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Assenting to Trump's insane Iran war would mean accepting a broken and malevolent vision of America
Democrats who are considering funding the illegal attack on Iran risk tossing the opposition into a moral abyss, while betraying the American people in…
 • Jim Carroll
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Why the sex, drugs, and rock and roll counterculture fell in love with Donald Trump and Jesus
Philosopher and podcaster Aaron Rabinowitz discusses ‘high weirdness’ and why so many hippies were always on the political right and didn’t realize it
 • Matthew Sheffield
It wasn’t that long ago when the U.S. Congress asserted its rightful authority over foreign wars
After the Vietnam War, Congress understood the dangers of a president making war without authorization
1:15:57
How you think about minds influences how you view the world
Philosopher and geneticist Johannes Yaeger on how digital computing metaphors cannot capture what biological minds are
 • Matthew Sheffield
Plunging U.S. into illegal war with Iran, Donald Trump reminds us he's the true menace to our country
In his half-hearted attempts to sell war with Iran, Trump sticks to a stale authoritarian script: we are beset by evil enemies that he alone can…
 • Jim Carroll

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Did OpenAI cast aside safety concerns about fully automated weapon systems?
 • Matthew Sheffield
Epstein files show a financier obsessed with excluding women from science and tech
Thousands of released documents show how infamous sex criminal used his riches to fund misogyny and suppress female researchers
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Big tech billionaires are trying to make dystopian science fiction into reality
The Nation’s Jeet Heer on how Thiel, Musk, and Bezos are animated by Heinlein, Rand, and Campbell
 • Matthew Sheffield
After Twin Cities occupation, the path to defeating MAGA has become clearer
But it will require Democrats to accept that only a determined opposition to Trump and his allies can change minds, rally a majority, and clarify the…
 • Jim Carroll
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Thinking outside Schrödinger’s cat box: Reality as quantum
Oxford University quantum physicist Vlatko Vedral on his new book about how to eliminate many of the quantum paradoxes
 • Matthew Sheffield
1:02:04
Financially struggling Americans have no interest in participating in a political system that’s failed them
Sociologist Daniel Laurison discusses new research on low-income non-voters
 • Matthew Sheffield
AI content is here to stay, laws and norms need to change accordingly
Large Language Models are enabling the non-rich to get cognitive assistance, but they’re also enabling junk and manipulation
All the king’s masked and anonymous henchmen
In the Trump administration's elevation of lawless federal agents, we can see a parallel denigration of the meaning of American citizenship
 • Jim Carroll
1:26:05
Robert Kennedy’s MAHA cult is making America sicker
Psychologist Jonathan Howard on the enormous damage the new anti-science establishment is doing to public health
 • Matthew Sheffield
The START nuclear weapons treaty is expiring this week, but Trump doesn’t seem to care
Even Russian president Vladimir Putin has proposed extending it for an additional year
From Maduro to Minneapolis
What happens when Americans are treated the way the U.S. treats other countries?
 • Lance Aksamit
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Donald Trump is more unpopular than ever, but congressional Democrats are divided on how to push back
The Nation’s Chris Lehmann on the very different dilemmas facing America’s major political parties
 • Matthew Sheffield
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