The Dig: Aslı Bâli on Syria, Part II
Part two of a two-part interview with Aslı Bâli on the Syrian civil war and the larger geopolitical conflicts that shape the Middle East — with an emphasis on the role played the United States. Durin…
The Dig: Aslı Bâli on Syria, Part I
[note: this is being re-posted because the original post was accidentally deleted. So if you have already listened, no need to listen again!]
Aslı Ü. Bâli joins Daniel for part one of a two-part inter…
Jacobin Radio: Katie Halper; Murray Mednick and Maury Sterling
The Dig: Making Sense of Soros
That right-wing people in the US and Europe have made George Soros the answer to so many troubling questions is not very surprising: he's a billionaire, he's Jewish and, unlike most of his cohort, he…
Behind the News: Globalization, Trump, and the American Empire
The Dig: Boots Riley on Sorry to Bother You and Communism
Sorry to Bother You is a hilarious film about the dead-serious shittiness of life under neoliberalism's flexibilized and precarious labor regime, a system teetering upon a thin line between free labo…
The Dig: Kerri Harris Runs for Delaware Upset
If Kerri Evelyn Harris wins in Delaware, she will have knocked out an incumbent US Senator. And that would be a really big deal. Harris, a left candidate backed by Justice Democrats, is Dan's guest t…
Jacobin Radio: Russiagate
The Dig: Stop Whore Stigma with Melissa Gira Grant
The SESTA/FOSTA law purportedly aims to curb sex trafficking. But as my guest Melissa Gira Grant explains, it actually denies sex workers access to online platforms to more safely conduct their busin…
The Dig: Kaniela Ing is Fighting for Aloha
Kaniela Ing (kanielaing.com) is a DSA member running in Hawaii's 1st Congressional District, calling for an end to imperialism and rule by the wealthy, and for housing rights, a green New Deal, Medic…
The Dig: A Post-Janus Plan for Labor
Janus was an entirely expected and atrocious decision. The conservative business interests that successfully obliterated private sector unions hope it will do the same to their public sector counterp…
Behind the News: The Hammond Pardons; AMLO
The Dig: Mistaking Identity Politics
Checking your privilege. Invisible knapsacks. Intersectionality. In his new book from Verso, Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump, Asad Haider questions the terms and concepts that u…
Jacobin Radio: Confirming Kavanaugh
The Dig: A New Party of a New Kind
The last episode in this week's Ocasio-Cortez super series. First, an interview with Seth Ackerman on his essay "A Blueprint for a New Party," which lays out a strategy for building independent socia…
The Dig: Julia Salazar Brings Socialist Insurgency to Brooklyn
This week's super series on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's victory and the future of left politics continues with Julia Salazar, a DSA member running for a Brooklyn state Senate in New York's District 18…
The Dig: Bernie on Ocasio-Cortez-Style Victories
The Dig: Cynthia Nixon on Challenging Cuomo in Wake of Ocasio-Cortez Win.
The Dig: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Winning Power
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a 28-year old Latina working-class champion committed to social transformation who beat one of the most powerful men in Congress: the King of Queens. Dan had an extended c…
The Dig: AMLO Shatters Mexican Establishment
Leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, or AMLO, won an overwhelming victory in Mexico's presidential election, shattering a corrupt, old party system that brought ordinary Mexicans rampant violence and…