The Dig: Frances Fox Piven on Why Movements Matter
Four decades ago, Frances Fox Piven and her husband Richard Cloward published Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail, a classic, clear-eyed analysis of just what the title suggests. ...
7 Feb 20181h 30min
The Dig: Baltimore’s Crisis Continues with Lester Spence
The uprising following the police killing of Freddie Gray drew national media attention to Baltimore and the abusive law enforcement agents that discipline and control those most exploited and exclude...
3 Feb 201846min
The Dig: Building an American Empire with Paul Frymer
We are living on land from which indigenous people, over hundreds of years, have been violently removed. Almost everyone knows this — yet it’s rarely mentioned in stories that Americans tell themselve...
31 Jan 20181h 41min
Behind the News: Trump and the Global Left; Feminism and Economics
Author Vijay Prashad, professor of international studies at Trinity College, on Syria, Trump, and the state of the global left. Then, Jennifer Cohen, assistant professor of international studies at Mi...
30 Jan 201852min
The Dig: Why Democrats Fought Then Folded on DACA with Jeff Stein
Excitement that Democrats had developed a spine in the fight for Dreamers reverted to familiar despondency and fury when they capitulated and voted to reopen the government on Monday. Washington Post ...
25 Jan 201845min
The Dig: The Militant '70s Labor Movement You Never Heard Of
Everyone agrees that the 1970s were the beginning of the end of capitalism as we had known it since the New Deal. But historian Lane Windham makes it clear that it wasn’t for a lack of worker struggle...
24 Jan 20181h 47min
Behind the News: Sandra Cuffe, Alexander Main, and Janet Capron
Journalist Sandra Cuffe on Honduras after a stolen election and waves of official violence. Alexander Main, Senior Associate of International Policy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, on ...
22 Jan 201851min
The Dig: Workers' Rights Are Students' Rights
Student workers at Rutgers University are fighting for $15 an hour. Undergraduate history major and dining-hall worker Danny Taylor of @RutgersUSAS talks about their struggle. Thanks to Verso Books fo...
19 Jan 201832min
