Lever Time
Episodes
INSIDE THE STORY: Pfizer Pays To Change The Story
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This mini-episode is part of our Inside The Story series, where we highlight some of The Lever’s original reporting and speak with the journalists w...
The State Of Congress (w/ Rep. Ro Khanna)
18 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Lever Time Premium: David Sirota sits down with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) for a substantive conversation on the latest con...
INSIDE THE STORY: Insurers Are Fighting To Protect Their Medicare Fraud
13 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This mini-episode is part of our Inside The Story series, where we highlight some of The Lever’s original reporting and speak with the journalists w...
The Corporate Merger No One’s Talking About
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Lever Time: Last October, grocery giants Kroger and Albertsons announced they planned to merge and become one of the large...
INSIDE THE STORY: How Big Pharma Actually Spends Its Massive Profits
06 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This mini-episode is part of our Inside The Story series, where we highlight some of The Lever’s original reporting and speak with the journalists w...
How The Airline Industry Became A Living Nightmare
04 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Lever Time: After the Southwest Airlines debacle that saw over 2,500 flights canceled and up to a million travelers strand...
INSIDE THE STORY: The Battle Over The Side-Letter Scam
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This mini-episode is part of our Inside The Story series, where we highlight some of The Lever’s original reporting and speak with the journalists w...
INSIDE THE STORY: Banks’ Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Card
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This mini-episode is part of our Inside The Story series, where we highlight some of The Lever’s original reporting and speak with the journalists w...
Elon Musk’s Twitter Is The Opposite Of Free Speech
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Lever Time: In light of Elon Musk’s Twitter flippantly banning journalists last week, David Sirota chats with Producer F...
INSIDE THE STORY: BlackRock’s Stealth Anti-Climate Agenda
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This mini-episode is part of our Inside The Story series, where we highlight some of The Lever’s original reporting and speak with the journalists w...
INSIDE THE STORY: Leonard Leo’s Latest Supreme Court Play
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This mini-episode is part of our Lever News series, where we highlight some of The Lever’s original reporting and speak with the journalists who wro...
The Scientific Breakthrough That Could End Climate Change
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Lever Time: In light of the recent breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology, David Sirota sits down with UK plasma physic...
Why Biden Betrayed Railroad Workers
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Lever Time: David Sirota is joined by New York Times global economics correspondent Peter S. Goodman to explore why Presid...
How To Be Funny In 2022 (w/ David Cross)
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Lever Time: Andrew Perez sits down with Lindsay Owens, executive director of the progressive think tank Groundwork Collabo...
Ticketmaster’s Monopoly vs. Taylor Swift Fans
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Lever Time: David Sirota discusses one of the country’s first-ever dark money disclosure laws passed during the recent m...
Tales From The Crypto
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Lever Time: Progressive candidates win big! First, Producer Frank chats with The Lever’s Jordan Uhl about his takeaways ...
The Midterm Shellacking That Never Was (w/ Krystal Ball)
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Lever Time: It’s the day after the midterm elections! David Sirota and The Lever’s entire reporting staff break down a...
BONUS: Live From Pennsylvania — It’s The 2022 Midterms!
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this bonus episode of Lever Time: David Sirota is on the campaign trail tracking key Pennsylvania races in the lead-up to next week’s midterms. F...
The Battle To End Dark Money (w/ Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse)
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Lever Time: David Sirota is joined by Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, who also serves as the chair of the Democ...
Midterm Breakdown (w/ Chris Hayes)
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Lever Time: David Sirota is joined by MSNBC host Chris Hayes for a deep-dive discussion on this year’s midterm elections...
Meet Wall Street’s Most Corrupt Senate Candidate
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Lever Time: David Sirota is joined by The Lever’s reporters Julia Rock and Rebecca Burns to discuss recent news, includi...
Biden's Marijuana Plan: The Good, The Bad, And The Corporate Interests
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Lever Time: On this week’s episode of Lever Time Premium: Joel Warner speaks with attorney and drug policy expert Shalee...
Billionaires Are Preparing For The Apocalypse — And You’re Not Invited (w/ Douglas Rushkoff)
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Lever Time: David is joined by comedian Dave Anthony and screenwriter Josh Olson, hosts of the Lever’s new “educationa...
Dems' Broken Pipe(line) Dreams (w/ Sen. Brian Schatz)
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Lever Time: David Sirota is joined by Andrew Perez and Jacobin staff writer Luke Savage to analyze a moment of open corrup...
Ron DeSantis' Worst Nightmare (w/ Charlie Crist)
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Lever Time: David is joined by New York Times’ global economics correspondent Peter S. Goodman and Labor Notes reporter ...
The NFL Is A Political Weapon (w/ Dave Zirin)
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Lever Time: David Sirota is joined by The Lever’s Andrew Perez and ProPublica’s Andy Kroll, who break down their follo...
Amazon And Starbucks Finally Feel The Heat
07 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Lever Time Premium: David Sirota discusses Joe Biden’s recent comments on what he considers the biggest threat to Americ...
“Let Them Eat Student Debt” (w/ Astra Taylor & Marshall Steinbaum)
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Lever Time: David Sirota is joined by The Lever’s Andrew Perez and Matthew Cunningham-Cook to discuss Joe Biden’s stud...
Exposing The Biggest Political Donation In U.S. History
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Lever Time: David Sirota breaks down The Lever’s blockbuster story detailing the largest political donation in U.S. hist...
Who Fact Checks The Fact Checkers?
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Lever Time: David Sirota and Andrew Perez discuss Andrew’s recent investigative reporting on the Washington Post’s fac...
Who Do Democrats Actually Work For?
10 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Lever Time Premium: The Lever’s staff discuss the Democratic party’s favorite constituents: the Private Equity industr...
This One Election Could End Democracy (also, Susan Sarandon On Being Liberals' Scapegoat)
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Lever Time: David speaks with New York Times columnist David Wallace-Wells about the strengths and weaknesses of Democrats...
How Corporations Can Put You In Jail (w/ Steven Donziger)
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Lever Time Premium: In the midst of a global heatwave, David discusses Biden’s pattern of inaction (2:20). Next, David s...
Chris Smalls Is Having A #HotLaborSummer (w/ Chris Smalls)
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Lever Time: David speaks with historian Harvey Kaye and journalist Robert Kuttner about how Joe Biden will need to “go b...
How America Legalized Corruption
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Lever Time: David speaks with Democratic strategist Mark Longabaugh about what a potential Biden 2024 presidential run cou...
The Man Who Bought The Supreme Court
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After this past week’s barrage of devastating Supreme Court decisions, we’re doing a SCOTUS deep-dive. First, David is joined by The Lever’s And...
The Social Security Chopping Block
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Lever Time: David speaks with Alex Lawson, the executive director of Social Security Works, to discuss Lindsey Graham’s ...
The Fed Hates You
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Lever Time: David exposes the major problem with the January 6 hearings and how they may result in a better outcome for Re...
America’s Top Gun Problem
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Lever Time: David is joined by author and professor Roger Stahl to discuss the “military-entertainment complex” as it ...
There's No Duty To Protect (also, Judd Apatow on George Carlin)
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On the inaugural episode of Lever Time, David speaks with civil rights lawyer and founder of Civil Rights Corps, Alec Karakatsanis, about how police i...
Trailer: Lever Time with David Sirota
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Coming soon — it's Lever Time! Hosted by award-winning journalist David Sirota, Lever Time is the flagship podcast from the investigative news outle...