Is it best that our food is Local and Organic or Big and Conventional? Our view is “Both, and..” We don’t come to the table with a bias, except that good farming like good food comes in all shapes and sizes. Farm to Table Talk explores issues and the growing interest in the story of how and where the food on our tables is produced, processed and marketed. The host, Rodger Wasson is a food and agriculture veteran. Although he was the first of his family to leave the grain and livestock farm a ...
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How ironic: The most inefficient bureaucracy in government turns out to be Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency.” That could be humorous, except that DOGE—a creature of the right-wing Project 2025—has been devastating to millions of people. And it’s about to get worse. Elon Musk—the flighty überrich autocrat put in charge of “efficiency” by his buddy Trump—is now going after the Social Security deposits of 73 million senior citizens. Upgrade your subscription But wait, hasn’t Trump himself promised (loudly and often) that he would not ax this essential retirement program? Yes… but Elon is his “gotcha.” Rather than an honest kill, Musk is strangling the program with (believe it or not) bureaucratic red tape. Claiming to cutting waste, he’s eliminating 7,000 people who administer the program, shouting, “Bureaucratic excess!” Except, Social Security is actually a renowned model of government efficiency, spending less than 1 percent of its revenue on administration. So by whacking the people who do the work, Musk is actually whacking the people who’re due to receive their earned benefits. For example, he’s decreed that the public no longer apply for benefits or resolve questions by phone , but now, must now travel in person to some distant Social Security office. But the staff there has also been decimated , so people who’ve come from afar are told to go back home and call for an appointment. Yes… a call that will not be answered. This is Jim Hightower saying… What’s at work here is a Musk-Trump ploy to wreck Social Security’s remarkable record of efficiency. Their intent is to make the service so bad that they can then let profiteering corporations can privatize your retirement. Leave a comment Share Jim Hightower's Lowdown is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.…
Protesters in Orlando, Florida at a Hands Off protest on April 5, 2025. Photo: JER3L1337 on Wikimedia Commons As Trump & Co. hurl horror after horror at us from the murky darkness of their extremely wasteful “war on government waste,” I think of Lily Tomlin, who said years ago: “No matter how cynical you get, it’s almost impossible to keep up.” But no need to swat frantically at their every assault. Their blitzkrieg against everything at once is an intentional ploy to divide us into small, separate scrambles to save this and that, rather than rallying a unified, furious opposition to them . The evil is not in the budget cuts, but in the cutters. Upgrade your subscription Second, let’s be clear that their war-on-waste is NOT about eliminating useless taxpayer expenditures. Note that Elon Musk, Trump’s silly “efficiency czar,” ignores such walloping waste as Pentagon boondoggles and tax scams for überrich hucksters… like him. But—by gollies!—those budget-whacking plutocrats are fearless when it comes to killing essential benefits for regular people. A longstanding energy program, for example , helps very-low-income families across America pay to heat their homes in bitter winters, and to cool homes in areas of brutal heat. It saves lives—efficiently!—being administered by a staff of only 25. But this month, Trump’s government reform thugs stormed in, fired all 25, and shut down the program. As Sen. Ed Markey said, “This isn’t reform. It’s sabotage.” This is Jim Hightower saying… Exactly! Soft words like “efficiency” are their knives for castrating government of, by, and for The People, allowing a cabal of Trump, Musk, and allied financial elites to impose a moneyed monarchy over America. But remember our history—we democratic rebels won all-out wars in the 1770s and 1860s to defeat them. So, toughen up, here they come again. Leave a comment Share Jim Hightower's Lowdown is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.…
Years ago, an iconic bar named “Another Raw Deal” was a regular hangout for us irreverent, free-spirited, political progressives in Austin, Texas. Even those push-button, hot-air hand dryers in its restrooms were political—printed on the big chrome button was this instruction: “Push here for a message from Sen. Phil Gramm.” Upgrade your subscription Mercifully, Gramm is gone, but political hot air is still gushing from the likes of Rep. Pat Fallon, an Elon-Musk-hugging, plutocratic congress critter from Texas. Lately, however, Pat has been learning the hard way that folks back home don’t share his fan-boy crush on the South African billionaire, who is gleefully chainsawing crucial public programs that even Republican families count on. So, Fallon’s own constituents are howling at him to do something! He is: This aloof and clueless “public servant” has erupted in a mad dog attack on the locals! At a recent town hall event in his red district, voters were furious that Musk is targeting the Social Security benefits they’ve earned . Fallon barked that “no one has said they’re cutting Social Security.” But one of his voters shot back : “Elon says it every day.” Indeed Musk is trying to kill it with lies, falsely attacking it as “the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.” Then, Fallon stumbled into the GOP’s briar patch of class bias, curtly proposing “a different deal” to replace Social Security. “If you want to retire,” he instructed, plan when you’re young and “ work two jobs .” Of course, millions already do—and the pay still doesn’t cover basic expenses, much less provide savings for retirement. This is Jim Hightower saying… Now that’s a raw deal! Did I mention that Fallon, a multimillionaire congressman, gets a lavish, paid-for-by-you-and-me public pension? Leave a comment Share Jim Hightower's Lowdown is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.…
America’s family farmers were astonished recently to get a jolly tweet from the President of the United States: “Have fun!” exclaimed The Donald. Fun? The farm economy is in the ditch, with crop prices at depression levels and bankruptcies surging. Plus, Trump Inc. is now rigging the law to give agribusiness monopolies more power to run roughshod over farmers and rural communities. Well, yes, say the billionaire “geniuses” and partisan hacks who’ve seized control of farm and food policies, but our phantasmagoric laissez-fairyland ideology will open up new agricultural markets here at home, so see? Fun! Upgrade your subscription Those ideologues, however, can’t make chicken salad out of chicken manure, and that’s what their promises are. While Brooke Rollins, Trump’s corporatized ag secretary, babbles about “new” markets—but she actually shut down a nationwide market last month that provided a billion dollars a year to family farmers who produce for local schools, food pantries, etc. In reality, Rollins’ goal is an industrialized, globalized food economy, so she coldly dismissed these local sales as “nonessential.” Of course, that says to all of the people involved that her government considers them nonessential. Combining arrogance with ignorance, Trump’s aloof plutocrats carelessly wiped out this market right at spring planting time! Each farm family has already taken out thousands of dollars in bank loans to buy seeds and other essential supplies to make this year’s crop , but—WHAMMO!—Trump & Co. slammed the door on the family’s most reliable market, shoving them to the brink of broke… and beyond. This is Jim Hightower saying… This is what happens when clueless billionaires are brought in to make our public programs “efficient.” Corporate rule is never efficient—and it sure ain't fun. Leave a comment Share Jim Hightower's Lowdown is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.…
Photo courtesy H. Raab on Flickr Let us embrace the darkness. Not the political dark ages being pushed on us by today’s regressive right-wing forces, but nature’s own pure darkness of night. Unfortunately, we Homo Sapiens have largely blacked out nature’s billions of beacons in the night sky, which have both dazzled and guided Earth’s creatures for eons. Upgrade your subscription Ironically, the tool used to wash out natural light… is light! In all cities and most towns, the glare of artificial lighting has pulled an impervious curtain across our sky. Especially garish (and entirely useless) is the lighting of corporate skyscrapers throughout the night with blinding spotlights that keep us from seeing the genuinely majestic view beyond. I was lucky as a child to spend summer evenings on my Aunt Eula’s farm, entranced as darkness fell and the celestial show began. But today, most children don’t even know it’s there. Indeed, 80 percent of Americans never see the stream of the Milky Way galaxy that is our home – much less seeing the spectacular cosmic beams shining from trillions of miles beyond. This doesn’t mean we should just stumble around in the dark. Of course we need light, but try a little common sense. One, stop spotlighting buildings. Two, don’t point outdoor lighting up at the sky– shine it down on our streets, parking lots, stadiums, and porches where the illumination is actually needed. Three, remember that there’s an off switch. And even small steps can make a big difference. After all, all we’re giving up is bad lighting. This is Jim Hightower saying… We can have the light we need and still let nature’s sky be the star. The good news is that towns, cities, and even countries have begun adopting such sensible lighting policies. To help do this where you live, go to DarkSky International: darksky.org . Leave a comment Share Jim Hightower's Lowdown is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.…
