The Dig: Houston: A Segregated Disaster in a Segregated City
This two-hour episode is a look at inequality in Houston from slavery to the present. First, Dan talks to Tyina Steptoe, historian at the University of Arizona and author of "Houston Bound: Culture an...
13 Sep 20172h 4min
The Dig: César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández on DACA
Immigration law scholar César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández breaks down the lies, misdirections, and bigoted absurdities conveyed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions when announced that the Trump Administ...
9 Sep 201732min
The Dig: Kate Aronoff on the Populist Revolt Against the Climate Crisis
The devastation wreaked by Hurricane Harvey has made the denial of climate change all the more dangerous. But writer Kate Aronoff says that mainstream liberals and environmental groups, touting cap-an...
6 Sep 20171h 6min
The Dig: The Politics of Hurricane Harvey
New Republic reporter Emily Atkin talks about why Harvey is already and inherently political thanks to climate change and the potential for petrochemical disaster in Houston. Calls to not “politicize”...
1 Sep 201721min
The Dig: Adrian Chen On How Factcheck.org Won’t Save America
Is the internet good or bad? The debate is more often than not a proxy for one about politics more generally and populism in particular. But the real issue with the internet is this: unaccountable bus...
30 Aug 20171h 6min
Behind the News: Identity, Class, and the Far Right
Jodi Dean, a professor of political science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, discusses how to rethink the class vs. identity debate, as well as the tensions between online life and practice. Then...
28 Aug 201751min
Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Foreign Policy in the Trump Administration
First, Robert Kuttner, the co-editor of The American Prospect, recorded the day after Kuttner published his conversation with White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, just as Bannon was being ousted...
28 Aug 201733min
The Dig: Trump’s Happy Place with Alex Pareene
Dan talks to Splinter Politics Editor Alex Pareene about his recent piece “Charlottesville Was a Preview of the Future of the Republican Party” and about why Phoenix is Trump’s happy place. This secon...
25 Aug 201731min
