Michael and Us: Bottled Time
A Democratic National Convention takes place against a backdrop of protests against American imperial atrocities overseas... that's right, we're travelling back in time to 1968 with Haskell Wexler's M...
28 Elo 202446min
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 t...
23 Elo 202453min
The 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 l...
17 Elo 20242h 27min
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 foresha...
16 Elo 202453min
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-up...
14 Elo 20241h 5min
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, of...
13 Elo 202453min
Long Reads: The Return of Indonesia's Old Guard w/ Michael 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 th...
12 Elo 20241h 13min
Michael and Us: Death of the Iron Age Café
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 ...
9 Elo 202456min
