Episode

9/1 When White Identity Politics Thwarts Worker Power w/ Robin D. G. Kelley & The Myth Of Drug Expiration w/ Marshall Allen

September 1, 2017

Today, historian Robin D. G. Kelley joins us to discuss his classic 1990 book “Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression.”

Then, Sam is joined on Ring of Fire by Marshall Allen of ProPublica, to talk about why this practice of waste leaves a heavy burden on our healthcare costs, and why it’s a myth that drugs become toxic after expiration.

Then for members, a throwback conversation between Janeane and Andy Kindler talking about conservative pathologies. See who Janeane calls a “nasty dickhead”!

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