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Recent Episodes

Matt Bruenig on Why Welfare is Great and Why We Need More

Posted April 4, 2017 • 01:20:31

Medicaid expansion saved Obamacare from repeal. There’s a lot to hate about Obamacare, but that expansion did something very good on a very large...

Corey Robin on the Reactionaries' Minds Under Trump

Posted March 28, 2017 • 01:12:09

What a moment to read, or to re-read, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, Corey Robin’s 2011 collection of essays...

The Democratic Socialists of America and the Fight Against Trump

Posted March 21, 2017 • 01:17:03

The Democratic Socialists of America are growing — suddenly and explosively. Last June ahead of the Democratic National Convention, DSA counted 6,500...

Dave Weigel: What the media doesn't get about the left

Posted March 14, 2017 • 01:08:52

On the Left, few forms of mainstream journalism are more detested than political reporting. It often substitutes the horse race for substance, dresses...

Charlene Carruthers: Fighting for Black Lives Under Trump

Posted March 7, 2017 • 01:02:22

Fighting for Black Lives Under Trump The Movement for Black Lives’ insistence that black lives matter is deceptively straightforward and minimal....