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
Trump Won Iowa – Can He Beat The Supreme Court?
On this week’s episode of Lever Time, David Sirota speaks with Denver Post columnist and longtime Republican Krista Kafer, one of the plaintiffs in the landmark Colorado lawsuit that resulted in the …
00:41:19 |
Wed 17 Jan 2024
Amid Boeing Crisis, Is It Still Safe To Fly?
On this week’s episode of Lever Time, David Sirota is joined by Bill McGee, a Senior Fellow for Aviation and Travel at the American Economic Liberties Project, and investigative journalist Maureen “M…
01:00:22 |
Thu 11 Jan 2024
DECONSTRUCTED: “The Squad,” Part 2: From Obama to Bernie, a Crisis and a Crossroads
Today, we’re sharing another episode of the podcast Deconstructed, from our friends over at The Intercept, an award-winning investigative news organization.
The 2008 economic crisis changed the worl…
00:39:45 |
Thu 04 Jan 2024
DECONSTRUCTED: “The Squad,” Part 1: The Rise and (First) Fall of Bernie
Today, we’re sharing an episode of the podcast Deconstructed, from our friends over at The Intercept, an award-winning investigative news organization.
When Bernie Sanders launched his first preside…
00:30:36 |
Thu 28 Dec 2023
We Need To Talk About Zionism
On this week’s episode of Lever Time, David Sirota is joined by Vox senior correspondent Zack Beauchamp, who recently authored a provocative article about how Israel’s mass violence against Palestini…
00:59:23 |
Thu 21 Dec 2023
How Big Oil Buys The News
On this week’s episode of Lever Time, David Sirota is joined by award-winning climate journalist Amy Westervelt to discuss her recent bombshell report on how news outlets are raking in millions from …
00:42:25 |
Thu 14 Dec 2023
Sound And Fury Over Israel-Palestine
On this week’s episode of Lever Time, David Sirota is joined by author and Washington Post Editorial board member Shadi Hamid to discuss the ongoing conflict in Israel and Gaza, specifically how this…
00:48:30 |
Thu 07 Dec 2023
Artificial Intelligence Is Denying Americans Health Care
On this week’s episode of Lever Time, producer Frank Cappello and senior editor and reporter Andrew Perez are joined by health care journalist Bob Herman, who recently co-authored a report for health…
00:29:05 |
Thu 30 Nov 2023
How Shareholder Advocates Transform Corporations
On this week’s episode of Lever Time, news editor Lucy Dean Stockton is joined by researcher Rosanna Landis Weaver and Andrew Behar, CEO of the non-profit shareholder advocacy organization As You Sow…
00:37:28 |
Tue 21 Nov 2023
What The Sam Bankman-Fried Verdict Means For Crypto
On this week’s episode of Lever Time, producer Frank Cappello is joined by researcher, software engineer, and cryptocurrency critic Molly White, who helps break down everything you need to know about…
00:23:04 |
Thu 16 Nov 2023
Pennsylvania Matters In 2024 (w/ Gov. Josh Shapiro)
On this week’s episode of Lever Time, David Sirota is joined by Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) to examine his first year in office as well as President Joe Biden’s poor poll numbers in the state.…
00:19:52 |
Thu 09 Nov 2023
BONUS: The Lobbyists Who Don’t Want A Ceasefire
On this week’s episode of Lever Time, David Sirota sits down with Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) to discuss the House’s Israel-Palestine ceasefire resolution as well as the public pushback from the America…
00:28:58 |
Mon 06 Nov 2023
How Conservatives Won The Courts
On this week’s episode of Lever Time, David Sirota is joined by lawyer Caroline Fredrickson, who recently penned an op-ed for The Atlantic titled, “What I Most Regret About My Decades of Legal Activi…
00:31:07 |
Thu 02 Nov 2023
BONUS: The Corporate Takeover of Music (Lessons From Bandcamp)
On this week’s bonus episode of Lever Time Premium, The Lever’s Nick Campbell speaks with music writer Robin James and drummer Greg Saunier from the band Deerhoof to discuss the shifting corporate la…
00:37:29 |
Mon 30 Oct 2023
How To Talk About Gaza (w/ Naomi Klein & Omar Baddar)
On Wednesday, October 18, The Lever’s David Sirota hosted a live event with Canadian journalist and activist Naomi Klein and Palestinian-American political analyst Omar Baddar to discuss the ongoing …
01:02:19 |
Thu 26 Oct 2023
The King Of The ‘Self-Help’ Grift
On this week’s episode of Lever Time, David Sirota is joined by journalist and Citations Needed podcast co-host Adam H. Johnson to discuss the contradictions and hypocrisies of the multibillion-dolla…
00:39:40 |
Thu 19 Oct 2023
The Fog Of War In Israel And Palestine
On this week’s episode of Lever Time, David Sirota is joined by Matt Duss, executive vice president at the Center for International Policy think tank, and Daniel Bessner, an international studies pro…
01:01:52 |
Thu 12 Oct 2023
The Hidden Flaws Of ‘Bidenomics’
On this week’s episode of Lever Time, David Sirota is joined by Matt Stoller, the director of research at the American Economic Liberties Project, who explains the failures and successes of President…
00:55:17 |
Thu 05 Oct 2023
American Intervention And Its Blowback
On this week’s episode of Lever Time, David Sirota is joined by Brendan James and Noah Kulwin, producers and hosts of the wildly popular historical narrative podcast Blowback. Their new season covers…
00:42:05 |
Thu 28 Sep 2023
The Serious Science Of Extraterrestrial Research
On this week’s Lever Time, David Sirota and journalist Laura Krantz are joined by Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb to discuss his research into extraterrestrial life.
In 2017, a Maui telescope discov…
00:45:50 |
Thu 21 Sep 2023
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