Lever Time
by David Sirota
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Robert Reich Is Nauseously Optimistic About The Midterms
Robert Reich Is Nauseously Optimistic About The Midterms
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From LeverNews.com — Lever Time is the flagship podcast from the investigative news outlet The Lever. Hosted by the award-winning journalist, Oscar-nominated writer, and Bernie Sanders' 2020 speechwriter David Sirota, Lever Time features exclusive reporting from The Lever’s newsroom, high-profile guest interviews, expert analysis, ideas and opinions from the sharpest minds in media and politics.
Episodes
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- Robert Reich Is Nauseously Optimistic About The Midterms · 48 min · Season 7 Episode 47The midterm elections are just days away, and despite populist candidates surging in popularity across the country, corporate Democrats continue to insist that “Romney…
- Introducing Conversations From The Frontlines: Real Talk, Real Change · 3 min · Season 7Conversations From The Frontlines is a show about how social change actually happens - not just the issues making headlines, but the people organizing on the ground and doing the…
- Angie Nixon’s Battle Cry Against Corporate Power · 40 min · Season 7 Episode 46Last month, U.S. Senate candidate Angie Nixon, a member of the Working Families Party and Democratic Socialists of America, spoke at the nation’s largest annual conference of…
- Tim Walz Warns That Democrats Can Win And Still Lose · 45 min · Season 7 Episode 45With the midterms less than a month away, some pundits and polls suggest Democrats have the election in the bag. But is that really true? David Sirota travels to Minnesota to…
- The Elon Musk Film You Need To See Before The Midterms · 1 h 0 min · Season 7 Episode 44Musk, a deep-dive investigative documentary about the world’s richest man, premieres this weekend, less than a month before the midterms. Maybe you haven’t heard about it — until…
- Introducing “You Might Be Right:” Can We Trust What the Polls Say About the 2026 Midterms? · 53 min · Season 7 Episode 43Today we’re sharing a special episode from You Might Be Right, the chart-topping politics podcast from the Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the University of…
- How AI Could Wipe Out Our Brains Before Our Existence · 56 min · Season 7 Episode 42Anthropic’s leaked IPO documents show the company had a net loss of $42 billion in 2025 and still insists that its technology could pose a “catastrophic or existential risk to…
- What’s Hiding In The Paramount Merger Settlement · 37 min · Season 7 Episode 41California Attorney General Rob Bonta and 11 other Democratic attorneys general just settled their lawsuit blocking Paramount Skydance’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros…
- What Tech Oligarchs Gain From AI Doomerism · 1 h 19 min · Season 7 Episode 40The AI apocalypse is here, but it’s not what you think. Last week, former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned online that “the people building AI earnestly believe that it…
- Dan Osborn Knows Why Democrats Keep Losing Nebraska · 1 h 2 min · Season 7 Episode 39Registered Republicans outnumber Democrats almost two to one in Nebraska, and the few elected Democratic politicians in the state overwhelmingly lean conservative. But like the…
- How Troy Jackson Can Put Collins' Career On The Chopping Block · 31 min · Season 7 Episode 38Maine’s Sen. Susan Collins (R) has won five elections in a row, and a Democrat has not won a United States Senate seat in the state since 1988 — but polls suggest Mainers have…
- The Billionaire Building Democrats’ New Machine · 40 min · Season 7 Episode 37Earlier this month, a new Democratic machine scored a major victory in Connecticut. First-time congressional candidate Luke Bronin won his Democratic primary by a landslide…
- Master Plan S2 E6: Obama’s Kill List · 1 h 16 min · Season 7 Episode 36This week on Lever Time, we’re featuring our newest episode of Master Plan: The Kingmakers. In this episode, President Barack Obama vows to restore the rule of law after the War…
- This Bernie Organizer Is Coming For A “DeSantis Democrat” · 39 min · Season 7 Episode 35Oliver Larkin spent a decade battling the Democratic Party’s campaign machine as an organizer for candidates like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Now, in Florida’s Aug. 18 primary…
- Big Money Lost To Abdul El-Sayed. Where Will It Go Next? · 57 min · Season 7 Episode 34Michigan just proved that money has its limits in elections. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed beat out establishment sweetheart Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) in what was likely the…
- He Left The GOP. Now He Has A Warning For Democrats. · 45 min · Season 7 Episode 33Reed Galen was raised inside the Republican Party establishment, but in 2016, he left the party and later cofounded The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump political action committee…
- Francesca Hong Wants To Be America’s First Socialist Governor · 57 min · Season 7 Episode 32The Wisconsin Democratic primary for governor has gone haywire. Over the last week, Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez dropped out amid a campaign finance scandal, and a candidate who had…
- We’re Still Living In The 2016 Election · 1 h 2 min · Season 7 Episode 31Ten years ago this week, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) ended his first presidential run and endorsed Hillary Clinton. Now, his chief strategist says the primary process was rigged…
- Abdul El-Sayed Isn’t Messing Around About Healthcare · 51 min · Season 7 Episode 30Last week, The Lever’s David Sirota traveled to Michigan to meet with Democratic Senate candidate and former public health official Abdul El-Sayed, who has become a political…
- What New York’s Socialists Know That Democrats Don’t · 57 min · Season 7 Episode 29Candidates backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani swept the state’s Democratic primaries this week, to the chagrin of corporate interests and party elite. Pundits are…
