Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcast
Between The Lines is a weekly syndicated half-hour radio newsmagazine featuring progressive perspectives on national and international political, economic and social issues. Since 1991, Between The Lines has provided in-depth, timely analysis on a wide range of political, economic and social issues including: increasing disparity in wealth in the U.S.; the crisis in the U.S. health care system; international grassroots mobilization to confront global climate change; racism permeating the prison industrial complex; and efforts to repair flaws in the U.S. electoral system. In recent years, our coverage has raised the alarm about Donald Trump and the Republican party’s ongoing fascist threat to America’s democratic institutions. We believe that accurately and bluntly communicating this threat is vital to mobilizing the American people to defend civil society, civil liberties and our multiracial democracy. It’s critical that media outlets counter corporate media’s constant “sanewashing” and sanitizing of Trump and the GOP’s embrace of political violence and contempt for the U.S. Constitution. Trump 2.0 has shown itself to be even far worse than expected in these past few months, with the widespread dismantling of our government and vital social services, the lawlessness of weaponizing the Department of Justice, the targeting law firms and universities to bend them to his will -- and the downright cruelty to the nation's most vulnerable in our communities. Squeaky Wheel Productions is our 501(c)(3) nonprofit production company and distributor. This consumer podcast may occasionally contain a fundraising pitch. 233680
Episodes
Roosevelt University's David Faris: Donald Trump’s Humiliating Iran War Defeat the Most Significant Since Vietnam
Vote Common Good's Pastor Doug Pagitt: In Another Attack on Free Speech, Trump DOJ Indicts 15 Minneapolis Anti-ICE Activists
Prison Policy Initiative's Wanda Bertram: Studies Find Serious Health Impacts on Formerly Incarcerated Older Adults
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Syria trial seen as first step on lo...
Former University of Wisconsin-Madison Middle Eastern Studies Associate Director Jennifer Loewenstein: U.S.-Iran Peace Deal Announced: Is it Real This Time?
Jewish Israeli anti-apartheid activist Ofer Neiman: Israeli Voters May Oust Netanyahu in October Election, but Brutal Repression of Palestinians Likely to Continue
Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft Senior Research Fellow William D. Hartung: The Pentagon’s Dangerou...
Salon writer Sophia Tesfaye: MAGA Billionaire Ellison Family and Bari Weiss Murder ’60 Minutes’
Fredi Guevara and Liam Henrie: US Crew Members of Global Sumud Aid Flotilla to Gaza Describe Their Israeli Navy Detention
Stand Up America Executive Director Christina Harvey: ‘Kick Out Corruption Tour’ Links Trump Grift to Affordability Crisis
Bob Nixon’s Under-reported News Summary
- Trump connection seals $...
National Security Archive Cuba Documentation Project's Peter Kornbluh: Trump’s Cuba Oil Blockade Triggers Dire Humanitarian Crisis Amid U.S. Invasion Threat
Former EPA Administrator Martha Guzman Aceves: Recent Hazardous Chemical Disasters Come as Trump EPA Rolls Back Federal Safety Regulations
Reporters Without Borders' Ben Grazda: World Press Freedom Index Tracks Decline of Free Press Globally and in U.S. Under Donald Trump
Bo...
Roosevelt University professor David Faris: Trump Appears Unable to Escape His Own Iran War Quagmire
Center for International Policy senior fellow Mel Goodman: Trump-Xi Beijing Summit Reveals China’s Rise, America’s Decline
Oil & Water Don't Mix coordinator David Holtz: Environmental & Indigenous Groups Fight to Shut Down Line 5 Fossil Fuel Pipeline Before It Contaminates the Great Lakes
Bob Nixon: This Week’...
Common Cause's Dan Vicuña: U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Ushers in New Era of Racial Political Apartheid
Hold the Line's Jon Copeland: Opponents Protest LNG Pipeline Plan to Power Massive AI Data Center in Southern New Mexico
Freedom from Religion Foundation's Annie Laurie Gaylor: Trump Regime Sponsors Taxpayer-Funded Rally Promoting White Christian Nationalism
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• China continuing a more clandesti...
Arab American Institute President James Zogby: Iran War Week 11—Media Ignores Israel’s Attacks on Lebanon, West Bank and Gaza
Social Security Administration former commissioner Martin O'Malley: Trump’s Social Security Administration Downsizing Demolishes Customer Service
Food and Water Watch's Thomas Meyer: Opposition to Resource Hungry Artificial Intelligence Data Centers Spreads Across the U.S. Like Wildfire
Bob Ni...
National Lawyers Guild former President Marjorie Cohn: Supreme Court Kills Voting Rights Act, Green-Lights Return of New ‘Jim Crow’ Era
Institute for Policy Studies' Phyllis Bennis: Is the U.S.-Israel War on Iran About to Reignite?
Coal River Mountain Watch Executive Director Vernon Haltom: As Trump Pushes to Extract More Coal, Mountaintop Removal Mining Linked to Severe Health Impacts
Bob Nixon's Under-reporte...
