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Organizing Amid Rising Tides
August 31, 2018

Dan speaks to Elizabeth Rush, the author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, a lyrical, mournful but ultimately hopeful account of people dealing with amongst the most tangible effects of global warming right now: the rising seas that a...

Eco-Socialism and the Climate Crisis
August 29, 2018

Audrea Lim, Thea Riofrancos, Ashley Dawson and Daniel Aldana Cohen.

Eco-Socialism and the Climate Crisis
August 29, 2018

Today's episode is a long one. It's the first of two this week on climate politics: a live event that I hosted at Verso Books in New York a couple weeks ago. Or, at least part of it is. The event livestream, which we grabbed the audio from,

Criminal Injustice with Josie Duffy Rice
August 25, 2018

Josie on her new podcast with Clint Smith, carceral feminism, liberal Comey worship and more.

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.