Podcast

Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

Author: Jay Tomlinson
Feed episode count: 550
Official site: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/listen
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Summary

Expertly-curated progressive politics, news, and culture produced by leftist humans, not algorithms or AI. This is an award-winning podcast that dives deeply into a wide range of national and international issues facing society and governments. We draw from hundreds of sources of progressive news and commentary. Est. 2006. Save time by listening to a range of perspectives on a focused topic in each episode and be introduced to new sources you will not have come across on your own!

Episodes

Jul 11, 2026 · not_requested

#1808 Billionaires vs. Democracy: They're Not Coming For Your Job, They're Coming For Your Government (And The Entire Economy)

Duration seconds: 15584
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1808

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Jul 7, 2026 · not_requested

#1807 What the World Cup Exposes: Identity, Colonialism, and Racism in 2026

Duration seconds: 13060
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1807

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Jul 4, 2026 · not_requested

#1806 America at 250: The Declaration, the Constitution, and our Crisis of Democracy

Duration seconds: 14158
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1806

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Jul 2, 2026 · not_requested

#1805 Trump Giving Iran $300 Billion to End His Own War

Duration seconds: 11678
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1805

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Jun 28, 2026 · not_requested

#1804 Elon Musk, the First Trillionaire, and the Broken System That Made Him

Duration seconds: 13745
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1804

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Jun 25, 2026 · not_requested

#1803 Monthly-ish Mix: Manufactured Legitimacy and the Fight to Reclaim It

Duration seconds: 16735
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1803

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Jun 20, 2026 · not_requested

#1802 Department of Injustice: Revenge Prosecutions, Judges Threatened, and Incompetence All the Way Down

Duration seconds: 10974
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1802

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Jun 18, 2026 · not_requested

#1801 Counterfeit Populism: Trump, the 2026 Primaries, and the Era That's Ending (Transcript)

Duration seconds: 13697
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1801

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Jun 12, 2026 · not_requested

#1800 How Capitalism Created Loneliness and How To Joyfully Organize Our Way to Community

Duration seconds: 14196
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1800

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Jun 10, 2026 · not_requested

#1799 The US and China Are Fighting Over Taiwan, Semiconductors, and Africa's Minerals

Duration seconds: 10969
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1799

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Jun 6, 2026 · not_requested

#1798 FIFA Sportswashing Fascism: The World Cup from Mussolini to Trump

Duration seconds: 10425
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1798

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Jun 3, 2026 · not_requested

#1797 AI Spent $540 Billion to Make You Lonelier: Betting Against Jobs, Art, and Community

Duration seconds: 12142
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1797

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May 30, 2026 · not_requested

#1796 1.8 Billion for the Mob and a Kill List for Dissent: Trump's payout fund and counterterrorism strategy, decoded

Duration seconds: 9873
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1796

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May 27, 2026 · not_requested

#1795 You Say You Want A Revolution: Successful Revolutions are the Boring Ones

Duration seconds: 14112
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1795

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May 24, 2026 · not_requested

#1794 From MAHA to Measles: RFK's Public Health Purge Will Make America Sick Again

Duration seconds: 10702
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1794

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May 21, 2026 · not_requested

#1793 Anti-Immigrant Brutality Costs Countries More Than Their Morals: ICE, Mass Deportation, and the Global Far-Right

Duration seconds: 13545
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1793

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May 16, 2026 · not_requested

#1792 Capitalist Class Warfare: AI, Billionaire Capture, and the How to Fight Back

Duration seconds: 11903
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1792

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May 13, 2026 · not_requested

#1791 Jim Crow 2.0 — SCOTUS Kills the Voting Rights Act and Unleashes the Gerrymandering War

Duration seconds: 11427
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1791

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May 10, 2026 · not_requested

#1790 Assassin Nation: How Political Violence Got Normalized And How To Reverse It

Duration seconds: 11173
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1790

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May 6, 2026 · not_requested

#1789 Boomcession: Why the Economy Looks Great on Paper and Hurts in Real Life

Duration seconds: 11635
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1789

