Podcast Episodes

Behind the News: A Progressive Path for U.S.–China relations

Jake Werner of the Quincy Institute makes his case for what a progressive China policy could look like. Then Gabriel Hetland reviews the record of Colombian president Gustavo Petro, a leftist trying …

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Dig: Beasts of Burden w/ Sunaura Taylor

Featuring Sunaura Taylor on her book Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation. What does it mean to rethink socialism and Marxism through the frameworks of disability liberation and animal …

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Michael and Us: Shore Leave

During the 2012 election cycle, Pauly Shore went to Washington to take the temperature on American and Her Problems. His resulting comedy special, PAULY SHORE'S PAULY-TICS (2012), accidentally foresh…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Jacobin Radio: Russia's Anti-War Political Prisoners

Russian dissident activists and scholars Ilya Budraitskis and Grusha Gilayeva last spoke to us after the Marxist critic Boris Kagarlitsky lost his appeal and was sent to a penal colony on a trumped-u…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Behind the News: Are Pro-Worker Republicans Real? w/ Hamilton Nolan

Arielle Klagsbrun of the All Eyes on Yass Campaign sheds light on the insufficiently known right-wing funder Jeff Yass. Then Sohrab Ahmari and Hamilton Nolan debate the existence, real or imagined, o…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Long Reads: The Return of Indonesia's Old Guard w/ Mike Vann

Ten years ago, Indonesia elected a new president named Jokowi who was supposed to represent a clear break with the legacy of Suharto’s dictatorship. He defeated the most notorious representative of t…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Michael and Us: Death of the Iron Age Cafe

Tony Buba chronicled the decline of his hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania in a series of acclaimed documentaries that elevated him to national notoriety. But in the extraordinary documentary/fiction…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Behind the News: Israel's Illegal Occupations w/ Heidi Matthews

Heidi Matthews analyzes the World Court’s declaration of Israel’s occupations illegal. Molly White looks at how crypto is spending its money in politics. And lastly, Nausicaa Renner, author of a rece…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Dig: Solidarity w/ Jeremy Corbyn and Laleh Khalili

Featuring Jeremy Corbyn and Laleh Khalili on internationalism and left-wing politics. A special Dig co-hosted with the Verso Podcast in front of a live London audience.

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Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Michael and Us: Albanian Bacon w/ Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

In Barry Levinson and David Mamet's WAG THE DOG (1997), a political spin-doctor teams with a movie producer to fake a war and save an incumbent president. You've heard of manufacturing consent, but t…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago