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Fall 2024
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Know Your Enemy: J. Edgar Hoover, G-Man, with Beverly Gage
For forty-eight years, American presidents came and went, but J. Edgar Hoover remained as the powerful director of the FBI.
Feminism After Dobbs
A preview of our Winter 2023 issue.
Belabored: When COVID Never Ends
Long COVID is a labor rights issue.
Brittney Griner Comes Home
The Russian government’s decision to use the WNBA star as a bargaining chip illustrates the weakness of its diplomatic efforts.
[EVENT | December 15] Belabored Live: Essential Workers in Crisis
Join us on Thursday, December 15 for a live episode of Belabored.
Know Your Enemy: You Have Questions, We Have Answers (Mailbag Episode)
Matt and Sam answer listener questions about religion and the left, literature, white Christian nationalism, conspiracy theories, and more.
Belabored: Pandemic Black Fridays are Twice as Tiring, with Cynthia Murray and Lisa Harris
Walmart and Kroger workers discuss the added stress of working during the holidays.
Belabored: Courier Class War
Delivery workers from New York and London join the podcast to talk about organizing during the pandemic.
Transcript: Courier Class War, with Antonio Solis
An organizer from Los Deliveristas Unidos talks about delivering food through the pandemic and what the group is fighting for next.
Know Your Enemy: Nixon Agonistes
Matt and Sam discuss Garry Wills’s 1970 masterpiece of political reporting and analysis, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man.
Belabored: Mental Health Workers’ Double Pandemic, with Kellie Benson
A mental healthcare provider discusses the pandemic’s effects on her work.
Know Your Enemy: Why Conservatives Love Baseball, with David Roth
A conversation on the MLB playoffs, baseball’s place in American history, varieties of conservative baseball fans, and more.
Belabored: The Death and Life of Labor Journalism
Labor journalists discuss media coverage of the recent strike wave in Britain.
Belabored: The Union on the Hill, with Janae Washington and Taylor Doggett
Two congressional staffers discuss the push to unionize Capitol Hill.
