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The Federal Republic of Germany is a country with a long and rich history. It’s a country that is best known in the West as central to the dominant geopolitical struggles of the 20th century – namely the two World Wars and the Cold War. Today, it is one of the largest economies in the world and the economic powerhouse of Europe – having risen from the ashes of destruction and

Yesterday Minnesota governor Tim Walz was announced as Kamala Harris’s running mate for the Democratic ticket in the 2024 presidential election. To discuss that pick, and the state of the race, I’m joined today by Michael Baharaeen, chief political analyst at The Liberal Patriot Substack as well as writer of the Checks and Balances Substack.Michael and I discuss the Walz select

Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden. Who will win?Sean Dempsey is dedicated libertarian stalwart and party member from the great state of New Hampshire. As a stalwart leftist (me) and dedicated libertarian (Sean) we breakdown the first 2024 presidential debate. God help us all. Show Info-----Twitter@[email protected] -----MusicUrban Deer Hunt: https://linktr.

“Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longa be habitable. Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or by madness. " - John F. Kennedy, 1961For over half a century, from the end of the Second World War

Today’s guest is Ryan Grim, author of the new book “The Squad – AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution”. Ryan Grim is the Intercept’s Washington bureau chief and cohost of the show Counter Points. He was previously the DC bureau chief for HuffPost, where we led a team that won a Pulitzer Prize. Grim has been a staff reporter for Politico and the Washington City Paper

We’re now in two months of the Israel-Gaza War and after a brief ceasefire, the fighting has erupted again. I think its hard to understand this current conflict without understanding the history of Israel and Palestine, and how it led to where we are today To help with that understanding, today’s guest is Dr Zachary Foster Zach is a historian of Palestine, having gotten his PhD

Foreign policy is all over the news these days as wars rage from The Middle East to Eastern Europe. To help get a better sense of those issues, as well as what a better, more values based U.S. Foreign Policy could look like, I am joined today by Matt Duess. Matt is the Executive Vice President at the Center for International Foreign Policy. In the past Matt has served as a visiting

Today’s guest is former Congressman Mike Capuano, who represented Massachuetts’s 7th Congressional District from 1999 to 2019. I pick Mike’s brain on a wide range of issues, including, of course, Israel and Gaza, Ukraine, what he thinks of Matt Gaetz’s demands, whether or not we should abolish the Senate and what he thinks of an old proposal to combine Boston, Cambridge and

In an economy with steady growth, low unemployment and core inflation down to 3.2%, why do so many Americans say that the Biden Administration has left them worse off economically? How is Trump winning or tied with voters under 30? And why are the Democrats, once the party of the common man, continuing to lose the support the working class, not just among white voters but increasin

Over the last decade we’ve seen the rise of a wide range of social justice movements, from Occupy Wall Street to Me Too to Black Lives Matter. Where are those movements now and what impact have they had? In his new book “How the Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement” Freddie DeBoer explores these questions. Freddie argues that in the digital age, social movements flare up bu