Best of the Left - The best of progressive and liberal talk
This podcast is a beautifully executed compilation combining the absolute best in progressive and liberal political news, commentary and occasional comedy with great music to pull it all together. Each edition focuses on a political theme and delivers a variety of stories and perspectives from an array of sources on that theme. By the way, this is an ENHANCED PODCAST with cool features built in which is fun but that means that it's not compatible with everyone's audio player. For the STANDARD MP3 feed visit BestOfTheLeft.com to subscribe (even if you still want to use iTunes to manage your subscription).
- Website
- http://www.BestOfTheLeft.com
- Description
- This podcast is a beautifully executed compilation combining the absolute best in left-leaning political news, commentary and occasional comedy with great music to pull it all together. In each edition, I choose a political theme and deliver a variety of stories and perspectives from an array of sources on that theme. By the way, this is an ENHANCED PODCAST with cool features built in which is fun but that means that it's not compatible with everyone's audio player. For the STANDARD MP3 feed visit BestOfTheLeft.com to subscribe (even if you still want to use iTunes to manage your subscription).
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-02-23 13:49
- last episode published
- 2025-02-23 12:00
- publication frequency
- 3.57 days
- Contributors
- BestOfTheLeft.com
- Author
- Jay! Tomlinson
- Owner
- jay@bestoftheleft.com (jay@bestoftheleft.com)
- Managing editor
- Explicit
- true
- Number of Episodes
- 1857
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture National News Government & Organizations
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-02-23 | Air Date: 2-23-25 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - The heavy influence of a Nazi political theorist (propagandist) on the MAGA movement - How our disagreements on baseline reality lead us to devastatingly different conclusions - What many ... | |
| 2025-02-21 | Air Date 2/21/2025 There is nothing other than racism at the heart of Trump's immigration policy. He wants to deport as many brown people as possible, stop as many immigrants and refugees as possible unless they're White people from South Africa or the... | |
| 2025-02-18 |
Democracy Emergency, Constitutional Crisis, Democratic Backsliding, Failing Guardrails Air Date 2/18/2025 Democracies slide into dictatorship in two ways, first slowly and then all of a sudden. We have been sliding in this direction for at least as long as I have been paying attention to politics and we're finally at the moment where tha... |
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| 2025-02-16 | Air Date: 2-16-25 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - Why we may be forced to bring back bullying - The impact of algorithms and what we can do about it - Democrats and the meaning of 'the medium is the message' - The unbelievable stupidity o... | |
| 2025-02-15 | Original Air Date: 8/4/2015 The dysfunctional state of the US immigration system and the political fight brewing over what to do about it Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Full Show Notes Bes... | |
| 2025-02-11 |
Oligarchy Unmasked: Why Billionaires Hate Democracy and How They're Dismantling It Air Date 2/11/2025 The very rich, as has been noted before, are not on the side of regular people. And even if you think that the federal government needs a major reboot, no one but the ultra-wealthy are going to be happy with what they build in the af... |
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| 2025-02-10 | Air Date: 2-10-25 Today, Jay! and Amanda (Deon and Erin were sick) discuss: - Why you should be using an RSS reader - The danger of Mystification as humans try to cope - Musk and Trump's flagrant law breaking - What Dems and you can do, with some tips... | |
| 2025-02-07 |
The Media and the Moguls: Corporate Media is not equipped for Trump Air Date 2/7/2025 Trump came in with a plan to subdue the media and large swaths of the media came in with a plan to acquiesce. But it's important to understand why because it's not a conspiracy or people wanting to do harm, it's structural to the syst... |
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| 2025-02-04 |
International Decline: The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born Air Date 2/4/2025 The era of unquestioned US hegemony is undoubtedly on the decline but the future is much more complicated and uncertain than the straightforward idea of China rising to take our place that we've been told. Though Trump is not the caus... |
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| 2025-02-03 | Air Date: 2-2-25 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon, and Erin discuss: - How the resistance is transforming, not over - What actually worked when resisting Trump's first term - A curation of good advice on being effective and staying sane this time around FOLLO... |