play: The RNC Cultish Clown Show, Continued Calls for Violence, and Biden Bows Out | BEST OF THE LEFT (July 26, 2024)
Steven Hassan on the Cult of Trump | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (September 19, 2024)
Stop Treating the Government Like It's A Business with Ron Insana | THE HOME FRONT (December 21, 2024)
Sunita Sah (on defiance) | ARMCHAIR EXPERT WITH DAX SHEPARD (January 22, 2025)
🆕The A.C.L.U. v. Trump 2.0 | THE POLITICAL SCENE (February 17, 2025)
The Agents of Chaos with Ron Insana | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (January 24, 2023)
The Cult of Tradwives | SOUNDS LIKE A CULT (May 28, 2024)
The Explosion of Antisemitism with Mike Rothschild | OPEN BOOK WITH ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI (December 6, 2023)
The "Graying Population" Panic and the 90-Year War on Social Security | CITATIONS NEEDED (December 2, 2023)
The Kids Aren't Reading All Right | TODAY, EXPLAINED (November 20,2024)
The Man Behind Project 2025's Most Radical Plans | COGNITIVE DISSONANCE (September 5, 2024)
The Most Important "Most Important Election" | TODAY, EXPLAINED (November 5, 2024)
🆕The Post Democracy Era With Parag Khanna | OPEN BOOK WITH ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI (March 19, 2025)
The Principles of Communism: Friedrich Engles & Communist Political Theory | REVLEFT RADIO (September 27, 2023)
The Promise and Perils of Presidential Power | STRICT SCUTINY (November 6, 2025)
The Return of Easy Money | TODAY, EXAPLINED (September 17, 2024)
The Rise of the Really Mean Idiots | THE JOHN FUGELSANG PODCAST (January 29, 2025)
The US South's Elites Have Kept the Region Poor and Underdeveloped | THIS IS HELL (April 16, 2024)
There's A New Tariff In Town | TODAY, EXPLAINED (November 14, 2024)
There's Nothing Conservative About Today's GOP with Adam Kinzinger | THE HOME FRONT (October 8, 2024)
Three Part Series on America's Immigration System | FREAKONOMICS RADIO (March 20, 2024)
The Resurgence of QAnon with Will Sommer | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (April 6, 2023)
The Threat of White Christian Nationalism | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (Febraury 7, 2024)
The Week The World Changed with DW Gibson | OPEN BOOK WITH ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI (June 19, 2024)
TOP SECRET: Our Classified Documents System Is [Redacted] | THE PROBLEM WITH JON STEWART (January 24, 2023)
To Understand JD Vance, You Need Top Meet The "TheoBros" | COGNITIVE DISSONANCE (October 10, 2024)
Trump AKA The Lucky Loser | OPEN BOOK WITH ANOTHOINY SCARAMUCCI (October 2, 2024)
Trump's Legacy: Violence in American Elections | THE LINCOLN PROJECT (September 13, 2024)
Trump’s Potential Trials Are a One-Man “Stress Test of the Legal System” | THE POLITICAL SCENE (March 24, 2023)
Trump's Shadow Cabinet | WHAT NEXT (November 20, 2024)
Trump, The Russians, And Elon Musk with Abigail Tracy | THE HOME FRONT (October 9, 2024)
We Read Josh Hawley's Book So You Don't Have To | STRICT SCRUTINY (July 15, 2024)
🆕What Did Wikipedia Do? | TODAY< EXPLAINED (May 8, 2025)
What Do We Know About How The World Might End? | THE POLITICAL SCENE (June 5, 2024)
What Does “Woke” Mean, and How Did the Term Become So Powerful? | THE POLITICAL SCENE (January 30, 2023)
What's Eating The Economy | WHAT NEXT (June 17, 2024)
🆕Why Elon Musk Was Fired By Trump | THE REST IS POLITICS US (June 4, 2025)
When A Miscarriage Becomes A Crime | WHAT NEXT (December 20, 2023)
Who Should Be More Worries About Robert F Kennedy | THE POLITICAL SCENE (May 3, 2024)
Why Iran Attacked Israel | TODAY, EXPLAINED (April 15, 2024)
Why Is Child Labor Making a Comeback? | THE WEEDS (May 17, 2023)
Why Is Jill Stein Trying To Get Trump Elected? | WHAT A DAY (October 12, 2024)
Why Is The SAT Back (Again)? | WHAT A DAY (June 8, 2024)
Why We Can't Give up on Persuasion | THE GRAY AREA (April 17, 2023)
Why Millennials Dread Motherhood | TODAY, EXPLAINED (December 15, 2023)
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