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Recent Episodes

Dara Lind: Trump's uncomfortable resemblance to Obama on immigration

Posted July 11, 2017 • 01:09:06

What Trump has accomplished is spread fear through immigrant communities and, with the Muslim and refugee travel bans, made bigotry the explicit cornerstone...

Sarah Jaffe: We Didn’t Start the Class War

Posted July 5, 2017 • 00:00:57

Workers have for years faced a neoliberal onslaught administered by a bipartisan establishment of technocratic elites who have ensured the redistribution...

James Forman Jr.: Locking Up Our Own

Posted June 20, 2017 • 01:28:58

Mass incarceration controls poor people and populations that have been excluded from the labor market. Politically, tough-on-crime rhetoric has for...

Richard Seymour: Labour's Got Momentum

Posted June 13, 2017 • 01:16:41

Bernie would have won. And in the UK, he sort of did last week. The Labour Party, under left-wing leader Jeremy Corbyn (full name: Jeremy Bernard Corbyn)...

David Dayen: Consider the Vampire Squid

Posted June 6, 2017 • 01:12:52

Nothing that so exposes Donald Trump as a snake oil salesman as the fact that he ran a campaign pitched at white working-class anger toward so-called...