The Clinton Years: Part Three. The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing.
Part One of “The Clinton Years” examined Bill Clinton’s legacy through the lens of their foundation work and stubborn insistence on the private...
The Clinton Years: pART tWO. Yesterday’s Gone.
In Part One of “The Clinton Years,” we started our journey in the present day by examining the structure and programs of The Clinton Foundation. Many...
The Clinton Years: Part One. Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow.
When we think of prosperous eras in modern U.S. history, conservatives often point to the Reagan administration as a crucial turning point. To the...
Fuck U, PragerU.
For years, the propagandists with the greatest visibility in the United States were on television; the ones who contributed most to the “manufacture...
$5 Gasoline: The Real Culprit Revealed
I know, I know. Didn’t we just do this episode? Kinda, sorta. But not to this extent. In our Peak Oil episode, we reviewed the history of oil as a...
UNFTR Flashback: Peak Oil
Oil is everywhere. It’s all around us. It’s in everything, and it makes the world go around. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects...
Phone A Friend: Daniel Bessner + Derek Davison of the American Prestige Podcast
Our inaugural edition of Phone a Friend, where we interview luminaries in different fields, features Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison from the...
Amazon: Part Two. The Unfulfillment Company.
In Part One of Amazon, the Unfulfillment Company, we reviewed Amazon’s rise from online bookseller to third largest company on the planet and well on...
Amazon: Part One. The Unfulfillment Company.
The first of a two-part series on Amazon. In many ways, Amazon is the logical extension of America’s perverted version of neoliberal capitalism. The...
Obsession Over Recession Depression: Feeding the Economic HypeBeast
We just came through the eighth “technical” recession over the past 50 years, and many predict that another is around the corner. Depending upon who...
The School Shooting Script: Our Immunocompromised Body Politic
It’s the same old script. Mass shooting occurs. Thoughts and prayers fly. Declarations are made. Fingers point. There’s something more insidious at...
Student Debt: Hey Boomer, STFU
Various sources report that the Biden Administration is set to release its plan to deal with student indebtedness. Cancellation? Forgiveness?...
Boarding Schools from Hell: Indian Residential Schools in America
Imagine for a moment a breaking news story that more than 500 bodies of white children were found buried in unmarked graves at some of the most...
Convention of States: The Right Wing Takeover Has Only Just Begun
For decades, right wing actors have been steadily tearing apart critical protections of our democracy and stacking the deck in their favor. Civil...