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Dan interviews NYC DSA down-ballot candidates. Samelys López is running for a US House seat in the Bronx. Jabari Brisport, Marcela Mitaynes, and Phara Souffrant Forrest are running for seats in the state legislature. All four are campaigning on a platform of housing justice.Please support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Kali Akuno on why black voters like Joe Biden. Then, Dibyesh Anand on the belief system of India’s Hindu fascists (book here). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

An interview on how the Democratic Party got here today with Ryan Grim.Please support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Pep talk time: Dan interviews Rep. Ilhan Omar to give us some perspective and prepare us for the fight ahead.Please support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mass incarceration has rightly become a major topic of discussion and organizing on the Left recently. But our guests today, Adaner Usmani and John Clegg, have some issues with how we talk about that incarceration system and many of the standard strategies for how we go about dismantling it.John and Adaner are the authors of the Catalyst article "The Economic Origins of Mass Incarceration," which you can read here: https://catalyst-journal.com/vol3/no3/the-economic-origins-of-mass-incarcerationAlso, you can and should preorder Bigger than Bernie by Meagan Day and your host Micah Uetricht here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3167-bigger-than-bernie See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Suzi looks at the significance and aftermath of South Carolina and Super Tuesday, asking basic questions about the disconnect between the enthusiasm and support for progressive policies and Bernie Sanders (and Elizabeth Warren to a lesser degree), and the reality of people then voting for Biden. Was it fear, motivated by the constant drum of the corporate media that Bernie is not electable but Biden is? We get views and analysis from our guests Matt Karp and Adolph Reed. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Super Tuesday has come and gone, and Joe Biden is now the frontrunner. There's nobody better to talk about this stuff than Jacobin staff writer and Senior Biden Correspondent Branko Marcetic, author of the new book Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden. We discussed Biden and the state of the race as a whole. Branko's book is excellent. You can buy it for just $10: https://jacobinmag.com/store See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A special pod ep from Sunday's live Boston canvass kickoff with Michael Brooks and Natalie Shure.Please support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dan interviews Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on her book Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership.Come see Dan discuss All-American Nativism in Boston on 3/4 facebook.com/events/522615241724284/Support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Live show with Jacobin's Bhaskar Sunkara and Alex Press in Cambridge, MA for Bernie 2020. Recorded the night of Nevada caucuses.Please support us with your money at www.thedigradio.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Colleen Eren, author of Bernie Madoff and the Crisis, on why the Ponzi schemer deserves release from prison (op-ed here). Then, Jamieson Webster psychoanalyzes money and left melancholy (interview with Fiona Alison Duncan here). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Catholic Church was a powerful force throughout the first half of the 20th century. It was a force for right-wing reaction. That’s what Dan discusses today with Giuliana Chamedes, the author of the remarkable book A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe.Live Massachusetts Dig for Bernie! With Bhaskar Sunkara and Alex Press at Harvard this Saturday 2/2, 7pm: facebook.com/events/604111176850753/Please support this podcast with your money at patreon.com/TheDig See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Yasha Levine on Chrystia Freeland, Ukrainian Nazis, and the proxy war against Russia. Then, Lizzie O’Shea, author of Future Histories, on fake techno-utopianism and imagining a better future. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Bernie Sanders has won two states in a row, first Iowa and then New Hampshire. But how exactly did he do it? We talked to Jacobin's Shawn Gude, who gives some details about what the Sanders campaign's organizing looked like in Iowa, who ended up turning out for him, why Sanders has to overcome the barrier of post-Obama political despondency, and the campaign's path forward post-New Hampshire.Here's Shawn's article from Iowa: https://jacobinmag.com/2020/02/iowa-working-class-satellite-caucus-sandersAnd here's Meagan Day's article on the campaign's organizing: https://jacobinmag.com/2020/02/bernie-iowa-caucus-immigrant-factory-workers-organizing See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Racism on the right wing is changing in weird and important ways, and liberal anti-racism offers no viable solution. Dan interviews Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joe Lowndes, authors of Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity.Please support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Suzi talks to Ansar Fayyazuddin, theoretical physicist and writer, who has written on geo-engineering as an approach to mitigate the climate disaster that he contends offers a false solution, filled with fallacies bound to create unforeseen consequences. Ansar’s critique is lucid and devastating, and he argues that geo-engineering technological fixes will not get us out of this mess, but will further entrench us in a deeply eco-destructive mode of life. He finds hope in the social movements demanding fundamental change and that means not just a Green New Deal, but conceiving the possibility of the end of capitalism. Turning to the aftermath of the Bolivian coup, Suzi talks to Linda Farthing, Bolivia-based journalist and writer who gives us her account and analysis of what has happened in the three months since the coup that ousted President Evo Morales, sending him into exile. We get Linda’s insights on what led to the coup, who has reaped the benefits, and what has happened to the largely indigenous social m

Columbia Point tenants face new management and a private police force.This is the final episode of the first season of People's History Podcast! "The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing" traces a social history of Boston from the urban rebellions of the 1960s, through busing in the 70s, into the Clinton era.We investigate these events from the lens of one community: Columbia Point, the largest public housing project in New England. Built on an isolated landfill site next to the Boston city dump, it was the site of major organizing, from welfare rights to a Free Breakfast for Children program. It was also the first public housing project to be sold off and redeveloped as private "mixed-income" development (and was a model for the federal policy "HOPE VI").Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/peopleshistorypod See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sofia Japaridze on Congressionally protected wage theft in the libertarian paradise of post-Soviet Georgia. Then, Margaret Kimberley, author of Prejudential, on the long, oppressive relationship of presidents to black people. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The protests have subsided but coronavirus has only created a deeper crisis for government legitimacy. Dan interviews long-time Hong Kong activist and writer Au Loong Yu.Please support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

John Clegg, co-author of this article, on the economic roots of mass incarceration. Then, Tobita Chow and Jake Werner, authors of this paper, on the US–China trade war See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.