The Tony Michaels Podcast
The Tony Michaels Podcast is no longer publishing new episodes. Regular publication ended in July 2026, and this feed remains online as an archive of more than 1,100 episodes about American politics, constitutional accountability, concentrated power, democracy and working people.
Tony Michaels now creates Five Minutes in America, a weekday radio and podcast storytelling series, and Along the Way, a weekly program about personal growth, citizenship and building a meaningful life. Both are published by The Coffman Chronicle.
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Along the Way is also published by The Coffman Chronicle.
The Tony Michaels Podcast
The Foreman Looked Away
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When the rules apply to some people but not others, trust begins to break.
Today’s Opening Argument starts on a factory floor, where one worker watches a simple safety rule become optional for someone with the right connection. But the lesson is bigger than one workplace.
A republic can survive hard rules.
What it cannot survive is selective rules.
When power starts handing out exceptions to the connected, ordinary Americans learn that justice has become negotiable.
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