Florida Braces For Massive Hurricane Irma After Storm Pummels Caribbean; Texas Prisoners Are Facing Horrid Conditions After Hurricane Harvey & Retaliation for Reporting Them; Dave Zirin: Stand with NFL Star Michael Bennett, Who Refused to Be Silent About Racial Profiling; Nikole Hannah-Jones: How Wealthy White Communities Are Resegregating Alabama’s Public Schools.


Hurricane Irma, dubbed “one of the most powerful storms in history,” is wreaking devastation across the Caribbean as it heads to Florida, barely as Texans have begun their recovery efforts from Hurricane Harvey. On today’s show we’ll speak with Thanu Yakupitiyage of 350.org about putting these storms into the climate context. Then, California is disproportionately … Continued


Part 2: Caroline welcomes back liberating satiric genius Tony Vigorito, author of (cannot recommend highly enough) spicy, jaunty, liberating, highly pertinent Trickster novel, “Love and Other Pranks.” We explore our shared dedication that Trickster be Liberating us from the Con. “May be the single wildest novel I’ve ever read. It rings the cosmic gong on … Continued


Today we’re in conversation with Angela Nagle to talk about the roots and the rise of the far-fetched subcultures dominating the internet culture wars. Angela Nagle is an expert on the online culture wars, anti-feminist online, and the alt-right. Angela Nagle’s work has appeared in the Baffler, Jacobin, Current Affairs, the Irish Times and many … Continued