The Best of the Rick Smith Show 6-9-2023

January 24, 2024Education has become a subject of many divisions in recent years, and most if not all of those divisions are being fueled and stoked by right wing interests that want to turn our schoo...

January 23, 2024Join us for a discussion about our differences, how they are used to separate us from our neighbors, and who profits from those divisions. We also discuss recent events in the GOP prim...

January 19, 2024In a massive case that no one is talking about, the Supreme Court is signaling that it might just put itself in charge of … just about everything. The case is challenging the decision ...

January 18, 2024We begin the show talking about child labor and a new and shocking case involving the death of a child in a meat packing facility, and the rollback of child labor laws is red states. T...

January 18, 2024As the super-rich gather in Davos to count their billions and expand monopoly power all over the globe, we sit down with Senator Chris Murphy to discuss economic policy and how it can ...

January 16, 2024Trump begins his campaign push at the Iowa caucuses, winning by a big margin and salting the political earth with lies and conspiracies that would be comical if they weren’t so dangero...

January 15, 2024The MLK holiday means different things to different people. Dr. King was the most prominent, most important voice in the fight for racial equality in America, but to working folks, he ...

January 15, 2024Many of us can tell old stories about relatives from previous generations who had to quit school to go to work, but those old stories are becoming new again. Red states are rolling bac...

January 11, 2024Tax policy in America is a mess, and is yet another symptom of growing inequality. The rich pay too little, and the rest of us pay way too much. But if we actually get into the numbers...