- Historian and political theorist Timothy Mitchell joins Dan for the first of a two-part interview on his book Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil, published in 2011 by Verso. In this first episode,

Principles and politics demand that we link domestic and global freedom.

It’s our 100th episode and the launch of our spring fundraising drive! Aziz Rana returns to The Dig 15 years after the invasion of Iraq to reflect on the paucity of substantive anti-imperialist politics across much of the American left.

Caitlin Zaloom on how student debt undermines retirement, disciplines workers, and reshapes families.

It’s obvious that student debt can be an excruciating financial burden. But anthropologist Caitlin Zaloom explains that it has also done a lot to make American families into plunderable financial mines,

Illegal immigration is made by law and law is made by politics.

Many Americans take the existence of so-called "illegal immigrants" for granted, whatever their opinion of the matter. But illegality isn't a property of immigrants; rather, it's a creation of positive law.

Trump is using an Obama program for deportations and so we must think beyond basic sanctuary.

Perhaps nothing has more defined the monstrosity of Donald Trump than his racist demonization and targeting of immigrants from Mexico, Muslim-majority countries and those nations he deems to be "shitholes" or, according to another account, "shithouses.

Martin Luther King’s political philosophy from nonviolence to political-economy and beyond.