Julian peels apart the layers of a highly charged political conspiracy theory about Taylor Swift going MAGA and looks at what it may represent.

When restaurants and cafes in Portland and elsewhere link into networks of food pantries and soup kitchens, will mutual aid feel real in the US? When regular folks come out of their houses to shame and chase ICE thugs out of the neighborhood, will that feeling of power from below catch on? Will it create some craving for a different way of doing things and understanding authority and order?

First of a two-part deep dive by Matthew into how U.S. foreign policy stared down the political threat of Liberation Theology by promoting Evangelical Christianity in Latin America.

“Meet the man who built RFK Jr’s kitchen cabinet” goes the title of a recent investigative article in Politico. Yet that man, Jeffrey Tucker, is much more than that. In fact, you can make the case, as Politico does, that Tucker is one of the main driving forces behind MAHA. We cover Tucker once again, interviewing his daughter, Julia, and Duke University professor, Gavin Yamey.

Social media has been filled with clips of Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee for mayor of NYC. He's been proving quite the foil for Andrew Cuomo's attempt to upset Zohran Mamdani. But who is this man, exactly? Derek and Julian discuss.

Tech billionaire recently gave a series of lectures on the antichrist, who most definitely is not who Thiel thinks they are.

Stephen Miller is once again making headlines for saying the quiet part out loud. Derek and Julian look into this strange little man from Santa Monica.

ICE agents are shooting at priests. Have we crossed a red line yet?

In this first installment of Antifascist Christianity: Black Jesus, Matthew revisits Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s journey from the theological classrooms of Berlin to the Black churches of Harlem

We talk about one of the starkest moves into fascism Americans have yet seen from MAGA: what it is, how pre-crimes can soon be reality, and the fear factor this memo is designed to inspire. We’ll also discuss some possible responses to the next phase of MAGA authoritarianism.

RFK Jr posted a seven-minute video earlier this week that assures us that vaccines aren't all that great, actually. Derek reads the studies Kennedy references as proof. You might be surprised to learn the HHS Secretary has very selective reading.

Mallory DeMille returns to unpack the mad rush that wellness influencers have been on to sell you their completely legitimate acetaminophen alternatives.

Derek and Julian discuss MAGA congressman Clay Higgins’s recent letter to top tech executives.

Charlie Kirk became the latest victim of gun violence in America on September 10. And he wasn't the only person shot on a school campus that day, nor was he the only political figure killed this year.

Matthew begins a two-part exploration of Simone Weil—French philosopher, mystic, and antifascist activist—through the lens of autism, embodiment, and political courage.

What are SSRIs anyway, do hurt people hurt people, and do gun laws have any effect?

Derek worked for nearly 10 months on a NY Times opinions video, "You Might Have Already Fallen for MAHA’s Conspiracy Theories," which was published this week. He discusses what it took to produce this video with his collaborator, Alex Stockton, as well as the role journalism has to play in dispelling health misinformation.

We discuss Elephant Graveyard’s recent exploration of the Joe Rogan universe.

Julian talks to journalists Ariel Bogle and Cam Wilson, co-authors of an excellent new book, Conspiracy Nation: Exposing The Dangerous World of Australian Conspiracy Theories.

We through the fantasies of Trump’s demise: the wishes, the schadenfreude, the diagnosis-at-a-distance, and what it means to imagine the death of a king.