Strange Bedfellows

Episode #210

Bill and Phil consider the state of global democracy in light of the third anniversary of the Ukraine war, the success of the far right in Germany’s elections, and the Trump administration’s attacks on press freedom.

Links related to this week’s episode:

• “Putin’s Three Years of Humiliation” by Anne Applebaum in The Atlantic

• “5 Takeaways From Germany’s Election”  by Christopher F. Schuetze and Jim Tankersley in The New York Times

• “White House Moves to Pick the Pool Reporters Who Cover Trump” by Michael M. Grynbaum in The New York Times

• “One Word Describes Trump” by Jonathan Rauch in The Atlantic

• “Jeff Bezos’s Laughable Assertion of Power” by Joshua Benton in The Atlantic

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