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

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

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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


The Christian Right was a theological rebellion against modernity before it became a force for Republicans

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Religion scholar David Hollinger on the soteriology of reaction and his book ‘Christianity’s American Fate’


Christianity, Islam, and equal rights are often in conflict, but do they have to be?

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Author Wajahat Ali discusses his book ‘Go Back to Where You Came From’ and how non-believers and the faithful need to come together


The sexuality of reaction is complicated and contradictory

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Writers Seyward Darby and Katherine Abughazaleh discuss how far-right influencers have created a form of religious prudery


The world’s richest people are starting to realize the system they’ve created is unstable, but they can’t stop

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Author and filmmaker Douglas Rushkoff talks about why oligarchs are planning for disaster and his book, ‘Survival of the Richest’


The old neoliberal consensus is dead, will a ‘designer economy’ replace it?

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Historian Nils Gilman on why leaders on the left and right are realizing the state must play a bigger role in the economy


The strange political history of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency

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David Golumbia, author of ‘The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism’ talks about the rigid ideologies behind crypto


To make a better future, we must first realize why we didn’t get the one we were promised

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Author Richard Barbrook talks about the failed promises of tech liberation, neoliberalism, and the ‘Californian Ideology’


Many older comedians would rather attack the audience than update their material

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Comedian Lisa Curry discusses why some standup comics are crying ‘cancel culture’ instead of coming up with new jokes


Male popular culture is obsolete, and men are suffering because of it

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Men’s support group leader Brandon Bradford says many men are feeling lonely because society never taught them sustainable mental health


What makes Trump supporters change their minds about him?

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Filmmaker Melissa Jo Peltier discusses her documentary about disillusioned Trump voters, “The Game Is Up”


America’s public libraries are facing an epidemic of censorship

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Jonathan Friedman of PEN America tells how far-right activists are trying to silence LGBT and progressive authors


After envisioning themselves as centrists, tech billionaires like Elon Musk have moved to the far right

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Writers Jacob Silverman and Chris Lehmann discuss Twitter, cryptocurrency, and libertarian radicalization


Will defamation lawsuits be the apocalypse of (Alex) Jones?

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Legal analyst Liz Dye discusses how the U.S. legal system is finally holding conspiracy millionaire Alex Jones to account


Many Black Americans don’t actually like Democrats, what does that mean for politics in the long-term?

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Author Brandi Collins-Dexter discusses her book Black Skinhead and the varieties of Black political experience


EWTN, a TV channel founded by a cloistered nun, has quietly become a right-wing media juggernaut

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Slate writer Molly Olmstead on how EWTN and the Catholic right are spending big to shift public opinion


Politics has changed drastically in the past 10 years, why are Democrats still running the same plays?

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New Republic writer Alex Shephard discusses the larger implications of Joe Biden’s low approval ratings


Americans want progressive change, but to be able to deliver it, progressives will need to change first

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Progressive strategist Max Berger on why the American left needs to focus on building institutions and making its case


Extremist groups are targeting state and local officials for harassment and intimidation

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Right-wing extremism researcher David Neiwert discloses how groups are trying to force their viewpoints in cities and schools


 

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