Politics This Week
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss the ways in which Rhode Island politicians are making things political that shouldn’t be, and not doing so for things that should be.
John DePetro and Justin Katz take on unprecedented developments in RI government and politics.
John and Justin talk about several ways in which Rhode Island’s political elite is trying to control how things appear (and what sort of politics the people are permitted to have).
John DePetro and Justin Katz talk about the politics of the day, with things that should be easy proving difficult and things that would have to be difficult being passed off as easy.
Critical race theory is all the rage, and John DePetro and Justin Katz worry about RI government efforts to stoke it into conflict.
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss how everything is becoming political narrative, not serving and protecting the people, in Rhode Island.
More and more, it appears that the way a story is covered by the media and addressed by government officials depends most on the skin color of the people involved, as John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss.
From a U.S. Senator to the news media to a local school committee, Rhode Islanders’ trust is slipping, but John DePetro and Justin Katz aren’t sure it’s enough to bring change.
This week, John and Justin discuss the special interests who get special privileges in the Ocean State.
This week, John and Justin discuss homelessness, gun crime, and the common theme that activists and politicians don’t want to touch the real problems behind them both.
