Zipcode Zero
Trying to understand the world by talking to those living in it. Politics, history, culture and life stuff. Hosted by Kevin Maley.
Episodes
34 episodes
The State of U.S. Foreign Policy with Connor Echols
Connor Echols is the managing editor of NonZero. Connor came to NonZero by way of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, where he worked as a reporter covering global conflicts, the arms trade, and other fun stuff. His work has also a...
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Episode 34
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1:08:30
Five Reasons the Democrats Lost
Donald Trump and the Republican Party pulled off a pretty remarkable win on Tuesday. Not only did Trump sweep almost every swing state and clinch a popular vote win, he made substantial gains or outright victories with almost every demographic ...
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Episode 33
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1:02:47
Election Special with Michael Baharaeen
Michael Baharaeen is the chief political analyst at The Liberal Patriot Substack as well as writer of the Checks and Balances Substack. He's recently published two posts on things to look out for this election, including major trends and key ra...
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Episode 32
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1:04:20
Gaza, Israel and the United States - with Zachary Foster
Dr. Zachary Foster is a historian of Palestine, having gotten his PhD in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He’s a distinguished fellow at the Rutgers Center for Security, Race and Rights. He also runs the PalestineNexus.com, which o...
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Episode 31
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1:19:26
Sean Dempsey Returns! A libertarian perspective on the election
Sean Dempsey is an acclaimed author, entrepreneur and Libertarian Party activist. In this conversation, Sean Dempsey discusses his background in the Libertarian Party, his views on the current political landscape, and the moral fra...
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Episode 30
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1:41:48
State of the Race(s) with Clinton Friedrichs
Clinton Friedrichs is a former Republican Hill staffer who worked for Representative Will Hurt (R-TX), Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and Senator Deb Fischer (R-NE). He joins Zipcode Zero to talk about his perspective on the presidential and down b...
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Episode 29
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52:54
All About Germany with James Hawes
The Federal Republic of Germany is a country with a long and rich history. It’s a country that is best known in the West as central to the dominant geopolitical struggles of the 20th century – namely the two World Wars and the Cold War. T...
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Episode 28
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1:20:13
Tim Walz and the state of Presidential Politics with Michael Baharaeen
Yesterday Minnesota governor Tim Walz was announced as Kamala Harris’s running mate for the Democratic ticket in the 2024 presidential election. To discuss that pick, and the state of the race, I’m joined today by Michael Baharaeen,...
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Episode 27
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58:55
Presidential Debate Special with Sean Dempsey
Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden. Who will win?Sean Dempsey is dedicated libertarian stalwart and party member from the great state of New Hampshire. As a stalwart leftist (me) and dedicated libertarian (Sean) we breakdown the first 2024 pres...
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Episode 26
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1:57:36
The New York Times' W.J. Hennigan on the Risk of Nuclear War
“Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longa be habitable. Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any m...
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Episode 25
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57:33
Ryan Grim on "The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution"
Today’s guest is Ryan Grim, author of the new book “The Squad – AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution”. Ryan Grim is the Intercept’s Washington bureau chief and cohost of the show Counter Points. He was pr...
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Episode 24
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On Israel and Palestine with Historian Zach Foster
We’re now in two months of the Israel-Gaza War and after a brief ceasefire, the fighting has erupted again. I think its hard to understand this current conflict without understanding the history of Israel and Palestine,...
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Episode 23
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1:19:55
U.S. Foreign Policy with Matt Duss
Foreign policy is all over the news these days as wars rage from The Middle East to Eastern Europe. To help get a better sense of those issues, as well as what a better, more values based U.S. Foreign Policy could look like, I am joined today b...
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Episode 22
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45:33
On Politics and America with Congressman Mike Capuano
Today’s guest is former Congressman Mike Capuano, who represented Massachuetts’s 7th Congressional District from 1999 to 2019. I pick Mike’s brain on a wide range of issues, including, of course, Israel and Gaza, Ukraine, what he th...
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Episode 21
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54:19
On Liberals and Liberalism Robert Kuttner
In an economy with steady growth, low unemployment and core inflation down to 3.2%, why do so many Americans say that the Biden Administration has left them worse off economically? How is Trump winning or tied with voters under 30? <...
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Episode 20
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55:28
How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement with Freddie deBoer
Over the last decade we’ve seen the rise of a wide range of social justice movements, from Occupy Wall Street to Me Too to Black Lives Matter. Where are those movements now and what impact have they had? In his new book “How the Eli...
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Episode 19
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52:26
A View from the West Bank with Dalia Hatuqa
On October 7, Israel suffered a brutal attack as Hamas militants from Gaza rampaged across the south, massacring up to 1,500 Jews and taking 200 more captive.Israel’s response has been to unleash a massive bombing campaign on the G...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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The State of Republican Politics with Taylor Svehlak
While all eyes were on Congress this week, the Republican presidential primary continued to unfold across the country. I’ve found that primary a little bizarre and a little boring – especially the last debate. With Trump ahead by 40 or 50 point...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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52:01
Covering U.S. Foreign Policy with Liam Cosgrove
Liam Cosgrove is a DC-based correspondent for The Grayzone, an independent news website dedicated to original investigative journalism and analysis on politics and empire. With much of the mainstream media being pretty aggressively ...
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Episode 16
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53:50
Labor, Class and Politics with Michael Valdes
Michael Valdes is an IBEW Journey Level Inside Wireman. He joins the show to talk about the UAW strike, class issues in America, how politicians of both sides view the working class generally and labor unions in particular, and what gives him h...
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Episode 15
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1:20:35
Purpose and Pain with Jasmine Pettross
In her book "Faith Defeated My Pain" , J...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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51:52
Understanding UAPs with Robert Powell
Robert Powell is a co-founder of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, a non-profit, in September 2017. The purpose of the organization is the scientific study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. Affiliation with the organization is open to a...
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The Unraveling Covid Consensus with Dr. Justin Kinney and Dr. Yanna Lambrinidou
Justin B. Kinney is an Associate Professor in the Simons Center for Quantitative Biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He received a Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University in 2008, is a co-author on >40 journal articles, and serves a...
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1:09:51
Where Things Stand in Ukraine with George Beebe
George Beebe spent more than two decades in government as an intelligence analyst, diplomat, and policy advisor, including as director of the CIA’s Russia analysis, director of the CIA’s Open Source Center, and as a staff advisor on Russia matt...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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1:01:38
Welcome to the Gun Show with Taylor Svehlak
A fierce proponent of the right to keep and bear arms, Taylor Svehlak is a longtime gun-rights advocate, and briefly served as Director of Communications for a three-letter pro-gun advocacy group (not that one). In his spare time he is also an ...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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