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Know Your Enemy: The Right Kind of Worker, with Gabriel Winant

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ May 2, 2022

Gabriel Winant joins the podcast to discuss what the populist right gets wrong about the history of the American working class.

Belabored: Abolish Student Debt, with the Debt Collective

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ April 22, 2022

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.

Know Your Enemy: The Other Side of the Story, with Michael Kazin

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ April 13, 2022

A discussion on the Democratic Party, from its origins to the crack-up of the New Deal coalition and the rise of the right that followed.

Belabored: Winning in Logistics Work, with Michelle Valentin Nieves and Laleh Khalili

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ April 8, 2022

A two-part episode on logistics labor, with Michelle Valentin Nieves of the Amazon Labor Union, and Laleh Khalili, author of Sinews of War and Trade.

Know Your Enemy: Red-Diaper Baby, with Ari Brostoff

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ March 31, 2022

A conversation with Ari Brostoff on David Horowitz’s trajectory from the New Left to conservative firebrand.

Conflict in Twenty-first-Century China

Editors ▪ March 29, 2022

A preview of our Spring 2022 issue.

Belabored: Retail Organizing at REI

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ March 25, 2022

Retail has historically been one of the hardest sectors to organize, but workers at REI are bucking that trend.

Know Your Enemy: The Anti-Trans Agenda, with Gillian Branstetter

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ March 21, 2022

Writer and advocate Gillian Branstetter joins the podcast to discuss the right’s war on trans people.

Belabored: Teacher Strikes in the Age of COVID-19

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ March 11, 2022

This week teachers and education workers went on strike in Minneapolis for the the first time in fifty years.

Know Your Enemy: A Second Civil War? With Jamelle Bouie

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ March 8, 2022

Jamelle Bouie returns to the show to discuss the rise of rhetoric—not only but especially from the right—about a “second Civil War” in the United States.

Know Your Enemy: Mothers of Conservatism, with Michelle M. Nickerson

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ February 28, 2022

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.

Belabored: Cyborg Taylorism in the Warehouse, with Beth Gutelius

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ February 25, 2022

How close are we to fully automated robot logistics?

Belabored: Public Goods, Private Harms with Donald Cohen

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ February 11, 2022

Over the past several decades, the shift of public goods and services into the control of corporations has taken a toll on their quality, increased inequality, undermined labor and civil rights, and made government less accountable. How can we restore our ownership of the commons?