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Teach Your Children Well
A reader asks: How can I communicate with a college-age son who has contempt for the political system?
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In the 1970s, PBS Broke Broadcast News-- And Made It Better
Honoring the work of television journalist Robert MacNeil, January 19, 1931 – April 12, 2024
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Episode 52: Goodbye, Beaver Cleaver
A conversation with historian Becky Nicolaides about her new book, The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life in Los Angeles after 1945
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I Am Ignoring Amy Coney Barrett
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It's Never the Gun, Is It?
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Is There Literally Something Rotten in Mar-A-Lago?
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You Can't Slut-Shame Lauren Boebert
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Now, You Can Call Her Lauren`Ho-bert
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MAGA Blots Out Democracy's Sun
Since the last solar eclipse, we have learned that Trumpism is a dangerous political religion that has no rules
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Episode 51: MAGA Is the Newest, and Oldest, American Myth
A conversation with American Studies scholar Richard Slotkin about his new book, "A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America"
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How A Little Girl Named Virginia Promotes Christian Nationalism
A little-known lawsuit by New York's Letitia James against the notorious VDare Foundation reveals how a white supremacist movement expands without ever…
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Episode 50: Who Do You Love?
A conversation with historian and journalist Neil J. Young about his new book, "Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right"
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Donald Trump's Mad Scramble for Cash
The Former Guy needs to come up with almost half a billion dollars today, or the State of New York can start taking his toys. And that is what should…
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Reefer Madness
A review essay of historian Matthew Lassiter's new book about policing marijuana, "The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs"
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Episode 49: Without Mothers, There Is No War
A conversation with political scientist Cynthia Enloe about her book "Twelve Feminist Lessons of War"
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