Texas: What the Hell? Once again, my state’s GOP hierarchy is leading the nation in creative ways to increase corporate power over people’s rights. This time, lawmakers are rushing to protect corrupt executives from legal challenges by their own shareholders! Upgrade your subscription Their law would ban rank-and-file owners of corporate giants from suing their CEOs and other top officials for financial malfeasance . In particular, it’s a heavy-handed attempt to prohibit shareholders from suing bosses who lavish shareholder funds on extravagant pay and luxury perks for themselves. But leave it to Lone Star Republicans to make a bad law worse. Indeed, they say they only want to bar suits by “pesky” small investors—people who own less than three percent of a corporation’s stock. But that’s a flimflam, since almost no one owns more than three percent of any big corporation. And the few who do are huge Wall Street operators and multibillionaires—and they’re not about to sue a fellow-richie for being greedy. So the Texas law would effectively institutionalize a corrupt, closed-loop protection racket, freeing self-serving executives from internal accountability. Speaking of corrupt, who wrote this boondoggle? It’s sponsored by Dustin Burrows , the top official of the Texas House, but he doesn’t write bills—he totes bills written by big campaign donors, corporate lobbyists, and right-wing extremists. In this case, he’s working for all three . This is Jim Hightower saying… Burrows brags that his scam will be a boon for our state, because it’ll prompt CEOs everywhere to move their corporations here to take advantage of this law. Sure—corporations up to no good! Who needs ‘em? And if they set a precedent in Texas, I guarantee you they’ll be pushing it in your state next. Leave a comment Share Jim Hightower's Lowdown is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.…
At last, Washington is going to eliminate government waste! Trump & Company’s budget-whacking crew even brandished a big ol’ chainsaw to show us hoi polloi that they’re serious. So goodbye to those ridiculous, multibillion-dollar giveaways to politically connected corporate elites, right? Upgrade your subscription Uh… don’t get silly. The chainsawers-in-chief are Elon Musk, Trump and a mess of ultra-rich GOP cabinet appointees, and their fortunes are built on fat checks from the government, so they will NOT be targeting any of their boondoggles. Instead, they’re aiming at programs offering modest help to middle-class and poor families. For example, the Agriculture Department regularly mails out billions of dollars in “farm subsidies,” but most real farmers don’t get a penny, while about 80 percent of the taxpayers’ money goes to the richest 10 percent of agribusiness owners , including city-dwelling billionaires and corporate giants. But rather than touching their giveaways, the Ag Department has just made a political show of zeroing-out a very successful farm-to-market program that enables small producers to sell their fresh goods to local school districts and food banks . This is government at its best—serving as a catalyst to “free up the enterprise” of small businesses by allowing them to bypass monopolistic middlemen and provide top-quality fresh foods to their communities. Big Food, however, hates competition. Thus, Brooke Rollins (a corporate-hugging, far-right-wing lawyer who is Trump’s new Ag Secretary) summarily cancelled this enterprising local food initiative, announcing on Fox News that it was “ nonessential ” waste. This is Jim Hightower saying… So there you have their guiding ethic of these “waste warriors.” Programs helping regular Americans are just waste to be eliminated—but giveaways to the rich are “essential” waste to be protected. Leave a comment Share Jim Hightower's Lowdown is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.…
Eeeeeek, there’s a mouse in the house! Oh wait—it’s just Little Mike Johnson. He’s harmless. Mike is Speaker of the House of Representatives, which used to be a vital part of America’s national government. The Constitution empowers the House to oversee the federal budget, public policies, and the actions of presidents. But Johnson has meekly surrendered these core powers (and his own relevance) to Trump’s autocratic executive branch. Upgrade your subscription Mike even failed to be Squeaker of the House, for he issued no peep of protest as the authority of elected lawmakers was seized and pocketed by a corrupt chief executive claiming that he’s the law of the land. As Rep. Jamie Raskin put it, instead of standing against imperious one-man rule, Johnson applauded, reducing himself to Trump’s “little buddy.” Even more pathetic is seeing Johnson and the GOP’s entire congressional caucus kowtow to Elon Musk, sheepishly obeying the right-wing dictates of an over-privileged, South African finagler who’s never been elected by anybody to anything. Having bought his way into Trump’s golden orbit of billionaires in the last election, Musk is now prancing around as America’s acting president, while Johnson cheers. But Trump, Musk, and Little Buddy have a problem that they don’t seem to grasp: “We the People” simply don’t support what they’re doing to us. It’s now obvious that they’re waging a billionaires-know-best, chainsawing rampage against public programs that benefit us commoners—especially any program that protects us from the unbounded greed of billionaires like… them. This is Jim Hightower saying… These corrupt, wannabe monarchs have been sipping their own bathwater, thinking it’s champagne. But the public is onto them… and on the move against them. Leave a comment Share Jim Hightower's Lowdown is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.…
