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Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcast

Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcast

By: Scott Harris Melinda Tuhus and Bob Nixon
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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

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Episodes
  • Rapidly Moving the U.S. Toward a Police State, Trump Labels Critics ‘Domestic Terrorists’

    Rapidly Moving the U.S. Toward a Police State, Trump Labels Critics ‘Domestic Terrorists’
    Oct 1 2025

    The Rutherford Institute President John Whitehead: Rapidly Moving the U.S. Toward a Police State, Trump Labels Critics ‘Domestic Terrorists’

    Oxfam CEO Abby Maxman: Trump Closure of USAID Humanitarian Relief Programs Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands

    Documentary filmmaker Rick Goldsmith: Documentary ‘Stripped for Parts’ Examines Vulture Capital’s Role in Demolishing Local Newspapers

    Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
    • Trump cronies still fixated on annexing Greenland, where socialism works
    • Trump administration planning to reopen notorious prisons for ICE
    • Colchester, Vermont mobile home park experimenting with cooperative housing


    Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. New episodes every Wednesday at 12 noon ET, website updated Wednesdays after 4 p.m. ET

    Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

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    29 mins
  • Trump’s FCC Takes Action to Suppress Free Speech

    Trump’s FCC Takes Action to Suppress Free Speech
    Sep 24 2025

    Free Press General Counsel Matt Wood: Trump’s FCC Takes Action to Suppress Free Speech

    University of Arizona professor emerita epidemiologist Elizabeth Jacobs: RFK Jr.’s War Against Vaccinations and Science Reaches New Dangerous Phase

    Gulf of Mexico Youth Climate Summit Co-Founder Armon Alex: Petrostate Tour of U.S. Capitol Shines Light on Fossil Fuel Industry’s Attack on Environment/Climate

    Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
    • Refugees from Western Sahara fuel humanitarian crisis in Algeria
    • Tuberculosis is spreading in ICE detention centers
    • Anti-opioid drug less available in black and latino communities


    Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. New episodes every Wednesday at 12 noon ET, website updated Wednesdays after 4 p.m. ET

    Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

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    29 mins
  • Trump Exploits Charlie Kirk’s Murder to Threaten Leftist Groups with Repression

    Trump Exploits Charlie Kirk’s Murder to Threaten Leftist Groups with Repression
    Sep 17 2025

    Independent journalist Justin Glawe: Trump Exploits Charlie Kirk's Murder, Vowing to Investigate and Dismantle Progressive Left Groups

    Connecticut Visibility Brigade founder Katherine Hinds and defense attorney Margaret Donovan: Protest Leader Arrested for Exercising Free Speech Rights

    Youth climate activist and Fridays for Future Cape Cod lead organizer Madison Sheppard: ‘Make Billionaires Pay’ International Mobilization for Climate Justice Sept. 19-21

    Bob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary
    • Growing U.S. military partnership with the Philippines, threatening China
    • Trump has fast-tracked deep-sea mining, despite global opposition
    • Utah unions fight ban on collective bargaining with historic referendum


    Visit our website at BTLonline.org for more information, in-depth interviews, related links and transcripts and to sign up for our BTL Weekly Summary. New episodes every Wednesday at 12 noon ET, website updated Wednesdays after 4 p.m. ET

    Produced by Squeaky Wheel Productions: Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus, Bob Nixon, Anna Manzo, Susan Bramhall, Jeff Yates and Mary Hunt. Theme music by Richard Hill and Mikata.

    Show More Show Less
    29 mins
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