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Recent Episodes

The New Democrats w/ Lily Geismer

Posted June 5, 2022 • 02:09:20

Dan’s second episode with historian Lily Geismer, who he interviewed in 2019 about Don’t Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the...

Ruth Wilson Gilmore w/ Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar

Posted May 28, 2022 • 02:08:03

What role does mass incarceration play in American political economy? What does that reveal about what sort of politics are required to overcome it?...

Center and Periphery w/ Margarita Fajardo

Posted May 21, 2022 • 02:00:00

Historian Margarita Fajardo on her book The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development...

The Return of Labor Militancy

Posted May 13, 2022 • 01:43:13

Live from New York: Dan interviews Amazon Labor Union president Chris Smalls, Jaz Brisack of Starbucks Workers United, SEIU Local 1199NE president Rob...

SCOTUS, Politics, and the Law w/ Aziz Rana, Amna Akbar, & Marbre Stahly-Butts

Posted May 7, 2022 • 01:44:58

A timely interview from the archives: legal scholars Aziz Rana and Amna Akbar, and Movement for Black Lives lawyer Marbre Stahly-Butts, on SCOTUS, liberal...