Ephemera
A collection of recent and timely (and some timeless) video, audio and print articles, as well as books, which inform and speak to my view of what's happening in and to our world.
Podcasts
News, Opinion and Interviews
- The Daily -- New York Times
- The Argument -- New York Times
- Up First -- NPR
- NPR News Now
- BBC Global News Podcast
- Why Is This Happening? with Chris Hayes
- Stay Tuned with Preet Bahara
- Intelligence Matters with Michael Morell
- Sanity-Cast with John Fugelsang
- Gaslit Nation
- Pod Save America
- Pod Save the World
- Pod Save the People
- Lovett or Leave It
- The Axe Files with David Axelrod
- Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill
- Today Explained
Talk, Humor, Points of View, etc.
- Uncover -- CBC podcasts
- This American Life
- The Ezra Klein Show
- Hidden Brain
- Words Matter
- Code Switch
- The Economist Radio
- Freakonomics Radio
- TED Radio Hour
- TED Talks Daily
- Oprah’s SuperSoul Conversations
- Oprah’s Master Class: The Podcast
- Radio Lab
- The Moth
- Revisionist History
- How I Built This with Guy Raz
- Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend
- Ear Hustle
Limited Series
Videos
- Things Congress Could Do Right Now
The Rachel Maddow Show July 17, 2018.
- Why do these Confederate monuments fall apart so easily?
There were two specific periods in US history when most Confederate monuments were erected.
- Trump fails to deliver again
This guy shows the actual crowd size that Trump said was 15,000—just one of his many, many lies.
- Tina Fey's sheetcake protest
after the Nazi march in Charlottesville.
- Keith Olbermann
reading Art Buchwald's 1973 column on lame excuses for Trump Nixon.
Audios
- What Americans Can Learn From Fake News in Ukraine (with transcript).
Ukraine is where some of Russia's fake news tactics were first developed.
- Presidential hosted by Lillian Cunningham
In 44 episodes leading up to Election Day 2016, Pulitzer Prize-winning historians like David McCullough and journalists like Bob Woodward
explore the character and legacy of each of the American presidents.
- This American Life hosted by Ira Glass
There's a theme to each episode and a variety of stories on that theme.
Most of the stories are journalism, with an occasional comedy routine or essay.
Timelines
- Everything We Know About Russia and President Trump by Steven Harper
Explore his updated, comprehensive Trump-Russia Timeline — or select one of the central players in the Trump-Russia saga to see what we know about them.
- Amy Siskind's Weekly List
As she writes in her subhead: "Experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things
subtly changing around you, so you’ll remember." This is a comprehensive list.
Articles
- Unwanted Pregnancies by Gabrielle Blair
I found the author's argument in her Twitter thread so compelling that I copied her whole thread into this webpage.
- What Do We Owe Her Now? By Elizabeth Bruenig of The Washington Post
Wyatt’s story calls on us to inquire: What motivates otherwise ordinary people to abandon all pretense of mercy when faced with the abject need for it?
- What Trump has undone By Philip Bump of The Washington Post
Since Jan. 20, Trump’s administration has enthusiastically and systematically undone or uprooted rules, policies and tools that predated his time in office. This is a partial list as of December 2017.
- Kushners’ China Deal Flop Was Part of Much Bigger Hunt for Cash
A remarkable story of greed, corruption and bad timing in New York real estate.
- Carl Icahn’s Failed Raid on Washington By Patrick Radden Keefe in The New Yorker
After Icahn became a special adviser to the President, one of his associates called it “the cheapest takeover Carl’s ever done.”
- The ‘Lost Cause’ Is Fake History by Gene Lyons
If your precious “Southern heritage” includes Swastikas, you may as well quit reading right here.
Books
- The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
A spellbinding, alarming analysis of the most serious threats to Americans’ safety happening now from inside the U.S. government.
-
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
Stephen King says:
"Here’s a sermon that’s as fierce as it is lucid…If you’re black, you’ll feel a spark of recognition in every paragraph.
