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Latest Episodes

Criminal Injustice with Josie Duffy Rice
August 25, 2018

Josie Duffy Rice on Justice in America, her new podcast from The Appeal that she co-hosts with with Clint Smith, media coverage of criminal justice, carceral feminism and domestic violence, and the disturbing liberal affection for federal law enforceme...

Russia Beyond Caricature
August 22, 2018

Sean Guillory on the deep roots of Russia's political-economic order and the bizarre, dangerous state of US relations.

Russia Beyond Caricature
August 22, 2018

Russia: the more your average American thinks about it, the less they seem to know. National security-state enthused liberals blame Putin and for creating what is an obviously-if-incomprehensibly made-in-America monster. Trump, in turn,

Aslı Bâli on Syria, Part II
August 17, 2018

The case for diplomacy and why the American left urgently needs a foreign policy.

Aslı Bâli on Syria, Part II
August 17, 2018

Part two of a two-part interview with Aslı Bâli on the Syrian civil war and the larger geopolitical conflicts that shape the Middle East—with an emphasis on the role played the United States. During part one,

Aslı Bâli on Syria, Part I
August 15, 2018

Aslı Bâli in part one of a two-part interview on the Syrian Civil War, Middle East geopolitics, and US foreign policy.

Aslı Bâli on Syria, Part I
August 15, 2018

Aslı Ü. Bâli joins Daniel for part one of a two-part interview on the Syrian Civil War and the murderously instrumentalized geopolitics that fuel it. Syrians continue to suffer and to die while various actors treat the conflict as a proxy for their ...

Making Sense of Soros
August 11, 2018

Daniel Bessner on the impossibility of open societies under capitalism.

Making Sense of Soros
August 11, 2018

That right-wing people in the US and Europe have made George Soros the answer to so many troubling questions is not very surprising: he's a billionaire, he's Jewish and, unlike most of his cohort, he is an actual intellectual who spends much of his mon...

Boots Riley on Sorry to Bother You and Communism
August 09, 2018

A realistic film is also a radical and absurd one.