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In today’s show, French-American cooking writer Jamie Schler joins us to talk baking and politics. We get into the whole Coronavirus situation in Europe, and how things got so out of control over there, and also delve in to the resurgence of far-right politics there and here at home. But a good portion of our show is […]

by Lacey Wallace, Penn State The U.S. has suffered yet another mass shooting, with a deadly attack in a FedEx facility in Indianapolis. This was the fifth mass shooting in five weeks, including a shooting at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado that took the lives of 10 people on March 22 and just days earlier, […]

Sheila Jackson Lee is not just a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, she’s one of the 5 vice chairs of the CPC– although the only one with a ProgressivePunch “C” rating. The others all have “A” vote score. On top of her bad voting record, she’s not the kind of progressive advocate a district […]

A data breach of a Christian crowdfunding website has uncovered donations police officers and public officials made to Kyle Rittenhouse, the Illinois teen accused of murdering two Black Lives Matter protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, following the officer-involved shooting of Jacob Blake. According to The Guardian, the transparency group known as Distributed Denial of Secrets shared […]

On Thursday, after weeks of protests and calls for answers and action, the Chicago Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) released footage of the shooting death of 13-year-old Adam Toledo. Toledo was shot and killed by a Chicago Police officer on March 29, 2021, in the predominantly Latino community of Little Village. The video is […]

The curse of Trump lives on. A new Monmouth poll shows that Republicans are twice as likely as Democrats to be unvaccinated against Covid. The survey found that 67% of Democrats have already received at least one vaccine dose, compared to only 36% of Republicans. And nearly half of Republicans say they don’t ever plan on getting […]

We get the latest on the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who killed George Floyd, with Minneapolis-based civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong. She says prosecutors in the case have successfully chipped away at the “blue wall of silence” by getting current police officials to testify against Chauvin. However, she […]

In the United States, the overall political conversation is so skewed to the right that some GOP senators who are quite conservative — including Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Maine — are typically described as “moderates.” Romney, Collins and Murkowski are decidedly conservative, but they […]

Rallygoers lined up to enter the Target Center arena for a Donald J. Trump for President rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Credit: Tony Webster https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ by Paul Thomas, Radford University Recent calls to deprogram QAnon conspiracy followers are steeped in discredited notions about brainwashing. As popularly imagined, brainwashing is a coercive procedure that programs new long-term […]

A U.S. Army sergeant first class has been arrested after a shocking viral video showed him berating and psychically assaulting a Black man he did not believe lived in his South Carolina neighborhood. The white man was quickly identified by social media users and news outlets as U.S. Army sergeant first class Jonathan Pentland, a […]

Just when you thought that Fox News couldn’t go any lower, last night Fox host Tucker Carlson suggested that: Covid vaccines — all of them — may not even work at all; President Biden knows they don’t work; The vaccines might actually be really dangerous; and Biden is hiding the truth from the American people. Yes — […]

Kristen Clarke, President Joe Biden’s nominee for assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, has become a major target of far-right politicians and pundits — who are slamming her over a 1994 controversy dating back to her days as president of the Black Student Union at Harvard University and mischaracterizing […]

One in three people in the United States have a criminal record, meaning they are subjected to more than 44,000 associated legal sanctions. A criminal conviction can be a lifelong barrier to accessing services, employment, voting and civic engagement, and education and housing, as well as overall financial security for individuals and their families. The […]

Image via The White House. The Biden administration has reportedly informed Congress that it is planning to advance a $23.4 billion sale of weaponry to the United Arab Emirates that was inked under former President Donald Trump, a move anti-war critics denounced as a betrayal of President Joe Biden’s recent pledge to end U.S. support […]