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Airs at: Tue, 04/23/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Too Much Information
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Abe, Traci Trace
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The longest days

Airs at: Tue, 06/21/2022 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Happy Solsitce! Traci and Abe celebrate the longest day of the year with a flyby of the ongoing -- and promising -- Jan. 6 Committee hearings, and dig into the encouraging news on COVID and the growing prevalence of monkeypox. Read more

The longest days

Airs at: Tue, 06/21/2022 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Happy Solsitce! Traci and Abe celebrate the longest day of the year with a flyby of the ongoing -- and promising -- Jan. 6 Committee hearings, and dig into the encouraging news on COVID and the growing prevalence of monkeypox. Read more

Coup coup ka-choo

Airs at: Tue, 06/14/2022 at 8:00am - 9:00am
It turns our that the Jan. 6 Select Committee is, in fact, ready for prime time. During its televised hearings, the committee has thus far built a powerful case the former president led an attempted coup -- and very nearly succeeded. Will it matter? Traci and Abe take your ... Read more

Out on the fringe

Airs at: Tue, 06/07/2022 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Those fringe conspiracy theories that your conservative uncle spouts at holiday meals? Turns out they're not so fringe-y. Traci and Abe dig into new data on the prevalence of conservative ideas. Read more

Too Much Information with Abe and Traci on 05/31/22

Airs at: Tue, 05/31/2022 at 8:00am - 9:00am
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Manufacturing ignorance

Airs at: Tue, 05/31/2022 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Is "agnotology" -- the deliberate, cultural creation of ignorance -- at play in the issue of gun violence in the United States? Traci and Abe take your calls. Read more

Tales from the crypto

Airs at: Tue, 05/24/2022 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Thus far, progressive candidates are coming up big in the midterm primaries all over the country. What does it bode for November, and for the larger project of progressivism? Also -- it seems that new-fangled digital blockchain currencies are subject to wildly volatile pric... Read more

The new manifesto

Airs at: Tue, 05/17/2022 at 8:00am - 9:00am
This weekend, a white nationalist opened fire in a Buffalo, N.Y. grocery store, killing 10 people and injuring three others -- almost all of them black. His motive, as outlined in the now-ubiquitous online manifesto? The great replacement theory, which you can hear about ea... Read more

Top of the charts

Airs at: Tue, 05/10/2022 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Portland's Charter Review Commission has completed its every-ten-years analysis of our city's form of government, and has referred a set of recommendations to voters. Just what will be on the ballot? A massive overhaul of how things are done in the Rose City. Commission mem... Read more

Tuckered out

Airs at: Tue, 05/03/2022 at 8:00am - 9:00am
A New York Times series digs deep into how Fox News' Tucker Carlson has played on white grievance and nationalism to turn his Fox News show into the most successful on cable TV -- and into a threat to democracy that we're only beginning to understand. Traci and Abe take you... Read more