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Dig: The Politics and Practice of Tenant Organizing
Featuring Shanti Singh, Tracy Rosenthal, René Moya, and Cea Weaver on the politics and practice of organizing tenants.
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3 years, 2 months ago
Michael and Us: Own Your Bad
A key moment in the evolution of the modern blockbuster, JURASSIC WORLD (2015) is a cynical reboot about cynical reboots. We discuss what this enormo…
3 years, 2 months ago
Behind the News: The Grassroots of Abortion Rights w/ Felicia Kornbluh
Doug is joined by Josh White, author of Goodbye United Kingdom, to discuss that country’s trajectory of decline. Then Felicia Kornbluh, author of A W…
3 years, 2 months ago
Dig: Freedom Dreams w/ Robin D.G. Kelley
Featuring Robin D.G. Kelley on Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination.
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3 years, 2 months ago
Long Reads: Kristin Surak on Japan's Lost Generation
During the 1980s, Japan seemed like it might overtake the US to become the world’s largest economy. But since a property bubble burst in the early 90…
3 years, 2 months ago
Behind the News: Afghanistan Update w/ Matthieu Aikins
Doug speaks with Matthieu Aikins, author and investigative reporter, about the situation in Afghanistan with the US gone and the Taliban in control. …
3 years, 2 months ago
Michael and Us: Mondo Argumento
A misanthropic catalog of shocking images from around the world, the bizarre, unpleasant, baldly racist, and extremely influential MONDO CANE (1962) …
3 years, 2 months ago
Dig: Gramsci, Organization, Crisis w/ Michael Denning
Featuring Michael Denning on Antonio Gramsci. The second of a two-part interview.
Read the passages of Selections from the Prison Notebooks that Dan r…
3 years, 2 months ago
Michael and Us: The View From Nowhere
Upon its release, Steven Soderbergh's TRAFFIC (2000) offered something novel: a cinematic tapestry that criticized America's War on Drugs. More than …
3 years, 3 months ago
Behind the News: A Look Rightward
Emily Jashinsky of The Federalist discusses the GOP: the meaning of the speaker fight, and what is the base of the Freedom Caucus anyway? Sohrab Ahma…
3 years, 3 months ago