Too Much Information with Abe and Traci

Those fringe conspiracy theories that your conservative uncle spouts at holiday meals? Turns out they're not so fringe-y. Traci and Abe dig into new data on the prevalence of conservative ideas. Read more

Is "agnotology" -- the deliberate, cultural creation of ignorance -- at play in the issue of gun violence in the United States? Traci and Abe take your calls. Read more

Thus far, progressive candidates are coming up big in the midterm primaries all over the country. What does it bode for November, and for the larger project of progressivism? Also -- it seems that new-fangled digital blockchain currencies are subject to wildly volatile pric... Read more

This weekend, a white nationalist opened fire in a Buffalo, N.Y. grocery store, killing 10 people and injuring three others -- almost all of them black. His motive, as outlined in the now-ubiquitous online manifesto? The great replacement theory, which you can hear about ea... Read more

Portland's Charter Review Commission has completed its every-ten-years analysis of our city's form of government, and has referred a set of recommendations to voters. Just what will be on the ballot? A massive overhaul of how things are done in the Rose City. Commission mem... Read more

A New York Times series digs deep into how Fox News' Tucker Carlson has played on white grievance and nationalism to turn his Fox News show into the most successful on cable TV -- and into a threat to democracy that we're only beginning to understand. Traci and Abe take you... Read more

Elon Musk has put together a $47 billion bid -- yes, you read that correctly -- to purchase Twitter and take the social media corporation private. While the sample size for billionaires owning social media companies is admittedly small, the outcomes have been universally ba... Read more

2021 saw record levels of gun violence in Portland. 2022 is on pace to eclipse that ignominious mark. What's going on? The pandemic? The polarizaion? The whiteness? All of the above? Traci takes your calls. Read more

You've probably heard a great deal about inflation -- and you've probably noticed it, too. But here's what you need to know: Why are corporations raising their prices? Because they can. Traci and Abe take your calls. Read more