A massive overhaul and expansion of the wildland workforce is the best hope we have to confront the firestorm that threatens to engulf the West Coast.
Dissent
Know Your Enemy: The Enemy Within, with Brandy Jensen
Writer, editor, and advice columnist Brandy Jensen answers listener questions about how to be a person again (or for the first time) after the pandemic.
The Tom Cat Bakers’ Long Fight for Justice
The end of the Trump administration and the start of the post-pandemic economic recovery have brought a little optimism to immigrant workers. But many are still struggling to secure their rights and just compensation.
Belabored: General Strike in Palestine
Political economy researcher Riya Al-Sanah joins us from Haifa to talk about this week’s historic general strike.
“Were We Not Promised To Be Free?”
The pandemic has revealed how the rapid urbanization fueling India’s economic ascent is rooted in migrant labor.
A Vision of Racial and Economic Justice
A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin knew the fate of the civil rights and labor movements were intertwined. The same is true today.
Know Your Enemy: The Long Farewell to Majority Rule, with Joshua Tait
What are the intellectual origins of conservative hostility to majoritarian democracy?
Majority-Minority Myths
It’s time to let go of the belief that changing demographics will bring about a progressive America.
People in Havana Talk
Raúl Castro has relinquished his post as General Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party. The government speaks of continuity, and only continuity.
Belabored: The Value of Care, with Alyssa Battistoni
The author of A Planet to Win talks about Biden’s infrastructure proposals and why care work is a green job.
The Roots of India’s COVID Crisis
Much of what has rendered India a disaster zone is the direct result of Modi’s policies. Yet even before Modi, India had deemphasized the importance of investing in public health and vaccine production infrastructure.
Red London
Owen Hatherley’s eye-opening account of the left in power in London suggests both the possibilities and limits for municipal socialism.