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Our friends over at have been steadily collecting incredible stories from the rabble-rousin’ rebels of Texas throughout time, and we thought you all would appreciate this article focusing in on the powerful women from our movements. Enjoy! In recognition of Women’s History Month, People’s History in Texas celebrates the innumerable contributions of Texan women with our educational articles, documentaries, and podcasts. People’s History in Texas presents Talkin’ Union , a four-part oral history of four women who organized labor unions in Texas in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. The women are Alberta Snid, participant in the 1938 Pecan Shellers Strike in San Antonio, the largest strike in the Southwest during this period; Charlotte Graham, leader of the 1935 Dallas garment worker strike and member of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union; Olivia Rawlston, president of the Black ILGWU local in Dallas for twelve years; and Andrea Martinez, leader of the ILGWU in Laredo during the 1950s and 1960s. Talkin’ Union raises significant issues about women in the Texas workforce. In 1930, one in four women worked outside the home. Today, one in two women work. The problems women faced in 1930 are the problems they face now: low pay for women’s work with few benefits and poor working conditions. Though some of their attempts to win better pay and improve working conditions failed, they remain convinced of the importance of their experience in their own lives and the lives of others. The documentary is an hour long and is broken into four segments for internet viewing purposes. It is black and white. It was produced in 1977 by People’s History in Texas with the use of National Endowment of the Humanities Youth Grant, and can be viewed in full here . Read more…
Harry Truman once proclaimed: “No man should be president who doesn’t understand hogs.” Upgrade your subscription That might explain the calamitous mess that President Trump-Musk is making of our government today. Clearly, Don and Elon know nothing about four-legged farm animals, but they certainly know how to squeeze government to fatten their own two-legged breed of corporate swine. Thus, the billionaire hucksters are bulldozing agencies that serve people’s real needs, while preserving those that subsidize corporate greed. For example, the U.S. Department of Agriculture. A once-proud agency created by Abraham Lincoln to serve tillers of the soil, but USDA today has become a bottomless feeding trough for agribusiness giants and other financial powers that “till” taxpayers. Our country’s Farm Program, meant to be a safety net for hands-on dirt farmers, is now a $20-billion-a-year subsidy that pays zero to the vast majority of farm families. Instead, 75 percent of our money goes to the biggest and richest 10 percent of corporate fiefdoms, including billionaire speculators who never get any dirt under their fingernails . Actually, the Trump-Musk chainsaw crew is whacking some USDA programs—such as food stamps for poor families , helping school districts buy from local farmers and ranchers , and other efforts providing modest help to grassroots people and communities. But not a peep from the duo about the bales of taxpayer cash hauled every year to their own class of rich elites. This is Jim Hightower saying… A Department of Agriculture is as needed today as in Lincoln’s time. But an honest overhaul is necessary to return it to its democratic roots of serving the workaday people of rural America, freeing it from the corporate interests now running roughshod over those same people. For more information, go to Environmental Working Group at ewg.org . Leave a comment Share Jim Hightower's Lowdown is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.…
A classic a bumper sticker posed this alarming question: “Where are we going, and what am I doing in this handbasket?” What we’re in today is an Orwellian basket to political hell, propelled by Trump himself. He has assembled a cohort of anti-democracy zealots, who are autocratically cutting off people’s fundamental freedoms—including speech, press, travel, and even thought. Upgrade your subscription The first Trump term unleashed a gaggle of right-wingers promoting mass ignorance by demonizing books, librarians, teachers, scientists, and our own people’s history. Next came a maniacal MAGA assault on America’s most essential, unifying democratic value: The reality that we are a proudly diverse bunch of people, striving to achieve the ideal of equality for all. “Heresy,” shouted Trump’s GOP, demanding that the pursuit of such goals literally be outlawed. And now comes all-out, Kafkaesque crazy, with Trump going on a binge of mass censorship and goofy executive dictates . Consider just two of his recent commands. One bans government cafeterias from using paper straws ! Another suspends a law that made it illegal for US corporations to bribe foreign officials . There’s the new morality: Paper straws, OUT; corporate bribery, IN. More dangerous for our freedom, though, is the MAGA regime’s purging of words and ideas it doesn’t like, trying to force its government-approved Newspeak on America. Trump’s minions are now going through every agency’s documents and websites, literally deleting hundreds of common word s to be officially verboten—including: Equality, injustice, pollution, transgender, race, women… and, of course, Gulf of Mexico. This is Jim Hightower saying… These are not just words, but values and people. A president that starts by censoring our freedom of expression is a weakling, admitting that he’s afraid of free-thinking people. Leave a comment Share Jim Hightower's Lowdown is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.…
