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Latest Episodes

Planet to Win with Thea Riofrancos and Daniel Aldana Cohen
January 09, 2020

Confronting the intertwined ecological, social, economic, and political crises. Dan interviews Thea Riofrancos and Daniel Aldana Cohen, co-authors with Kate Aronoff and Alyssa Battistoni of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal. -

Down-Ballot Fights with Jessica Cisneros, Stephen Smith, and Heidi Sloan
December 28, 2019

We need Bernie but a lot more too. Dan does three interviews with down-ballot left insurgent candidates: Jessica Cisneros, a Justice Democrat running against incumbent conservative Democrat Henry Cuellar in Texas’s 28th congressional district; Stephen ...

Single-Payer Now! with Tim Faust
December 20, 2019

Why we need single-payer healthcare, why Medicare for All is suddenly at the center of debate, and why this is all part of a broader struggle for health justice. Dan interviews Tim Faust. - Thanks to Verso.

Capitalism with Michael Hardt
December 13, 2019

An interview on how the transformation of capitalism has changed the possibilities for anti-capitalist struggle with Michael Hardt, co-author with Antonio Negri of Assembly. - Read Dan's essay on the 20th anniversary of the WTO protests in Seattle jac...

From the archives: Paul Frymer on Westward Expansion
December 06, 2019

On the occasion of our third anniversary we are taking a break. Here's a classic on settler colonialism from our archives: Paul Frymer on Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion. a.k.a.

Coup in Bolivia with Jeff Webber
November 28, 2019

Political scientist Jeff Webber discusses the coup against Evo Morales and the recent history of Bolivia. - Read "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Macho Camacho" by Jeff Webber and Forrest Hylton www.versobooks.

World On Fire with Naomi Klein
November 22, 2019

Dan interviews Naomi Klein on her new essay collection On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal. - Thanks to University of California Press. Check out their huge selection of titles at ucpress.edu -

Colonialism in Puerto Rico with Yarimar Bonilla
November 15, 2019

Maria hit Puerto Rico as austerity dismantled its social and material infrastructure. But as Yarimar Bonilla explains, these years also taught Puerto Ricans about their own collective power, fueling the summer’s mass movement that overthrew Governor Ri...

Socializing Ownership with Mathew Lawrence
November 08, 2019

Mathew Lawrence, founder and director of the left-wing UK think tank Common Wealth, explains why ownership must be socialized, what that might look like, and how to make it happen. - Thanks to UNC Press. Check out Stirrings: How Activist New Yorkers I...

Settler-Colonial Revolutionaries with Joshua Simon
November 01, 2019

The divide between Latin American and the United States was not always so evident. Across the hemisphere, creoles—the descendants of European settlers, born in the Americas—launched revolutions to cast off European rule and preserve their own elite pos...