Responses to Aziz Rana
Patrick Iber, Adom Getachew, Stephen Wertheim, Aslı Bâli, Susie Linfield, Ramzi Kassem, and Darryl Li respond to “Left Internationalism in the Heart of Empire.”
Winter 2025
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Who Segregated America?
Federal housing policies contributed to the segregation of American cities in the twentieth century. But it was private interests that led the way.
Should We Disrupt the Democratic Party or Take It Over?
As much as organizers might wish for strategic unity, movements are diverse and messy formations that involve both inside and outside politics.
Coexistence or Carnage
If the conflicts of interest are real, and the stakes are felt to be high enough, then war between the United States and China is a real possibility, and our foreign policy must be oriented toward avoiding it.
Two Homes at War
For those whose hyphenated identities straddle a divided world, life is a series of compromises.
How to Tell the History of the Democrats
What connection does the party of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson have to the party of Barack Obama and Kamala Harris?
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.
The Amazon Labor Union’s Historic Breakthrough
How did a scrappy group of organizers without institutional backing prevail over the second-largest employer in the United States?
Who Benefits from the Myth of Pro-War Consensus?
The consensus thesis allows pundits to settle into the comfortable role of brave prophet standing alone against the warmongering tide.
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.
Baseball’s Labor Wars
MLB owners’ recent lockout was an effort to reverse the gains that players had won over decades of labor struggle. The owners failed.
Rights Without Bounds: An Interview with Wendy Brown
The contemporary right has inherited two seemingly contradictory impulses from the neoliberal era: anti-democratic politics and a libertarian personal ethic.
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.
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.
How Corporations Turned Prison Tablets Into a Predatory Scheme
“Prison iPads” became a lifeline during the pandemic. They also became a new way to squeeze money out of the incarcerated and their families.
