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S7 E12: Reimagined Economies

  • September 18, 2024
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In our season finale, we visit with people on two continents who are turning core structures of capitalism on their heads – or, at least, sideways.   By John Biewen, with co-host Ellen McGirt. Interviews…

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Bonus Episode: Empire City: The untold Origin story of the NYPD

  • September 12, 2024
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The police tell us they are here to protect us. But what if their original purpose was something else altogether? Peabody Award-winning host Chenjerai Kumanyika takes listeners on a journey to uncover the hidden history…

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S7 E11: Better Capitalism?

  • September 4, 2024
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In the first of two episodes looking at responses to capitalism’s failings, we look at reforms aimed at making the current economic system more humane, fair, effective, and sustainable. By John Biewen with co-host Ellen McGirt. Interviews…

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S7 Ep10: The Extracted

  • August 21, 2024
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A visit to West Africa and Western Europe to look at the cocoa trade. Did the colonial side of early capitalism – Western countries getting rich at the expense of poorer nations – ever change,…

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S7 E9: At the Tipping Point

  • August 14, 2024
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In 1972, a team of young scientists at MIT published a study exploring what would happen to human civilization if people kept pursuing endless economic growth on a finite planet. They weren’t just disbelieved, they were…

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S7 E8: The People’s Pushback

  • August 7, 2024
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Over several decades, a growing number of people in the United States and elsewhere – especially younger people – have turned against capitalism. The reasons are not hard to find. Reported by Lewis Raven Wallace…

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S7 E7: Gilded Age 2.0

  • July 31, 2024
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After 40 years of neoliberalism, most Americans of every political stripe agree that the economy is “rigged” in favor of corporations and the wealthy. But we may not know the half of it. By John…

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S7 E6: Thirty Glorious Years

  • July 24, 2024
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How the balance of power shifted, for a time, in the decades after World War II, and led to a better kind of capitalism – if you think prosperity being broadly shared is a good…

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S7 E5: A New Thing in Human History

  • July 17, 2024
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An age of invention and mass production, propelled by a new mechanism – the corporate research lab – leads to a surge in material wealth like the world has never seen. How does a new…

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S7 E1: Market Failure

  • June 26, 2024
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Introduction to our 7th season: Capitalism. The world’s dominant economic system is on trial as it hasn’t been for at least half a century. Millions, young people especially, now see capitalism as the problem, not the…

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2x Peabody-nominated podcast hosted by John Biewen @KenanEthics. Season 7: "Capitalism,” on the history of our current economic system and if we can do better.

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tripgabriel Trip Gabriel @tripgabriel ·
3 Jul

"The Chinese simply can’t believe their luck...

OBBB 'virtually guarantees that China will own the future of solar, wind power and electric cars and trucks, as well as autonomous vehicles'

'And why? Because Rs view those as “liberal” energy sources'

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2 Jul

To be clear, 65 million is the number of Latinos in America, many of whom are citizens. This is beyond standard MAGA xenophobia, it is is a call for ethnic extermination.

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3 Jul

These allegations are horrific. If this was an American prison it would violate the 8th Amendment. This is absolutely cruel and unusual punishment. Nobody should try to rationalize or justify this kind of treatment.

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mrmatthewtodd Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @mrmatthewtodd ·
24 Jun

‘If the risk of a plane crashing was as high as the risk of the Amoc collapsing, none of us would ever fly because they would not let the plane take off. … That we’re still continuing business as usual is mindblowing.’ From @DoctorVive https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/jun/24/tipping-points-climate-crisis-expert-doomerism-wealth

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sceneonradio Scene On Radio @sceneonradio ·
26 Jun

I just wrote 'Capture the Flag?: Keeping ScOR #9'.

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