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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Matt and Sam welcome back John Ganz to discuss René Girard, the Stanford polymath whose theory has inspired a devoted following—including Peter Thiel, Girard’s former student.
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Matt and Sam explore how movement conservatives—and their think tanks—are preparing for a second Trump administration.
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For all the friendly feelings toward organized labor in the United States today, a new workers’ movement remains incipient.
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What would it look like if we subordinated finance to the public interest?
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Editors and writers from Jewish Currents stop by for a discussion on the contradictory history of the Anti-Defamation League—and how to make sense of its recent showdown with Elon Musk.
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The neoliberal order has been exposed as fraudulent, inefficient, and inequitable. Yet it hardly lies in the dustbin of history.
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Nothing has replaced neoliberalism as a better descriptor for the political-economic order we inhabit.
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Neoliberal ideas and institutions are still with us, but the political order they constituted is not.
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Neoliberal ideas and institutions are still with us, but the political order they constituted is not.
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Samuel Moyn returns to the podcast to discuss his new book Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times.
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Urban socialists blazed a path toward social democracy. Leftists who want to reclaim this tradition face a whole new set of obstacles.
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In his new book, Matthew Desmond argues that abolishing poverty will require an ambitious moral undertaking.
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Glacier v. Teamsters was not a crisis averted but another step in the right’s plan to stifle labor power.
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A fiscal calamity awaits public schools once pandemic-related federal assistance ends.
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Ecological crisis, rural deindustrialization, and real estate speculation have created conditions in which the far right thrives.
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If we want to move toward a world that meets everyone’s needs, we will need to get serious about the role of money on the left.
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If we want to move toward a world that meets everyone’s needs, we will need to get serious about the role of money on the left.
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The Inflation Reduction Act presupposes a private sector–led transition. But battles over its implementation could build the political constituencies and expertise needed to take on the fossil fuel industry.
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Lasting labor victories depend on coordinating diverse strategies and building the relationships to sustain them.
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An interview with Michael Walzer on The Struggle for a Decent Politics.
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A discussion on the life and times of Whittaker Chambers, the Communist spy who became a conservative hero.
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Timothy Shenk discusses Realigners—“a biography of American democracy told through its majorities, and the people who made them.”
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In The Future We Need, Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta argue for extending collective bargaining beyond the workplace.
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Minority rule is a major obstacle to ensuring abortion rights.
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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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Introducing our Winter 2023 special section, “Feminism After Dobbs.”
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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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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.