This week we discuss new federal oil lease sales in Alaska, new hate speech by federal officials outside Alaska, and how the SAVE Act would be a possible unconstitutional return of poll taxes to Alaska. Rachel also presents John with an especially difficult version of “Who Said It”, our weekly quiz game.

This week, we review one way the Constitution might stymie Trump's attempt to save the SAVE Act. The negative side of high oil prices for Alaska, the appearance of clown shoes in the White House, and more.

This week we consider some possible economic effects on Alaska due to the U.S.-Iran conflict. We also look at how the Constitution structured similar conflicts early in U.S. history, and we review more strange statements made by the Trump administration.

Join us this week as we review how the SAVE Act would affect Alaska especially hard and how the 19th Amendment will likely be no protection for women’s voting rights. We also play another round of 'Who said It?”.

For this show we review the gains and losses in federal funding for rural healthcare, recent ICE arrests in Soldotna, and how the US Constitution’s Progress Clause means for Alaska. We also review some of the stranger things said by some of the nation’s leaders.

In this episode we discuss likely consequences of the DHS shutdown and of the Trump administration’s decision to pretend that global warming is not real. We also discuss the Constitution’s Speech and Debate Clause and laugh about some of the weirder public statements of the past week.

In addition to how the Trump administration is affecting Alaska’s ferry system and Scouting America, we look at how ICE enforcement is affecting immigrant and refugees in Alaska and how ICE might play a role in the conduct of the mid-term elections in light of the Constitution’s elections clause.

This week we review reductions in federal childcare support, a possible reduction in defense contracts for Native corporations, and a presidential threat to decertify Canadian-made aircraft. We also play “Who said it?” and read the Constitution’s Indian Commerce Clause.