Richard Mayhew: Health Care Policy Prognosis
Richard, a health policy wonk's wonk, joins us to discuss some gory details of the GOP HCR process. RIchard has spent most of his career in the hea...
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Informal & informed conversations about politics, policy, economics, media, science and more. Sundays feature a panel of prominent members of the liberal blogosphere. Tuesdays, Jay Ackroyd talks public affairs, mostly with authors, mostly about progressive issues
Marcy Wheeler: Fake News is Nothing New
There is no fact/fiction lobe, no area in the cerebral cortex that holds true facts. We're not wired for truth---but we are deeply wired for stories....
Ian Welsh: Dark Ages
Ian Welsh has been blogging since 2003. He was the Managing Editor of FireDogLake and the Agonist. His work has also appeared at Huffington Post, Al...
Arthur Lupia: Uninformed
Research polls, media interviews, and everyday conversations reveal an unsettling truth: citizens, while well-meaning and even passionate about curren...
Democracy's Missing Arsenal: Bloodshed Universal-Slavery Triumphant
This is the world of Democracy's Missing Arsenal, an alternate history thought experiment that chronicles world events in the century following a Conf...
Thomas Levenson: The Hunt for Vulcan
Thomas Levenson is a professor at MIT and head of its science writing program. He is the author of several books, including Einstein in Berlin and New...
Catherine Fletcher: The Black Prince of Florence
Born to a dark-skinned maid, fatherhood acknowledged by Lorenzo II de Medici, Alessandro de' Medici rose to the Dukedom of Florence. Catherine Fletche...
Cathy O'Neil On Weapons of Math Destruction
We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives—where we go to school, whether we get a car loan, how much we p...
Gaius Publius: Two Intertwined Crises--Climate Change and Wealth Inequality
Gaius Publius writes about a variety of issues at Digby's Hullaballoo and Howie Klein's Down with Tyranny.among other places. You can find his work s...
Virtually Speaking with Richard Eskow
Richard Eskow is a freelance writer, Senior Fellow with Campaign for America's Fujture. Host of the Zero Hour at We Act Radio; former Wall Street exe...