Mark and Walker talk to Evan Greer, director of the nonprofit advocacy group Fight for the Future, about online censorship, net neutrality, the battle against disinformation, and punk rock. Greer is a longtime digital privacy rights activist, writer, and musician based in Boston, Massachusetts. This full episode is free. Most Gilded Age episodes are available to OptOut Media Foundation donors. Support us here: https://originals.optout.news/#/portal/signup Learn about the OptOut independent media aggregation app: https://www.optout.news Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gildedagepod Fig ..read more

Alex and Walker talk with Tom Scocca, the editor-in-chief of POPULA and former editor at Slate, Gawker, and Deadspin, about the new Star Wars series Andor. This "Star Wars for adults" show was surprisingly good, offering complex characters, an eerie look at the banality of evil behind the fascistic Empire, an exploration of class and exploitation, and a lot more. This is a preview of our full discussion. To unlock the full episode, become a recurring donor to the OptOut Media Foundation: https://originals.optout.news/#/portal/signup. Learn about the OptOut independent media aggregation app: ht ..read more

U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) joins the Gilded Boys to discuss the recent midterm elections, Ukraine and Saudi Arabia, COVID-19, and Elon Musk's destruction of Twitter. What are the key takeaways from the midterms? Has the Biden administration heeded Khanna's call to use diplomacy to end the war in Ukraine? Have Democrats done enough to protect us from COVID? And what's the best ownership scenario for Twitter? Khanna answers these and other questions. Most full episodes are for recurring donors to the OptOut Media Foundation, a nonprofit charity that publishes Gilded Age and runs an independe ..read more

Is Democracy over in the U.S.? It sure might be. Alex and Walker talk with David Daley, the author of the national best-seller on partisan gerrymandering "Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count" and "Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy," about how colossally f*cked we'll be when the GOP gerrymanders congressional and state legislative districts in the coming months. Congressional Democrats could stop this, but some senators and the president seem content to cede power to the anti-democratic GOP for the next decade or more. Follow David Daley on Twitter: https://twitter ..read more

In this episode, the Gilded Boys speak with author, scholar, and holistic justice activist Dr. Sara Kamali about her new book, Homegrown Hate: Why White Nationalists and Militant Islamists Are Waging War against the United States. "Holistic justice moves beyond anti-racism to anti-oppression in order to address militant white nationalism and end the disproportionate vilification of Muslim Americans and other marginalized groups," says Dr. Kamali. Buy the book: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520360020/homegrown-hate Dr. Kamali's website: https://www.sarakamali.com/ Follow Dr. Kamali on Twitte ..read more

Manhattan borough president candidate Lindsey Boylan joins Walker and Alex to set the record straight about Joe Biden's statement that people "don't want a handout" during a devastating pandemic and resulting economic recession. We respond to questions from the live chat.   Please subscribe to our Patreon. We appreciate it. https://www.patreon.com/gildedage.  Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gildedagepod.  Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3Bsjc9qbUbY.  Learn about Lindsey Boylan: https://www.lindseyfornewyork.com.  Follow Lindsey on Twitter: htt ..read more

Alex and Walker talk about the election and Democratic Party down-ballot failures with journalist Malaika Jabali. We recorded this the day after Election Day. Support Gilded Age on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gildedage Malaika on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MalaikaJabali Malaika's 2018 Current Affairs article: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/10/the-color-of-economic-anxiety Malaika's short film about voters in Milwaukee: https://youtu.be/ubd2cnslP8A --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gildedage/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gildedage/support ..read more

The Gilded Boys speak with academic, author, and PhD Sara Kamali about white nationalist militancy in the United States—how it originates, and what we can do to stop it. Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/gildedage Find Dr. Sara Kamali on the web: Site: sarakamali.com Instagram: @sarakamali.phd Twitter: @sarakamali Preorder "Homegrown Hate: Why White Nationalists and Militant Islamists Are Waging War against the United States" published by University of California Press: https://www.sarakamali.com/preorder-the-book --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gildedage/message Support t ..read more

The Gilded Boys take you through the Bay of Pigs and several other close shaves with nuclear annihilation. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gildedage --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gildedage/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gildedage/support ..read more

Walker and Alex talk with extremism reporter Jason Wilson, who lives in Portland, Oregon, about the killings at protests, white vigilantes working alongside the cops, and the sensational rightwing media that are all part of Trump's fascist campaign strategy. Follow Jason on Twitter https://twitter.com/jason_a_w Check out his website https://jasonwilson.media/ ...and newsletter https://theend.substack.com/ ...and Guardian articles https://www.theguardian.com/profile/wilson-jason Subscribe to Gilded Age on Patreon to help us keep producing these episodes https://www.patreon.com/gildedage --- Se ..read more