Episode 300: Pete Quiñones on the Populist De...

Red Heifers, Holocausts, Israel & Iran  

Tim joins Pete to talk about the recent violence in Palestine. They discuss its history, the propaganda surrounding the war, social media's response, as well as brewing dissent in the US state department. 

Joseph Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942) contains a famous, and minimal, definition of democracy as the competition between political elites to sell themselves to the electorate. Schumpeter wanted to debunk more elevated ideas of the common good and the popu ...  Show more

Pour la première fois dans l'histoire des États-Unis, un ancien président a été inculpé par le tribunal pénal de Manhattan, à New York. Les accusations portent sur une série de paiements «orchestrés» dans le but d'étouffer trois potentiels scandales avant l'élection de 2016. C ...

On this late-breaking episode: How to understand this historic night as the political makeup of the country is being written in real-time—like, as we record. Despite some big losses and reports of long lines at the polls, the Democrats had a huge night. D.C. Bureau chief David Co ...  Show more

Donald Trump is running for president again... to the surprise of no one. Not even the legion advisors telling him now was a really really bad time to announce it. He's on a bit of a low - the midterm results were a stinging rejection of the candidates he backed - and the electio ...  Show more