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Years Active: 2017 - 2025

Lessons from the 1980s for a New Sanctuary Movement

Donald Trump's viciously xenophobic policies have put the word "sanctuary" on many people's lips. But immigrant rights organizers under Trump don't have to reinvent the wheel: the 1980s saw a vibrant…

00:26:42 | Wed 22 Feb 2017

The Dig: Jedediah Purdy on Donald Trump and the Courts

All eyes have turned to the judiciary. It’s the one potential institutional check on Trump on the federal level (aside from the national security state). But the judiciary, despite pretenses to the c…

01:01:09 | Tue 21 Feb 2017

Chasing Oscar Romero's Killers

The Salvadoran Civil War is one of the most brutal conflicts in recent history. The United States funded far-right, quasi-fascist forces who had no qualms with bathing the country in blood in the nam…

01:22:32 | Sat 18 Feb 2017

The Way Forward

The first episode of Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman, featuring a wide-ranging interview with Bhaskar Sunkara and Robert Brenner that covers prospects for resistance with a rising anti-Trump sentime…

00:49:18 | Thu 16 Feb 2017

Public Education in the Age of Trump

Betsy DeVos is now Secretary of Education. A far-right billionaire heiress to a pyramid scheme — sorry, alleged pyramid scheme — who has never spent a day teaching but has devoted much of her career …

00:23:42 | Tue 14 Feb 2017

The Dig: Mark Blyth on How Austerity Brought Us Donald Trump

Mark Blyth wasn't surprised by the rise of Donald Trump, nor Brexit, nor the crises spreading across Europe. He actually predicted them all. Blyth, the author of "Austerity: The History of a Dangerou…

01:32:30 | Tue 14 Feb 2017

Stockton to Malone: Underground Abortion Before Roe v. Wade

Welcome to the first episode of Stockton to Malone, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. For the first episode, ahead of protests and counterprotests at Planned Parenthood clinics around the country and …

00:43:23 | Fri 10 Feb 2017

The Dig: George Cicariello-Maher on Violence and Free Speech

George Cicariello-Maher is professor of political science at Drexel University and author of several books, including Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela, published by Verso as part …

00:43:05 | Tue 07 Feb 2017

We Can Do Better

On a recent episode of the podcast Bad with Money with Gaby Dunn, Gaby explored some basic questions about capitalism with Jacobin managing editor Nicole Aschoff: what is it? Why does it encourage co…

00:22:47 | Fri 03 Feb 2017

The Anti-Inauguration — feat. Naomi Klein, Anand Gopal, Jeremy Scahill, Owen Jones, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

On January 20, 2017, just a few hours after the inauguration of Donald Trump, one thousand people gathered in Washington, DC’s Lincoln Theatre (and 200,000 across the United States and abroad watched…

01:48:05 | Thu 02 Feb 2017

The Dig: Fighting the Trump Bans: Linda Sarsour and Nicholas Espíritu

The depravity of Donald Trump’s fear-mongering, xenophobic, anti-Muslim politics are now in full swing.

The new president has barred people from seven Muslim-majority countries — Iran, Iraq, Libya, S…

00:55:15 | Tue 31 Jan 2017

The Dig: Diane Ravitch on Trump, DeVos, and the Corporate Education Reform Agenda

Donald Trump has nominated Betsy DeVos, a free-…

00:55:48 | Tue 31 Jan 2017

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