Best of the Left - Progressive Politics and Culture, Curated by Humans, Not Algorithms Podcast
1) #1756 War Criminal Dick Cheney's Guide to Ethical Governance and Saving Democracy
Air Date 12/10/2025 Dick Cheney used to be thought of as Darth Vader but did he have an end-of-life conversion back to the light side of the force? No, he was bad all along and only thought Trump was ...Show More
#1756 War Criminal Dick Cheney's Guide to Ethical Governance and Saving Democracy
2:59:02 | Dec 10th, 2025
2) SOLVED! FROM THE ARCHIVES! - "Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted" (Original Air Date: 5-26-24)
Re-Air Date: 12–2-25 Unless you were a member in May of 2024, this episode of SOLVED! will be brand new to you! If you were a member back then, THANK YOU and this one is worth a re-listen. We're slowi...Show More
3) #1605 Our Prison System is a Demonstrable Failure (Throwback)
Original Air Date: 1-23-2024 The recent discovery of hundreds of bodies buried behind a jail in unmarked graves sparks a renewed discussion about the futility and counter-productiveness of our system ...Show More
4) #1755 Affordability: Actual Economic Populism is the Kryptonite to Fake Populism
Air Date 12/2/2025 If you need more evidence for just how far from rationality our politics have slid in recent decades, Zorhan Mamdani is seen by many as a radical for mostly just saying that people ...Show More
#1755 Affordability: Actual Economic Populism is the Kryptonite to Fake Populism
2:53:44 | Dec 2nd, 2025
5) SOLVED! SAMPLE! #28 - Big White Lies: The Impossible Promises of Supremacy
Air Date: 11-25-25 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon, and Erin discuss: Â Ch. 1 - The extremists trying to create race-based neighborhoods all over the U.S. Ch. 2 - What we can learn from Ireland's history o...Show More
6) #1354 Police violence and racism are a product of our past (Uprising, Crackdown, Authoritarianism) (Throwback)
Original Air Date: 6–22-2020 Today we take a look at the history of racist policing which flows seamlessly into our present racist policing which itself flows into Trump's authoritarian glee at the op...Show More
7) #1754 The Epstein Files and Donald Trump, Our Predator-in-Chief
Air Date 11/25/2025 We live in a world awash with baseless conspiracy theories but that doesn't mean there are no true conspiracies, as exemplified by Jeffrey Epstein. But it bears repeating, that we ...Show More
8) SOLVED! FROM THE ARCHIVES - "The Truth Shall Set Us Free" (Original Air Date: 12-6-24)
Re-Air Date: 11–18-25 Unless you were a member in December of 2024, this episode of SOLVED! will be brand new to you! If you were a member back then, THANK YOU and this one is worth a re-listen. We're...Show More
SOLVED! FROM THE ARCHIVES - "The Truth Shall Set Us Free" (Original Air Date: 12-6-24)
1:25:46 | Nov 23rd, 2025
9) #1753 What the Shutdown and Weaponized Hunger Exposed About Our Asymmetric Morality
Air Date 11/21/2025 In an ethical political system, being willing to break the law in order to starve people amid a political dispute wouldn't be a source of greater leverage and power but it is in ou...Show More
#1753 What the Shutdown and Weaponized Hunger Exposed About Our Asymmetric Morality
3:59:13 | Nov 21st, 2025
10) SOLVED! SAMPLE! #27 - Watch what you say! How weaponized language changes our reality
Air Date: 11-10-25 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon, and Erin discuss: Ch. 1 - "Pull yourself up by your bootstraps" Ch. 2 - "Politically correct" Ch. 3 - "Ethnic cleansing" Ch. 4 - "Meritocracy" C...Show More