Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAn 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…
8 years, 9 months 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 …
8 years, 10 months 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…
8 years, 10 months 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…
8 years, 10 months ago
Emily Atkin: Harvey Is Political
New Republic reporter Emily Atkin (@emorwee) talks about why Harvey is already and inherently political thanks to climate change and the potential fo…
8 years, 10 months ago
Adrian Chen: Factcheck.org Won’t Save America
Is the internet good or bad? The debate is more often than not a proxy for one about politics more generally and populism in particular. But the real…
8 years, 10 months ago
Alex Pareene: Trump’s Happy Place Is Racism
Dan talks to Splinter Politics Editor Alex Pareene about his recent piece “Charlottesville Was a Preview of the Future of the Republican Party” and a…
8 years, 10 months ago
Andrew Bacevich: This Is the War That Never Ends
This is the war that never ends. The War on Terror’s permanence should be remarkable. It should be an outrage. But it is precisely because the war ha…
8 years, 10 months ago
Sarah Jones: Why Establishment Dems Punch “Alt-Left”
New Republic writer Sarah Jones joins Dan to talk about Trump's invocation of the "alt-left" and to explain the term's unseemly centrist history. An…
8 years, 10 months ago
Forrest Hylton: What’s Next for the Colombian Left?
The FARC peace accord is a historic victory for Colombian society. But the struggle to build an urban left strong enough to take on the country's pow…
8 years, 10 months ago