Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcast

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: the history and consequences of two U.S. wars with Iraq; increasing disparity in wealth in the U.S.; coverage of the global social justice movement and related protests challenging the free trade, corporate-driven policies of the World Trade Organization and World Bank/International Monetary Fund; post-9/11 erosion of civil liberties; constitutional protections and international law 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.Squeaky Wheel Productions is our 501(c)(3) nonprofit production company and distributor. This consumer podcast may occasionally contain a fundraising pitch. 233680

Episodes

May 21, 2025 29 mins

Popular Democracy in Action's Analilia Mejia: Overwhelming Opposition to Trump-GOP’s Extreme Medicaid, SNAP Budget Cuts

Democracy for the Arab World's Raed Jarrar: Trump Visit to Oil-Rich Gulf Monarchies Produces Mixed Outcome

Democratic Constitution Blog's Luke Pickrell: Repairing the Constitution’s Democracy Deficit Key to Challenging Trump Authoritarian Power Grab

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Lawyers for Civil Rights Senior Attorney Jacob Love: Challenging Trump’s Unconstitutional Effort to Eliminate Birthright Citizenship

Economic Policy Institute Senior Policy Analyst Margaret Poydock: New Report Finds 100 Ways Trump Has Hurt US Workers

International Association of Machinists Union member Phil Clarkin: Machinist Strike Against Pratt and Whitney Over Job Security Enters 2nd Week

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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights' former NYC Office Director Craig Mokhiber: Israel’s Gaza Food Blockade Triggers Famine, Hospitalizes Thousands of Children for Acute Malnutrition

The nation's leading public interest lawyer Ralph Nader: Ralph Nader Labels Trump’s 100-Day Attack on Democracy a ‘Fascist Dictatorship’

Memphis Community Against Pollution Executive Director KeShaun Pearson: Memphis Resident Fighting to Shut...

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Alianza Americas Executive Director Dulce Guzmán: Trump Deports U.S. Citizen Children, Arrests Wisconsin Judge

Child Labor Coalition Director of Child Labor Advocacy Reid Maki: As Trump Weakens Worker Protections, Assault on State Child Labor Laws Escalates

Investigative journalist Gareth Gore: Opus Dei, Pope Francis, the Catholic Church and Trump’s MAGA Movement

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Climate Disobedience Center organizer Nastasia Lawton-Sticklor: Campaign Prepares to Challenge Trump’s Future Invocation of the Insurrection Act

National Immigration Law Center President Kica Matos: Protests Target Avelo Airlines for Its Trump Contract to Fly ICE Deportation Flights

Roots Action Political Director Sam Rosenthal: Groups Demand Democrats Convene Emergency Meeting to Counter Trump’s Authoritarian Coup

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Princeton University's visiting professor Fawzia Afzal-Khan: As Israel Escalates Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza, Trump Attempts to Crush Free Speech on Campus

Yale University's Jason Stanley: Tyrants Use Racism and Patriarchy to Split Civil Society Apart and Dismantle Democracy

Connector newsletter Editor Micah Sifry: Could Federal Workers Emerge as Leaders of a New Broad-Based Trump Opposition Movement?

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Institute for Policy Studies' Omar Ocampo: Trump’s Irrational International Tariffs Will Deepen U.S. Economic Inequality

Labor historian and documentary filmmaker Fred Glass: The Trump Resistance Movement and Prospects for a Proposed General Strike

New York State Jails Justice Network's Jerome R. Wright: Deal to End New York Wildcat Correction Officer Strike Suspends Solitary Confinement Reform Law

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Anti-racism educator and educator Tim Wise: Confronting the Reality of Trump’s Vile White Supremacist Agenda

Georgetown University's Nader Hashemi: Trump Targets International Students for Deportation, 1st Step to Repress Free Speech for All

IRIS Executive Director Maggie Mitchell Salem: Trump Attack on Immigrants and Aid Groups Felt at Local Agencies Across the US

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American Constitution Society's Christopher Wright Durocher: Trump Defiance of Rule of Law Plunges U.S. into Deepening Constitutional Crisis

The New Republic's Aaron Regunberg: As Voter Anger Rises Over Trump Attacks on Federal Government, Bernie Sanders & AOC Rally, Energize Democracy Defenders

Pipeline Safety Trust's Bill Caram: Trump Fossil Fuel Deregulation and Staff Cuts Could Lead to Increase in Pipeline Acci...

