Podcast Episodes

Long Reads: Big Pharma's Toxic Record w/ Nick Dearden

From the HIV/AIDS crisis, to the opioid epidemic, to the COVID-19 pandemic, pharmaceutical corporations have been accused of profiteering at the expense of countless lives. Nick Dearden, director of …

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Behind the News: The Black Panthers, Myth & Reality w/ Donna Murch

Historian Donna Murch, author of Living for the City, takes on some myths about the Black Panther Party. Saadia Toor and Rabia Mehmood discuss Pakistan.

Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Organize the Unorganized: Is There an End to the CIO?

The eighth, penultimate episode of Organize the Unorganized concludes the main story of the CIO. We cover the organization’s communist purge in the late 1940s and Operation Dixie, the failed campaign…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Dig: Thawra Ep. 3 - The Post-Colonial Arab State System

Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the THIRD episode of Thawra (Revolution), our rolling mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s installment is a comprehensive overview of th…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Jacobin Radio: A Talk on Latin American Revolts

Chilean writer and activist Pablo Abufom spoke at UCLA on February 23, 2024 about how the October 2019 social revolt in Chile propelled Gabriel Boric to power, created a Constituent Assembly to write…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Dig: Thawra Ep. 2 - Birth of Arab Nationalism

Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the second episode of Thawra (Revolution), our rolling mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s installment lays out early 20th-century anti…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Organize the Unorganized: War

The early period of the CIO arguably ended with the Little Steel strike in 1937. The strike's brutal repression and failure dramatically illustrated the limits of the New Deal order. But the CIO cont…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Behind the News: Desi Diaspora Politics w/ Jeet Heer

Jeet Heer, author of a recent article for The Nation, discusses Indian Americans in politics and society. Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno, authors of The Fall and Rise of American Finance, takes on t…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Michael and Us: An Irreverent Tendency

In 1987, America was ready to look back on the Vietnam War... with laughter. We discuss GOOD MORNING VIETNAM (1987) and why it is one of the quintessential "boomer liberal" texts. PLUS: We check in o…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Long Reads: From Gaza to Yemen w/ Helen Lackner

Over the last four months, the Israeli war on Gaza has spilled over into the rest of the Middle East, from Lebanon to Iraq. But the most dramatic example has been the link between events in Palestine…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago