Rise of the Right

For decades, the H-1B visa program has functioned as a pipeline for highly skilled workers to join the U.S. labor force. By design, it allows companies to hire employees in “specialty occupations” and has been particularly popular in the technology sector. Indian nationals have been the main beneficiaries—comprising 71% of...

Donald Trump is sending the U.S. military into cities and towns all over the country to wage war against U.S. residents…what he calls “the enemy within.” And Secretary of War Pete Hegseth summoned military generals from all over the globe to Quantico, VA, to amplify this. Brian Becker is joined...

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem claimed that 1.6 million immigrants have left the United States since Trump took office due to the reign of terror the administration has perpetrated. Trump has also sued the Maryland federal judiciary for making him follow proper deportation procedures. Professor Richard Wolff & Brian...

“Alligator Alcatraz” is the latest in Trump’s brutal mass deportation campaign. BT went to South Florida to speak with residents, environmental activists, and immigrant families who say the entire project is corrupt, the conditions are brutal, and it could change the Everglades forever.

Charlton County, Georgia doesn’t have a working hospital, but it’s about to be home to the largest ICE detention center in the country. The facility is run by GEO Group, the multi-billion dollar prison profiteer the U.S. government pays to cage migrants. BT followed the organizers demanding the Folkston ICE...

The U.S. Supreme Court allowed Trump’s evisceration of the Department of Education this week through mass layoffs. Fellowships and sponsorships to fund student research are getting cut while student debt is growing. Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the potential impacts on the U.S. economy and society, the history of the...

Ben Becker, Editor-in-Chief of BreakThrough News, joins the show to discuss the escalation of Trump’s mass deportation war is also an escalation of his war on political dissent. Trump is setting the stage to invoke the Insurrection Act, and Becker will discuss how Los Angeles is the testing ground for...

Sergio joined the June 14 ‘No Kings’ protest in Los Angeles to stand with undocumented immigrants after Trump called in the National Guard to the streets. He was chanting “peaceful protest” when a sheriff’s grenade tore off his index finger. “I saw my finger explode in real time,” he tells...

Amy Hanauer, the Executive Director of the Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy, joins the show to discuss the anti-worker measures of Trump’s reconciliation bill that just passed in the Senate. Republicans rammed through a bill that slashes food aid, healthcare, and basic support for the country’s poorest and working-class...

Dr. Ben Becker, Editor-in-Chief of BreakThrough News, breaks down the Republican budget bill, cynically titled the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which passed the House and aims to transfer even more wealth to billionaires while gutting the programs working people rely on to survive. Becker explains how, if enacted, the bill...