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American Doom independent journalist Justin Glawe: Trump-Musk Attack on Social Security Could Shatter Program Serving the Nation’s Most Vulnerable

Public Citizen Co-Executive Director Lisa Gilbert: Public Citizen Pushing Back Against Trump Regime’s Onslaught of Lawlessness

Left Voice Editor Sam Carliner: Trump Suppression of Free Speech an Unconstitutional Pretext to Deport Palestinian Student Activist

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Yale professor and author Jason Stanley: Trump’s Methodical Assault on Democracy Closely Mirrors Authoritarian Regimes Through History

Pastor Jamal-Harrison Bryant: Target's Elimination of Its DEI Policy Provokes 40-Day Nationwide Boycott

Greenpeace USA Interim Executive Director Sushma Raman: In Effort to Suppress Climate Protests, Fossil Fuel Company Energy Transfer Sues Greenpeace USA

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RootsAction.org Co-Founder Norman Solomon: Confronting the Democratic Party’s Weak Opposition to Trump Coup

New Haven, CT Mayor Justin Elicker: Nearly 2 Dozen U.S. Cities Sue Trump Regime for Threat to Withhold Funding from Sanctuary Cities

Committee to Protect Journalists Program Coordinator Katherine Jacobsen: Trump Launches Campaign of Threats and Intimidation to Suppress US Press Freedom



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Social Security Works Executive Director Alex Lawson: Voters Overwhelmingly Oppose Trump-GOP Plan to Slash $880 Billion from Medicaid 

Horizons Project Co-Lead Maria J. Stephan: Civil Resistance Strategies and Tactics to Effectively Resist the Trump-Musk Coup

Columbia Law School's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law Director Michael Gerrard: As NYC’s Congestion Pricing Program Generates Funds for Mass Transit, Trump Wants it Shu...

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Constitutional lawyer and Free Speech for People President John Bonifaz: Trump’s Illegal Demolition of Federal Government Provokes Constitutional Crisis, Calls for Impeachment

Journalist and author Fred Pearce: After Israel Destroyed Gaza’s Civil Infrastructure, Palestinians Face a Water & Environmental Crisis

Former CIA analyst and author Melvin Goodman: Trump’s Ukraine War Peace Overture to Russia Creates Rift with European All...

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Institute for Policy Studies Fellow Phyllis Bennis: Trump Doubles Down on His Criminal Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Palestinians from Gaza

Salon Senior Politics Writer Amanda Marcotte: Elon Musk’s Racist Hacker Army Illegally Attempting to Eliminate Multiple Federal Agencies

50501 Organizer Praisely McNamara: Nationwide 50501 Anti-Trump Protests Mobilize to Protect Democracy from Authoritarian Power Grab

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Democracy in Color podcast host Steve Phillips: Back in the White House, Trump Launches Spiteful White Supremacist Policy Agenda

Bethlehem University professor Mazin Qumsiyeh: After Gaza Ceasefire, Israel’s Military Launches New Deadly Offensive in Occupied West Bank

Hunter College distinguished professor of public health Stephanie Woolhandler: RFK Jr. Poses Grave Danger to U.S. Public if Confirmed as HHS Secretary

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American Friends Service Committee's Amy Gottlieb: As Mass Deportation Begins, Immigrant Rights Groups Organize Resistance

University of California Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies' Lawrence Rosenthal: Trump’s Pardon of 1,500 Jan 6 insurrectionists: An Endorsement of Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism

Public Citizen's Lisa Gilbert: Trump-Musk ‘Government Efficiency’ Advisory Group Sued for Lack of Transparency

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People's March protesters: Washington, D.C. and National Protests Pledge Resistance to Trump’s Authoritarian Agenda

Sunrise climate activist Alejandro Sobrera Barboza and U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez: Youth Climate Group Protests Nomination of Fracking CEO to be Trump’s Energy Secretary

University of Wisconsin-Madison's Jennifer Loewenstein: The Israel-Hamas Gaza Ceasefire Takes Hold, But Fails to Address Future of Pal...

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War Child Alliance's Kieran King: Israel’s Brutal Gaza War Has Inflicted Severe Psychological Trauma on Children

Public Citizen's Jonah Minkoff-Zern: Trump Pardon of J-6 Insurrectionists: A Disaster for Democracy, Rule of Law

Third Act's Michael Richardson: Catastrophic Los Angeles Wildfires, the Climate Crisis and the Future of Public Policy

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Journalist and author Sasha Abramsky: On Fourth Anniversary of Jan. 6th Insurrection, Democracy is on the Ropes

Elbit Out of South Carolina Coalition organizer Chris Tittle: South Carolina Activists Protest Israeli Arms Maker Whose Weapons are Used in Gaza Genocide

Center for American Progress' Senior Director Kate Kelly: Campaign Urges Biden to Publish Equal Rights Amendment Before Leaving Office

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