Belabored: Game Workers Unite and Win, with Emma Kinema
Workers at a division of games conglomerate Activision Blizzard shocked the industry by becoming one of the first collective bargaining units in U.S. gaming.
Winter 2025
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Know Your Enemy: Overturning Roe, Part One, with the 5-4 Podcast
Peter, Rhiannon, and Michael of the 5-4 podcast discuss the impending end of Roe v. Wade—and how the right used the courts to achieve its aims.
Belabored: Women Leading the Labor Movement
Organizers of unionization efforts at Amazon, Starbucks, and the New York Times discuss how their experiences as women shape their work.
Know Your Enemy: The Conservative and the Convict, with Sarah Weinman
The story of how William F. Buckley Jr. defied expectations and showed mercy to a death-row prisoner.
Belabored: What’s Up With Inflation, with J.W. Mason
Economist J.W. Mason joins the podcast to talk about inflation and how to organize around price increases.
Know Your Enemy: The Right Kind of Worker, with Gabriel Winant
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
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
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
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
A conversation with Ari Brostoff on David Horowitz’s trajectory from the New Left to conservative firebrand.
Belabored: Retail Organizing at REI
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
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
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
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
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.
