Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchA 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…
8 years, 1 month 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…
8 years, 2 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 …
8 years, 2 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months ago
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Winning Power
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a 28-year old Latina working-class champion committed to social transformation who beat one of the most powerful men in C…
8 years, 2 months ago
AMLO Shatters Mexican Establishment
Leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, or AMLO, won an overwhelming victory in Mexico's presidential election, shattering a corrupt, old party system t…
8 years, 2 months ago
The Italian Left’s Collapse with David Broder
Today, we're talking about Italy, where a so-called "populist" alliance of the Five Star Movement and right-wing League just took over the government…
8 years, 2 months ago
The Trump Doctrine and Its Mandarin Detractors
Stephen Wertheim, a Lecturer in American and international history at Birkbeck, University of London, breaks cuts through the suffocating foreign pol…
8 years, 2 months ago