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Latest Episodes
Behind the News: Trump’s Dubious Gaza Scheme w/ Mouin Rabbani
Plus: Erin Thompson on Confederate statues and Ted Hamm on Zohran Mamdani.
Long Reads: Portugal’s Left in Retreat w/ Catarina Príncipe (Part 2)
On the collapse of the electoral left in Portugal. The second of two parts.
Dig: Counterrevolution w/ Melinda Cooper
The first in a two-part series about neoliberalism.
Jacobin Radio: Tech Capital Is Taking Over Politics w/ Thomas Ferguson
What does the new tech-capital bloc mean for labor and democracy?
Behind the News: Recognizing Palestine w/ Mouin Rabbani
Plus: Ernesto Semn on Argentina and the US bailout of the Javier Milei.
Confronting Capitalism: The Origins of Capitalism
What primitive accumulation means and how colonialism actually affected European development.
Jacobin Radio: Trump’s War on Dissent w/ Pema Levy
Legal and political practices are converging in an authoritarianism that threatens us all.
Dig: State of Impunity w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader
How MAGAs authoritarian project reveals the illiberalism immanent in the US imperialist state.
Behind the News: High Church Neoliberalism w/ Quinn Slobodian
Plus: Molly White on stablecoins and the TrumpUAE deal
Long Reads: Portugal’s Left in Retreat w/ Catarina Príncipe (Part 1)
Ten years ago, Portugal had a strong radical left and no far-right party in parliament. What went wrong?