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Latest Episodes

Behind the News: Trump’s Dubious Gaza Scheme w/ Mouin Rabbani
October 06, 2025

Plus: Erin Thompson on Confederate statues and Ted Hamm on Zohran Mamdani.

Long Reads: Portugal’s Left in Retreat w/ Catarina Príncipe (Part 2)
October 02, 2025

On the collapse of the electoral left in Portugal. The second of two parts.

Dig: Counterrevolution w/ Melinda Cooper
October 01, 2025

The first in a two-part series about neoliberalism.

Jacobin Radio: Tech Capital Is Taking Over Politics w/ Thomas Ferguson
September 30, 2025

What does the new tech-capital bloc mean for labor and democracy?

Behind the News: Recognizing Palestine w/ Mouin Rabbani
September 29, 2025

Plus: Ernesto Semn on Argentina and the US bailout of the Javier Milei.

Confronting Capitalism: The Origins of Capitalism
September 24, 2025

What primitive accumulation means and how colonialism actually affected European development.

Jacobin Radio: Trump’s War on Dissent w/ Pema Levy
September 23, 2025

Legal and political practices are converging in an authoritarianism that threatens us all.

Dig: State of Impunity w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader
September 22, 2025

How MAGAs authoritarian project reveals the illiberalism immanent in the US imperialist state.

Behind the News: High Church Neoliberalism w/ Quinn Slobodian
September 22, 2025

Plus: Molly White on stablecoins and the TrumpUAE deal

Long Reads: Portugal’s Left in Retreat w/ Catarina Príncipe (Part 1)
September 19, 2025

Ten years ago, Portugal had a strong radical left and no far-right party in parliament. What went wrong?