The Montreal Protocol.
There was a time when we listened to scientists. Believe it or not, it actually happened in the 1980s. Under Ronald Reagan. (Don’t get me wrong, he’s...
The 3 Men Who Will Defeat Biden.
Today’s Quickie predicts the three men who will combine to beat Joe Biden next November. Can you guess any one of them?
Palestine: Epilogue
The epilogue to the Palestine series is an essay from Max that draws upon personal experience and reveals what he learned from putting together these...
Phone A Friend: Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine.
Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. Professor Khalidi received his BA from Yale in 1970, and...
Palestine: Part Three.
The final installment of our series on Israel/Palestine covers the Arab Revolts of the late 1930s through present day, highlighting the agreements,...
Palestine: Part Two.
Part Two of our series on Israel/Palestine turns back the clock to examine the time period from Part One but from the Palestinian perspective. By...
Palestine: Part One.
Every story has a beginning. Every conflict has its roots. For some, the Israel/Palestine conflict is rooted in scripture and written in blood....
Phone A Friend: Manny Faces of Hip-Hop Can Save America!
You’ve heard him on the pod. You know the magic of his sound design. But do you really know “Manny Faces?” Long-time, award winning Hip-Hop...
Phone A Friend: Nick Hanauer of Pitchfork Economics.
Max interviews Nick Hanauer, co-host of the Pitchfork Economics podcast and founder of Civic Ventures. They discuss Nick’s work at Civic Ventures to...
Palestine: An Introduction.
Max finally takes aim at the Israel/Palestine conflict with an introduction that frames the approach for the mini-series and sets guardrails for what...
The House that Newt Built.
Max struggles to understand exactly what Matt Gaetz is after, but has his suspicions. Regardless of the right-wing endgame, this week’s fiasco was...
Understanding Socialism: Part Six.
The final, final (no really) installment in our series on socialism looks narrowly at the period between World War One and the Russian Revolution to...
Strike!
Strike! Union actions are everywhere. High profile work stoppages from the Screen Actors Guild to the United Auto Workers have put the labor movement...
Understanding Socialism: Part Five
This is technically the final installment of our series “Understanding Socialism,” where we cover the period between the Paris Commune in 1871 and...