What a hoot to see so many once-cocky, Big Boss Men of corporate America completely surrender their policies, principles, and personal pride to grovel at the feet of Trump! Upgrade your subscription Even egomaniacal tech billionaires like Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg are publicly debasing themselves with a cringey eagerness to kiss-up to The Donald. Indeed, CEOs in practically every industry – from oil to food – have suddenly converted to MAGA nuttiness. And to prove their devotion, each is loudly pledging to sacrifice all of their corporate programs that advance such core American values as equal rights, workplace fairness, and environmental protection. Parroting Trump’s decree that DEI egalitarianism is “immoral,” the barons piously insist their reversals is a matter of ethics. Hogwash. Their morality starts and ends with money, and as the Bible points out: “The love of money is the root of all evil.” Consider the case of Paramount, the multibillion-dollar media giant. Although much of its wealth now comes from diversity programming on its MTV and BET networks, the top brass is bowing to TrumpSpeak, obediently killing Paramount’s diversity policies – and even scrubbing the word “inclusion” from its corporate vocabulary! Why? M-O-N-E-Y. Paramount is presently pushing a multibillion-dollar merger with another entertainment giant to extend its control over our media market, empowering it to gouge more cash from you and me. But the merger had to be okayed by a federal commission headed by an anti-diversity, Trump political hack – so top executives cravenly heaved Paramount’s principles overboard. This is Jim Hightower saying… That is now what passes for corporate ethics, with smug honchos abandoning all pretense that they’re guided by any higher morality than the love of money. Leave a comment Share Jim Hightower's Lowdown is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.…
Last week, the Democratic Party’s top congressional leaders finally took a bold stand against Trump’s assault on our democracy when he came to Congress to tout his autocratic agenda. Traditionally, when a president arrives to address Congress, a bipartisan escort committee leads the dignitary to the podium. But, by gollies, Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries showed their toughness by – get this – refusing to have Democrats join the escort committee. Wow – imagine how that uplifted the millions of people being stomped on by Trump’s rampage! Upgrade your subscription Is this feeble response better than nothing? Believe it or not – “do nothing” is another “strategy” proposed by former Bill Clinton operative James Carville. He says the “smart” thing for Democrats to do is to roll over and play dead . Seriously. Carville actually declares that fighting Trump is futile, so just “allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight and make the American people miss us.” Excuse me, but wasn’t that the party’s theory in 2016 and 2024 – let Trump rant, and he’ll defeat himself? Instead, how about this? Literally get out of Washington. The party’s lawmakers should spend most of their congressional time away from the capital—out where masses of people are already agitating and organizing. Get with them, listen to them, roll up your sleeves, and serve them. This is Jim Hightower saying, this is not just another legislative tiff we’re in, but a grassroots rumble, and the usual partisan name-calling and parliamentary nitpicking won’t win it. Inside Washington, the deck is stacked for Trump’s Autocratic America. Out here, though, the numbers and political dynamic favor democracy fighters. This is where the Democratic Party belongs. Leave a comment Share Jim Hightower's Lowdown is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.…
Uh-oh. Trump is hearing voices again. And the voices are telling him to do something truly stupid. As he puts it , “There is a lot of talk about the Postal Service being taken private,” adding that “It’s an idea that a lot of people have liked for a long time.” Hmmm, I haven’t heard even one voice say our phenomenal public mail service should be privatized. Indeed, it is a widely popular government agency because it works for everyone – rich and poor, urban and rural. Upgrade your subscription When he claims that “a lot of people” like the idea of postal privatization how many? Six? Six million? And what kind of people? Working stiffs, poor people, rural residents… who? He gives a coded answer to that when he refers to the Post Office being “taken” private. Oh? Taken by whom? Of course – by the corrupt profiteering billionaires who funded Trump. Their business plan is to have him hand the agency to them in the name of instituting “corporate efficiency” – meaning the privateers will go to three-day mail delivery, cut-off service to unprofitable poor and rural communities, raise prices, and fire legions of experienced postal workers. They’re out to steal an essential public treasure, but they’re also trying to censor opposition to their political control of government. The Postal Service was created in 1792 in part to prevent royalists and oligarchs from controlling communications. If you think that’s not a problem in modern America, reflect on the blunt media censorship being imposed right now by Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and other petty potentates of corporate plutocracy. To learn more, visit the American Postal Workers Union: apwu.org . Leave a comment Share Jim Hightower's Lowdown is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.…
