Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBonus 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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…
9 years 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…
9 years ago
An Olympic-Size Swindle in LA with Molly Lambert and Jules Boykoff
The so-called Olympic spirit doesn’t match the reality of a highly-corporatized Games that often leaves taxpayers picking up the tab, engenders abusi…
9 years ago
Houston: A Segregated Disaster in a Segregated City
This two-hour episode is a look at inequality in Houston from slavery to the present. First, Dan talks to Tyina Steptoe, historian at the University …
9 years ago
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández: On DACA
Immigration law scholar @crimmigration breaks down the lies, misdirections and bigoted absurdities conveyed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions when he…
9 years ago
Kate Aronoff: Populist Revolt Against The Climate Crisis
The devastation wreaked by Hurricane Harvey has made the denial of climate change all the more dangerous. But @KateAronoff says that mainstream liber…
9 years ago