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Behind the News: Kenya's Haiti Mission
Two views of Haiti in light of the UN’s approval of the deployment of a Kenyan-led mission to control gang violence there: Jake Johnston of the Cente…
2 years, 6 months ago
Dig: If We Burn w/ Vincent Bevins
Featuring Vincent Bevins on If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution. The first of a two-part interview on this important new b…
2 years, 6 months ago
Michael and Us: I Heart New Wave
In DEATH WISH 4: THE CRACKDOWN (1987), Charles Bronson wages a one-man war against the Los Angeles drug trade, despite being as old-looking as anyone…
2 years, 6 months ago
Long Reads: Padmore's Pan-African Marxism w/ Theo Williams
For most of the twentieth century, Trinidad and Tobago had a population of fewer than a million people. But this Caribbean nation made an outsized co…
2 years, 6 months ago
Michael and Us: Wheatfield with Crows
Late in his career, Akira Kurosawa plumbed his subconscious and came up with DREAMS (1990), one of his most underrated films. We discuss the ways tha…
2 years, 6 months ago
Jacobin Radio: WGA Strike w/ Alex O'Keefe & Howard Rodman
Barry Eidlin guest hosts today, talking to WGA leader-activists Alex O’Keefe, organizer and award-winning writer for The Bear, and Howard Rodman, wri…
2 years, 6 months ago
Behind the News: The Niger Coup w/ Samar Al-Bulushi
Samar Al-Bulushi examines the coup in Niger, political unrest in France’s former colonies in Africa, and the US-led “war on terror” on that continent…
2 years, 6 months ago
Dig: Long Land War w/ Jo Guldi
Featuring Jo Guldi on the global history of the long land war—a war over everything from agrarian reform to tenant rights, from India and China to En…
2 years, 6 months ago
Behind the News: How Sick Is Capitalism?
Aaron Benanav, sociologist and frequent contributor to New Left Review, and Seth Ackerman, an editor at Jacobin, discuss the long-term health of capi…
2 years, 6 months ago
Michael and Us: Jewellbilly Elegy
In 2019, Clint Eastwood's RICHARD JEWELL took aim at two institutions — the FBI and the media — that were supposed to save America from Trumpism. We …
2 years, 6 months ago