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Our world revolves around communications. But while the telegram and telegraph are dead and gone, one communications technology from the old timey era is still in the thick of it: the telephone. As AI plutocrats attempt to reorder our world around a new technology, it seems like ...  Show more

There are many things that contribute to the rise of fascism, but often overlooked is the role of economics. Today I'm joined by economist and professor Isabella Weber to discuss how we can rebuild our democracy, starting with an overtly anti-fascist economic system.SUPPORT THE S ...  Show more

This is an episode from the Vox daily news podcast, Today, Explained. Host Noel King spoke with OTM regular, Rick Perlstein. As a historian of US politics he is often called upon to draw comparisons between today’s even ...

Each week on ‘The Returns,’ we pull a different episode from our archive to help put our present politics into historical context. In the 1980s, Rush Limbaugh transformed talk radio. In the process, he radicalized his listeners and the conservative movement. Limbaugh’s talk radio ...  Show more

Historian Rick Perlstein traces the country's ideological divisions from John F. Kennedy's assassination through Richard Nixon's campaign to modern politics.