THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: We look at how our leaders are celebrating Memorial Day. One political party commemorates our fallen soldiers by trying to build and preserve what they gave their lives for; the other political party continues its efforts to tear it all down. Any guesses as to who's on which side? Dave discu…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: The Republican party demonstrates anew that it has no leaders; the dog is completely led by the woeful tail it has created over the past four decades. So who, exactly, is it that Democrats are supposed to be working with? The question of how low they can go is addressed again as the GOP prev…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: The republican party and the events of the last weeks prompts Dave to begin preparing his eulogy for reality, which is already dead to tens of millions in this country. The big remaining question is whether a eulogy will soon need to be delivered for the United States. Liz Cheney's breed of …

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: We address the big story of some justice for George Floyd; the conviction of the police murderer of George Floyd is a watershed event in America. But it, the reaction to it, and other big events from the week continue to demonstrate how far from "one nation" with "liberty and justice for all…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Democratic Senator Joe Manchin says Biden should work to compromise with Republicans. Maybe if he agrees to give up his job they will let him keep his head! But Biden goes through the motions with his infrastructure plan. We discuss this pathetic fiction that there is such a thing as comprom…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Perhaps the two most crucial things this country needs to do is fix our broken democracy and fix our broken country. We talked about Biden's and the Democrats' efforts to address voting rights last week and this week we discuss Biden's plan to fix the country. The US has failed to invest in …

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: The US has a real President proposing great things for America. Lest we get too hopeful from that, we are being reminded that he is fighting on our behalf against almost half of our own country. This country is involved in several races for its life right now and much of this country is on t…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: The Senate passes President Biden's Covid Relief Bill, which figures to imminently become law. In what is being hailed as the most ambitious anti-poverty legislation in decades, the Democrats signal that they can unite behind truly progressive legislation. But they signal more than that. The…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Reality has never been kind to conservative doctrine, but these last few weeks would have put a stake into its heart...if it ever had one. We look at some of the big events of the week through the lens of failed conservative economic doctrine. The twin pillars of conservativism have been sup…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Winter storms that are the product of climate change devastate Texas and much of the US. Republicans finally agree that the US is under assault; not by angry mobs, not by climate change, but by renewable energy. Seriously. donald trump survives impeachment. In fact, he wins his impeachment t…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Corporate America will act only for its own benefit, without regard to its impact on society; the McKinsey settlement reminds us of that. A functioning society, has the ability to rein-in its behavior and protect itself. Right-wing media presents a unique threat, however. By creating its own…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: In our second show of the Biden era, we try to maintain our hopefulness, but it is already really hard to do. Dave talks about how Biden is trying to do the right thing, and his executive orders so far have been inspiring. But the Republicans are going to use the same tired playbook of obstr…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Our long national nightmare is over, for now, but the threat lives on. What it means when a presidential inaugural has to point out that "democracy has prevailed", and when those words present too rosy a picture. Democracy may have survived, also for now, but it remains on life support. Dave…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Donald Trump becomes the first President in US history to be impeached. He still seems as likely to survive his term as the US does, but this time he may not avoid accountability. Dave discusses the impeachment, which now gives trump half of all impeachments in US history, and what to make o…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: On a day on which the Democrats take over the US Senate and Joe Biden's election is to be certified, the only story is the attack on America...instigated by the President of the United States and the Republican criminal organization. The unprecedented assault on the US Capitol is reminiscent…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Dave reviews the year 2020, a year we will be happy to have behind us. But does 2021 promise to be so much better? Where we stand regarding the two plagues of 2020: COVID and Trumpism. Tragically, we do not appear to be getting rid of either plague soon. Both may get worse before they get be…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: We continue our conversation of moral hazard, or how the rich avoid the consequences of their own bad actions, in the context of the latest efforts by Trump to sabotage America. Dave discusses moral hazard and market externalities involving Trump's sell-off of US land to mining and oil and g…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: The Electoral College vote gives Joe Biden the presidency, after the Supreme Court refused to give it to trump. It's now official, even Moscow Mitch says so, but does anybody think this is over? Never overestimate the republican party or trump supporters, who will never accept Biden's legiti…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Dems seek to give us legal weed as the GOP continues to seek to give us more reasons to need it. The Democratic House bill to legalize weed is a great political move to boost their odds of retaking the Senate, but it also happens to be good policy as well. Meanwhile, trump and the republican…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: We devote a special episode this week to an interview with FNR founder Damian Hardeen. This is our way of celebrating the holiday (the impending end of the trump nightmare), since Damian created FNR as a counterweight to trump's lies and as an antidote to the media misinformation that got us…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: We celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday with enthusiasm, as we finally breathe easier that the next President of the United States will be the guy Americans actually voted for a few weeks ago. The transition to the incoming Biden administration gives us reason to be hopeful for the future. At …

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Lest we be inclined to celebrate our stay of execution, Biden's win, America finds itself under assault from two enemies. The first is Covid, the second is the President of the United States and his criminal political party. Dave looks at the latest evidence that we have a whiny little baby …

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: The country has elected Joe Biden...barely. We celebrate our survival, and try to forget for a few moments that we remain on life support. Dave discusses the good, the bad, and the ugly of this presidential election result. There is much to celebrate in the defeat of the greatest internal th…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: One day before the most fateful election in US history, and perhaps in world history, Dave opines on what is at stake. Including Covid, of course. *Also available on Spotify, iTunes, and Stitcher...and now Audible!-Please SUBSCRIBE THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS Forward Nation Radio with …

