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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Aug 202456min
Behind the News: Israel's Illegal Occupations w/ Heidi Matthews
Heidi Matthews analyzes the World Court’s declaration of Israel’s occupations illegal. Molly White looks at how crypto is spending its money in politics. And lastly, Nausicaa Renner, author of a recen...
7 Aug 202453min
