The Vast Majority: "Why Bernie Talks About the New Deal" with Seth Ackerman
Jacobin Radio: US-Iran Crisis, Hong Kong Protests
On this episode of Jacobin Radio, Suzi focuses on the intensifying US-Iranian crisis and war brinkmanship that saw us about ten minutes away from military strikes, before Trump pulled back. We get MI…
The Dig: Russia Beyond Putin with Tony Wood
Russia intervened and Trump is a criminal who committed obstruction of justice and is surrounded by constant criminality. But it's no doubt also true that this situation and the hawkish liberal respo…
Behind the News: Danish Elections, the Indigenous in Canada
The Dig: The Italian Situation with David Broder, Lorenzo Zamponi, and Marta Fana
There is perhaps no more depressing situation in Western Europe than that which prevails in Italy: a coalition government between the far-right Lega party and the now subordinate, bizarre, amorphousl…
The Dig: The Spanish Situation with Carlos Delclós and Magda Bandera
In Spanish politics, the center-left Socialist Party has demolished the conservative Popular Party and checked risk of a major far-right surge. But meanwhile, the once very plausible-feeling dream of…
The Vast Majority: "The Militant Minority" with Eric Blanc
Jacobin Radio: Breaking Down the European Parliament Elections
The Dig: The French Situation with Sebastian Budgen and Danièle Obono
The radical left has been unable to electorally capitalize on the Yellow Vest movement, a massive revolt against a vicious, unequal and alienating neoliberal order. Instead, French electoral politics…
The Dig: Labour's Brexit Bind with Grace Blakeley, Maya Goodfellow, and Richard Seymour
Brexit has so dominated UK politics that it has put the Labour Party in a profoundly difficult and perhaps untenable position of strategic ambiguity toward how to handle the never-ending matter of le…
The Dig: The European Situation with Chris Bickerton and Jerome Roos
This week and next, we're bringing you five episodes on European politics. Today, we're starting things off with Chris Bickerton and Jerome Roos for an overview of the European situation and the deba…
The Vast Majority: "Red State Revolt" with Eric Blanc
The Dig: Rashida Tlaib
US Rep. Rashida Tlaib on the local struggles that guide her work on behalf of the working class in Congress, the urgent need for a politics that puts people over profit, the question of impeachment, …
Behind the News: Tim Shorrock and Vijay Prashad
The Dig: Bernie and Black Voters with Malaika Jabali and Wendi Muse
Dan has in-depth discussion on Bernie's approach to race and what he must do to win over Black voters with Malaika Jabali and Wendi Muse. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Sanders isn't unpopular with…
Jacobin Radio: Barry Eidlin on Labor
The Vast Majority: "The Case for Open Borders" with Suzy Lee
The Dig: Doug Henwood on DSA
DSA's explosive growth continues; it has already, in a few short years, become the center of a renewed American socialist movement. Dan interviews Doug Henwood, who recently published a lengthy artic…
The Dig: Capitalism and Slavery. Part 2.
Three interviews: historian Seth Rockman, scholars Crystal Eddins and Zachary Sell, and public historians Akeia Benard, Joey La Neve DeFrancesco, Elon Cook Lee and Marco McWilliams.
Dan conducted six …