Monthly Archives: February 2016

Good afternoon, Scoochers! On today’s show, we spend a lot of time getting panicky about Trump. Here are the stories we reference: Measuring Donald Trump’s Supporters for Intolerance The best predictor of Trump support isn’t income, education, or age. It’s authoritarianism. Unless the Democrats Run Sanders, A Trump Nomination Means a Trump Presidency “Emma” by… Read more »

Good afternoon, Scoochers! Here are the links for today’s episode. We spend most of the show at John’s latest at the Nation:  The US Promised Refuge to 10,000 Syrians—We’ve Let in 841 We spend the rest of the hour on listener mail, including this link shouted out by Ed: The long read: What does… Read more »

Good afternoon, Scoochers! Here are the links for today’s show. We talk with Marcela Gaviria, producer for tonight’s new Frontline documentary “Chasing Heroin.” We also talk about the latest controversy around Success Academy– the Office of Civil Rights is investigating them for disability discrimination: ‘Got to Go’: high-performing charter schools shed students quickly And we… Read more »

Good afternoon, Scoochers! On today’s show we talk about the death of Antonin Scalia, and the bombing of hospitals in Syria. We have links from listener mails! Eagle-eyed: Dutch police to train birds to take down unauthorised drones Slow Loris eating a Rice Ball Austin police: Teen killed by officer identified as David Joseph, 17… Read more »

Good afternoon, Scoochers! Here are the links for today’s show. We talk with Mike Ludwig, investigative reporter at Truthout, about his exciting report on settlements re: off shore fracking in Califorina: Following Truthout Investigation, Settlements Halt Fracking Off the Coast of California And the outro music is “Escapements” by Beacon.

Hey there scoochers. What a wild couple of days, huh? Hell of a time to live in the US. Today’s show is really exciting. We’ve got Seth Freed Wessler on to discuss his amazing investigation into the deaths of 103 immigrants in private US prisons. You can read his story here. The rest of the… Read more »

Good afternoon, Scoochers! On today’s show we talk with Evan Siegfried, a Republican strategist. What! I know! It’s a very interesting conversation and we’re happy that Evan was game and joined us! We also talk about John’s latest column at Inverse, Cops May Quell the Next Baltimore-Like Uprising With Tear Gas Drones The outro music… Read more »

Good afternoon, Scoochers! On today’s show, we talk with New York Times investigative reporter Walt Bogdanich about tonight’s New York Times investigation/Frontline documentary “The Fantasy Sports Gamble.” Watch it on PBS tonight or at Frontline’s website! We also talk about comments by Madeleine Albright and Gloria Steinem about young women who don’t support HRC/support Bernie:… Read more »

Hey scoochers! Monday again, back to the grind. Molly is back in town now, so we’re on our normal recording schedule again. On today’s show, we talk about one of my recent Inverse columns, this time about micro-drones. You can hear the dread in Molly’s voice in the opening. After that, it’s a bunch of… Read more »

Good afternoon, Scoochers– Here’s the main story we talk about on today’s episode: Are charter schools the new subprime loans? (Think ‘The Big Short’)