National Priorities Project Program Director Lindsay Koshgarian: 'Tax Day 2026' Report: Average U.S. Taxpayer Paid More Than $4,000 for War Last Year
Latin American Perspectives Associate Managing Editor Steve Ellner: Trump’s Wars on Iran, Venezuela and Cuba: a ‘New Stage of US Imperialism’
Poor People's Campaign West Virginia Tri-Chair Pam Garrison: Low-Income Americans’ Gains of Recent Years Now Lost to Trum...
Peace Action President Kevin Martin: As Americans Increasingly Oppose Trump’s Iran War, Pressure Building on Congress to Invoke War Powers Act
About Face: Veterans Against the War Organizing Manager Rebecca Roberts: Amid Iran War, Many U.S. Service Members Seek Advice on Conscientious Objector Status
Women's Earth and Climate Action Network Executive Director Osprey Orielle Lake: Colombia and Netherlands Convene Historic 1st In...
Quincy Institute's Brandon Carr and UCLA associate professor Kevan Harris: Trump Blockades Strait of Hormuz After Iran War Talks Collapse
Yale University Divinity School's Center for Theology and Public Policy Director Bishop William Barber: U.S. Faith Community Condemns Trump’s Immoral Iran War and His ‘Blasphemous’ Social Media Post
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting's Julie Hollar: U.S. Corporate Media Fails to C...
Brandeis University professor Naghmeh Sohrabi: U.S.-Israel War on Iran Shattering Ordinary Iranians’ Lives, Including Regime Opponents’
Back from the Brink activist Ann Froines: U.S. Campaign Launched to Lead the World Back from Brink of Nuclear War
Ms. magazine Editor Katherine Spillar: ‘Project 2026’: Trump Regime’s New Blueprint to Suppress Women’s Rights
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
Former USMC Capt. Matthew Hoh: Iran Maintains Upper Hand over U.S. and Israel in Escalating and Costly War
People's Law Collective attorney Xavier de Janon: Trump DOJ Wins Terrorism Conviction of Accused Antifa Activists, Criminalizing Dissent
National Immigration Law Center President Kica Matos: Senate Confirms ‘Unqualified Hothead’ Markwayne Mullin as DHS Secretary
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
• Phi...
Democracy for the Arab World Now Advocacy Director Raed Jarrar: An Erratic Trump Desperate To Exit Disastrous U.S.-Israeli War on Iran
Yale School of Public Health Humanitarian Research Lab's Nathaniel Raymond: As the Sudanese Armed Forces Make Gains in Sudan’s Civil War, Civilians Bear Brunt of the Violence
Nuestra America Convoy to Cuba delegate Andy Shallal: Nuestra América Convoy Arrives in Cuba, in Defiance of Trump’...
Center for International Policy Senior Fellow Mel Goodman: Trump’s Lawless and Chaotic War with Iran Has No Clear Objectives
Jacobin Staff Writer Branko Marcetic: Trump Follows Israel Into Disastrous War on Iran, Netanyahu Calls the Shots
Connecticut Visibility Brigade Founder Katherine Hinds: Judge Dismisses Charges Against Connecticut Visibility Brigade Activist in Major Free Speech Victory
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summ...
International human rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber: International Law is the Number One Casualty of the US & Israel’s Illegal War on Iran
How Democracies Die author and Harvard professor Steven Levitsky: Trump’s Authoritarian Regime’s Next Target: The 2026 Midterm Election
Former EPA administrator Joe Goffman: Trump EPA Eliminates 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
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Federation of Atomic Scientists' Jon B. Wolfsthal: Coming Threat of Nuclear Weapons, AI and Climate Crisis Move Doomday Clock Closer to Midnight
University of Pennsylvania media policy professor Victor Pickard: Trump-Aligned Oligarchs' Media Mergers Transforming Outlets into MAGA Propaganda Platforms
Yale University School of Architecture's Adam Hopfer: Yale Architecture Students Design and Build Rent Free Homes
Bob Nixon's Under-repo...
ENCORE PRESENTATION:
Oxfam America CEO Abby Maxwell: Trump Closure of USAID Humanitarian Relief Programs Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
ACLU Senior Policy Counsel Chad Marlow: Trump’s National Security Memo Labels His Enemies Terrorists, Orders Investigations
Artist and activist Robert Shetterly: ‘Americans Who Tell the Truth’ Portraiture Project Aims to Inspire Courageous Citizenship
Bob Nixon's Und...
Amnesty International's Ben Linden: After Four Years of Ukraine War and Nearly 2 Million Casualties, Prospects for Peace are Uncertain
Journalist Andrea Pitzer: Trump Regime's Massive Buildout of Immigrant Concentration Camps Meets Local Resistance
Color of Change's Amanda Hollowell: In Second Term, Trump Acts to Eliminate America's Multiracial Democracy
Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
- Last nuclear arms control trea...
Georgetown University's Josh Ruebner: Gaza Humanitarian Disaster Continues as Ceasefire Plan’s Deeply Flawed Second Phase Begins
The Dissenter Newsletter publisher Kevin Gosztola: FBI Spies on, Then Raids Washington Post Reporter’s Home in Escalating Attack on Press Freedom
FairVote senior fellow David Daley: Trump Asks GOP Congress to ‘Nationalize’ the 2026 Midterm Election, Attempting to Rig the Outcome
Bob N...
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