Commemorations in Derry were a reminder that all of the issues at the heart of the Irish struggle for freedom against the British state remain very much alive.
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Global economic sanctions have shocked the Russian economy. But can they halt Russian aggression?
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Economist J.W. Mason joins the podcast to talk about inflation and how to organize around price increases.
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We cannot know how Ukraine will develop after the war. But we know there will be horrible consequences if Russia wins.
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Gabriel Winant joins the podcast to discuss what the populist right gets wrong about the history of the American working class.
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The movement for abortion rights has made missteps. But anti-abortion advocates wouldn’t have had such a lonely battle with such imperfect choices had anyone else inserted themselves into the fray.
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What connection does the party of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson have to the party of Barack Obama and Kamala Harris?
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With a pandemic pause on student loan repayments set to expire this year, debt abolitionists have stepped up their campaign to get Washington to cancel education debt entirely.
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Like almost every other war film, The Battle at Lake Changjin is less a work of art than a social engineering project.
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AMLO has performed a tightrope walk as president, balancing the opposing tendencies of populism: the extension of democracy and the strengthening of personal leadership. Has he begun to wobble?
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How did a scrappy group of organizers without institutional backing prevail over the second-largest employer in the United States?
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The consensus thesis allows pundits to settle into the comfortable role of brave prophet standing alone against the warmongering tide.
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The seismic shifts in the global world order during Xi’s rule call for new tools for understanding China and the varied lives and views of its inhabitants.
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If Hong Kongers once hoped they could create their own future, that dream was crushed in June 2020. Deacon Lui’s work is about the uncertainty of how to move forward.
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The Christian right fought a long war against Dungeons & Dragons. With the role-playing game poised for superstardom, there may once again exist a temptation to bestow it with powers it doesn’t really possess.
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An interview with Dorothy Roberts, the author of Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World.
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Reign of Terror situates the War on Terror as part of a longer story of domination that can be traced back to the founding of the United States as a settler-colonial and slaveholding behemoth.
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MLB owners’ recent lockout was an effort to reverse the gains that players had won over decades of labor struggle. The owners failed.
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Retail has historically been one of the hardest sectors to organize, but workers at REI are bucking that trend.
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The contemporary right has inherited two seemingly contradictory impulses from the neoliberal era: anti-democratic politics and a libertarian personal ethic.
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Writer and advocate Gillian Branstetter joins the podcast to discuss the right’s war on trans people.
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In this photograph of Barbara and Beverly Smith of the Combahee River Collective, the framed pictures reflect an endless cascade of black women’s intellectual labor and political action.
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Jonathan Franzen’s Midwestern broods, like horsemen of the apocalypse, ride through his books heralding various endings: of eras, of bygone mores, of novels themselves.
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This week teachers and education workers went on strike in Minneapolis for the the first time in fifty years.
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“Prison iPads” became a lifeline during the pandemic. They also became a new way to squeeze money out of the incarcerated and their families.
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Nicholas Mulder’s account of the modern economic sanctions regime sheds new light on an era of extreme destabilization and destruction.
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Putin sees Russian statehood and Russian national and linguistic identity as inextricably connected, and he is willing to spill Russian and Ukrainian blood to protect this nationalist vision.
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In the 1940s and 1950s, conservative women activists mobilized against perceived threats to the family and the nation, laying the groundwork for family politics on the right for decades to come.
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Why did so many leftists turn a blind eye to Russian aggression?
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How close are we to fully automated robot logistics?
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