When YIMBYs Attack: Democratic Socialist Dean Preston on the San Francisco Housing Crisis
Dean Preston represents District 5 on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. A tenants' rights attorney and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, he was the first democratic socialist elect...
5 Jan 202251min
Why Don't We Have Constitutional Rights Anymore? (w/ Aziz Huq)
Aziz Huq is an expert in constitutional law at the University of Chicago law school. He is the author of the book The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies, available from Oxford University Press. Prof....
5 Jan 202248min
What Is "Systemic Racism" and How Pervasive Is It?
Today's guest is Glenn Loury, professor of economics at Brown University. Prof. Loury has had a distinguished career—he was the youngest-ever tenured Black economics professor at Harvard and is known ...
14 Dec 202159min
Does the Right to Counsel Actually Exist In the U.S.?
Today's guest is Stephen Bright, one of the best criminal defense attorneys in the United States. Prof. Bright teaches at Yale Law School and Georgetown Law, but has spent most of his life working as ...
14 Dec 202149min
Abortion in America, Part II: Diana Greene Foster on "The Turnaway Study"
In this, the second part of our look into the realities of abortion in the contemporary United States, Nathan talks to Prof. Diana Greene Foster, Director of Research at the Advancing New Standards in...
13 Dec 202138min
Abortion in America: Carole Joffe on the "Obstacle Course" to Get Necessary Medical Care
Carol Joffe is one of the foremost experts on reproductive rights in the United States. A professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at the University of California,...
13 Dec 202143min
How Did the Bloating Military Become a Cancer on the US? (w/ Andrew Cockburn)
Andrew Cockburn is a veteran journalist who serves as the Washington Editor of Harper's magazine. His new book, The Spoils of War: Power, Profit, and the American War Machine, available from Verso col...
9 Dec 202152min
Why Are Millennials So Into Astrology?
Tara Isabella Burton is the author of Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World. She joined Current Affairs editor Nathan Robinson to discuss changing religious practices in the United States. ...
9 Dec 202147min
