Podcast Episodes

Matt Bruenig on Why Welfare is Great and Why We Need More

Medicaid expansion saved Obamacare from repeal. There’s a lot to hate about Obamacare, but that expansion did something very good on a very large sca…

9 years, 3 months ago

Corey Robin on the Reactionaries’ Minds Under Trump

What a moment to read, or to re-read, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, Corey Robin’s 2011 collection of essays — …

9 years, 3 months ago

The Democratic Socialists of America and the Fight Against Trump

The Democratic Socialists of America are growing — suddenly and explosively. Last June ahead of the Democratic National Convention, DSA counted 6,500…

9 years, 3 months ago

Dave Weigel: What the media doesn’t get about the left

On the Left, few forms of mainstream journalism are more detested than political reporting. It often substitutes the horse race for substance, dresse…

9 years, 4 months ago

Charlene Carruthers: Fighting for Black Lives Under Trump

Fighting for Black Lives Under Trump The Movement for Black Lives’ insistence that black lives matter is deceptively straightforward and minimal. Bu…

9 years, 4 months ago

Marie Gottschalk: Mass incarceration and Trump’s carceral state

Mass incarceration should be central to any analysis of American political economy. It's also a moral monstrosity. But before The New Jim Crow and an…

9 years, 4 months ago

Jed Purdy: The courts, Trump and politics in the context of ecological crisis

All eyes have turned to the judiciary. It’s the one potential institutional check on Trump—aside, of course, from the shadowy national security state…

9 years, 4 months ago

Mark Blyth: How Austerity Brought Us Donald Trump​

Mark Blyth wasn't surprised by the rise of Donald Trump, nor Brexit, nor the crises spreading across Europe. He actually predicted them all.  Blyth,…

9 years, 5 months ago

‘White genocide’ with George Ciccariello-Maher

George Cicariello-Maher is professor of political science at Drexel University and author of several books, including Building the Commune: Radical D…

9 years, 5 months ago

Fighting the Trump bans: Linda Sarsour and Nicholas Espíritu

9 years, 5 months ago