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Jonah Engle, author of Mother Jones' July/August 2013 feature investigation "Merchants of Meth", discussed his story on NPR's "Fresh Air".

Listen to the entire interview here: http://www.npr.org/2013/09/26/226476602/big-pharma-and-meth-cooks-agree-keep-cold-meds-over-the-counter

Read Jonah's story here:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/meth-pseudoephedrine-big-pharma-lobby

"Merchants of Meth" author Jonah Engle on NPR's "Fresh Air" (Preview)

Scarlett Johansson Planned Parenthood Obamacare Phone Message

Memories

Dick Cheney on Iran, Republican Jewish Coalition

Petty. Weak on policy. And yet Governor Susana Martinez is being hailed as the GOP's great new hope. Sound familiar? Listen to Martinez's team talk about how they might avoid accusations she deceived voters and read the full story: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/04/governor-susana-martinez-new-mexico-2016

Gov. Martinez's team talks about avoiding accusations she deceived voters.

In 2012, Greg Brannon, who is now a North Carolina Republican Senate candidate, wouldn't say whether he thought the attacks on September 11, 2001 were an inside job—but, he said, "Things like this have to be asked." Read the full story: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/04/greg-brannon-rand-paul-9-11-truther

Greg Brannon - "Things like this have to be asked."

Read the full story: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/04/sudan-fbi-informant-naji-mansour-terrorism

FBI to Naji Mansour: "There's scrutiny on your mom."

FBI to Naji Mansour: "You might get hit by a car."

Produced by All Liberian Musicians, with Accountability Lab, the Business Start-Up Center Monrovia, the Musicians Union of Liberia, and Shizo Magazine. 

Save Liberia (All Stars) Albs

Ben Dreyfuss has very dumb questions about electricity.
Tim McDonnell has very smart answers. 

I Have Questions About Electricity

"Milk Cow Blues": Cochlear Implant Simulation

"Milk Cow Blues": Original

"Milk Cow Blues": Piano

"Milk Cow Blues": Acoustic Guitar

"Milk Cow Blues": Overheads

"Milk Cow Blues": Snare and Vocals, Cochlear Implant Simulation

Trump University On Foreclosures

Madonna's setlist

Adapted version of the Shelor Family's 1927 song "Big Bend Gal," with modern lyrics. Performed live on San Francisco's KALW on Jan. 20, 2018. Fiddles: Michael Mechanic and Tony Phillips; Banjo: Brendan Doyle; Guitar: Brandon Worden; Vocals: Michael Mechanic (lead), Brandon Worden (backup)

Big Bend Gal - Live on KALW

A song first performed by American slaves and made popular by Thomas Dartmouth Rice, an early blackface performer. This is the version played by fiddler Melin Wine. It was performed live on San Francisco's KALW on Jan. 20, 2018. Fiddles: Michael Mechanic and Tony Phillips; Banjo: Brendan Doyle; Guitar: Brandon Worden.

Jump Jim Crow - Live on KALW

Performed live on San Francisco's KALW on Jan. 20, 2018. Fiddles: Michael Mechanic and Tony Phillips; Banjo: Brendan Doyle; Guitar: Brandon Worden. This song was first recorded by Texas fiddler PT Bell, who learned it from his father, Mace.

Mace Bell's Civil War March - Live On KALW

For a July 4 episode of The Mother Jones Podcast, Jamilah King and James West badgered senior editor Michael Mechanic into playing the national anthem on his fiddle. He finally did, but then they cut it—meanies!

Mike plays the national anthem on his fiddle

Romney Full Fundraiser Audio Part 1 (Incomplete)

Full Romney Audio Part 1 (36:39)

On this week's episode of A Movie & An Argument, With Alyssa Rosenberg & Asawin Suebsaeng, we discuss:

1) The new season of American Horror Story, which revolves around a trash-talking, torture-happy nun who wears red lingerie. Also, in the first scene of season 2, Maroon 5's lead singer and Channing Tatum's wife have sex in an abandoned insane asylum, and then get attacked by an ogre, so there's that. (Alyssa has a write-up of the first two episodes here.)

2) The second season of the ABC sitcom Don't Trust the Bitch in Apartment 23, which premieres on Tuesday, October 23.

3) Alex Cross, a serial killer movie starring Tyler Perry as a homicide detective. It gets a wide release on Friday, October 19.


Each week, I'll be sitting down to chat with ThinkProgress critic Alyssa Rosenberg (who also does killer work at The Atlantic and Slate's "Double X"). We'll talk, argue, and laugh about the latest movies, television shows, and pop-cultural nonsense—with some politics thrown in just for the hell of it.

Alyssa describes herself as being "equally devoted to the Star Wars expanded universe and Barbara Stanwyck, to Better Off Ted and Deadwood." I (everyone calls me Swin) am a devoted lover of low-brow dark humor, Yuengling, and movies with high body counts. I hope you enjoyed this episode, and tune in during the weeks to come.

We'll be featuring guests on the program, and also taking listeners' questions, so feel free to Tweet them at me @swin24, and we'll see if we can get to them during a show.

Thank you for listening!

"Movie & An Argument": American Horror, "Don't Trust the Bitch," and Tyler Perry (10-19-12)

A Mother Jones magazine feature story, about the epidemic levels of PTSD among returning vets and how it's spreading to their families. Read by writer Mac McClelland.

Read the story here: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/ptsd-epidemic-military-vets-families

Listen: Is PTSD Contagious?

In a clip from the podcast "Point of Inquiry", New York Times columnist Paul Krugman discusses his latest book "End This Depression Now!" with Mother Jones contributor Chris Mooney. Listen to the full podcast here: www.pointofinquiry.org/paul_krugman_science_and_pseudoscience_in_economics/

Paul Krugman talks with Chris Mooney

M*A*S*H* and Providence star Mike Farrell performs this audio version of Marc Bookman's Mother Jones essay, "How Crazy Is Too Crazy To Be Executed." It involves a profoundly mentally ill young man who was sentenced to die in Texas, and now lives in a prison psychiatric unit pending the outcome of his federal appeal. You can read the essay, along with a companion piece on other death penalty cases involving mentally ill prisoners, at www.motherjones.com/andre. 

Read the full story here:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/andre-thomas-death-penalty-mental-illness-texas

Produced by Mike Mechanic & Brett Brownell
Recorded at Chapman Recording & Mastering in Lenexa (Kansas City), MO
Engineered by Evan Clark
Edited by Brett Brownell

Music: "Slidetrainbisquitchu" by Jared C. Balogh  
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Balogh

Podcast: How Crazy Is Too Crazy To Be Executed?

On this week's episode of A Movie & An Argument, With Alyssa Rosenberg & Asawin Suebsaeng, we discuss:

1. Retired NBA star Dennis Rodman's four-day trip to North Korea this week.

2. Last Sunday's Oscars.

3. The new raunchy comedy "21 and Over"—and the human rights controversy surrounding it.

Each week, I (Mother Jones "movie guy" Asawin Suebsaeng) will be sitting down to chat with ThinkProgress critic Alyssa Rosenberg (who also does killer work at The Atlantic and Slate's "Double X"). 'll talk, argue, and laugh about the latest movies, television shows, and pop-cultural nonsense—with some politics thrown in just for the hell of it.

Alyssa describes herself as being "equally devoted to the Star Wars expanded universe and Barbara Stanwyck, to Better Off Ted and Deadwood." I (everyone calls me Swin) am a devoted lover of low-brow dark humor, Yuengling, and movies with high body counts. I hope you enjoyed this episode, and tune in during the weeks to come.

We'll be featuring guests on the program, and also taking listeners' questions, so feel free to Tweet them at me @swin24, and we'll see if we can get to them during a show.

Thanks for listening!

Movie & An Argument: Dennis Rodman, North Korea, and The Oscars (3-1-13)

The renowned primatologist discusses the evolutionary history of morality.

Chris Mooney Interviews Frans de Waal

An exclusive excerpt from the new Estonian operatic work, "Nosta Culpa," based on the internet feud between economist Paul Krugman and Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves.

Tallinna Kammerorkester & Iris Oja - Nostra Culpa - Krugman Ilves Twitter War

It's insanity to kill your father with a kitchen knife. It's also insanity to close hospitals, fire therapists, and leave families to face mental illness on their own. Mother Jones' May/June 2013 cover story. Written and read by Mac McClelland. 

Read the full story here: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/mental-health-crisis-mac-mcclelland-cousin-murder

Produced and recorded by Brett Brownell

Mac McClelland - "Schizophrenic. Killer. My Cousin."

Speaker at the January 5, 2012 Occupy Steubenville anti-rape rally. Read the full story at MotherJones.com: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/anonymous-rape-steubenville-rehtaeh-parsons-oprollredroll-opjustice4rehtaeh

"Hayley" - Occupy Steubenville Anti-Rape Rally

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