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How Yogi Berra Became an American Original

On this episode of Our American Stories, before Yogi Berra became one of the greatest catchers in baseball history, he was an 18-year-old U.S. Navy sailor headed toward Omaha Beach on D-Day. After World War II, the son of Italian immigrants from St. Louis helped build one of the greatest careers in…

Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, and Baseball's Unforgettable Summer of '41

On this episode of Our American Stories, the summer of 1941 belonged to two of baseball's greatest hitters. Ted Williams entered the final day of the season batting .39955. Rather than protect a mark that would have rounded to .400, he played both games of a doubleheader, went six for eight, and fi…

George Will issues stark warning about looming Social Security crisis

Social Security Is Not the Problem. Political Cowardice Is. The Source of the Crisis George Will’s column uses Social Security’s projected shortfall to stage a familiar ritual: turn a political decision into a natural disaster. The facts he cites are real enough, and the timeline is ugly. The retir…

George Will delivers blistering rebuke of Trump’s most 'unstable' loyalist

JD Vance’s Instability Is the Job The Real Power Center George Will’s column is about JD Vance’s whiplash shifts: from Trump critic to Trump loyalist, from one religious posture to another, from performative decency to vulgarity and back again. But the deeper story is not Vance’s personality. It is…

Politics and Baseball

George Will contends Baseball is perfect for representative government.  Why?

Don’t Let Doomers and RINOs Hand Our Big, Beautiful Asylum to the Inmates

Mike pushes back on the growing sense of political doom surrounding the midterms, arguing that Republicans risk talking themselves into defeat before voters even head to the polls. With Congress taking another lengthy break after just seven workdays and establishment Republicans like George Will an…

Jaw-dropping Senate endorsement sure to spark MAGA fury

REUTERS/Octavio Jones The Senate Seat Trump Wants as a Loyalty Trophy The Appointment Was the First Exercise of Power South Carolina voters are being offered a choice whose terms were set long before Election Day. After Lindsey Graham’s death, the governor appointed his sister, Darline Graham, to t…

S15 EP169: Hour 1 - Your Child is Not an Experiment

Erick opens on the Nikole Hannah-Jones piece in the New York Times Magazine, where the 1619 Project author admits she sent her own daughter into a failing New York City public school as an act of collective good, then watched the girl move to a better high school and discover she had never actually…

Conservative icon calls for 'carnage' against Trump's GOP

What happened George F. Will’s call for “carnage” was a demand for sweeping Republican defeats in the November midterms. AlterNet reports that the conservative columnist argued most congressional Republicans had surrendered their independence to President Donald Trump and should be punished elector…

What Does it Mean to Be a Democrat or a Republican?

Today we look at the creation and evolution of the two major parties in the US; the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. How did they come about? How did their ideals shift over the last 200+ years? And where might they go next? These episodes originally aired in 2020, and feature Keneshia G…