Dean Baker on Trump's Tax Plan for the Rich
Why do Republicans only seem to care about deficits and debt when they’re trying to cut social welfare programs? Dan's guest for this special episode is Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Econo...
5 Maj 201734min
The Dig: Adam Johnson on All the Fake News That's Fit to Print
Under President Trump, the media has become a part of the story like never before. Journalistic probing has irritated our touchy president. But media outlets have also played a role in Trump’s rise. D...
3 Maj 20171h 17min
Behind the News: The Sorry State of the French Elections + Georgia, Libertarian Paradise
Sebastian Budgen on the second round of the French elections, pitting a centrist against a fascist. And Sofia Japaridze on how foreign NGOs turned Georgia (the country) into a broke libertarian paradi...
28 Apr 201751min
Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman: Tariq Ali on Vladimir Lenin
Weissman interviews Tariq Ali, filmmaker, activist, and author of numerous books, on his new book The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution and the legacy of Vladimir Lenin 100 y...
27 Apr 201740min
The Dig: The Neoliberal vs the Neofascist in France
The Dig normally serves up ice cold, well-digested takes. Sometimes, however, something important happens and Dan finds someone who can help us understand it quickly. Last weekend’s election in France...
27 Apr 201724min
The Dig: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Black Liberation and Socialism
Putting “black faces in high places,” Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor argues, has not only failed to benefit the working class and poor black majority — it has actually harmed them by pushing an individualist...
25 Apr 20171h 21min
Stockton to Malone #3: Making Sense of a Murder in Chicago
RL interviews Chantel Johnson, whose brother Richie was one of the hundreds of young black men murdered in gun violence in Chicago in recent years. She and RL discuss the ties between violence and aus...
24 Apr 201754min
Behind the News: Thea Riofrancos on Ecuador, Landon Frim and Harrison Fluss on the Alt-Right
Politicial scientist Thea Riofrancos on Ecuador's elections, the state of social movements and the Left there, and the decline of the pink tide in Latin America. Philosophers Landon Frim and Harrison ...
21 Apr 201751min
