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
283 episodes
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...
An Erratic Trump Desperate To Exit Disastrous U.S.-Israeli War on Iran
Democracy for the Arab World Now Advocacy Director Raed Jarrar: An Erratic Trump Desperate To Exit Disastrous U.S.-Israeli War on IranYale School of Public Health Humanitarian Research Lab's Nathaniel Raymond: As the Sudane...
Trump’s Lawless and Chaotic War with Iran Has No Clear Objectives
Center for International Policy Senior Fellow Mel Goodman: Trump’s Lawless and Chaotic War with Iran Has No Clear ObjectivesJacobin Staff Writer Branko Marcetic: Trump Follows Israel Into Disastrous War on Iran, Netanyahu C...
International Law is the Number One Casualty of the US & Israel’s Illegal War on Iran
International human rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber: International Law is the Number One Casualty of the US & Israel’s Illegal War on IranHow Democracies Die author and Harvard professor Steven Levitsky: Trump’s Authoritar...
Coming Threat of Nuclear Weapons, AI and Climate Crisis Move Doomday Clock Closer to Midnight
Federation of Atomic Scientists' Jon B. Wolfsthal: Coming Threat of Nuclear Weapons, AI and Climate Crisis Move Doomday Clock Closer to MidnightUniversity of Pennsylvania media policy professor Victor Pickard: Trump-Aligned...
Trump Closure of USAID Humanitarian Relief Programs Has Killed Hundreds of Thousands
ENCORE PRESENTATION:Oxfam America CEO Abby Maxwell: Trump Closure of USAID Humanitarian Relief Programs Has Already Killed Hundreds of ThousandsACLU Senior Policy Counsel Chad Marlow: Trump’s National Securit...
After Four Years of Ukraine War and Nearly 2 Million Casualties, Prospects for Peace are Uncertain
Amnesty International's Ben Linden: After Four Years of Ukraine War and Nearly 2 Million Casualties, Prospects for Peace are UncertainJournalist Andrea Pitzer: Trump Regime's Massive Buildout of Immigrant Concentration Cam...
Gaza Humanitarian Disaster Continues as Ceasefire Plan’s Deeply Flawed Second Phase Begins
Georgetown University's Josh Ruebner: Gaza Humanitarian Disaster Continues as Ceasefire Plan’s Deeply Flawed Second Phase BeginsThe Dissenter Newsletter publisher Kevin Gosztola: FBI Spies on, Then Raids Washington Post Rep...
Minnesota Shows the Country How to Effectively Resist ICE Violence
Vote Common Good CEO Pastor Doug Pagitt: Minnesota Shows the Country How to Effectively Resist ICE ViolenceFairfax County, Virginia attorney Steve Descano: National Coalition of Local Prosecutors Target Federal Lawbreakers ...
ICE Agents’ Killing of 2nd Minneapolis Resident Provokes Nationwide Outrage and More Protests
Minnesota Reformer reporter Madison McVan: ICE Agents’ Killing of 2nd Minneapolis Resident Provokes Nationwide Outrage and More ProtestsFormer CIA analyst Mel Goodman: The World Revolts Against Trump’s Irrational, Deadly Fo...
Religious Leaders Step Up to Resist ICE Violence
Truah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights' CEO Rabbi Jill Jacobs: Religious Leaders Step Up to Resist ICE ViolenceProgram for Global Public Health and Common Good's Dr. Philip Landrigan: Study Finding Weedkiller Roundup Saf...
Trump’s Lawless Venezuela Offensive Was Never About Drugs, But All About Oil
Journalist Andreína Chávez and Latin American Perspective's Steve Ellner: Trump’s Lawless Venezuela Offensive Was Never About Drugs, But All About OilQuincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft's Trita Parsi: After Venezuel...
CBS Political Censorship of ’60 Minutes’: Another Victim of Corporate Media Consolidation
Free Press & Free Press Action's Craig Aaron: CBS Political Censorship of ’60 Minutes’: Another Victim of Corporate Media ConsolidationMedia critic Parker Molloy: Trump, RFK Jr. Impose Ban on Trans Youth Gender Affirmin...
Trump Marching to War with Venezuela Unless Congress Intervenes
Code Pink Women for Peace co-founder Medea Benjamin: Trump Marching to War with Venezuela Unless Congress IntervenesPalestinian anti-apartheid activist Mazin Qumsiyeh: Israel Increases Repression and Attacks on the Local Ec...
Expiring ACA Subsidies Accelerate America’s Healthcare Disaster and 51,000 Preventable Deaths
Social Security Works Executive Director Alex Lawson: Expiring ACA Subsidies Accelerate America’s Healthcare Disaster and 51,000 Preventable DeathsPsychotherapist, author, and Duty to Warn founder John Gartner: Trump’s Cogn...
U.S. War Crime Attacks on ‘Drug Boats’: A Prelude to U.S. Attack on Venezuela
Eisenhower Media Network Associate Director Matthew Hoh: U.S. War Crime Attacks on ‘Drug Boats’: A Prelude to U.S. Attack on VenezuelaYale Law School professor Bruce Ackerman: Supreme Court Hears Case that Could Further Inc...
Credible Accusations of Trump-Pentagon War Crimes Reported
Veterans for Peace board member Gerry Condon: Credible Accusations of Trump-Pentagon War Crimes ReportedJournalist and author Sasha Abramsky: Is the Trump-GOP Authoritarian Nightmare Unraveling?Prison Policy Initi...
Deepening U.S. Healthcare Crisis Demands Radical Transformation, Not Band-Aids
Physicians for a National Health Program President Dr. Diljeet Singh: Deepening U.S. Healthcare Crisis Demands Radical Transformation, Not Band-AidsNational Alliance to End Homelessness CEO Ann Oliva: Under Trump’s New Home...
Sudan’s Civil War Unleashed Worst Active Genocide and Famine in the World Today
Yale School of Public Health's Nathaniel Raymond: Sudan’s Civil War Unleashed Worst Active Genocide and Famine in the World TodayUniversity of Wisconsin's former Associate Director of Middle East Studies Jennifer Loewenstein: