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Know Your Enemy: TV Writing Today, with Dorothy Fortenberry and Will Arbery

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ May 5, 2023

Matt and Sam talk to writers on Succession and Extrapolations about the WGA strike and how they approach political topics and themes on their shows.

Belabored: How to Bargain for Power, with Jane McAlevey

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ April 21, 2023

The longtime organizer and theorist discusses tactics that unions can use to win major gains at the table and in the contract.

What’s Next for the Climate Left?

Editors ▪ April 21, 2023

A preview of our Spring 2023 issue.

Know Your Enemy: Ron DeSantis Wants to Make America Florida, with Gillian Branstetter

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ April 18, 2023

On Ron DeSantis’s political aspirations.

Belabored: Child Labor, Child Strikes, with Jack Hodgson

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ April 10, 2023

Recent news reports have revealed that child labor is not just a historical relic in the United States—and some politicians want to undermine existing regulations, claiming that less oversight is good for business.

Know Your Enemy: Bob Dylan’s America, with Will Epstein

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ April 5, 2023

In some respects, Dylan’s Philosophy of Modern Song is a quintessentially conservative book. But Dylan’s America never stops moving, reinventing itself, or rebelling against its own strictures.

Know Your Enemy: Whittaker Chambers and the Freight Train of History

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ March 13, 2023

A discussion on the life and times of Whittaker Chambers, the Communist spy who became a conservative hero.

[EVENT | March 8] Winter Issue Discussion: The Agoraphobic Fantasy of Tradlife

Editors ▪ March 1, 2023

Join Sarah Jones and Zoe Hu for a discussion on stay-at-home girlfriends and feminism.

Know Your Enemy: Realignments, with Timothy Shenk

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ February 27, 2023

Timothy Shenk discusses Realigners—“a biography of American democracy told through its majorities, and the people who made them.”

Know Your Enemy: Triumph of the Therapeutic, with Hannah Zeavin and Alex Colston

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ February 13, 2023

A discussion on Philip Rieff, a conservative sociologist concerned that society was being driven by therapeutic ideas and psychological institutions rather than by religious or political ones.

Nurses End Strike in New York

Michelle Chen ▪ January 13, 2023

After a three-day strike, the New York State Nurses Association announced it had reached tentative agreements with two hospitals that will strengthen safe staffing standards.

Belabored: Essential Workers in Crisis, with Elizabeth Lalasz and Jia Lee

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ December 23, 2022

Healthcare and education have been at the center of pandemic labor struggles. Two rank-and-file leaders from these fields join the podcast for a live episode.