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May 1, 2026 · not_requested

#1788 Monthly-ish Mix: The America That Almost Was—Empire Abroad, Control at Home, and the Long Arc of Resistance

Duration seconds: 16677
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1788

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Apr 29, 2026 · not_requested

#1787 The American President vs The American Pope: Leo XIV, Trump, and the MAGA-Catholic Rift

Duration seconds: 11784
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1787

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Apr 24, 2026 · not_requested

#1786 Defeating Viktor Orbán in Hungary and the Authoritarian Playbook Worldwide

Duration seconds: 8819
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1786

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Apr 21, 2026 · not_requested

#1329 Our Longest War Has Been a Lie All Along (The Afghanistan Papers) (Throwback)

Duration seconds: 3824
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1329_throwback

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Apr 20, 2026 · not_requested

SOLVED! SAMPLE! #38 - Keepin' it Class-y: How Class Structure and Wealth Inequality Keep Us Stuck

Duration seconds: 1412
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/support

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Apr 18, 2026 · not_requested

#1785 Iran and the Chain Reaction: The War Nobody Thought Through (Or, Bomb First, Think Never)

Duration seconds: 12757
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1785

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Apr 14, 2026 · not_requested

#1784 Who Gets to Be American, Who Gets to Vote, and Who Decides

Duration seconds: 9595
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1784

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Apr 10, 2026 · not_requested

#1783 The Ideology of a Cancer Cell: AI, Surveillance, and Silicon Valley's Psychopath Problem

Duration seconds: 11580
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1783

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Apr 9, 2026 · not_requested

SOLVED! SAMPLE! #37 - Solidarity Forever: Boycotts, Strikes, & the Labor Movement We Need

Duration seconds: 1411
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/support

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Apr 7, 2026 · not_requested

#1683 Oligarchy Unmasked: President Musk, the crackup of capitalism, and the MAGA meltdown (Throwback)

Duration seconds: 8954
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1683_throwback

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Apr 3, 2026 · not_requested

#1782 Cuba's Crisis: Trump's Deadly Embargo, Blackouts, and Dream of Regime Change

Duration seconds: 11246
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1782

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Apr 1, 2026 · not_requested

#1781 Your Team Is a Hedge Fund Now: How Gambling and Billionaires Captured American Sports

Duration seconds: 13794
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1781

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Mar 31, 2026 · not_requested

ALMOST SOLVED! SAMPLE! #1 - Liberation Theology & What Redemption Really Looks Like

Duration seconds: 1350
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/support

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Mar 28, 2026 · not_requested

#1780 Cynicism Is a Scab: Hope, Solidarity, and the Labor Fight That Never Stopped

Duration seconds: 12617
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1780

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Mar 24, 2026 · not_requested

#1779 Community After God: Why the Left Needs What Church Provided

Duration seconds: 14517
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1779

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Mar 23, 2026 · not_requested

SOLVED! SAMPLE! #36 - Bribery Jazz - Corruption is the Water We Swim In

Duration seconds: 1300
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/support

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Mar 19, 2026 · not_requested

#1778 AI, the Pentagon, Labor and Capitalism: The Fight Over Who Controls the Future

Duration seconds: 13016
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1778

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Mar 16, 2026 · not_requested

#1777 How Christian Nationalism, Oil, and Zionism Built The War Against Iran

Duration seconds: 13454
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1777

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Mar 12, 2026 · not_requested

#1776 Trump's Pharaoh Complex, Our Flawed Constitution, and the 250th Anniversary

Duration seconds: 13149
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1776

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Mar 9, 2026 · not_requested

SOLVED! FROM THE ARCHIVES - "Collaborators, Internal Exiles, and Dissidents" (Original Air Date: 01-26-25)

Duration seconds: 3864
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/support

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Mar 7, 2026 · not_requested

#1775 Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition and the Remaking of American Politics

Duration seconds: 12115
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1775

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Mar 3, 2026 · not_requested

#1774 Monthly-ish Mix: Who's in Charge?—The Scramble for Control of Nations, Bodies, and Minds

Duration seconds: 16184
Source: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1774

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