Episodes

Surviving Communism, part two: the Soviet Union told its people they paid 13 percent in taxes. Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev, a physicist the KGB expelled, built an economic model of that system before his exile and put the real rate at 92 percent, hidden inside wages set by the state, the only employer in t...

Mamdani's housing plan rests on the oldest Soviet question, says a physicist the KGB expelled: who decides who gets what. Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev modeled the Soviet economy from inside and found a hidden tax above 90 percent, the rest handed back by party loyalty. Zohran Mamdani's plan for New York, he...

Affordability is the word everyone in Washington uses now, including President Trump, and a Soviet dissident says it is the communist motto in disguise. Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev was born into the Soviet Union in 1949, the third generation of his family to live under communism, and he spent his life figh...

Border security is the subject for the full hour, and two numbers frame it: in August 2024, under President Biden, the Border Patrol released 10,186 illegal aliens into the country in a single month. In August 2026 it released zero, the sixteenth straight month at zero. Jenny Beth Martin spends the ...

Mamdani's grocery stores get an answer from a man who stood in communist Romania's bread lines. New York's Mayor Mamdani has promised city-run grocery stores, and Ovidiu Frusina, born in Bucharest in 1967 under Nicolae Ceausescu, tells Jenny Beth Martin what state-run food actually looked like from ...

Surviving Communism: seven people who lived under it sat down with Jenny Beth Martin in Atlanta, from China, the Soviet Union, Hungary, Romania and Nicaragua. Between them, more than a hundred years of life under communist rule, and two come from countries where communism is still in power today. In...

The midterm elections are 26 days away, and Arizona grassroots leader Merissa Caldwell has a plan to get out the vote. With Robert McNeily in for Jenny Beth Martin, the founder and chairwoman of EZAZ explains what is wrong with Arizona's federal-only ballot: because of a 2013 Supreme Court ruling, a...

Holocaust survivor Robert Ratonyi was six years old when soldiers marched his mother out of a Budapest courtyard. Three years after October 7, he tells Jenny Beth Martin what happened to a Jewish child in Budapest in 1944 and what he says it has to do with Hamas today. Born in Budapest in 1938, the ...

Noncitizen voting is not a federal crime, a federal judge ruled last week, holding that the 1996 federal ban goes beyond what Congress may do. Days later the Justice Department charged 16 foreign nationals in four states with voting in American elections, and on December 8 the Supreme Court hears th...