This is Hell!

Symptoms may include: Abdominal pain, change in bowel habits, fever nausea and vomiting, constipation, the best interviews from the past three months.

Live from Ukraine / Reclaiming higher education / Venezuela's revolutionary choice / Plus: Anti-anti-Israel boycott-boycott, Pleasure of punishment and Mismeasuring humanity.

Why the left lost the Democrats / How to resist surveillance / When teachers fight back / Plus: Green Mountain energy, class war classrooms and youth culture doomsday.

Scott Walker Chris Christies himself / Obama's middle man love affair / Lagunitas speaks! / Plus Palast vs evil and Dorchen vs G_d

Fracktown USA / Iran's Invisible Nuclear Threat / DEA on Trial / Live from a Slave Revolt in 1805 / Plus: Post Net Neutrality and TedxMolestation

Existence as Fun / NATO 3 Trial Report / Live from actual Sochi / Inner City PTSD

The rise of the entrepreneurial state / The fall of pot prohibition / Ruin your Superbowl party / Plus: Voting in Hungary, Popping Bubbles in Iran and the Triumph of the Walt

Neoliberalism vs Itself / Neocons vs Syria / Monsanto vs Data

SinaloaDEA / Priced Out of Creativity / Not Neutrality / Beyond Obama's NSA / Black-Ops Blackout / Plus Spencer's Local Farm and the Treasury's Global Reach

DC cashes in on Haiti / Scars from America's forgotten war / How the NSA threatened William Binney / How the NSA threatens American security / Plus - Korean protests and Louisiana land bubbles!

Brazil's boom / Quebec's values bust / Energy's future / de Blasio's past / Inside Iran / Outside America / 201zzzzzz

December 28th - By the time you read this, your bitter, blind, broke, gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz will be miles away from the studios of WNUR, dodging debt collectors, revenue opportunities and/or the knowledge of his own mortality. Is a best-of show enough for you? What if we told you it was a newly digitized collection of super deep cuts from those heady years when the Gregorian odometer rolled back to zeroes? Listen to how young Chuck looked! Jim Dempsey, author of Terrorism & The Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security, tells us about President Clinton's wacky new Cybercorps and gives us the lowdown on whats become of our privacy. (Jan 15, 2000) Peter Eisner, managing editor at the Center for Public Integrity surveys the lobbyist legal landscape. (March 18, 2000) Alexandra Zorn reports on the fight for sex worker rights from New York's Whore Action Network. (August 14, 1999) Larry Makinson of the Center for Responsive Politics told us about their new report concerning the success of special interests in President George W, Bush's first 100 days. (May 19, 2001) Jo Marie Greisgraber from OXFAM USA explains how World Bank-financed debt feeds poverty in Africa.  (July 14, 2001) Thomas Frank, chief muckity-muck at the Baffler reveals what's on the shopping list at the  "One Market Under God" (April 21, 2001) Vernon Bellcourt, National Representative of the American Indian Movement and president of the National Coalition of Racism in Sports and Media fills us in on the campaign to free Leonard Peltier and the recent Treasury Department cover-up in a case involving compensation to Native Americans for use of their lands. (Dec 11, 1999) Jeff Dorchen delivers a Moment of Truth (13 June 1998)  

Monique Morrissey accounts for American retirement benefits / Azadeh Shahshahani on post-coup and post-Chavez elections / Tom Frank answers what's matter with Democrats / Mark Danner reviews the Rumsfeld decade in Iraq / Plus: Brazil pre-World Cup and American justice post-Snowden.