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Dave Weigel: These Primary Colors Don’t Run
April 21, 2018

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DSA at the Ballot Box
April 17, 2018

Michael Kinnucan and Renée Paradis on DSA’s new electoral strategy.

DSA at the Ballot Box
April 17, 2018

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Petro-Imperialism with Timothy Mitchell Part II
April 13, 2018

Coal, oil, democracy, capitalism, and imperialism.

Petro-Imperialism with Timothy Mitchell Part II
April 13, 2018

Historian and political theorist Timothy Mitchell joins Dan for the second of a two-part interview on his book Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil, published in 2011 by Verso. In part 1, we talked about a lot of things,

Petro-Capitalism with Timothy Mitchell Part I
April 10, 2018

Coal, oil, democracy, capitalism, and imperialism.

Petro-Capitalism with Timothy Mitchell Part I
April 10, 2018

  - 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,

Aziz Rana: Reviving Resistance to Empire
April 07, 2018

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

Aziz Rana: Reviving Resistance to Empire
April 07, 2018

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.

Student-Debt Capitalism
April 03, 2018

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