The Dig: End of the Myth with Greg Grandin
American liberty has since its foundation relied upon the dispossession of indigenous people and Mexicans, upon African enslavement and, ultimately, upon the constant fleeing outward that created an …
Behind the News: Feminism for the 99%; Capital City
Behind the News: New Deals Past and Present; Left Internationalism
The Dig: A Theory of ISIS with Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou
Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou explains: it's not just that the War on Terror has warped American and European politics and society; it's that the War on Terror and Islamic terrorist groups like ISI…
Jacobin Radio: DSA; Generation Priced Out
Suzi talks to DSAers Jeremy Gong and Magally Miranda Alcazar about the larger issues they are confronting after two years of Trump, a midterm election that saw radical democratic socialists elected t…
The Dig: Green New Deal Architect Rhiana Gunn-Wright
It's irrelevant whether establishment liberals are sincerely aware of the threat posed by climate catastrophe because they are constitutionally hemmed in by a small-bore, technocratic and profoundly …
The Dig: Feminism for the 99% with Tithi Bhattacharya
Striking women have begun to reclaim feminism as a project of working-class struggle against not only patriarchy's domination of women by men but also against capitalism's domination of the many by t…
The Dig: Hegemony How-To with Jonathan Matthew Smucker
Dan's guest is long-time organizer Jonathan Matthew Smucker, the author of Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals. The book is both a critique of the radical left's traditional style of politics and…
Jacobin Radio: Kate Aronoff on Democratic Party Politics
Behind the News: Housing and the Green New Deal
Behind the News: AIPAC; the Green New Deal
The Dig: Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire with Dylan Riley
Dan discusses The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte — Marx's take on revolution and reaction in mid-nineteenth-century France, the broader theories he develops about history and the relationship…
The Dig: Contradictions with Eric Levitz
Dan talks to Eric Levitz — who at New York magazine provides the sort of consistently thoughtful and deeply contextualized analysis that is often quite hard to find on mainstream news sites — about t…
The Dig: 2020 with Briahna Gray, Dave Weigel, and Waleed Shahid
What might Bernie 2020 look like, particularly now that almost everyone claims to be for Medicare for All (whatever they might mean by that)? Will Harris's track record as a law-and-order prosecutor …
Jacobin Radio: Robert Brenner on the State of the Economy
<font color="#000000">The state of the economy is, despite assertions to the contrary, not strong; it is being plundered by the alliance of top corporate managers, leading financiers and political le…
The Dig: Palestine Politics with Linda Sarsour
Two left-wing Muslim women newly elected to Congress—Palestinian-American Rashida Tlaib and Somali-American Ilhan Omar—are resetting the Congressional debate over Palestine. In response, they have be…
The Dig: Venezuela
Alejandro Velasco, Gabriel Hetland and Naomi Schiller on the profound economic, social, and political crisis in Venezuela. More than three million refugees and migrants have fled the country. Opposit…
The Dig: The Drug War in Mexico with Anabel Hernández
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, a leader of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, is on trial in New York. After twice making his way out of Mexican prisons, he was extradited to the United States. This is what counts…
Jacobin Radio: Anatomy of the LA Teachers Strike
#Red4EdLA: Los Angeles teachers lead the way for the labor movement — striking FOR public education — using the strike weapon to reverse the damage of decades of neoliberal assault on everything publ…