An interview with Dara Lind and Omar Jadwat on immigration policy in the second Trump administration.
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An interview with Faye Guenther, president of UFCW Local 3000.
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The U.S. government is activating a suite of algorithmic surveillance tools, developed in concert with major tech companies, to monitor and criminalize immigrants’ speech.
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An interview with Quinn Slobodian, the author of Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right.
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Matt and Sam discuss the passing of Pope Francis, what his papacy meant, why he scandalized the Catholic right, and why his message feels so necessary and so far away.
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The government funds institutions that stretch across American society. The Trump administration is demanding the relinquishment of constitutional rights to keep the money flowing.
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By intimidating and disarming potential sources of legal resistance, Trump weakens one of the last institutional barriers standing between his administration and unbridled executive power.
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Trump has destroyed a federal system of labor relations that helped contain conflict for decades. The move could have unintended consequences.
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The administration is attempting to incapacitate the redistributive and social protective arms of the state, while exploiting its vast bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport.
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If the secretary of state can simply declare a legal permanent resident deportable based on their constitutionally protected activities, the First Amendment no longer applies to noncitizens.
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There will surely be turf wars and palace intrigue within the administration, but there is little reason to think that its core figures will fracture in the pursuit of their basic goal: to break the twentieth-century state.
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An interview with Jessica Pishko, author of The Highest Law in the Land.
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The documentary No Other Land won an Oscar, but the conditions it depicts in the West Bank are only getting worse.
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Following the teachings of Murray Rothbard, Javier Milei wants to dismantle the state while also using it to consolidate his power.
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I’m Still Here defies the far right’s attempts to redeem Brazil’s military dictatorship. But it suggests a tidier closure to the regime’s disappearances than many real families have experienced.
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The chances for durable peace may depend on Trump’s whims.
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Tenant organizers demand that housing be more than just a bare roof over your head, and in doing so they make space for a full life.
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The Lord of the Rings is a book obsessed with ruins, bloodlines, and the divine right of aristocrats. Why are so many on the left able to love it?
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The super-rich opt out of the social contract by picking and choosing which laws apply to them, whether in offshore tax havens or at home.
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Historian and journalist Rick Perlstein explains what Democrats and the media are (still) getting wrong about the threat from Trump and the far right.
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Government highway agencies have enabled the blatant falsification of traffic model results. As a result, the United States wastes billions on road expansions that fail to cure congestion and make it harder to get around without a car.
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Can we expand the state’s role in the economy while diminishing its capacity for war?
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The Squad was elected on a hope for political revolution—but it was missing a standing army.
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Matt and Sam answer listener questions for their 100th episode—and hear from friends of the podcast, new and old.
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Three recent books offer a searing portrait of the calculated brutality of the ongoing Uyghur genocide.
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Like so many romantics, Scott mixed radical and conservative themes. No wonder he found appreciative readers across the political spectrum.
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Matt and Sam talk to Vinson Cunningham about his debut novel Great Expectations, political theater, and Barack Obama.
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The DNC showed a party that has successfully metabolized movement energy and insurgent campaigns while distancing itself from demands deemed harmful to its electoral prospects.
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Matt and Sam interview Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld about their new book, The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics.
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An interview with Waleed Shahid.
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