Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcast
Between The Lines is a weekly syndicated half-hour radio newsmagazine featuring progressive perspectives on national and international political, economic and social issues. Since 1991, Between The Lines has provided in-depth, timely analysis on a wide range of political, economic and social issues including: increasing disparity in wealth in the U.S.; the crisis in the U.S. health care system; international grassroots mobilization to confront global climate change; racism permeating the prison industrial complex; and efforts to repair flaws in the U.S. electoral system.
In recent years, our coverage has raised the alarm about Donald Trump and the Republican party’s ongoing fascist threat to America’s democratic institutions. We believe that accurately and bluntly communicating this threat is vital to mobilizing the American people to defend civil society, civil liberties and our multiracial democracy. It’s critical that media outlets counter corporate media’s constant “sanewashing” and sanitizing of Trump and the GOP’s embrace of political violence and contempt for the U.S. Constitution. Trump 2.0 has shown itself to be even far worse than expected in these past few months, with the widespread dismantling of our government and vital social services, the lawlessness of weaponizing the Department of Justice, the targeting law firms and universities to bend them to his will -- and the downright cruelty to the nation's most vulnerable in our communities. Squeaky Wheel Productions is our 501(c)(3) nonprofit production company and distributor. This consumer podcast may occasionally contain a fundraising pitch. 233680
Episodes
301 episodes
Trump’s Authoritarian Onslaught Designed to Overwhelm a Nation that Rejects His Tyranny
Journalist and author Sarah Kendzior: Trump’s Authoritarian Onslaught Designed to Overwhelm a Nation that Rejects His TyrannyGeorge Washington University's Dr. Lynn Goldman: Trump EPA Repeals Regulations Limiting Planet-War...
25 Years Later, Post-9/11 U.S. Wars Cost $8 Trillion, Caused More Than 4.5 Million Deaths Worldwide
Costs of War Project Director Stephanie Savell: 25 Years Later, Post-9/11 U.S. Wars Cost $8 Trillion, Caused More Than 4.5 Million Deaths WorldwideTongess Women for Forests activist Wanda Culp: Trump Regime Once Again Attem...
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Poses a Clear and Present Danger
Ret. U.S. Army Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Poses a Clear and Present DangerLatin American Perspectives' Steve Ellner: Brazen Neocolonial Piracy: U.S.-Venezuela 100-Year Oil DealBetwe...
Israeli Settler & Military West Bank Violence Decried as Palestinian Ethnic Cleansing
Bethlehem University professor Mazin Qumsiyeh: Israeli Settler & Military West Bank Violence Decried as Palestinian Ethnic CleansingNation columnist and author Sasha Abramsky: Veteran Lawmakers Warn America Trump’s ‘Rol...
Is America Sleepwalking into Trump’s Next Coup?
Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Michael Sozan: Is America Sleepwalking into Trump’s Next Coup?Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times Foreign Correspondent Chris Hedges: Trump and Rubio Revive McCarthy Era ‘...
Trump Flounders as Iran Takes Initiative in His Reckless and Destabilizing War
University of Wisconsin-Madison's former Middle Eastern Studies Associate Director Jennifer Loewenstein: Trump Flounders as Iran Takes Initiative in His Reckless and Destabilizing WarJacobin Staff Writer Branko Marcetic: Pr...
Cuba’s Economy Grinds to a Halt Amid Trump’s Economic Blockade, Triggering Humanitarian Crisis
American University's Dean emeritus William Leogrande: Cuba’s Economy Grinds to a Halt Amid Trump’s Economic Blockade, Triggering Humanitarian CrisisMinnesota Reformer Editor-in-Chief J. Patrick Coolican: Local Nonviolent O...
Without a Rational Strategy, Trump’s Iran War Continues with No End in Sight
Eisenhower Media Network's Matthew Hoh: Without a Rational Strategy, Trump’s Iran War Continues with No End in SightQuincy Institute's Annelle Sheline: U.S. and Israel to Integrate Military Budgets to Shield Funding from Co...
Two More ICE Shooting Deaths in Texas and Maine Trigger Condemnation and Angry Protests
LULAC's Juan Proaño: Two More ICE Shooting Deaths in Texas and Maine Trigger Condemnation and Angry ProtestsVermont Law and Graduate School's Delcianna Winders: Environmentalists Condemn Trump Regime’s New Rule to Decimate ...
International Community Must Do More to Stop Sudan’s Humanitarian Catastrophe
The Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health's Nathaniel Raymond: International Community Must do More to Stop Sudan’s Humanitarian CatastropheDemocracy for the Arab World Now's Raed Jarrar: After Talks...
Corporate Democrats Lash Out Over Democratic Socialists Primary Wins
Roots Action's Norman Solomon: Corporate Democrats Lash Out Over Democratic Socialists Primary WinsDefend Public Health's Melinda Rostal: Opponents Challenge Trump Regime’s Scheme to Politicize Federal GrantsWrite...
