The Abe and Joe Talk Radio Show

It's Election Day, Portland. Vote, dammit! Abe and Joe run down the measures in the May ballot. Plus -- same-sex marriage comes to Oregon to stay! Read more

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It's election season again. On the May ballot is a measure that would take Portland's publicly administered water and sewer system and create a new water/sewer district which would be ... publicly administered. Abe and Joe dissect the measure and discuss the arguments for a... Read more

“We’re seeing inequalities that will be transferred across generations," Paul Krugman said recently to Bill Moyers. "We are becoming very much the kind of society we imagined we’re nothing like.” The reason? Capitalism. Read more

President Obama has built upon his predecessors' proclivity to use the federal government to remove undocumented immigrants from the country. He is, in fact, setting a new bar for deportations -- but most of those deported don't resemble the hardened criminals the administr... Read more

When you're a nation with an enormous military apparatus, the problem is that there are always people looking for reasons to use it. In 2013, the United States nearly intervened in the Syrian civil war, but in a strange sequence of events, backed off at the last minute. A n... Read more

This just in -- human activity is warming the planet, and the effects are already being felt. And it's worse than you thought. A new U.N. report details exactly what's going on, and how it will impact all of us. Abe and Joe dig through the report and take your calls on this... Read more

Joe Uris solo hosts today. He'll be asking for calls from women listeners on this question, "What do you think is the most important issue facing us today?" Also, if the Supreme Court weighs in on McCutcheon v. FEC before the show, Joe will address the issue of the expansi... Read more

As the Russian-speaking majority in the Crimea votes for independence from Ukraine -- backed up by Russian troops -- the West has responded with aggressive rhetoric and and a slate of economic sanctions. The situation begs an obvious question: Are we looking at a new Cold W... Read more