Scott Harris, Melinda Tuhus and Bob Nixon
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Progressive politics with a legal edge.
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine delivers compact, argument-driven coverage of national and international politics. Its recent episodes center on U.S. and Israeli action in Iran, nuclear risk, civil liberties, immigration enforcement, health care, and democracy under pressure.
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Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine is a weekly political news program shaped by a progressive, internationalist view of the world. It is brisk but not casual. The format favors a news-summary opening followed by interviews that give each episode a legal, historical, or activist frame. Recent installments have focused heavily on U.S. and Israeli war with Iran. The show treats that conflict as a test of international law, nuclear restraint, civilian protection, and democratic accountability. Guests discuss whether Iran has strategic leverage, whether U.S. military options are credible, how nuclear escalation could follow from attacks, and why ordinary Iranians, including regime opponents, suffer under war. The program’s vocabulary is direct. It names aggression, illegality, authoritarianism, criminalization of dissent, and the erosion of rights without pretending those are merely competing campaign narratives. Its domestic coverage follows the same pattern. Episodes connect Trump administration policy to free speech prosecutions, immigration detention, Palestinian rights activism, civil rights reversals, health insurance costs, climate regulation, and expanded executive power. The show also ranges outward to Ukraine, Sudan, Cuba, Venezuela, Taiwan, Syria, Libya, Ecuador, and AIDS treatment funding. That breadth gives it the feel of a radio newsmagazine rather than a single-issue commentary program. Still, the governing question stays consistent: who holds power, who pays for it, and what legal or civic checks remain. Scott Harris appears in the segments and transitions. The interviews are not framed as entertainment. They are used as evidence, context, and warning. Listeners should expect a grave tone, long factual setups, and an openly critical stance toward Donald Trump, U.S. military policy, Israeli government actions, and corporate or state institutions that the program sees as complicit. It is best suited to people who want progressive analysis with little small talk and a strong emphasis on war, rights, inequality, and public accountability.
Made for: For listeners who want serious progressive analysis of international conflict, U.S. power, civil liberties, democracy, and social justice. It suits people who prefer structured briefings and expert interviews over conversational punditry.
What sets it apart: The show combines a radio newsmagazine structure with a persistent law-and-power frame, using interviews as supporting evidence for a clearly argued political reading of the week. Its recent coverage is especially focused on war, nuclear risk, dissent, and the civilian consequences hidden behind official claims.
Between The Lines is a weekly syndicated half-hour radio newsmagazine featuring progressive perspectives on national and international political, economic and social issues. Since 1991, Between The Lines has provided in-depth, timely analysis on a wide range of political, economic and social issues including: increasing disparity in wealth in the U.S.; the crisis in the U.S. health care system; international grassroots mobilization to confront global climate change; racism permeating the prison industrial complex; and efforts to repair flaws in the U.S. electoral system.In recent years, our coverage has raised the alarm about Donald Trump and the Republican party’s o...
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Scott Harris pairs progressive scrutiny with informed guests who connect government decisions to their legal, strategic and human consequences.
Scott Harris gives each edition a clear architecture: a summary of underreported stories followed by three guest interviews. The approach is openly progressive, with questions aimed at the legal basis, institutional conduct and human consequences behind government decisions.
Three interviews and underreported headlines make your doomscroll look badly under-researched.
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A direct foreign-policy briefing on a costly war with few obvious exits.
This episode treats the Iran conflict as a hard question of cost, power, and political limits. It begins with a quick roundup of underreported news, then turns to Matthew Ho, who argues that Iran has the upper hand in a costly war of choice launched by the U.S.
A sharp political hour that connects Iran, Sudan, and Cuba through power, harm, and consequence.
The hour uses the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran as a way into a wider account of power, civilian harm, and political fallout. Raeed Jarar's clearest argument is the line from Trump’s unilateral break with the JCPOA to the conflict now unfolding, and the hour keeps that thread intact…
A hard-edged briefing on Iran, Libya, and dissent, with little patience for official excuses.
Between The Lines frames the war against Iran as a case of aggression backed by legal cover and political self-deception, and it never pretends otherwise.
A direct foreign-policy segment that combines a news roundup with Craig Moekeiber's critique of the war on Iran and international law.
Between The Lines frames Craig Moekeiber's argument that the U.S. and Israel's war on Iran is further eroding international law, and it pairs that conversation with a roundup of underreported news.
Between the Lines Radio Newsmagazine examines William LeoGrande's account of U.S.
This episode analyzes the impact of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran on average citizens, including regime opponents, and covers related topics like nuclear war threats and women's rights.
Between the Lines opens with a tight roundup of underreported news before moving to the costly war in Iran involving the U.S.
The hour opens with underreported news, then moves into Ecuador’s debt pressure and fragile high-altitude rainforest before turning to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran through an interview with Raeed Jarar.
Between the Lines opens with underreported news stories.
The program opens with a roundup of underreported news before moving to a central interview on the war against Iran.
This episode covers underreported news stories, the Ukraine war, immigrant detention camps, and racial justice under the Trump administration.
This episode covers underreported news stories and interviews on healthcare costs, Trump's cognitive decline, and a Columbia student's legal case against ICE.
This episode covers underreported news stories and features interviews on Trump's military actions, Supreme Court executive power, and youth incarceration reform.
This episode covers under-reported news on climate lobbying, interviews on single-payer healthcare, homelessness policy, and COP30 outcomes.
This episode covers the flaws in the Gaza ceasefire agreement, the Louisiana v.
This episode covers underreported news stories and interviews on Trump's Insurrection Act threat, government shutdown impacts, and Ladakh autonomy movement.
This episode covers the health care impact of Trump's budget, ICE funding, and the status of Stop Cop City cases, along with a skeptical look at a Congo peace deal.
This episode covers underreported news, including a conviction in El Salvador, and features analysis on Trump's Iran policy, a Gaza hunger strike, and Democratic Party strategy.
A weekly progressive newsmagazine covering under-reported stories and interviews on political, economic, and social issues.
This episode covers challenges to Trump's birthright citizenship order, a report on Trump's harm to workers, a union strike, and under-reported news including a drone strike on Chernobyl.
This episode covers underreported news, including the halt of Agent Orange cleanup in Vietnam, and features interviews on Gaza blockade, Trump's first 100 days, and a campaign against Elon Musk's polluting data center.