Once again, Sen. Bernie Sanders is showing that he’s a leader who actually leads . While top Democratic Party lawmakers are hunkered down in their Washington bunker, immobilized by the Trump-Musk oligarchic coup on America’s democracy, the feisty “little-d” democrat from Vermont is out in grassroots America, rallying workaday people with his National Tour to Fight Oligarchy . His effort has even caused the lethargic Democratic establishment to speak out. Against Bernie! Upgrade your subscription The party’s clueless cadre of insider consultants mocked Sen. Sanders’ for focusing on Trump’s clique of profiteering oligarchs: “Americans don’t understand the word oligarchy,” they clucked . Excuse me, smart ones, but once again, you’re wrong. The oligarchy has become quite well-known to us commoners, who’ve suffered from their healthcare outrages, voter suppression, anti-union greed, rampant price gouging, etc. To the shock of elites in both parties, Sanders has even taken his “Fight Oligarchy” campaign into red congressional districts, drawing thousands of mad-as-hellers in such Republican states as Iowa and Nebraska. In a symbolic rejection of Bernie’s on-your-side populist rebellion, Hakeem Jeffries – the Democratic leader in the US House – rushed out to Silicon Valley to hug the billionaire oligarchs of high-tech ! Far from confronting the rise of monopoly power, Jeffries assured the Tech Bros that the “Party of the People” is there to serve them. Meanwhile, Democratic congressional leaders held an internal “gripe-fest” last week. Not griping about Trump’s authoritarian assault – but about their own grassroots constituents inundating them with calls and emails demanding that they grow spines and start fighting the rising oligarchy. Leave a comment Share Jim Hightower's Lowdown is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.…
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Every episode we blast anyone who gets in our way. We bring critical thinking, skepticism, and irreverence to any topic that makes the news, makes it big, or makes us mad. It’s skeptical, it’s political and there is no welcome mat.
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"OPB Politics Now" is a weekly podcast that takes a deep dive into the hottest political topics in Oregon and the Northwest. Every Friday, OPB’s political reporters and special guests offer in-depth analysis, discussion and insight into candidates, events and issues.
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Scheer Intelligence features thoughtful and provocative conversations with "American Originals" -- people who, through a lifetime of engagement with political issues, offer unique and often surprising perspectives on the day's most important issues.
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The election has been decided, and Donald J. Trump is the United States’ 47th president. With 15 years of experience covering politics, Puck senior political correspondent Tara Palmeri is here to bring you all the latest news and developments from Trump’s second term, including her exclusive reporting and interviews with the smartest political brains to discuss all the latest developments from the front page to behind the scenes in Washington, D.C.
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Android Backstage, a podcast by and for Android developers. Hosted by developers from the Android engineering team, this show covers topics of interest to Android programmers, with in-depth discussions and interviews with engineers on the Android team at Google. Subscribe to Android Developers YouTube → https://goo.gle/AndroidDevs
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Amanpour is CNN International's flagship global affairs interview program hosted by Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour.
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Hosted by CNN's Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, State of the Union features interviews with top newsmakers on politics and policy—covering Washington, the country, and the world.
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Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without the boring parts, featuring the writers, activists and artists who shape the news, from a progressive perspective.
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True crime investigations from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Veteran legal affairs journalist Bill Rankin takes you inside the courtroom to break down the story and the criminal justice system. This award-winning series investigates Georgia’s most important cases with fact-based reporting. Season 10 will focus on the historic indictment of former President Donald Trump in Fulton County, Georgia, led by District Attorney Fani Willis. Co-hosted by senior reporter Tamar Hallerman and editor ...
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