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Democracy in Chains with Nancy MacLean

Posted June 5, 2018

For libertarians, liberty means something different. It’s about liberty for property owners. And in their quest to preserve that absolute freedom...

Two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal

Posted June 2, 2018

Fifty years ago, a mainstream group of high-profile Americans declared the following: "Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate...

Left Out of Spain’s National Question

Posted May 30, 2018

Spanish politics are complicated. Dan speaks to Carlos Delclós, Kate Shea Baird and Bécquer Seguín to help clarify the Catalan independence movement,...

Resisting the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Posted May 27, 2018

The steady pace of school massacres has revived calls to put more cops in school. And so atrocities committed by white students are exploited to make...

Telling a New Story with George Monbiot

Posted May 23, 2018

A laundry list of modest policy solutions is not enough, it turns out. It's not just that technocratic fixes-around-the-edges spectacularly fail to...