The Dig

The Dig is a podcast from Jacobin magazine that discusses politics, criminal justice, immigration and class conflict with smart people. Please support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4839800

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Glenn Greenwald on Trump and the national security state

Posted January 10, 2017 • 00:40:01

Presidents Bush and Obama both presided over an expansive War on Terror and a national security state with a lethal and global reach. Permanent war...

Trump didn't invent being terrible on immigration: César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández & Chris Newman.

Posted December 21, 2016 • 01:05:32

Donald Trump launched his campaign by calling Mexican immigrants “rapists” and pledged to build a “a big, fat, beautiful wall” on the southern...

Americans in Revolt: Sarah Jaffe on social movements

Posted December 13, 2016 • 00:42:56

Journalist Sarah Jaffe's new book Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt chronicles the movements for economic and racial justice that will be at the...

Why Trump Won: Stephanie Coontz, Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Matt Karp

Posted December 6, 2016 • 00:49:36

Donald Trump's election was shocking, if actually not so surprising, and has prompted widespread protests against a cresting right-wing reaction taking...