Hard-edged analysis beyond the headline cycle.
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp tracks the news cycle from a strongly skeptical, anti-communist, pro-investigative angle. Episodes move quickly across Trump legal battles, Iran tensions, election rules, immigration enforcement, media credibility, and Chinese Communist Party influence claims.
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Crossroads with Joshua Philipp presents U.S. politics as a connected web of legal fights, foreign threats, censorship battles, and institutional maneuvering. It is not a calm headline briefing. The show moves with urgency, stacking several major stories at the top before drilling into the implications of each one. Trump’s executive actions, possible pardons, Iran policy, military deployments, election integrity, birthright citizenship, and ICE enforcement all appear as recurring pressure points. The Middle East coverage is especially forceful, with attention to the Strait of Hormuz, uranium, U.S. troop presence, ground-operation speculation, and possible retaliation from Iran. Domestic segments often center on whether government agencies, courts, states, or media institutions are overreaching. The show repeatedly argues that censorship and media gatekeeping have shaped public understanding of COVID-19 origins, Jan. 6, Trump-Russia claims, and investigations into powerful groups. It treats investigative journalism as both necessary and vulnerable. The Chinese Communist Party is another major throughline. Episodes discuss CCP-linked influence, United Front work, protests, the United Nations, American elections, technology, and transnational repression. The register is conversational and sometimes sardonic. A recycling-ID comparison becomes an argument about voter ID. A strange claim about alien-human hybrid programs becomes a moment of incredulous media analysis. The show also draws on the speaker’s own past reporting, including references to investigations in New York involving Chinese spy networks, front organizations, Falun Gong practitioners, house Christians, democracy activists, and local political figures. It is strongly opinionated. It is also highly topical, often responding to live controversies with legal, political, and historical framing. Listeners looking for detached institutional balance may find it too pointed. Listeners who want populist, anti-communist, pro-investigative commentary on U.S. politics and global power struggles will understand its appeal quickly.
Made for: Best for politically engaged listeners who want assertive U.S. politics analysis, anti-communist framing, and skeptical coverage of media, courts, elections, and federal power.
What sets it apart: The show blends rapid daily-news pacing with long-running investigative themes around censorship, CCP influence, election integrity, and institutional credibility. It favors argument and connective tissue over neutral summary.
It's easy to get lost in the daily news cycle, with its constant barrage of headlines and updates. What's often missing, however, is a broader and deeper analysis of what’s behind the headlines. Crossroads, hosted by Epoch Times senior investigative reporter Joshua Philipp, is an opinion and analysis show that presents deeper insights into the news cycle, culture, and society. It connects current events with history, ties various news stories together with analysis and opinion, and goes beyond the headlines to present a clearer picture of what’s happening in the world
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Joshua Philipp connects political headlines to the laws, incentives and institutional conflicts underneath them, with particular attention to elections, China and government power.
Joshua Philipp builds Crossroads as a fast-moving solo briefing, moving from a headline into the legal language, institutional choices and political assumptions underneath it.
Ballots, airport security, and alien breeding programs share one news desk; you decide if that's your tempo.
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Possible Trump pardons lead Philipp to question whether his criticism of censorship applies across administrations.
Joshua Philipp opens with the possibility of preemptive pardons for people around Trump, then turns to how Republicans and Democrats describe justice as weaponized. He also brings up US oil ambitions and the Strait of Hormuz.
The host connects current allegations with his account of investigating alleged CCP activity in New York.
The host moves from allegations of Chinese Communist Party influence around protests in America and at the United Nations to an undercover reporting group's claims about voter registration in Los Angeles.
A Riverside County ballot inquiry leads the host to a voter ID argument built around Connecticut's recycling rule.
The host begins in Riverside County, where he says police seized over half a million ballots during an investigation into possible fraud in a local Proposition 50 vote.
The host takes on broadcast licensing, then turns to his concerns about media power and China.
The host opens with a warning that major news networks could lose their broadcast licenses over fake-news allegations. He says the FCC is threatening outlets it believes have failed to serve the public interest, then previews what he describes as a terrorism-trial verdict…
Joshua Phillip discusses potential US strikes on Mexican cartels, cartel drone tactics, and Texas designating Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as terrorist organizations, while promoting his documentary on Charlie Kirk.
The episode discusses the US designation of four Antifa branches as foreign terrorist organizations, FBI negotiations with China on fentanyl, and revocation of CDLs for illegal aliens in California.
The episode covers SNAP fraud, Venezuelan cartels designated as terrorist organizations, and Canadians pressured into assisted suicide, with a focus on promoting a documentary about Charlie Kirk.
Joshua Phillip discusses rumors of a Bush family political comeback, mass migration as an existential threat, and Democratic lawmakers' call to defy orders as potential sedition.
Crossroads host Joshua Philipp examines Trump's “enemy from within” remarks, a partial federal shutdown, commercial-driver licenses, and prescription prices.
President Trump considers preemptive pardons for administration officials and discusses US oil dominance and Iran tensions.
Discussion of potential ongoing US presence in Iran deal, Colorado lawyers facing charges for cooperating with ICE, and debate over sending welfare money abroad.
The episode discusses potential US military strikes on Iran, a government shutdown, and Chinese cognitive warfare.
President Trump signs an executive order on election integrity while the Supreme Court considers birthright citizenship, and the U.K.
The episode discusses the deployment of over 50,000 US troops in the Middle East and unconfirmed reports of Trump considering military action to seize Iran's uranium and other assets.
Fox News Digital says the Neville Roy Singham network spans about 2,000 organizations, with 223 transactions moving $591 million from 2017 through 2025.
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco says 650,000 ballots from Proposition 50 were seized and counted against the tally.
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp centers on the FCC warning that broadcasters could lose licenses if they keep running what Brandon Carr called "fake news" content, with Donald Trump’s Truth Social post and Gallup’s 9% media-trust figure used as context.
The episode covers the FBI's crackdown on the 764 child abuse and extortion ring, Trump's investigation into foreign price fixing in the food market, and a dispute with Mexico over water rights.