Matt and Sam revisit J.D. Vance’s 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy to try to understand the Republican vice-presidential nominee.
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Hope will be an essential resource for her campaign. At her first rally, she succeeded in providing it.
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The new militancy coursing through the labor movement has revealed the growth of a more expansive and democratic union culture.
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The new militancy coursing through the labor movement has revealed the growth of a more expansive and democratic union culture.
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The new militancy coursing through the labor movement has revealed the growth of a more expansive and democratic union culture.
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The new militancy coursing through the labor movement has revealed the growth of a more expansive and democratic union culture.
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A culture of reverence for the U.S. Constitution shields the founding document from criticism, despite its many shortcomings. We need an alternative vision that provides meaningful freedom at home and embraces self-determination abroad.
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Deeply ingrained inequalities—many of which are reflective of the country’s patchwork healthcare system—belie rosy projections that Biden is delivering inclusive growth.
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The two old men worried to their very cores about Trump came to opposite decisions: Mitt Romney quit, and Joe Biden is running again. Both may have chosen wrong.
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In an era of retrenchment in social policy, food assistance is becoming more generous and inclusive. But Republican politicians are attempting to gut one of the most popular programs: free school lunch.
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Matt and Sam interview John Ganz about his new book, When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s.
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Matt and Sam interview John Ganz about his new book, When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s.
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Matt and Sam are joined by Neil J. Young to discuss his new book, Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right.
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While the largest diasporic population of Palestinians in the world contains strong political disagreements, they have made Chile a stalwart opponent of the war in Gaza.
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Tim Barker and Ben Mabie join to tell the story of American labor militancy in the 1930s—and how the right responded.
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Georgia’s sweeping and political application of conspiracy law echoes a tactic that shattered the left roughly a hundred years ago, when the U.S. government targeted socialist parties and militant unions with laws against criminal syndicalism, espionage, and sedition.
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In Suneil Sanzgiri’s new film, the landscape remains as a last witness to the violence of colonial power.
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The Italian prime minister has become a central figure in the EU establishment as a mood of decline and threat pushes voters toward reactionary parties.
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Frantz Fanon’s psychiatric work was the most practical manifestation of his larger ambition to restore agency to alienated subjects.
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To grasp where inequality is headed—much less to reduce it—we will need to look beyond the economic.
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For conservatives around the world, Israel’s democratic deficit is a feature, not a bug—an alternative constitutional model that defies liberal universalism.
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Another electoral victory would enable Narendra Modi’s party to inscribe de facto Hindu supremacy into law.
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The National Labor Relations Act still functions, just barely, for Starbucks workers. Employees at fast-food franchises face even worse odds under federal labor law.
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Matt and Sam are joined by historian Ronnie Grinberg to discuss her book Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals.
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The Israeli government is restricting access to food in Gaza at the same time as it is destroying healthcare infrastructure. Each process intensifies the lethal consequences of the other.
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Voters understand that a left unity pact provides the only path to victory on the national level.
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To be radical requires a theory of how this world, for all its problems, contains and is fostering the beginning of another, very different world.
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The German political establishment has abandoned the belief that the Holocaust gave it a responsibility to humanity and replaced it with a responsibility to Israel alone.
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The German political establishment has abandoned the belief that the Holocaust gave it a responsibility to humanity and replaced it with a responsibility to Israel alone.
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An interview with Collectif Golem, a left-wing Jewish group in France fighting antisemitism and the far right.
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