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FROM THE INSIDE OUT by BETH ARNOLD
Politics gets personal. So does everything else.
I’m Beth Arnold, a writer, lifelong liberal, and Southern woman thinking out loud about America—and the world beyond it. Drawn from my Substack, From the Inside Out, these audio essays connect the headlines to the lives we actually live: our families, our freedoms, our memories, and the values we choose to stand for.
Here, politics shares the table with culture, women’s lives, Southern food, travel, and personal history. Expect strong opinions…
Episodes
- FROM THE INSIDE OUT by BETH ARNOLD
#65 THE RECKONING
What happens when the people we claim to be can no longer be reconciled with the things we’re willing to support? In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a boy…
- FROM THE INSIDE OUT by BETH ARNOLD
#64 OBAMA'S BIG BANG IN FRANCE REVISITED
For one extraordinary night, America gave the world hope. On November 4, 2008, I was on the streets of Paris, covering Barack Obama’s election for HuffPost…
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INTERVIEW: DR. ANNIE ANDREWS - WE CAN END THE MADNESS NOW
Dr. Annie Andrews is one of five Southern Democrats running for the Senate in 2026 WHEN I LIVED in France, George W. Bush was elected for the second absurd…
- FROM THE INSIDE OUT by BETH ARNOLD
#62 THE POLITICAL YEAR OF THE WOMAN
Will The Democrats Come Through? Southern women are running some of the most consequential races in America—and once again, much of the national political…
- FROM THE INSIDE OUT by BETH ARNOLD
#61 THE LAST GASP OF SUMMER
More Southern Food for Thought Summer may be taking its last gasp, but down South, there’s still okra to roast, tomatoes to slice, storms to watch—and Donald…
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#60 WHAT DOES AMERICA STILL PROMISE
What if the most important thing we need to remember right now is that we still have power? A Modern Declaration began with a question I couldn’t shake: What…
- FROM THE INSIDE OUT by BETH ARNOLD
#59 GLORIA STEINEM
Now Our Minds Are One That is the Gloria I wanted to write about. Not the icon frozen on magazine covers. Not the list of accomplishments we all know. But the…
- FROM THE INSIDE OUT by BETH ARNOLD
#58 THE TIBET-NEPAL CROSSING
This one is personal for me. I’ve crossed this border. I know something of the landscape and the people who live there. And what happened in Tibet and…
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#57 ANNIE vs. DARLINE- THE POLITICS OF POWEIR
The Politics of Power The race is set: Annie Andrews vs. Darline Graham Nordone for the United States Senate. Darline won South Carolina’s Republican runoff…
- FROM THE INSIDE OUT by BETH ARNOLD
INTERVIEW WITH MARIANNE THORNE: AMERICANS DON'T KNOW SH*T ABOUT SOCIALISM
Interview with Danish Economist Marianne Thorn Last week, I republished Marianne Thorn’s piece about what Americans get wrong when they call Denmark socialist…
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#56 AMERICANS BEHAVE LIKE A BULL IN A CHINA SHOP
When they call Denmark socialist – it is insulting and misinformation and only illustrates your ignorance. Earlier today, I republished a piece by Marianne…
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#55 THE REAL WELFARE QUEENS
For decades, the myth of the “Welfare Queen” has been used to make Americans despise poor people—especially Black women—while billionaires quietly collect…
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#54 WHERE IS MARTHA MITCHELL WHEN YOU NEED HER
Martha Mitchell had a blonde bouffant, white cat-eye sunglasses, a telephone, and absolutely no intention of keeping her mouth shut. Washington was still a…
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#53 THE TRUMP RUNGS OF HELL
How Trump and His Collaborators Descended from Appetite to Treachery Pull up a chair. I’m Beth Arnold, and this is the audio edition of The Trump Rungs of…
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#52 THIS IS A MOMENT FOR AMERICA TO STORM OUR BASTILLE
Lindsey Graham’s death was shocking. And I don’t mean this without respect…it was also liberating. His absence has rattled the GOP in South Carolina and…
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#51 SUMMERTIME…AND THE LIVIN’ IS HOT AS HELL
There’s a particular kind of Southern summer that lives in the body forever. The fogged windows. The wall of humidity at the back door. The watermelon and…
- FROM THE INSIDE OUT by BETH ARNOLD
#50 A MODERN DECLARATION
A republic doesn’t usually die all at once. It is weakened by lies. Excused by courts. Sold by cowards. Captured by wealth. Sanctified by false prophets. Made…
- FROM THE INSIDE OUT by BETH ARNOLD
#49 THE UNFINISHED REVOLUTION
My grandson and I read about King George, Paul Revere, and the Swamp Fox. Then I looked up from the children’s books and saw the old American fight staring…
- FROM THE INSIDE OUT by BETH ARNOLD
#48 THE BROLIGARCHS MEET THE LAW
Zuckerberg built the addiction machine. Musk turned Twitter into a sewer. Now Europe is asking why billionaires should be allowed to break the world. For…
- FROM THE INSIDE OUT by BETH ARNOLD
#47 CRIMINALITY AS CREDENTIAL
Trump’s pardons are a map of what he values I started with Trump’s pardon of former Republican congressman Stephen Buyer, but the more I looked, the clearer…
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#46 WATERGATE DIDN'T STOP THE LAWLESS PRESIDENCY
It taught the powerful how to come back stronger I was glad when Nixon resigned. We all were. The Watergate hearings began during my second summer working for…
- FROM THE INSIDE OUT by BETH ARNOLD
INTZERVIEW WITH: JO-ANN MORGAN - ART REFUSES TO LOOK AWAY
This is my first interview for From the Inside Out, and I could not have asked for a better guest than artist and scholar Jo-Ann Morgan. Jo-Ann is the artist…
- FROM THE INSIDE OUT by BETH ARNOLD
#45 KUMBAYAH, DEMOCRATS
Pour yourself a glass of bourbon and come together What if Democrats are losing people not because voters don’t care—but because too many no longer believe the…
- FROM THE INSIDE OUT by BETH ARNOLD
#44 WHEN THE EVIDENCE LIES
What happens when surveillance no longer records reality…but rewrites it? What happens when the camera can no longer be trusted? In this audio companion to…
- FROM THE INSIDE OUT by BETH ARNOLD
#43 ANTIRACISM VS. RACISM
In this audio version of “MAKING RACISM OFFICIAL AGAIN,” I read aloud my argument that the Trump administration’s assault on voting rights, civil rights…
- FROM THE INSIDE OUT by BETH ARNOLD
# 42 SPEND MONEY, SPEAK OUT, STAND UP: A Crisis in Journalism
This piece began with the strange, chaotic scene at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner—but it became something larger: a look at what happens when…
- FROM THE INSIDE OUT by BETH ARNOLD
#41 ART AS ACTIVISM: “The Mourning After”
What can art do when the world is breaking? In this audio reading of ART AS ACTIVISM: “The Mourning After,” I explore Jo-Ann Morgan’s unforgettable quilt…
- FROM THE INSIDE OUT by BETH ARNOLD
#40 THE WORM TURNED
The worm has turned. After years of corruption, Viktor Orbán has been defeated—and the shockwaves are already moving far beyond Hungary. The illusion of…
- FROM THE INSIDE OUT by BETH ARNOLD
#39 THE COLLABORATIONISTS
The line that held—and the one that didn’t I was raised to believe that character mattered—that there was a line you didn’t cross, no matter the cost. In this…