Lever Time
From LeverNews.com — Lever Time is the flagship podcast from the investigative news outlet The Lever. Hosted by award-winning journalist, Oscar-nominated writer, and Bernie Sanders' 2020 speechwriter David Sirota, Lever Time features exclusive reporting from The Lever’s newsroom, high-profile guest interviews, and expert analysis from the sharpest minds in media and politics.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 200
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
The New Movie Trump Doesn’t Want You To See
A biopic of former president Donald Trump released right before the election seems ripe for box office success. But when screenwriter Gabriel Sherman looked for a distributor for his new film The App…
00:48:53 |
Fri 01 Nov 2024
Did Elon Musk Just Buy The Presidency? (PREMIUM PREVIEW)
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00:08:46 |
Tue 29 Oct 2024
Why The Working Class Could Deliver A Trump Victory
For decades, major labor unions like the Teamsters have endorsed the Democratic ticket in presidential elections — but not this year. In a surprise move, the Teamsters declined to endorse either form…
00:40:00 |
Fri 25 Oct 2024
The Real Reason Trump Is Demonizing Immigrants
Donald Trump is heading to Aurora, Colorado, on Friday — a city that Trump has repeatedly portrayed as crime-ridden and taken over by Venezuelan gangs, despite the refutations of city officials and p…
00:58:40 |
Fri 11 Oct 2024
The Corporate Corruption Behind Hurricane Helene
Millions in the Southeastern United States recently endured one cataclysm after another. First, Hurricane Helene left chaos and destruction across a trail of states. Then, in Georgia, a catastrophic …
00:30:15 |
Fri 04 Oct 2024
Is Harris’ Big Tent About To Burst?
Vice President Kamala Harris has built a broad coalition that stretches from climate activists to a former oil company CEO, all of them aligned against former President Donald Trump. But if Harris wi…
00:41:40 |
Fri 27 Sep 2024
The Secret Plot To Buy American Democracy
In 1971, Lewis Powell, a tobacco industry lawyer and future Supreme Court justice, penned a memo calling on conservatives and business interests to make the nation’s legal system far more friendly to…
00:50:12 |
Fri 20 Sep 2024
Will The Real Kamala Harris Please Stand Up? (Part 2)
When Kamala Harris first ran for president in 2019, she promised to deliver Medicare for All to the people — but that changed. Early in her campaign, she frequently referred to a 2017 bill she co-spo…
00:39:28 |
Fri 13 Sep 2024
Will The Real Kamala Harris Please Stand Up? (Part 1)
In television commercials, at speeches, and on the campaign trail, Vice President Kamala Harris frequently boasts that she stood up to big banks as California's attorney general. But her sloganeering…
00:33:51 |
Fri 06 Sep 2024
Fear And Corporate Loathing At The DNC
The Lever’s David Sirota reports on his adventures at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, sharing his on-the-ground reporting on Democrats’ fear of another Trump presidency and their rheto…
00:43:26 |
Fri 23 Aug 2024
Are We Allowed To Ask What President Harris Would Do?
Vice President Kamala Harris’ ascent to presumptive Democratic nominee has upended the presidential contest and energized Democratic voters — but what’s the policy behind the vibes?
On Friday, Harri…
00:46:40 |
Fri 16 Aug 2024
The American Roots Of The World’s Right-Wing Nationalism
For more than a decade, global politics have been rocked by the rise of right-wing nationalist governments. Similar to Donald Trump’s rise in the United States, countries like India, Hungary, Brazil,…
00:40:37 |
Fri 09 Aug 2024
Is Tim Walz the Real Deal?
On Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, a move that drew praise from a wide swath of the party, from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Sen. Joe M…
00:41:39 |
Wed 07 Aug 2024
When Will The Climate Killers See Their Day In Court?
Floods, heat waves, wildfires and other climate extremes are becoming a way of life for millions around the world — and tragically a way of death. After a historic, record-breaking flood in France ki…
00:34:06 |
Fri 02 Aug 2024
Can Harris Fight – And Win?
As Vice President Kamala Harris becomes the presumptive Democratic nominee, her party is facing an uphill battle to defeat Donald Trump and his attempt to frame his corporate agenda as populism. In a…
00:45:53 |
Fri 26 Jul 2024
Will Democrats Decide To Lose The Election?
With Trump last night becoming the GOP nominee and now having his largest polling lead — and with Biden reportedly on the verge of dropping out — David Sirota, Arjun Singh, and The Atlantic’s Tyler A…
01:14:35 |
Fri 19 Jul 2024
How DNC Delegates Could Oust Biden
Should he stay or should he go? President Joe Biden’s decision to remain in the presidential race has consequences for hundreds of millions of people — and it has at least one Democratic National Com…
00:30:08 |
Fri 12 Jul 2024
Who Broke The Economy?
Today on Lever Time, we unpack how corporations built and then broke the supply chain — and more importantly, how they took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to price gouge everybody else.
During …
00:44:37 |
Fri 05 Jul 2024
The Democrat Banished For Warning Us About Biden
How is it that the Democrats’ main bulwark between America and a Trump regime is an impaired president whose White House reportedly tried to hide his decline? On this episode of Lever Time, we talk t…
01:05:24 |
Mon 01 Jul 2024
Why Hasn’t Biden Stepped Down?
Last night’s debacle of a presidential debate raised a huge question: Why did Democratic Party powerbrokers prevent a serious, contested presidential primary against Joe Biden?
It’s a question th…
00:52:19 |
Fri 28 Jun 2024
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