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Ex-Republican activist discusses how he went from Nader voter to Trump backer

Rich Logis on waking up from MAGA

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Progressives have forgotten that fitness has always been political

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Health culture historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela discusses fitness and fascism


The ‘world’s oldest profession’ is attaining new relevance in the internet age

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Fundamentalist Christianity is a totalitarian mental experience, but how many people realize this?

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Author Lance Aksamit talks about living and leaving the world of missionizing evangelicalism


How personal trauma helped push podcaster Ty Ross into and out of being a Black Republican

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Podcaster Ty Ross discusses the experiences that caused her to enter and exit the world of Black Republicanism


Tucker Carlson needs Fox much more than it needs him

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An ancient Greek philosophical tradition is surprisingly relevant in today’s world of instant information

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Philosopher Richard Bett discusses how many internet ‘skeptics’ are doing the exact opposite of what they think


Can evangelical Christianity be saved from right-wing extremism?

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Activist and podcaster Tim Whitaker describes how and why he and others are trying to build an inclusive faith


You can’t really understand the Christian right without knowing the history of the religious left

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Historian Gene Zubovich tells about the mostly forgotten history of the liberal Protestants who helped build today’s world order


Social media moderation standards are more about epistemology than technology

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Internet researcher Renée DiResta discusses the challenges and controversies of content moderation


How social media gave birth to ‘fanfiction leftism’

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Author David Masciotra on why a new class of supposedly leftist pundits seems to never attack Republicans


Why the self-help politics of Marianne Williamson leads nowhere

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Conspirituality podcaster Matthew Remski discusses how the New Age industry birthed a politics of delusion


Rod Dreher’s obsessive blogging has made him a window to the soul of the American right

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Phil Christman talks about how a Christian blogger inadvertently documented his own radicalization


Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the revolt of the internet masses

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Dan Gillmor and Darius Kazemi on why open protocol social media needs to be the future


Why podcasts have become a key part of many Americans’ news and entertainment

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Pew Research Center researcher Elisa Shearer breaks down a new report on how and why people listen to podcasts


Most movements to make political change fail, what do the ones that succeed have in common?

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Historian Timothy Shenk discusses his book Realigners: Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries, and the Struggle to Rule American Democracy


AI is going to change politics, and Americans are skeptical about what could happen

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Change Research pollster Stephen Clermont talks about public opinion on AI and its possible impacts on campaigns


Big business and government are adopting artificial intelligence, what can it do for the rest of us?

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Technologist and researcher Simon Willison on technical and practical applications of ChatGPT and AI


Artificial intelligence is going to change the world, but how much of it is hype?

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Gary N. Smith and Jeff Schatten debate and discuss how chatbots will change education, employment, and a lot more


Baby Boomers fundamentally changed America, when will other generations get their chance?

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Washington Post columnist Philip Bump talks about his new book ‘The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America’


Dominion’s Fox lawsuit has incontrovertibly exposed that Fox isn’t news

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The Daily Beast’s Diana Falzone and Justin Baragona report from inside the troubled right-wing network


 

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