Lessons from the 1980s for a New Sanctuary Movement
Donald Trump's viciously xenophobic policies have put the word "sanctuary" on many people's lips. But immigrant rights organizers under Trump don't have to reinvent the wheel: the 1980s saw a vibrant ...
22 Feb 201726min
The Dig: Jedediah Purdy on Donald Trump and the Courts
All eyes have turned to the judiciary. It’s the one potential institutional check on Trump on the federal level (aside from the national security state). But the judiciary, despite pretenses to the co...
21 Feb 20171h 1min
Chasing Oscar Romero's Killers
The Salvadoran Civil War is one of the most brutal conflicts in recent history. The United States funded far-right, quasi-fascist forces who had no qualms with bathing the country in blood in the name...
18 Feb 20171h 22min
The Way Forward
The first episode of Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman, featuring a wide-ranging interview with Bhaskar Sunkara and Robert Brenner that covers prospects for resistance with a rising anti-Trump sentimen...
16 Feb 201749min
Public Education in the Age of Trump
Betsy DeVos is now Secretary of Education. A far-right billionaire heiress to a pyramid scheme — sorry, alleged pyramid scheme — who has never spent a day teaching but has devoted much of her career t...
14 Feb 201723min
The Dig: Mark Blyth on How Austerity Brought Us Donald Trump
Mark Blyth wasn't surprised by the rise of Donald Trump, nor Brexit, nor the crises spreading across Europe. He actually predicted them all. Blyth, the author of "Austerity: The History of a Dangerous...
14 Feb 20171h 32min
Stockton to Malone: Underground Abortion Before Roe v. Wade
Welcome to the first episode of Stockton to Malone, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. For the first episode, ahead of protests and counterprotests at Planned Parenthood clinics around the country and f...
10 Feb 201743min
The Dig: George Cicariello-Maher on Violence and Free Speech
George Cicariello-Maher is professor of political science at Drexel University and author of several books, including Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela, published by Verso as part o...
7 Feb 201743min
