Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBoots Riley on Sorry to Bother You and Communism
Sorry to Bother You is a hilarious film about the dead serious shitiness of life under neoliberalism's flexibilized and precarious labor regime, a sy…
7 years, 11 months ago
Kerri Harris Runs for Delaware Upset
If Kerri Evelyn Harris wins in Delaware, she will have knocked out an incumbent US Senator. And that would be a really big deal. Harris, a left candi…
7 years, 11 months ago
Stop Whore Stigma with Melissa Gira Grant
The SESTA/FOSTA law purportedly aims to curb sex trafficking. But as my guest Melissa Gira Grant explains, it actually denies sex workers access to o…
7 years, 11 months ago
Kaniela Ing Is Fighting for Aloha
Kaniela Ing (kanielaing.com) is a DSA member running in Hawaii's 1st Congressional District, calling for an end to imperialism and rule by the wealth…
7 years, 11 months ago
A Post-Janus Plan for Labor
Janus was an entirely expected and atrocious decision. The conservative business interests that successfully obliterated private sector unions hope i…
7 years, 11 months ago
Mistaking Identity Politics
Checking your privilege. Invisible knapsacks. Intersectionality. In his new book from Verso, Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump (h…
7 years, 11 months ago
A New Party of a New Kind
The last episode in this week's Ocasio-Cortez super series. First, an interview with Seth Ackerman on his essay "A Blueprint for a New Party," which …
7 years, 11 months ago
Julia Salazar Brings Socialist Insurgency to Brooklyn
This week's super series on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's victory and the future of left politics continues with Julia Salazar, a DSA member running for…
8 years ago
Bernie Sanders on Ocasio-Cortez: We’re seeing it all over this country
Capitol Hill used to be a lonely place for a leftist. And, frankly, it still is. But now that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appears to be headed to Washin…
8 years ago
Cynthia Nixon on Challenging Cuomo in Wake of Ocasio-Cortez Win
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's victory should make New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a larger-than-life bully and ideologically-chameleon Democrat, very afraid…
8 years ago