The Dig: An Olympic-Size Swindle in LA with Molly Lambert and Jules Boykoff
The so-called Olympic spirit doesn’t match the reality of a highly-corporatized Games that often leaves taxpayers picking up the tab, engenders abusive policing and justifies the remaking of cities f…
00:36:30 |
Fri 15 Sep 2017
Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Christian Parenti on Climate Change
On Jacobin Radio today we talk to Christian Parenti, now teaching in the economics program at John Jay College (CUNY) about the catastrophic effects of climate change already upon us — from Harvey to…
00:33:10 |
Wed 13 Sep 2017
The Dig: Houston: A Segregated Disaster in a Segregated City
This two-hour episode is a look at inequality in Houston from slavery to the present. First, Dan talks to Tyina Steptoe, historian at the University of Arizona and author of "Houston Bound: Culture a…
02:04:26 |
Wed 13 Sep 2017
The Dig: César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández on DACA
Immigration law scholar César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández breaks down the lies, misdirections, and bigoted absurdities conveyed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions when announced that the Trump Adminis…
00:32:22 |
Sat 09 Sep 2017
The Dig: Kate Aronoff on the Populist Revolt Against the Climate Crisis
The devastation wreaked by Hurricane Harvey has made the denial of climate change all the more dangerous. But writer Kate Aronoff says that mainstream liberals and environmental groups, touting cap-a…
01:06:16 |
Wed 06 Sep 2017
The Dig: The Politics of Hurricane Harvey
New Republic reporter Emily Atkin talks about why Harvey is already and inherently political thanks to climate change and the potential for petrochemical disaster in Houston. Calls to not “politicize…
00:21:16 |
Fri 01 Sep 2017
The Dig: Adrian Chen On How Factcheck.org Won’t Save America
Is the internet good or bad? The debate is more often than not a proxy for one about politics more generally and populism in particular. But the real issue with the internet is this: unaccountable bu…
01:06:44 |
Wed 30 Aug 2017
Behind the News: Identity, Class, and the Far Right
Jodi Dean, a professor of political science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, discusses how to rethink the class vs. identity debate, as well as the tensions between online life and practice. The…
00:51:58 |
Mon 28 Aug 2017
Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Foreign Policy in the Trump Administration
First, Robert Kuttner, the co-editor of The American Prospect, recorded the day after Kuttner published his conversation with White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, just as Bannon was being ouste…
00:33:33 |
Mon 28 Aug 2017
The Dig: Trump’s Happy Place with Alex Pareene
Dan talks to Splinter Politics Editor Alex Pareene about his recent piece “Charlottesville Was a Preview of the Future of the Republican Party” and about why Phoenix is Trump’s happy place. This seco…
00:31:41 |
Fri 25 Aug 2017
The Dig: Andrew Bacevich on The War That Never Ends
The War on Terror’s permanence should be remarkable, an outrage. But it is precisely because the war has become permanent that it has long since been rendered unremarkable. Dan’s guest is historian A…
00:57:28 |
Wed 23 Aug 2017
Behind the News: Sex and Gender in the Former Socialist World; Race and Mass Incarceration
Kristen Ghodsee, author of Red Hangover: Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism (Duke University Press, 2017), joins Doug to discuss sex and gender in the former socialist world, and her recent essa…
00:51:57 |
Mon 21 Aug 2017
RL Stephens Live from Charlottesville: Local DSA Members Speak Out
In the wake of the fascist terror attack, RL attended DSA Charlottesville's monthly meeting. Time and again, the issues of safety and violence were discussed along with how the terror attack would ch…
00:21:29 |
Fri 18 Aug 2017
The Dig: Why Establishment Democrats Punch "Alt-Left"
New Republic writer Sarah Jones on Trump's invocation of the "alt-left," the term's unseemly centrist history, and more. We're gonna try doing two episodes each week now: the regular long Dig on Tues…
00:24:09 |
Fri 18 Aug 2017
RL Stephens Live from Charlottesville: The Haven
RL talks with Kevin, an organizer at The Haven, a nonprofit serving Charlottesville's homeless population. Kevin knew Heather Heyer because she had helped him escape homelessness himself. He was on t…
00:18:48 |
Thu 17 Aug 2017
The Dig: What's Next for the Colombian Left with Forrest Hylton
The FARC peace accord is a historic victory for Colombian society. But the struggle to build an urban left strong enough to take on the country's powerful right remains a daunting one. Today's guest …
01:07:00 |
Wed 16 Aug 2017
Stockton to Malone #7: Don't Call it a Comeback
Paula Mielke lives in Falcon Heights, Minnesota--where Philando Castile was murdered by a police officer. She had never before considered herself an activist, but after Philando's death, she got to w…
00:50:53 |
Mon 14 Aug 2017
Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: The Democrats, Trump, and The Case For Universal Health Care
On Jacobin Radio, Dan La Botz. co-editor of New Politics discusses the Democrat Party's "bullshit deal;" Professor Jeremy Bendik-Keymer talks about Trump and fascism; and Dr. Adam Gaffney analyzes th…
00:52:34 |
Fri 11 Aug 2017
The Dig: Confronting the Neoliberal Narco-State in Mexico with Christy Thornton
With Trump, Mexico is the symbol and source of so many things that are wrong with the United States. Oftentimes, these stories told about Mexico in the United States aren’t just wrong but serve to ob…
01:06:21 |
Wed 09 Aug 2017
The Dig: R.L. and Ella on The Upcoming DSA Convention
We’re taking a quick break halfway into our four-part series of interviews on Latin America because this week is a big week for the American Left: Democratic Socialists of America, or DSA, is holding…
01:54:45 |
Tue 01 Aug 2017
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