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Transmissions from Jonestown

Posted May 27, 202300:38:54

A sonic memorial to the Black women of the Peoples Temple.

Produced and reported by Babette Thomas. Edited by Liza Yeager and Mitchell Johnson,...

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Posted May 20, 202302:05:09

Featuring Quinn Slobodian on Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy. Radical libertarians, including...

Trans Children w/ Jules Gill-Peterson

Posted May 13, 202302:17:10

Featuring Jules Gill-Peterson on Histories of the Transgender Child. Amid this right-wing reaction, a discussion of the history of trans medicine...

The Chicago Model w/ Stacy Davis Gates, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, and Alex Han

Posted May 8, 202301:14:02

Featuring Stacy Davis Gates, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, and Alex Han on how Chicago’s labor left took over City Hall. Brandon Johnson’s mayoral victory,...

Philly’s Left Turn w/ Helen Gym & Nikil Saval

Posted May 5, 202300:49:21

Featuring Nikil Saval and Helen Gym on how the history of Philadelphia social movements brought Nikil into the state senate and has made Helen, a long-time...