An interview with Loretta J. Ross.
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Minority rule is a major obstacle to ensuring abortion rights.
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In an increasingly expensive and antisocial world, tradwives forsake life with others for the lonely, constrictive spaces of bourgeois ownership.
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Religious conservatives see “anti-eugenic” state laws as the most promising avenue for establishing a federal ban on abortion. Much of the feminist left is ill-equipped to deal with this threat.
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A roundtable on Dobbs and organized labor.
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Independent filmmakers offer a vital portal into the struggle against the theocratic regime.
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Graduate students won a major raise after five weeks on strike. The victory is a product of the militancy that has pushed the union to the vanguard of organized labor in higher ed.
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Healthcare and education have been at the center of pandemic labor struggles. Two rank-and-file leaders from these sectors join the podcast for a live episode.
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The new leader of the British union Unite is meeting workers’ militant mood with a strategy rooted in the workplace.
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For forty-eight years, American presidents came and went, but J. Edgar Hoover remained as the powerful director of the FBI.
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Long COVID is a labor rights issue.
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The Republican Party’s midterm election expectations for South Texas were dashed. But Democrats should still see the results from the region as a wake-up call.
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Matt and Sam answer listener questions about religion and the left, literature, white Christian nationalism, conspiracy theories, and more.
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Walmart and Kroger workers discuss the added stress of working during the holidays.
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Minnesotans voted to reelect the attorney general who prosecuted Derek Chauvin. The result holds important lessons for the Democratic Party on its approach to criminal justice.
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What happens at the University of California will set the standard for a sector that today employs more people than the federal government.
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In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma seeks to re-enchant a world whose catastrophes have grown monotonously real.
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The major question facing DSA in the next few years is whether the organization can build deeper roots in the working class, particularly the labor movement.
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s Abolition Geography is written to be used.
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Delivery workers from New York and London join the podcast to talk about organizing during the pandemic.
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Socialism is rooted in a philosophical optimism that our movement is based in a majority.
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Matt and Sam discuss Garry Wills’s 1970 masterpiece of political reporting and analysis, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man.
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Chicago’s steel mills are forty years gone to brownfields. Most of the union halls are shuttered. Yet the parks, with their fieldhouses and pools and quiet preserves, remain as enduring gifts from social visionaries.
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The backlash against the increasingly vocal demands for recognition and equality on the part of Israel’s Arab citizens has decisively shaped twenty-first-century Israeli politics.
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To prevent socialism from becoming stale orthodoxy, we need to be alive to changes in the world around us.
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The spread of precarious conditions across the world can lead to despair, but it points to possibilities as well.
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A senior mental health coordinator discusses the pandemic’s effects on her work.
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Democratic socialism offers a vision of a good life—that we can share wealth and power and knowledge, be less selfish and cruel, and let everyone, not just the lucky few, develop their talents.
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The implementation of socialism is dauntingly complex, beset on all sides by historical forces and individual corruption. But I’m still a socialist because it is a way to be a human among humans, a person in a society of the people.
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The labor movement is an ongoing fight for our lives and our humanity.
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