
Long Reads: El Salvador’s Jailer in Chief
Donald Trump is a huge fan of Nayib Bukele, the current president of El Salvador. Last April, Bukele visited the White House and offered to help with a campaign of domestic repression in the United St...
27 Mar 59min

Behind the News: Beyond Debates of Class vs. Identity w/ Nancy Fraser
Nancy Fraser goes beyond the class/identity disputes. Natalie Y. Moore, who wrote a recent article for Hammer and Hope and EHRP, looks at effects of federal layoffs on black women. Behind the News, ho...
24 Mar 53min

The Dig: Nusantara Ep. 1 — The Long Arc of Dutch Colonialism
Nusantara is a new Dig series on the history of Indonesia: a hinge in the world system where colonialism and revolution have decisively shaped the trajectory of global history. This episode traces a l...
23 Mar 2h 20min

Confronting Capitalism: Trump’s Historic Blunder in Iran
The US-Israeli war against Iran may have been initiated without any coherently stated goals or popular support, but we can already see that it’s a horrific quagmire. It also doesn’t look like Trump an...
18 Mar 47min

Jacobin Radio: 2003 All Over Again w/ Kevan Harris
Two weeks into the US-Israeli assault on Iran, every prediction of its architects has collapsed. The regime stands. Protests haven't reignited. Iran’s new Supreme Leader — more hardline than his assas...
17 Mar 57min

Behind the News: Homeland Empire w/ Nikhil Pal Singh
Historian Nikhil Pal Singh, author of a recent article for Equator, talks about how the Trump regime weaves foreign and domestic policy into a single domain of impunity, Homeland Empire. Behind the Ne...
16 Mar 53min

Long Reads: Trump’s Nation-Breaking War w/ Afshin Matin-Asgari
We’ve now entered the second week of the US-Israeli war on Iran. Donald Trump’s War Secretary Pete Hegseth has boasted about the US military machine bringing “death and destruction” to the country. Af...
11 Mar 32min

Jacobin Radio: The US-Israeli Attack on Iran w/ Yassamine Mather
What are Iranians actually experiencing right now? Suzi speaks with Yassamine Mather, an Iranian socialist who has been in direct contact with relatives, colleagues, and comrades inside Iran throughou...
11 Mar 1h 1min




















