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Back to SearchWe must end policing as we know it with Alex Vitale
In his new book The End of Policing Brooklyn College sociologist @avitale makes the case that technocratic reforms won't fix American policing. In re…
8 years, 8 months ago
Matt Christman rants, raves, and ruminates
Chapo went on The Dig. Dan talks to @cushbomb about optimism, pessimism, Manitowoc, reptilians, why the internet might be mostly bad, and Dan’s perso…
8 years, 9 months ago
Nina Turner: Let’s Keep the Political Revolution In Motion
Former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner talks about being horrified by Trump, why single-payer is suddenly hot among likely 2020 Democratic contenders,…
8 years, 9 months ago
Beware Carceral Gun Control
Prevailing debate obscures the fact that we already have a form of gun control in the United States. As legal scholar Ben Levin explains, the problem…
8 years, 9 months ago
Bonus Episode: Larry Krasner’s Full Interview
Here's Dan's full interview with civil rights attorney and Democratic nominee for Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner. You heard some of it …
8 years, 9 months ago
Part One: The Story Behind America’s Mass Incarceration Experiment
In the late 1960s, criminologists like Todd Clear predicted America would soon start closing its prisons. They couldn't have been more wrong. Intervi…
8 years, 9 months ago
Marisol LeBrón & Brandy Jensen: Puerto Rico, Austerian Disaster; Roy Moore, Perfect Republican
Today’s Diglet is not really diminutive at all. Dan has two interviews with two separate guests because too much has happened over the past few weeks…
8 years, 9 months ago
Khaled Beydoun: The War on Terror Made Trump’s Islamophobia A Reality
Islamophobia is conventionally regarded as racist and bigoted views about Muslims expressed by ignorant individuals, including the one who somehow be…
8 years, 9 months ago
Eve Peyser: What Happened Is Not About What Actually Happened
For this Diglet, Dan and Eve discuss Hillary Clinton's new book What Happened. Eve also talks about spending time with Jill Stein recently, and argue…
8 years, 9 months ago
Stephen Wertheim: America Was Never Exceptional But We Used to Think It Was
Trump is normal in more ways than people care to admit, but he is different in that he parts from the bedrock ideology of American exceptionalism tha…
8 years, 9 months ago