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Recent Episodes

The Militant 70s Labor Movement You Never Heard of with Lane Windham

Posted January 24, 2018 •

Everyone agrees that the 1970s was the beginning of the end of capitalism as we had known it since the New Deal. But historian Lane Windham makes it...

Workers' Rights Are Students' Rights

Posted January 19, 2018 •

Student workers at Rutgers University are fighting for $15 an hour. Undergraduate history major and dining-hall worker Danny Taylor of @RutgersUSAS...

A New Poor People’s Campaign with Nijmie Dzurinko

Posted January 16, 2018 •

Martin Luther King Jr. launched the Poor People’s Campaign alongside other organizers shortly before he was assassinated 50 years ago. Today, organizers...

That Trump Book Tho with Patrick Blanchfield

Posted January 13, 2018 •

Your first Diglet of the new year, and we’re talking about that Trump book. At n+1 Patrick Blanchfield makes the case that Fire and Fury is not, as...

Killing the Black Body with Dorothy Roberts

Posted January 9, 2018 •

Chattel slavery made black women’s reproduction the source of private property—and in doing so invented race and American racism. Ever since, the...