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Clashism is a counterculture podcast exploring topics little-discussed in mainstream discourse. Every week, your hosts Greg Wright and Rob Schombs discuss the latest developments in climate change and environmental policy as well as a major topic in economics, politics, or culture. New episodes every Monday.
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Here are five stories to watch over the next days, weeks, and months.
Fallout from the Comey hearing, and what might happen next.
Trump has pulled the United States out of the Paris Agreement. What does the world do now?
From Trump's call to expand libel laws to Greg Gianforte's "body slam" of a reporter a day before winning the Montana Special Election for the House of Representatives, the press finds itself under assault in Trump's America.
The past two weeks have been some of the most eventful in recent memory, with bombshell after bombshell devastating Donald Trump's administration.
Time is running out to avoid the worst effects of climate change. What can we expect for our future...and how bad could it get?
The GOP-controlled House of Representatives just voted to pass the American Health Care Act -- a particularly vicious and regressive piece of legislation. What might be in store for the American health care system?
Does the Democratic Party -- and the American Left -- have a future?
Despite his massive character flaws, disregard of religion, and "liberal" past, evangelical Christians voted in massive numbers for Donald J. Trump. Why?
GMOs - genetically modified organisms - are ubiquitous in the U.S. food supply and in controversies raging about scientific and corporate manipulation of what we eat.
Political polarization and the hollowing out of the political center is a noticeable trend in the United States and the world over the past few years. What are the sources of the discontent towards centrism?
Despite the overwhelming evidence showing that climate change is real and caused by human activity, millions of Americans still reject this scientific consensus. Why?
States across America are decriminalizing and legalizing marijuana - both medical and recreational - at a rapidly increasing rate. But powerful interest groups are lobbying against these efforts.
Becoming a Marine is a three month process to train young men and women to become part of the world’s most fearsome fighting force. There is no process to teach Marines how to become civilians again.
Over 130,000 people are incarcerated in private prisons, institutions run by companies whose main goal is profit, not rehabilitation.
Are three contradictions at the heart of capitalism - exponential growth, environmental devastation, and consumerism - potentially fatal to our economic system?
Universities, professors, and college students are frequently the target of conservative animus. It has earned that resentment because education tends to have a liberalizing effect... or at least it did before libertarian industrialists found a way to discretely pump millions of dollars into prestigious universities to counter that.
Trump's "Muslim ban" was met with fierce popular resistance, media critique, and judicial defeat. In this episode, we discuss Trump's authoritarian response.
What is fascism? And is the United States on the fast track to becoming a fascist society? Or is this hyperbole?
Every year, tens to hundred of thousands of Africa's elephants are killed to supply illegal ivory to markets throughout the world. But the elephants don’t stand alone.
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