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Dave looks to add substance to another presidential debate that had precious little on its own. A debate that has value only to those awakening from a years-long slumber who are blissfully unaware of the disgrace that is the US President. He and his whole criminal party continue to demonstra…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Dave discusses the VP debate, ramming through a Supreme Court apparatchik, the latest in COVID, and, through it all, the inability of decent people to grasp how profound is the evil of the republican criminal organization. The main takeaway from the VP debate is that flies really are drawn t…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: The momentous week of Trump humiliations continues. Dave updates the conversation regarding Trump's COVID diagnosis and its aftermath. Having repeatedly downplayed the disease to the result of tens of thousands of unnecessary American deaths, Trump continues to go from negligent to murderous…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: It was a momentous week in news, as Trump repeatedly (again) humiliated himself and the US. Too much to explore in one episode, today Dave talks about how Trump gets the COVID he thought he had only been inflicting on others, right after he turns a presidential debate into a clown show. Tomo…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Death and life are in the news this week as iconic Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passes away, official US COVID death passes 200,000, and evidence of extraterrestrial life may be discovered around Venus. We discuss how trump and his supporters continue to show that there had bett…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: President Trump takes his case for greatest all-time mass murderer of Americans to another level by admitting intent to Bob Woodward. In another example of explosive yet completely unsurprising revelations about our President, Trump continues to show that he is his own--and our--worst enemy …

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: President Trump burnishes his case for greatest mass murderer of Americans by killing baseball legend Tom Seaver...now among the tens of thousands of COVID victims attributable to Killer Trump. We also mourn baseball legend Lou Brock, but we don't know if he goes in Trump's "win" column. Jer…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: The Republican National Convention shows again how much contempt Donald Trump and the GOP have for their own base. While the narrative maintains that Democrats do not respect GOP voters, it is their own party that needs to keep them ignorant in order to keep feeding off of them. We discuss t…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: An unconventional Democratic convention surpasses expectations, despite being all about unity. So Dems are all about unity, while the Republicans continue to be all about dividing (and wrecking). Dave continues his discussion on the great divide in this country between a political party that…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Joe Biden chooses Kamala Harris as his Vice-Presidential running mate. Dave comments on the choice and uses it to explore how recent events continue to reflect the stark divide in this country between a political party and our governing criminal organization. Disinterest in governing, and th…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Dave discusses the end-of-term US Supreme Court decisions, along with some other momentous federal court decisions. Despite some near misses and a couple of decisions worthy of celebration, this term is a tragic reminder of how extremist the republican criminal organization has become and ho…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Trump says he passed a very difficult cognitive test, possibly demonstrating he is not excessively brain damaged, and thus is his argument for remaining President. Then he goes about unleashing his Gestapo on American cities, and thus is his argument for remaining President. When he is not f…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: The death of civil rights icon and long-time US Congressman John Lewis gives us chance anew to discuss what it means to be extremist in America today. Republicans further embarrassed themselves when two GOP Senators tweeted pictures of deceased congressman Elijah Cummings in their disingenuo…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: To get even trump supporters on board with beating COVID, Dave suggests doing the unimaginable; making republicans accountable! Let's make people who don't follow guidelines personally liable for the injuries that result. (in fact, let's even have some guidelines!) Even better, Dave offers a…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Happy July 4 everybody! For most of us, a celebration of US independence; for our president, a celebration of secession and the US Civil War. In a bitterly racist and divisive speech at Mount Rushmore on a day of national unity, Trump continues to make it clear that the 2020 election will be…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Dave switches gears a bit from our prior show on hope to talk about how Republicans elevate the interests of those who kill humans above the interest of actual humans. We take a few minutes to reflect on corporate America's role as undisputed champion of killing Americans. Dave talks about "…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Dave talks about how recent events have given him something he has had little cause to feel over the waking nightmare of the Trump years: reason for hope. Like for someone seeing light at the end of a very dark tunnel, these are particularly perilous times. We discuss the reasons for hope an…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: We discuss a great way to celebrate Pride Month, as the US Supreme Court issues a shocking and dramatic decision that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act bars discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender. Don't get your hopes up about the Supreme Court, however. There is n…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Peaceful worldwide pro-justice protests continue. Could this be different from protests past and lead to real systemic change? There are reasons to hope. Protests begin to force change, but need to break down the blue wall that puts police across the nation above the law. Trump and the polic…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Protests erupt around the world following the police killing of George Floyd, just the latest (or is it?) unjustified police killing of a black person. Even as ultraconservatives infiltrate the ranks of the protesters to try to discredit them, the battle lines for 2020 are made clear. Those …

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Trump uses hydrochloroquine, which might lead us to conclude it rots the brain. Further contravening his own administration, he won't wear masks; no need to listen to experts when you don't care how you hurt others. And more on Trump's efforts to solidify his claim to greatest American-kille…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Moving further down the totalitarian road, Trump indicates the law is not something he needs to be burdened by. The Justice Department throws in the towel in a game it has already won, by seeking to drop its criminal case against Michael Flynn after he has twice pled guilty. This assault on …

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: We discuss that the "leader of the free world" suggested injecting disinfectants as a possible solution to a deadly global pandemic. (Then we discuss the fact that we really had to write that sentence.) We note some of the latest Trump moves to eliminate facts, reason, science, and oversight…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: Adding insult to injury, corporations start running coronavirus-themed ads. Hearing bullshit from selfish, greedy entities with no concern for the welfare of anyone but themselves and who, in many cases, are responsible for exacerbating the crisis, is...well, kind of like listening to a Repu…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: We continue our discussions of what the coronavirus and our pathetic response to it should teach us about the issues that will be at stake in the 2020 election. The first is all about the wisdom of reelecting a narcissistic, ignorant, incompetent criminal...or criminal organization full of t…

THE HOME FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS This Week’s Discussion: We talk about the impact Bernie Sanders has had on the Democratic party and the need to fight to keep the movement going. Sanders showed it is possible to inspire people and a political movement by taking on the establishment and actually trying to make a positive difference in people's live…