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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 1 day 21 hours 12 minutes
episode 22: 022 - Iran (with Adam Johnson of Citations Needed)
Guest: Adam Johnson ( is the cohost of , an outstanding podcast on the media and political communication. He joins me to talk about the unfolding situation in Iran and how it rekindles some of the biggest problems with media coverage of the Iraq War...
episode 23: 023 - Apocalypse Now (Mike Pearl / The Harvesting Effect)
Story: One of my favorite phenomena in demographic data...the harvesting effect. What I learned from a heat wave in Chicago in 1995, and how it applies to the current coronavirus outbreak. Mortality data can simultaneously be accurate and misleading....
episode 24: 024 - Shelter in Place (Voskhod 1 / Dr. Samantha Montano)
Story: Three Men in a Can - Voskhod 1. The USSR beats the USA to the feat of sending a three-person crew into space by pointing at its one-man spacecraft and telling three guys "Get in there." A story (with a happy ending!) about claustrophobia as we...
episode 25: 025 - Boss Hogg Tries to Buy the Pitcairn Islands
Mutiny on the Bounty meets Dukes of Hazzard
episode 26: 026 - Mike Konczal of the Roosevelt Institute
Guest: Financial policy guru Mike Konczal (@rortybomb) explains what should be happening in response to the economic crisis, what is happening, and why those two are different. We cover unemployment, policy coming out of Congress, what decision-makers...
episode 27: 027 - Tom Sexton of Trillbilly Workers Party
Guest: Tom Sexton () of The Trillbilly Workers Party () joins me to talk about the Amy McGrath - Charles Booker primary race in Kentucky, the uncharismatic void that is Chuck Schumer, and the video Ted Turner made for the end of the world. The...
episode 28: 028 - The Debt Episode w/ Thomas Gokey of the Debt Collective
Guest: Thomas Gokey of () joins me to talk about their new book , coming out in September from . We talk about the ways that people can take on debt collectively to give themselves power - and choices - they don't have as individuals. And Thomas...
episode 29: 029 - Post-Election All-Mailbag Episode 2020
Question Cathy joins me for the post-election tradition of an all-mailbag episode devoted to listener-submitted questions. A partial list of topics covered here: Electoral College reform, rogue state legislatures, the census / redistricting, Trumpian...