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🎙️ Expertly curated podcast of progressive politics, news & culture produced by leftist humans, not algorithms or A.I. (Est. 2006): https://www.bestoftheleft.com/listen
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NEW SOLVED! BEFORE YOUTUBE: Check out "Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted" (May '24) for an enraging discussion about "personalized" pricing, our deeply flawed economic system, companies increasingly demanding access and control after we buy their products, & more. youtu.be/LxUuDGWy0yk
SOLVED! BEFORE YOUTUBE: "Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted" (Originally Aired: May 26, 2024)
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December 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Maybe ditch the #BlackFriday shopping and learn about the BIG WHITE LIE of supremacy instead? Our brand new episode of SOLVED! premieres today at 4:30pm ET! youtu.be/6vZsZPI6OdQ (And for gifts that keep on giving, check out our #BestoftheLeft gift memberships & more: www.bestoftheleft.com/support)
Big White Lies: The Impossible Promises of Supremacy (SOLVED! #28 - 11-28-25)
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November 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Did you know that the phrase "ethnic cleansing" was, from the very beginning, the language of propaganda? YOU DIDN'T???? Better watch this NEW ep. of SOLVED! 😀 (And if you did know, cool! Enjoy feeling better than everyone else today!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSHd...
Watch what you say! How Weaponized Language Changes Our Reality (SOLVED! #27 - 11-14-25)
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November 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
NEW SOLVED! Ep. #27: "Watch what you say! How Weaponized Language Changes Our Reality" in which the team discusses how language impacts both personal and society-wide perspectives, while supporting the systems that helped bring us to the brink of fascism.
▶️ https://youtu.be/gSHdOVCsMOY
November 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
NEW SOLVED! Ep. #27: "Watch what you say! How Weaponized Language Changes Our Reality" in which the team discusses how language impacts both personal and society-wide perspectives, while supporting the systems that helped bring us to the brink of fascism.
▶️ https://youtu.be/gSHdOVCsMOY
November 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
NEW SOLVED! premiering now! Check out Ep. #27 - “Watch what you say! How Weaponized Language Changes Our Reality” where we discuss how language impacts both personal and society-wide perspectives, while supporting the systems that have helped bring us to the brink of fascism. youtu.be/gSHdOVCsMOY
Watch what you say! How Weaponized Language Changes Our Reality (SOLVED! #27 - 11-14-25)
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November 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
There's A LOT going on...The Monthly-ish Mix™ is here to get you caught up on recent news without being overwhelming.

#BestoftheLeft #1751: "Institutions Fall, Reality Breaks, Empire Rises"

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November 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
#BestoftheLeft #1750: "America's Backyard" - The War on Terror Meets the War on Drugs"

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🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On the long history of messing with Latin America

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#podcast #progressive #politics
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
#BestoftheLeft #1749: "Democracy: In Theory, In Practice, and Under Threat"

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🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On the willingness to sound the alarm

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#podcast #progressive #politics #USPolitics
November 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
#BestoftheLeft #1748: "Patriotism in Peril: Democracy, the Military, & the Fight Over What America Means"

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🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On how the Left embraces the contradictions of the US

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#podcast #progressive #politics
November 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
#BestoftheLeft #1747: "Racism in the United States, it turns out, is a problem"

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🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On how you CANNOT purchase your happiness with the misery of others

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#podcast #progressive #politics
November 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
#BestoftheLeft #1746: "What an actual attack on free speech looks like"

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🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On 'Working the Refs'

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#podcast #progressive #progressives #progressivepolitics #politics #uspolitics
November 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
#BestoftheLeft #1745: "Fake New World: The Age of AI Slop, AI Education, and AI Fascism"

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🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On the pattern of capitalism's social costs

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#podcast #progressive #politics #USPolitics
November 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
#BestoftheLeft #1744: "Sell Outs, Shills, and Scandals: Saudi Arabia and Israel are buying the credibility they can't earn honestly"

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🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: Explaining that influencers are just infomercial hosts

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November 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
#BestoftheLeft #1743: "Trump and Project 2025: Blitzkrieg Against America"

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🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On what Trump's lightning attack on America could mean for the future

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#podcast #politics
November 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
NEW SOLVED! premiering now! Ep. #26 - “Billionaires’ Existential Crises are Threatening Your Existence,” in which the team discusses the extreme fear of death that grips tech titans and the super-rich and how it's ruining everything, and MUCH more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3vX...
Billionaires’ Existential Crises are Threatening Your Existence (SOLVED! #26 - 10-25-25)
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October 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Check out SOLVED! #24 - “Trump’s Media Oligarchs & the Assault on Free Speech," where we discuss the state of U.S. media consolidation as a symptom of neoliberalism, Trump’s media oligarchs, the assault on free speech, some hopeful notes, & more.
▶️ https://youtu.be/UK6MSkeM2es
October 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
NEW SOLVED! OUT NOW! Watch Ep. #24 - “Trump’s Media Oligarchs & the Assault on Free Speech," where we discuss the state of U.S. media consolidation as a symptom of neoliberalism, Trump’s media oligarchs, the assault on free speech, some hopeful notes, & more.
▶️ https://youtu.be/UK6MSkeM2es
October 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
#BestoftheLeft #1742: "Captured Court, Captured Nation: SCOTUS Serves Trump's Authoritarianism"

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🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On authoritarianism in practice

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#podcast #uspolitics #scotus #supremecourt
October 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
NEW SOLVED! PREMIERING NOW! Watch Ep. #24 - “Trump’s Media Oligarchs & the Assault on Free Speech," where we discuss the state of U.S. media consolidation as a symptom of neoliberalism, Trump’s media oligarchs, the assault on free speech, some hopeful notes, & more.
▶️ https://youtu.be/UK6MSkeM2es
October 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Support indie bookstores and indie media at the same time, while saying 🖕 to Amazon! Check out our curated books on our #BestoftheLeft Bookshop Shop: bookshop.org/shop/left
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Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
October 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
#BestoftheLeft #1741: "Global Uprisings: Dissatisfaction Roiling France, the UK, & Nepal"

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🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On free speech and framing

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#podcast #progressive #politics #France #Nepal #UK
October 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Our Monthly-ish Mix™ is here to get you caught up on recent news without being overwhelming.

#BestoftheLeft #1740: "Monthly-ish Mix: The Enemy Within and the Enemy Without—America's Two-Fronts"

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October 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
#BestoftheLeft #1739: "The Charlie Kirk Assassination and the Plans to Weaponize It"

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🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On the new cancel culture and bloodlust

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#podcast #progressive #politics #uspolitics
October 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
#BestoftheLeft #1738: "Escalations: Russia, Israel, And What We Are Allowed to Say About It"

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🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On Israel as the new Sparta

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#podcast #progressive #politics
October 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM