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Today’s guest is Ryan Grim, author of the new book “The Squad – AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution”. 

Ryan Grim is the Intercept’s Washington bureau chief and cohost of the show Counter Points. He was previously the DC bureau chief for HuffPost, where we led a team that won a Pulitzer Prize. Grim has been a staff reporter for Politico and the Washington City Paper as well as a contributor to MSNBC and The Young Turks. He’s ...

We’re now in two months of the Israel-Gaza War and after a brief ceasefire, the fighting has erupted again. 

I think its hard to understand this current conflict without understanding the history of Israel and Palestine, and how it led to where we are today

To help with that understanding, today’s guest is Dr Zachary Foster

Zach is a historian of Palestine, having gotten his PhD in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He’s...

Foreign policy is all over the news these days as wars rage from The Middle East to Eastern Europe. To help get a better sense of those issues, as well as what a better, more values based U.S. Foreign Policy could look like, I am joined today by Matt Duess. 

Matt is the Executive Vice President at the Center for International Foreign Policy. In the past Matt has served as a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for Internationa...

Today’s guest is former Congressman Mike Capuano, who represented Massachuetts’s 7th Congressional District from 1999 to 2019. 

I pick Mike’s brain on a wide range of issues, including, of course, Israel and Gaza, Ukraine, what he thinks of Matt Gaetz’s demands, whether or not we should abolish the Senate and what he thinks of an old proposal to combine Boston, Cambridge and Somerville

This Thanksgiving I’m thankful for all you liste...

 In an economy with steady growth, low unemployment and core inflation down to 3.2%, why do so many Americans say that the Biden Administration has left them worse off economically? How is Trump winning or tied with voters under 30? 

And why are the Democrats, once the party of the common man,  continuing to lose the support the working class, not just among white voters but increasingly among non-white voters? 

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Over the last decade we’ve seen the rise of a wide range of social justice movements, from Occupy Wall Street to Me Too to Black Lives Matter. Where are those movements now and what impact have they had? 

In his new book “How the Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement” Freddie DeBoer explores these questions. Freddie argues that in the digital age, social movements flare up but then lose steam through a lack of tangible goals, the i...

On October 7, Israel suffered a brutal attack as Hamas militants from Gaza rampaged across the south,  massacring up to 1,500 Jews and taking 200 more captive.

Israel’s response has been to unleash a massive bombing campaign on the Gaza strip, home to 2.2 million people who have nowhere to go to escape the carnage. As of this recording, the bombardment of Gaza continues, with thousands dead and up to a million people displaced in wh...

While all eyes were on Congress this week, the Republican presidential primary continued to unfold across the country. I’ve found that primary a little bizarre and a little boring – especially the last debate. With Trump ahead by 40 or 50 points it seems like the race is already over. But I’ve been wrong before.

To bring in some outside perspective, today’s guest is Taylor Svehlak – a friend of the show. Taylor is a gun rights advoc...

Liam Cosgrove is a DC-based correspondent for The Grayzone, an independent news website dedicated to original investigative journalism and analysis on politics and empire. 

With much of the mainstream media being pretty aggressively pro-war in its coverage of Ukraine, Liam has stood out for pressing both the Administration as well as Members of Congress on the conflict in a way that tries to get to the deeper truth of what is going ...

Michael Valdes is an IBEW Journey Level Inside Wireman. He joins the show to talk about the UAW strike, class issues in America, how politicians of both sides view the working class generally and labor unions in particular, and what gives him hope for moving forward. 

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In her book "Faith Defeated My Pain" , Jasmine Pettross describes her journey from being diagnosed with cancer at a young age, to struggling to find meaning in her suffering, to finding purpose in her pain and a path forward in life. As she says in her book "No matter the hardships that are faced in life, the time it takes to heal and face situations that you have no control over only makes you resilient."
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Robert Powell is a co-founder of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, a non-profit, in September 2017. The purpose of the organization is the scientific study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. Affiliation with the organization is open to all individuals with a background in science, the military, or law enforcement.

Powell has a BS degree in Chemistry and is a former collegiate debater. He has 28 years experience in engineering...

Justin B. Kinney is an Associate Professor in the Simons Center for Quantitative Biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He received a Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University in 2008, is a co-author on >40 journal articles, and serves as project leader on two National Institutes of Health research grants. His lab has developed widely-used research methods, including methods that are now used to understand the effects of mut...

George Beebe spent more than two decades in government as an intelligence analyst, diplomat, and policy advisor, including as director of the CIA’s Russia analysis, director of the CIA’s Open Source Center, and as a staff advisor on Russia matters to Vice President Cheney. His book, The Russia Trap: How Our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe (St. Martin’s Press, 2019), warned how the United States and Russ...

A fierce proponent of the right to keep and bear arms, Taylor Svehlak is a longtime gun-rights advocate, and briefly served as Director of Communications for a three-letter pro-gun advocacy group (not that one). In his spare time he is also an amateur firearms collector and gunsmith. In the past, he has worked on campaigns for a variety of conservative candidates across the local, state, and federal landscape. Currently, Taylor wor...

Derek Earl Baron aka "Wandering Earl" left home in 1999 for what was supposed to be a three month post-graduation trip to Southeast Asia and has essentially been traveling the world non-stop ever since.

He has been to over 130 countries on six continents living a life of adventure that many people dream of. He’s learned Spanish in Mexico, been kicked out of Romania, acted in a Bollywood tv show, kidnapped in Bangladesh and...

Critically acclaimed author John Schad joins the podcast to speak on his forthcoming book "Jack the Ripper: Revealed".  Schad grew up fascinated by stories of Jack the Ripper and his murder streak across Victorian London. After spending nearly a decade immersed in research, he has published his findings on the true identity of the world's most notorious serial killer.  What he has to say may surprise you.

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What's going on with Ukraine? The Institute for the Study of War's Alex Mitchell joins Zipcode Zero to give an update on the war, Putin's strategy, what the U.S.'s role is and what we can expect to happen this winter.

Alexander Mitchell is the director of external relations at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), where he is responsible for the planning, management and execution of strategic commun...

David Plotz is the CEO of City Cast,  a network of daily local news podcasts in cities around the country - also accompanied by a daily email newsletter that keeps you in the know about what’s happening in your community.  Currently available in Chicago, Denver, Houston, Salt Lake, Pittsburgh, Las Vegas, DC, Philly, Boise, Portland, Madison – and in other cities soon, City Cast is the smartest, easiest way to connect with the place...