Public Education: Part Two. Expansion, Reconstruction & Desegregation.
Today, we continue our three-part series by examining three of the four major eras of public education in the United States: Expansion,...
Public Education: Part One. Scaffolding.
Today is the first in a three-part series on public education in the United States. The focus is on compulsory K-12 education. We begin the series by...
The FCC: Part Two. On the Death of Competition.
In our first installment of the two-part FCC series, we discussed the origins of the Federal Communications Commission, the reason it came into...
The FCC: Part One. On the Death of the Fairness Doctrine.
This week, we finally heed the call to Unf*ck the Federal Communications Commission (FCC.) We don’t get all the way there (it’s been around since...
Hospitals and Healthcare: From Sanatoriums for the Indigent to Citadels of the Elite
The third and final installment of our American Healthcare series examines the evolution of the American hospital system. There are more than 6,000...
This Healthcare is Killing Us: The Perpetual Cycle of Money Madness
The first installment of our healthcare series encapsulated the magnitude of the industry that accounts for 20% of our nation’s GDP and how efforts...
U.S. Healthcare: America’s Hypocritical Oath
Today, we’re doing some level setting on healthcare in the U.S.—a long requested topic. We navigate this unf*cking based on direct queries from the...
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...
Where is the Religious Left? Dissecting the American Theocracy
Since the Civil War, white Christians in this country have swung wildly between advancing a social doctrine of equality and promoting outright...
The End of Roe v. Wade: Extinguishing the Penumbra
They’ve done it. Well, they’re about to. As much as we all knew this was coming, it’s still stunning. Today’s Topical Cream presses the obvious point...
Elon Gated: Billionaires and Their Toys
The second installment of topical cream peers into the petty world of the billionaire class and the purchase of Twitter by racist enabler and...
The Military Film Complex: Destroying the Myth of Liberal Hollywood
Trendsetter or follower? Hollywood has made over 5,000 war films in the past 100 years. Today’s episode probes whether Hollywood has been complicit...
Labor Unions: From Pullman to Kellogg’s. Labor’s Long, Hard Road
From Pullman and Carnegie to Kellogg's and the PRO Act, this week, we unf*ck the labor movement in the United States. No single episode can possibly...
The Violent States of America.
This week in Unf*cking the Republic®, we dive into U.S. interventions in the post-Vietnam War era. Starting with our recent meddling in Bolivia, we...