Podcast Episodes

Transmissions from Jonestown

A sonic memorial to the Black women of the Peoples Temple.

Produced and reported by Babette Thomas. Edited by Liza Yeager and Mitchell Johnson, with …

3 years, 3 months ago

Crack-Up Capitalism w/ Quinn Slobodian

Featuring Quinn Slobodian on Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy. Radical libertarians, including anarcho…

3 years, 4 months ago

Trans Children w/ Jules Gill-Peterson

Featuring Jules Gill-Peterson on Histories of the Transgender Child. Amid this right-wing reaction, a discussion of the history of trans medicine and…

3 years, 4 months ago

The Chicago Model w/ Stacy Davis Gates, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, and Alex Han

Featuring Stacy Davis Gates, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, and Alex Han on how Chicago’s labor left took over City Hall. Brandon Johnson’s mayoral victory, th…

3 years, 4 months ago

Philly’s Left Turn w/ Helen Gym & Nikil Saval

Featuring Nikil Saval and Helen Gym on how the history of Philadelphia social movements brought Nikil into the state senate and has made Helen, a lon…

3 years, 4 months ago

Superhighway!

We have as many roads in the United States as we have streams and rivers.

Produced by Caroline Kanner and Jackson Roach, with original music by Jack…

3 years, 4 months ago

Teach the Children Well w/ Jennifer Berkshire & Jack Schneider

Featuring Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider on the politics of public education. The authors of A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling o…

3 years, 5 months ago

How to Build a Fighting Labor Movement w/ Jane McAlevey

Featuring Jane McAlevey on how to organize mass numbers of new workers into unions that wage mass strikes to fight employers and revive the labor mov…

3 years, 5 months ago

Zionism’s Civil War w/ Edo Konrad & Joshua Leifer

Featuring Edo Konrad and Joshua Leifer on how Zionism’s long-running contradictions led to the current political crisis in Israel.

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3 years, 5 months ago

The Dig Presents: A Garden in Cairo

It started with a few cones and a cryptic sign.

Produced by Omar Etman. Edited by Liza Yeager, Mitchell Johnson, and Daniel Denvir.

Special thanks …

3 years, 5 months ago