Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
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Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

by Best of the Left: Perspectives on Politics, Culture, and Economics

Expertly-curated progressive politics, news, and culture produced by leftist humans, not algorithms or AI. This is an award-winning podcast that dives deeply into a wide range of national and international issues facing society and governments. We draw from hundreds of sources of progressive news and commentary. Est. 2006.

Save time by listening to a range of perspectives on a focused topic in each episode and be introduced to new sources you will not have come across on your own!

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1
Community After God: Why the Left Needs What Church Provided
4:01:57 Mar 24, 2026
2
SOLVED! SAMPLE! #36 - Bribery Jazz - Corruption is the Water We Swim In
21:40 Mar 23, 2026
3
AI, the Pentagon, Labor and Capitalism: The Fight Over Who Controls the Future
3:36:56 Mar 19, 2026
4
How Christian Nationalism, Oil, and Zionism Built The War Against Iran
3:44:14 Mar 16, 2026
5
Trump's Pharaoh Complex, Our Flawed Constitution, and the 250th Anniversary
3:39:09 Mar 12, 2026
6
SOLVED! FROM THE ARCHIVES - "Collaborators, Internal Exiles, and Dissidents" (Original Air Date: 01-26-25)
1:04:24 Mar 9, 2026
7
Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition and the Remaking of American Politics
3:21:55 Mar 7, 2026
8
Monthly-ish Mix: Who's in Charge?—The Scramble for Control of Nations, Bodies, and Minds
4:29:44 Mar 3, 2026
9
Envisioning a Leftist Economic Future of Postcapitalism, High-Tech Automation, Universal Basic Income and a World (Mostly) Without Work (Throwback)
1:01:59 Feb 28, 2026
10
The Grift of Life (Scam Culture™ and the Economy it has built) (Throwback)
1:10:21 Feb 26, 2026
11
SOLVED! SAMPLE! #34 - Understanding The Dual State: Life Under Authoritarianism and Your Role in Fighting It
22:40 Feb 25, 2026
12
How Big Tech Captured Attention, Kids, and Democracy
3:26:08 Feb 24, 2026
13
From Fragile to Fascist: How Broken Masculinity Feeds Authoritarianism
3:16:29 Feb 21, 2026
14
They Need You in the Dark: Information, Journalism, and the Fight Against Fascism
3:33:38 Feb 15, 2026
15
SOLVED! SAMPLE! #33 - Be a Mosquito in a Swarm: How to Put Cracks in Authoritarian Power
24:04 Feb 13, 2026
16
Getting in the Fight Against ICE and Authoritarianism
3:07:38 Feb 10, 2026
17
#1128 Confronting Fascism in the Land of Free Speech (Throwback)
59:58 Feb 6, 2026
18
SOLVED! #32 - How the Left is Always Right Too Soon (With Receipts)
24:47 Feb 5, 2026
19
Politics Beyond the Ballot Box: Elections and the Movements that Power Them
2:55:49 Feb 1, 2026
20
The End of an Era: The International Rules-Based Order Gives Way to Trump's Might-Makes-Right Plutocracy
3:37:03 Jan 30, 2026
21
SOLVED! FROM THE ARCHIVES - "Of Horse Races and Men: The Result of Decades of Media Atrophy (aka: Uncertain and Powerless"
54:37 Jan 26, 2026
22
Wars Are Won By Teachers and Trump is Attacking Them Like a Foreign Adversary
2:48:05 Jan 25, 2026
23
#1766 The Fragility of State Violence: The ICE Occupation, Renee Good, and the Minneapolis Uprising
3:35:10 Jan 21, 2026
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SOLVED! SAMPLE! #31 - There is no "Male Loneliness Crisis(TM)": Why Patriarchy & Capitalism Are Hurting Us ALL
26:14 Jan 20, 2026
25
AI Capitalism Will Not Deliver an AI Utopia
2:58:10 Jan 17, 2026
26
Wealth Inequality is Bad for Society and There's No Good Counterargument
2:39:40 Jan 15, 2026
27
It's Not a Health Care System, it's a Wealth Extraction System
2:47:27 Jan 10, 2026
28
There you go again. Venezuela and America's addiction to imperialism (Remix)
2:24:01 Jan 7, 2026
29
Trump's Imperialistic Shakedown of Venezuela
3:16:47 Jan 3, 2026
30
SOLVED! SAMPLE! #30 - Everything is Ugly: How Convenience Killed Beauty—And How We Can Bring It Back
26:07 Dec 30, 2025
31
Monthly-ish Mix: The Machine Cracks—Empire, Exploitation, and the Crumbling Facade
3:14:17 Dec 30, 2025
32
Hot Mess: Conservative Chaos Below the Surface of Trump's Authoritarian Regime
3:26:46 Dec 26, 2025
33
America, A Beginner's Guide (Throwback)
1:29:08 Dec 24, 2025
34
Why Dictators Are Lunatics and Their Followers are Fools
3:31:18 Dec 22, 2025
35
SOLVED! FROM THE ARCHIVES - "This is Really Happening" (Original Air Date: 12-12-24)
1:14:04 Dec 21, 2025
36
Why you think the Sudanese civil war doesn't involve you
2:47:07 Dec 17, 2025
37
SOLVED! SAMPLE! #29 - "Don't Be Cringe": Is Gen Z's Humor a Political Warning Sign?
22:05 Dec 15, 2025
38
Life is But a Game (that you can now bet on)
3:13:48 Dec 14, 2025
39
War Criminal Dick Cheney's Guide to Ethical Governance and Saving Democracy
2:59:02 Dec 10, 2025
40
SOLVED! FROM THE ARCHIVES! - "Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted" (Original Air Date: 5-26-24)
1:02:23 Dec 7, 2025
41
Our Prison System is a Demonstrable Failure (Throwback)
1:02:42 Dec 6, 2025
42
Affordability: Actual Economic Populism is the Kryptonite to Fake Populism
2:53:44 Dec 2, 2025
43
SOLVED! SAMPLE! #28 - Big White Lies: The Impossible Promises of Supremacy
21:03 Dec 1, 2025
44
Police violence and racism are a product of our past (Uprising, Crackdown, Authoritarianism) (Throwback)
2:30:03 Nov 28, 2025
45
The Epstein Files and Donald Trump, Our Predator-in-Chief
2:38:24 Nov 25, 2025
46
SOLVED! FROM THE ARCHIVES - "The Truth Shall Set Us Free" (Original Air Date: 12-6-24)
1:25:46 Nov 23, 2025
47
What the Shutdown and Weaponized Hunger Exposed About Our Asymmetric Morality
3:59:13 Nov 21, 2025
48
SOLVED! SAMPLE! #27 - Watch what you say! How weaponized language changes our reality
20:13 Nov 16, 2025
49
Reigniting the Nuclear Arms Race: Fat Man, Little Boy, and Donald Trump
3:24:04 Nov 14, 2025
50
Monthly-ish Mix: Institutions Fall, Reality Breaks, Empire Rises
3:47:06 Nov 11, 2025
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