Belabored: Essential Workers in Crisis, with Elizabeth Lalasz and Jia Lee
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.
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.
Belabored: When COVID Never Ends
Long COVID is a labor rights issue.
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.
Know Your Enemy: After the Theocons, with Damon Linker
A conversation about the George W. Bush administration, the conservative religious publication First Things, and how today’s right became so deranged.
Belabored: Shutting Down the Ports, with Steve Gerrard and Liverpool Dockworkers
British dockworkers join the podcast to talk about ongoing strikes in Liverpool and Felixstowe.
Know Your Enemy: On Barbara Ehrenreich, with Alex Press and Gabriel Winant
Barbara Ehrenreich was an essential guide to the inner life of American class conflict.