Supreme Court Ends TPS Protections for Haitians, Syrians, Opening Door to Mass Deportation
Haitian Bridge Alliance's Guerline Josef: Supreme Court Ends TPS Protections for Haitians, Syrians, Opening Door to Mass DeportationTexas Prairieland Detention Center protest case attorney Xavier de Janon: Extreme Sentences...
Donald Trump’s Humiliating Iran War Defeat the Most Significant Since Vietnam
Roosevelt University's David Faris: Donald Trump’s Humiliating Iran War Defeat the Most Significant Since VietnamVote Common Good's Pastor Doug Pagitt: In Another Attack on Free Speech, Trump DOJ Indicts 15 Minneapolis Anti...
U.S.-Iran Peace Deal Announced: Is it Real This Time?
Former University of Wisconsin-Madison Middle Eastern Studies Associate Director Jennifer Loewenstein: U.S.-Iran Peace Deal Announced: Is it Real This Time?Jewish Israeli anti-apartheid activist Ofer Neiman: Israeli Voters ...
MAGA Billionaire Ellison Family and Bari Weiss Murder ’60 Minutes’
Salon writer Sophia Tesfaye: MAGA Billionaire Ellison Family and Bari Weiss Murder ’60 Minutes’Fredi Guevara and Liam Henrie: US Crew Members of Global Sumud Aid Flotilla to Gaza Describe Their Israeli Navy Detention...
Trump’s Cuba Oil Blockade Triggers Dire Humanitarian Crisis Amid U.S. Invasion Threat
National Security Archive Cuba Documentation Project's Peter Kornbluh: Trump’s Cuba Oil Blockade Triggers Dire Humanitarian Crisis Amid U.S. Invasion ThreatFormer EPA Administrator Martha Guzman Aceves: Recent Hazardous Che...
Trump Appears Unable to Escape His Own Iran War Quagmire
Roosevelt University professor David Faris: Trump Appears Unable to Escape His Own Iran War QuagmireCenter for International Policy senior fellow Mel Goodman: Trump-Xi Beijing Summit Reveals China’s Rise, America’s Decline<...
U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Ushers in New Era of Racial Political Apartheid
Common Cause's Dan Vicuña: U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Ushers in New Era of Racial Political ApartheidHold the Line's Jon Copeland: Opponents Protest LNG Pipeline Plan to Power Massive AI Data Center in Southern New Mexico
Iran War Week 11: Media Ignores Israel’s Attacks on Lebanon, West Bank and Gaza
Arab American Institute President James Zogby: Iran War Week 11—Media Ignores Israel’s Attacks on Lebanon, West Bank and GazaSocial Security Administration former commissioner Martin O'Malley: Trump’s Social Security Admini...
Supreme Court Kills Voting Rights Act, Green-Lights Return of New ‘Jim Crow’ Era
National Lawyers Guild former President Marjorie Cohn: Supreme Court Kills Voting Rights Act, Green-Lights Return of New ‘Jim Crow’ EraInstitute for Policy Studies' Phyllis Bennis: Is the U.S.-Israel War on Iran About to R...
Tax Day 2026' Report: Average U.S. Taxpayer Paid More Than $4,000 for War Last Year
National Priorities Project Program Director Lindsay Koshgarian: 'Tax Day 2026' Report: Average U.S. Taxpayer Paid More Than $4,000 for War Last YearLatin American Perspectives Associate Managing Editor Steve Ellner: Trump’...
As Americans Increasingly Oppose Trump’s Iran War, Pressure Building on Congress to Invoke War Powers Act
Peace Action President Kevin Martin: As Americans Increasingly Oppose Trump’s Iran War, Pressure Building on Congress to Invoke War Powers ActAbout Face: Veterans Against the War Organizing Manager Rebecca Roberts: Amid Ira...
Trump Blockades Strait of Hormuz After Iran War Talks Collapse
Quincy Institute's Brandon Carr and UCLA associate professor Kevan Harris: Trump Blockades Strait of Hormuz After Iran War Talks CollapseYale University Divinity School's Center for Theology and Public Policy Director Bishop Wi...
U.S.-Israel War on Iran Shattering Ordinary Iranians’ Lives, Including Regime Opponents’
Brandeis University professor Naghmeh Sohrabi: U.S.-Israel War on Iran Shattering Ordinary Iranians’ Lives, Including Regime Opponents’Back from the Brink activist Ann Froines: U.S. Campaign Launched to Lead the World Back ...
Iran Maintains Upper Hand over U.S. and Israel in Escalating and Costly War
Former USMC Capt. Matthew Hoh: Iran Maintains Upper Hand over U.S. and Israel in Escalating and Costly WarPeople's Law Collective attorney Xavier de Janon: Trump DOJ Wins Terrorism Conviction of Accused Antifa Activists, Cr...