In this episode, Dennis Broe and Toby Miller look at the significance of the LA Protests against Trump’s “invasion” of California, the class and racial meaning of the burning of the Waymo cars, the U.S. Treasury assault on Mexican banks and the Los Angeles Dodgers’ “Mexican problem.” With independent journalist Jalyssa Dugrot and an up-close view of the demonstrations as both coasts, with the New York victory of Zohran Mamdani, erupt against the Republican coup.

In this episode Toby Miller and Dennis Broe discuss Trump's tariffs and their effect on the European and American audiovisual industry as well as the ways the American streamers continue to colonize European public television while seemingly, as Trump might say, "making nice," or appearing to cooperate.

Our guest is France 24 presenter Marjorie Paillon, a French analyst whose area is the interaction between American and European visual media and who raises the question of whether one of the goals of the Trump tariffs is to undercut European digital regulation.

Of Miriam Adelson, The Book of Trump, Mahmoud Kalil and Roger Angell and...

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In the second episode of Culture & Barbarism Toby Miller and Dennis Broe explore the expansion of sports and sports reporting, the wrecking of the Dallas Mavericks, Trump’s tariffs on Mexico thwarted by BRICS and we welcome our first guest Layan Fuleihan, educator, scholar and activist who talks about Palestinian women’s imbrication in the fabric of that society and updates us on the case of Mahmoud Kalil.