If you’re white, Dyson tells you what you need to know―what this white man needed to know, at least. This is a major achievement. I read it and said amen."
- The Plot to Hack America and
The Plot to Destroy Democracy
by Malcolm Nance.
This is a matched set of detailed and authoritative accounts of how Putin’s spy agency, run by the Russian billionaire class, initiated the first world cyber war. Their goal? To put an end to 240 years of free and fair American democratic elections.
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Though this is a novel with elements of science fiction, it is a brutally honest and enlightening portrayal of the horrors of slavery.
- Things Congress Could Do Right Now
The Rachel Maddow Show July 17, 2018.
- Why do these Confederate monuments fall apart so easily?
There were two specific periods in US history when most Confederate monuments were erected.
- Trump fails to deliver again
This guy shows the actual crowd size that Trump said was 15,000—just one of his many, many lies.
- Tina Fey's sheetcake protest
after the Nazi march in Charlottesville.
- Keith Olbermann
reading Art Buchwald's 1973 column on lame excuses for
TrumpNixon.
Audios
- What Americans Can Learn From Fake News in Ukraine (with transcript).
Ukraine is where some of Russia's fake news tactics were first developed.
- Presidential hosted by Lillian Cunningham
In 44 episodes leading up to Election Day 2016, Pulitzer Prize-winning historians like David McCullough and journalists like Bob Woodward
explore the character and legacy of each of the American presidents.
- This American Life hosted by Ira Glass
There's a theme to each episode and a variety of stories on that theme.
Most of the stories are journalism, with an occasional comedy routine or essay.
Timelines
- Everything We Know About Russia and President Trump by Steven Harper
Explore his updated, comprehensive Trump-Russia Timeline — or select one of the central players in the Trump-Russia saga to see what we know about them.
- Amy Siskind's Weekly List
As she writes in her subhead: "Experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things
subtly changing around you, so you’ll remember." This is a comprehensive list.
Articles
- Unwanted Pregnancies by Gabrielle Blair
I found the author's argument in her Twitter thread so compelling that I copied her whole thread into this webpage.
- What Do We Owe Her Now? By Elizabeth Bruenig of The Washington Post
Wyatt’s story calls on us to inquire: What motivates otherwise ordinary people to abandon all pretense of mercy when faced with the abject need for it?
- What Trump has undone By Philip Bump of The Washington Post
Since Jan. 20, Trump’s administration has enthusiastically and systematically undone or uprooted rules, policies and tools that predated his time in office. This is a partial list as of December 2017.
- Kushners’ China Deal Flop Was Part of Much Bigger Hunt for Cash
A remarkable story of greed, corruption and bad timing in New York real estate.
- Carl Icahn’s Failed Raid on Washington By Patrick Radden Keefe in The New Yorker
After Icahn became a special adviser to the President, one of his associates called it “the cheapest takeover Carl’s ever done.”
- The ‘Lost Cause’ Is Fake History by Gene Lyons
If your precious “Southern heritage” includes Swastikas, you may as well quit reading right here.
Books
- The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
A spellbinding, alarming analysis of the most serious threats to Americans’ safety happening now from inside the U.S. government.
-
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
Stephen King says:
"Here’s a sermon that’s as fierce as it is lucid…If you’re black, you’ll feel a spark of recognition in every paragraph.
If you’re white, Dyson tells you what you need to know―what this white man needed to know, at least. This is a major achievement. I read it and said amen."
- The Plot to Hack America and
The Plot to Destroy Democracy
by Malcolm Nance.
This is a matched set of detailed and authoritative accounts of how Putin’s spy agency, run by the Russian billionaire class, initiated the first world cyber war. Their goal? To put an end to 240 years of free and fair American democratic elections.
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Though this is a novel with elements of science fiction, it is a brutally honest and enlightening portrayal of the horrors of slavery.
Ukraine is where some of Russia's fake news tactics were first developed.
