Brooke Harrington on Wealth Managers and the One Percent
In April, the high volume leak of the Panama Papers revealed an often unseen world of money and power. The leak of 11.5 million files came from the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, which helps ...
3 Jan 201754min
Christy Chapin on the Centrality of Insurance Companies to American Health Care
Why is health care in the United States so expensive? Why does the United States find it so difficult to provide quality, affordable health care to most of its citizens? What is the relationship among...
2 Dec 201645min
Sarah Jaffe on Social Movements and the 2008 Recession
The recent years since the 2008 recession have seen a growth of protest movements. Sarah Jaffe's book, Necessary Trouble, describes how people have been fighting back against bank bailouts, budget cut...
4 Nov 201640min
LaShawn Harris on Black Women and the Informal Economy
LaShawn Harris discusses how black women in the early twentieth century engaged in the informal economy - performing work that wasn't entirely legal - to get by and get ahead.
1 Okt 201640min
Sandy Hager on Public Debt and Inequality
Who owns the U.S. public debt? Why is it such an important commodity in global capitalism? Why does public debt provoke such intense political debate? And how can the quantitative data on the ownershi...
1 Sep 201641min
Daniel Amsterdam on the Business Campaign to Expand Government Spending
2 Aug 201641min
David Harvey on A Brief History of Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism. It is a vexing term, especially for many in the United States. But it means to call attention to the policies that emphasized so-called free markets as well as the increased market regu...
1 Juli 201641min
Sujani Reddy on Nursing and Empire
The history of nursing is inextricable from the history of capitalism and imperialism. Our guest today, Sujani Reddy, helps us understand the history of nursing through the lives and experiences nurse...
2 Juni 201647min
