The Abe and Joe Talk Radio Show

There's a Democrat in the White House. If you're a Republican, this is a fundamentally unacceptable condition. Clearly, he should be impeached. The latest round of GOP anti-Obama hysteria is predictably silly, but it's helpful in illuminating just how broken our Constitutio... Read more

Ukraine is in chaos. The world is agog over the recent downing of a Malaysian airliner there, and the nation has been in turmoil since the ouster of its president earlier this year. But in truth, Ukraine and the other traditional "blood lands" of Eastern Europe -- Poland, B... Read more

Joe Uris goes solo today. His topic is the Israeli bombing campaign on Gaza that has now killed more than 180 people, most of them civilians, since it began a week ago.  Read more

It's been about 6 years since the bottom fell out of the global economy in 2008. All talk of "recovery" aside, it has become clear that we have emerged into a new normal, in which jobs are scarce, working-class wages are stagnant and more and more wealth coagulates at the v... Read more

Hey ladies -- the Supreme Court just decided that your boss is entitled to tell you whether or not you deserve contraception as part of your health plan. Religious freedom, it seems, means that others are free to impose their beliefs upon you -- particularly if you happen t... Read more

The brutal ISIS insurgency in Iraq is prompting speculation about renewed American military intervention there. In a spectacular display of gall, Dick Cheney -- remember him? -- is saying that it's all President Obama's fault. Umm, no. Abe and Joe examine the current strif... Read more

Joe Uris goes solo today. His topic is war and more war and some history of war. Read more

If the energy industry has anything to say about it, we'll burn every last drop of fossil fuel we can find, climate change be damned. In Oregon, this means freight trains laden with coal and crude oil making their way to terminals on the Pacific coast. Abe and Joe revisit t... Read more

Another day, another mass shooting in America. This one, though, offers a unique window into the misogyny that's baked into our culture. After Elliot Rodger shot up a college town, a predictable narrative began: he's mentally ill, he's a madman. But then something interesti... Read more

President Obama is weighing a possible rating system for higher education, and Joe -- an academic by trade -- thinks it's a bad idea. Read more