In 44 episodes leading up to Election Day 2016, Pulitzer Prize-winning historians like David McCullough and journalists like Bob Woodward explore the character and legacy of each of the American presidents.
There's a theme to each episode and a variety of stories on that theme. Most of the stories are journalism, with an occasional comedy routine or essay.
- Everything We Know About Russia and President Trump by Steven Harper
Explore his updated, comprehensive Trump-Russia Timeline — or select one of the central players in the Trump-Russia saga to see what we know about them.
- Amy Siskind's Weekly List
As she writes in her subhead: "Experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things subtly changing around you, so you’ll remember." This is a comprehensive list.
Articles
- Unwanted Pregnancies by Gabrielle Blair
I found the author's argument in her Twitter thread so compelling that I copied her whole thread into this webpage.
- What Do We Owe Her Now? By Elizabeth Bruenig of The Washington Post
Wyatt’s story calls on us to inquire: What motivates otherwise ordinary people to abandon all pretense of mercy when faced with the abject need for it?
- What Trump has undone By Philip Bump of The Washington Post
Since Jan. 20, Trump’s administration has enthusiastically and systematically undone or uprooted rules, policies and tools that predated his time in office. This is a partial list as of December 2017.
- Kushners’ China Deal Flop Was Part of Much Bigger Hunt for Cash
A remarkable story of greed, corruption and bad timing in New York real estate.
- Carl Icahn’s Failed Raid on Washington By Patrick Radden Keefe in The New Yorker
After Icahn became a special adviser to the President, one of his associates called it “the cheapest takeover Carl’s ever done.”
- The ‘Lost Cause’ Is Fake History by Gene Lyons
If your precious “Southern heritage” includes Swastikas, you may as well quit reading right here.
Books
- The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
A spellbinding, alarming analysis of the most serious threats to Americans’ safety happening now from inside the U.S. government.
-
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
Stephen King says:
"Here’s a sermon that’s as fierce as it is lucid…If you’re black, you’ll feel a spark of recognition in every paragraph.
If you’re white, Dyson tells you what you need to know―what this white man needed to know, at least. This is a major achievement. I read it and said amen."
- The Plot to Hack America and
The Plot to Destroy Democracy
by Malcolm Nance.
This is a matched set of detailed and authoritative accounts of how Putin’s spy agency, run by the Russian billionaire class, initiated the first world cyber war. Their goal? To put an end to 240 years of free and fair American democratic elections.
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Though this is a novel with elements of science fiction, it is a brutally honest and enlightening portrayal of the horrors of slavery.
I found the author's argument in her Twitter thread so compelling that I copied her whole thread into this webpage.
Wyatt’s story calls on us to inquire: What motivates otherwise ordinary people to abandon all pretense of mercy when faced with the abject need for it?
Since Jan. 20, Trump’s administration has enthusiastically and systematically undone or uprooted rules, policies and tools that predated his time in office. This is a partial list as of December 2017.
A remarkable story of greed, corruption and bad timing in New York real estate.
After Icahn became a special adviser to the President, one of his associates called it “the cheapest takeover Carl’s ever done.”
If your precious “Southern heritage” includes Swastikas, you may as well quit reading right here.
- The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
A spellbinding, alarming analysis of the most serious threats to Americans’ safety happening now from inside the U.S. government.
-
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
Stephen King says: "Here’s a sermon that’s as fierce as it is lucid…If you’re black, you’ll feel a spark of recognition in every paragraph. If you’re white, Dyson tells you what you need to know―what this white man needed to know, at least. This is a major achievement. I read it and said amen."
- The Plot to Hack America and
The Plot to Destroy Democracy
by Malcolm Nance.
This is a matched set of detailed and authoritative accounts of how Putin’s spy agency, run by the Russian billionaire class, initiated the first world cyber war. Their goal? To put an end to 240 years of free and fair American democratic elections.
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Though this is a novel with elements of science fiction, it is a brutally honest and enlightening portrayal of the horrors of slavery.