The United States is a strikingly unequal country. The Republican Party is rightly credited with aiding the wealthy, but historian Lily Geismer argues that’s just half of the story. She examines the key role played by the Clinton-era Democratic Party in widening inequality through microenterprise schemes and development zones, free trade policies, and charter schools, … Continued


  0:08 – The Biden Administration is proposing the largest peacetime military spending plan ever. William Hartung (@williamhartung), Director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy, discusses the staggering numbers. 0:33 – San Francisco teachers are having problems being paid after the San Francisco Unified School District implemented a new … Continued


A Box of Toys

A Box of Toys #94 SxSW

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This show reviews SXSW 2022 from the perspective of A Box of Toys, with interviews and music from Kristeen Young, My Education, and Borderless Band– three diamonds in the rough from this year’s show. For more tracks by these same artists, see Ep93!