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Confronting Capitalism: The Golden Age of Social Democracy
After World War II, political parties championing redistribution, full employment, and egalitarianism gained power across the globe, especially in Western Europe. But why did these social democrats g…
Published on 5 hours ago
Behind the News: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature w/ Alyssa Battistoni
Thea Riofrancos, author of Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism, looks at the complications of using lithium batteries to green our future. Alyssa Battistoni, author of Free Gifts, examines …
Published on 1 day, 2 hours ago
The Dig: NYC and the Hegemonic Project
Featuring Sumaya Awad, Sumathy Kumar, and Nathan Gusdorf on building power on the ground as our allies exercise it from above in the service of a larger hegemonic project to transform the United Stat…
Published on 2 days, 21 hours ago
Long Reads: Western Sahara’s Struggle for Freedom w/ Jacob Mundy (Part 1)
The occupation of Western Sahara by Morocco has now lasted for half a century. The anniversary of the invasion passed at the beginning of November. It came just as the Trump administration was workin…
Published on 5 days, 23 hours ago
Jacobin Radio: The Least Unjust Peace in Ukraine? w/ Oleksandr Kyselov
Suzi talks to Oleksandr Kyselov and Alyssa Oursler about what’s being sold to the world as “peace” in Ukraine, and what it looks like from the standpoint of Ukrainians who are actually living through…
Published on 1 week, 1 day ago
Behind the News: Trump’s Militaristic Master Plan w/ Anatol Lieven
Anatol Lieven of the Quincy Institute analyzes Trump’s official national security strategy. Susannah Glickman, recently interviewed by the New York Review of Books, looks at the transformation of the…
Published on 1 week, 1 day ago
The Dig: Welcome to the Resistance w/ Eric Blanc, Leah Greenberg, Waleed Shahid
Featuring Eric Blanc, Leah Greenberg, and Waleed Shahid on the liberal resistance’s sharp left turn since Trump returned to the White House. Libs are voting Zohran at the ballot box, fighting ICE in …
Published on 1 week, 4 days ago
Confonting Capitalism: Reform and Revolution
Social-democratic politics have been part of the socialist movement for over a century. Some features, like the commitment to pursuing economic rights for the working class via the state, have remain…
Published on 2 weeks ago
Behind the News: The Honduran Elections w/ David Adler and Matt Kirkegaard
David Adler and Matt Kirkegaard of the Progressive International debrief the Honduran elections. Elfadil Ibrahim examines the Sudanese civil war. And finally Eric Blanc, drawing from Milwaukee’s deca…
Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Dig: Three Million Doors w/ Tascha Van Auken
Featuring Tascha Van Auken on how Zohran’s campaign mobilized an army of 100,000 volunteers to knock three million doors. Van Auken has been an architect of NYC-DSA’s field operation and its general …
Published on 2 weeks, 4 days ago