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Recent Episodes

Aziz Rana: The Cold War’s Late Demise

Posted February 14, 2018 •

What if the Cold War only just ended in November 2016, as Donald Trump grotesquely encircled and then captured the presidency, finding it, to his surprise,...

Frances Fox Piven: Movements Still Matter

Posted February 7, 2018 •

Four decades ago, Frances Fox Piven and her husband Richard Cloward published Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail, a classic,...

Baltimore’s Crisis Continues with Lester Spence

Posted February 3, 2018 •

The uprising following the police killing of Freddie Gray drew national media attention to Baltimore and the abusive law enforcement agents that discipline...

Building an American Empire with Paul Frymer

Posted January 30, 2018 •

We are living on land from which indigenous people, over hundreds of years, were violently removed. On some level, everyone knows this—yet it’s...

Why Democrats Fought Then Folded on DACA with Jeff Stein

Posted January 25, 2018 •

Excitement that Democrats had developed a spine in the fight for Dreamers reverted to familiar despondency and fury when they capitulated and voted...