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August Calendar

August Calendar August Calendar

Recording recent history.

Sep 15, 2021 / OppArt / India Tresselt

Sen. Joe Manchin

For Joe Manchin, It’s Always About Joe Manchin For Joe Manchin, It’s Always About Joe Manchin

Keep fronting for your Big Pharma, fossil fuel donors, and you’ll go down in history as the senator who destroyed our shaky democracy.

Sep 14, 2021 / Joan Walsh

Is Ballet at a Turning Pointe?

Is Ballet at a Turning Pointe? Is Ballet at a Turning Pointe?

Journalist Dr. Chloe Angyal joins the show to talk about her book on the youth ballet pipeline, Turning Pointe.

Sep 14, 2021 / Podcast / Dave Zirin

Double-Crossed

Double-Crossed Double-Crossed

Walking the plank.

Sep 14, 2021 / OppArt / Ann Telnaes

Migrant Silhouettes

Germany’s Secret Success: Turning Immigration Into a Nonissue Germany’s Secret Success: Turning Immigration Into a Nonissue

Despite predictions of electoral disaster, Angela Merkel’s decision to admit 1.7 million asylum seekers has become politically popular.

Sep 14, 2021 / Linda Mannheim

Mike Pompeo

How Republicans Turned “School Choice” Into a Losing Issue How Republicans Turned “School Choice” Into a Losing Issue

After 18 months of Covid disruption, support for vouchers and even charter schools has plummeted—even in the home of “Live Free or Die.”

Sep 14, 2021 / Jennifer C. Berkshire

Texas Abortion

Boycott Texas Boycott Texas

The rest of the country needs to take decisive action to stop the state’s appalling new abortion law.

Sep 14, 2021 / Katha Pollitt

Harvard Divest protest

How Students Pressured Harvard to Divest From Fossil Fuels– and Won How Students Pressured Harvard to Divest From Fossil Fuels– and Won

Climate activists at other institutions can learn from Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard after their victory at the world’s richest university.

Sep 14, 2021 / StudentNation / Ilana Cohen

First Texas Came for Abortion. Now It’s Going After Voting Rights.

First Texas Came for Abortion. Now It’s Going After Voting Rights. First Texas Came for Abortion. Now It’s Going After Voting Rights.

Just a week after Texas’s abortion ban went into effect, Governor Greg Abbot signed a draconian voter suppression bill into law.

Sep 13, 2021 / Elie Mystal

Fighting the New Jim Crow

Fighting the New Jim Crow Fighting the New Jim Crow

Republicans push to roll back voting rights.

Sep 13, 2021 / OppArt / Sue Coe

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