The Dig: Left Power and Environmentalism in Ecuador
Dan’s guest today is Thea Riofrancos, a political scientist at Providence College. They discuss Ecuador’s 2017 elections, in which the left won a narrow victory despite the crisis hitting the Pink Tid...
19 Juli 201751min
Behind the News: Korean Politics, Shakeups in the Wake of the British Elections
Doug interviews two guests. First, Tim Shorrock on the two Koreas: while South Korea has a recently-elected leader, the North continues testing missiles while the US continues threatening engagement. ...
19 Juli 201751min
Behind the News: The Kochs' Academic Network, the Politics of Brazil
Doug interviews two guests. First, investigative journalist Alex Kotch talks about the Koch academic network. Then, Alfredo Saad Filho, a professor of political economy at the SOAS, University of Lond...
18 Juli 201751min
The Dig: Trump & the Deportation Machine Reloaded
Dan talks with Dara Lind, the immigration reporter at Vox. They discuss how Trump has made Obama's massive deportation machine into a terrifying spectacle in a bid to to scare undocumented immigrants ...
12 Juli 20171h 9min
Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Major Failure for the Democratic Party & Emmanuel Macron's New Majority
In the latest episode Suzi will cover election results across the globe. First, Tom Ferguson, Professor Emeritus at U Mass Boston, will discuss the Democratic Party’s recent election defeats, the part...
11 Juli 201738min
The Dig: Fighting the Boss with Sarah Jaffe
Workers have for years faced a neoliberal onslaught administered by a bipartisan establishment of technocratic elites who have ensured the redistribution of wealth into the hands of the rich. This is ...
6 Juli 201757min
The Dig: Bringing Down the Trump Brand with Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein takes on President Donald Trump’s brand, and offers some thoughts as to how to tarnish it, in her new book “No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need...
28 Juni 201744min
The Dig: Locking Up Our Own, with James Forman Jr.
Mass incarceration controls poor people and populations that have been excluded from the labor market. Politically, tough-on-crime rhetoric has for decades been a tool for politicians to appeal to whi...
21 Juni 20171h 28min
