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More Than 300,000 ‘Preventable’ Deaths Since Musk, Trump, DOGE Shutdown of USAID: ‘BradCast’ 6/4/2025

Guest: Dr. Brooke Nichols, Assoc. Prof of Global Health at Boston Univ.; Also: Admin attacks CBO as budget bill found to add trillions to deficit...

As COVID Continues, Reagan’s Gift to Big Pharma is Still Endangering Global Health

Dismantling pharmaceutical monopolies begins with repealing his 1987 Executive Order giveaway...

CA’s New Insulin Plan a Shot in the Arm Toward Socialized Medications, Ending Patent Abuse

Newsom makes good on vow to manufacture generic drugs, highlighting Big Pharma's long manipulation of Intellectual Property laws for profit...

Christmas Killers: ‘BradCast’ 12/20/2021

Manchin is trying to kill the most progressive Presidential agenda in decades; Omicron is trying to kill everyone; Both are killing Christmas; Plus: Trump's new lawsuit means he's in trouble; And callers ring in!...

Heads Up! GOP Election Power-Grab Underway in FL In Advance of 2020!: ‘BradCast’ 1/28/2019

Also: Callers ring in on Trump's shutdown cave, and what happens next...

Addicted to Chaos: Trump’s War on the People of North Korea, the NFL, and the U.S.: ‘BradCast’ 9/25/2017

Guest: Gregory Elich of the Korea Policy Institute...

Pathway to Peace with North Korea? Also: New CBO Health Care Report Undercuts Trump Threat: ‘BradCast’ 8/15/2017

And Trump keeps digging himself deeper on Charlottesville, despite newly revealed warnings from FBI and DHS of violent Rightwing extremism...

White House, U.S. Senate Devolve Into Chaos: ‘BradCast’ 7/27/2017

Intra-party Republican disarray over health care repeal, Trump's trans ban, threats to replace AG, more | GUEST: Former Acting CBO Director Donald Marron on why GOP plan to gut the agency is 'a terrible idea'...

SCOTUS Rulings on Trump ‘Travel Ban’, WI Partisan Gerrymandering, More: ‘BradCast’ 6/26/2017

Guest: Legal journalist Mark Joseph Stern; Also: CBO Finds GOP Senate health bill to result in coverage lost for 22 million Americans...

Big Dem Wins in Special Elections; CBO Finds GOP ‘Healthcare’ Bill Still Deadly: ‘BradCast’ 5/24/2017

Guest: Journalist, health care reform advocate Jacki Schechner...

The Republican Assault on American Institutions: ‘BradCast’ 3/14/2017

Guest: Vox.com's David Roberts on Trump, Pruitt, Tillerson and the GOP's ongoing war on science, facts, health care, journalism and much more...

CBO: 24M Uninsured By GOP Plan; And Unknown Trumpers, Lobbyists Manning the ‘BeachHeads’: ‘BradCast’ 3/13/2017

Guest: Jeff Hauser of CEPR's Revolving Door Project on Team Trump's successful and ongoing 'deconstruction of the administrative state'...

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