Booked: The Origins of the Carceral State
Elizabeth Hinton discusses her new book, From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime, and how twentieth-century policymakers anticipated the explosion of the prison population.
Winter 2025
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Belabored Podcast #110: Americans in Revolt, with Sarah Jaffe
Belabored co-host Sarah Jaffe talks about her new book, Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt.
Belabored Podcast #109: Forum for Change, with Nathalie Guay
A sneak preview of the labor events happening at the World Social Forum next week in Montreal.
An Anti-Trump Electoral Strategy That Isn’t Pro-Clinton
In order both to defeat Trump and build a base that can sustain a grassroots mass movement, the Democratic Socialists of America are turning their efforts toward voter protection. National director Maria Svart explains.
Lenny Skutnik’s Convention
Over the last several convention cycles, we have seen more and more everyday heroes and victims take the place of politicians on the center stage of national politics.
Bernie Sanders, Sheepdog Socialist
“We always knew that this was just the beginning,” says Sanders delegate Sandy Przybylak. “I’m looking to what Bernie has inspired for decades to come.”
Bill and Hillary: Biography as History
What Hillary needed—and got—last night was a biography reboot. If Bill Clinton’s valentine to his wife was characteristically a bit windy, it deftly painted a picture of her as a lifelong progressive who gets things done.
Trumpism: The Fight Ahead
The political task for the left is not just to defeat Trump, but to overcome the conditions that have led millions to support him.
Belabored Podcast #108: Philly Airport Workers Rising Up, with Gabe Morgan
Airport workers at the Philadelphia International Airport just voted to strike next week during the Democratic National Convention. SEIU 32BJ Vice President Gabe Morgan joins us to explain why.
Trump’s Nomination May Not Be the Worst of It
Republicans have locked down control of the House of Representatives for at least the coming decade.
After Dallas
To ask what the future of Black Lives Matter has to do with Dallas is to believe that the killing of police officers is bound up in the actions of the movement. But this tragedy won’t end the movement, because the movement did not cause this tragedy.
Belabored Podcast #107: Controlling Crisis in Puerto Rico, with Héctor Cordero-Guzmán
Puerto Rico’s debt crisis has been a long time in the making, but will the solutions advocated by the U.S. government make it any better?
Booked: Our Fellow American Revolutionaries
In her new book, Our Sister Republics, Caitlin Fitz exhumes a forgotten moment in the history of the Americas, a time when residents of the newly formed United States came to see Latin Americans as partners in a shared revolutionary experiment.
Britain’s EU Problem is a London Problem
Huge swathes of England outside of London voted to Leave the European Union, because of a feeling of exclusion that has been growing since Thatcher’s 1980s.
Belabored Podcast #106: Nurses on the Frontline, with Jean Ross
Jean Ross, co-president of National Nurses United, joins us to talk about the nursing strike in Minnesota. Plus: audio from NNU Executive Director RoseAnn DeMoro’s People’s Summit speech on why we need to fight neoliberalism now.
