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This week Jacobin Radio presents “In the Imperial Crosshairs: Trump's War and Its Consequences for the People of Iran and Ukraine,” a panel...

Throughout the 20th century, socialism came to be associated with both central planning and shortages. But could democratic ownership of the...

Featuring Paul Heideman on how the Republican Party became so spectacularly unhinged. How the disorganization of the party and the disorgani...

Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff, authors of Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed , on Elon’s world and what he wants to do to ours. Behind the...

This is the second part of a two-part interview with Sebastian Budgen, senior editor at Verso, about French politics and the state of the Fr...

Suzi speaks with Kate Levin, Janis Yue, and Sanjay Madhav, lead organizers of United Faculty-UAW, about their unionization drive at the Univ...

The third episode in a series on the history of Indonesia: a hinge in the world system where colonialism and revolution have decisively shap...

Hungary’s long-serving authoritarian prime minister Viktor Orbán was defeated in an April 12 election. We get two views of what that means,...

How effective has the Left’s political strategy been since the first Bernie Sanders campaign? And how has our relationship to the Democratic...

Suzi speaks with political economist Clara Mattei about her new book, Escape from Capitalism . The title is provocative: What does it mean t...

Andrew Cockburn, author of Washington Is Burning , examines “the spectacular greed at the heart of the nation’s political system.” Hadas Thi...

The second episode in a series on the history of Indonesia: a hinge in the world system where colonialism and revolution have decisively sha...

Two years ago, the French president Emmanuel Macron called snap elections for the National Assembly. The far right was widely expected to wi...

Gabriel Hetland, author of a recent article for the Intercept , looks at what’s been happening in Venezuela since the kidnapping of Maduro....

Our modern economy is now dominated by massive mega-companies like Amazon and Walmart, with operations spanning many different sectors and e...

Mouin Rabbani talks about the Iran war and its many complications. Helen Yaffe talks about Trump’s oil embargo on Cuba — its effects and how...

Featuring Aslı Bâli, Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, and Nicholas Mulder on the economic warfare unfolding with the US-Israeli war on Iran — and be...

Donald Trump is a huge fan of Nayib Bukele, the current president of El Salvador. Last April, Bukele visited the White House and offered to...

Nancy Fraser goes beyond the class/identity disputes. Natalie Y. Moore, who wrote a recent article for Hammer and Hope and EHRP, looks at ef...

Nusantara is a new Dig series on the history of Indonesia: a hinge in the world system where colonialism and revolution have decisively shap...

The US-Israeli war against Iran may have been initiated without any coherently stated goals or popular support, but we can already see that...

Two weeks into the US-Israeli assault on Iran, every prediction of its architects has collapsed. The regime stands. Protests haven't reignit...

Historian Nikhil Pal Singh, author of a recent article for Equator, talks about how the Trump regime weaves foreign and domestic policy into...

We’ve now entered the second week of the US-Israeli war on Iran. Donald Trump’s War Secretary Pete Hegseth has boasted about the US military...

What are Iranians actually experiencing right now? Suzi speaks with Yassamine Mather, an Iranian socialist who has been in direct contact wi...

Featuring Ben Mabie and Salar Mohandesi on what the war on Iran tells us about US imperialism, and why the US doesn’t have a massive anti-wa...

Behrooz Ghamari, author of The Long War on Iran , looks at the politics and culture of the country. Anatol Lieven analyzes the effects of th...

Featuring Geoff Simpson on Justice Democrats’ massive 2026 slate of insurgent House candidates taking on AIPAC/Big Tech money. Also: the his...

Why does every new technology seem to make work harder and not easier? In 1974, Harry Braverman published a seminal text Labor and Monopoly...

Featuring Peter Linebaugh on the Luddites’ machine-breaking revolt against the enclosure of handicraft production, the central role played b...

Tessa West, professor of psychology at NYU, examines the social dynamics that kept the Epstein gang together. Nick Srnicek, author of Silico...

Last October, the war in Sudan took a new turn with the capture of El Fasher by the Rapid Support Forces. The city in western Sudan had been...

Suzi speaks to Ukrainian socialist Oleksandr Kyselov, who says the current “peace process” is a dangerous illusion. Russia’s goal, he argues...

Naomi Hossain analyzes politics in Bangladesh generally and the recent election specifically. Stuart Schrader discusses “authoritarianism fr...

The developments in artificial intelligence appear to promise a radical transformation of modern work. But what happens if AI turns out to b...

Stacy Horn, author of The Killing Fields of East New York , on the damage mortgage fraud did to that neighborhood. David Backer, author of A...

Last October, the Trump administration announced a ceasefire deal in Gaza after two years of relentless carnage. Since the deal was announce...

Featuring Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abr...

When federal immigration raids went from brutal to deadly in Minneapolis, the epicenter of Trump’s escalating war on immigrants and Blue cit...

David Harvey speaks about his new book The Story of Capital . We hear an excerpt from Mark Carney’s Davos speech. Adam Federman discusses Tr...

The Trump administration has ramped up its bellicose rhetoric against the Iranian regime after it clamped down on the latest wave of protest...

David Austin Walsh, author of Taking America Back , looks at the relationship between the kooks and respectables on the Right. Laura Field,...

Featuring Emilia González Avalos, Greg Nammacher, and JaNaé Bates Imari on how Minneapolis achieved its fight back against ICE/Border Patrol...

As this episode was being finalized, the Trump administration was threatening to attack Iran for the second time in less than a year. The th...

David Bier of the Cato Institute looks at what’s behind Trump’s war on immigrants. Aurélie Daher examines the current state of Hezbollah and...

Featuring Nick Srnicek on Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI . A deep exploration of the political economy of AI: the fulcrum o...

Suzi speaks with historian Robert Brenner and sociologist Dylan Riley about the deeper meaning of Trump’s return to power. Is Trump just a n...

Forrest Hylton, contributor to the London Review of Books , discusses Venezuela past, present, and future. Behind the News , hosted by Doug...

While European labor movements established foundations for their welfare states in the late 19th century, it was not until the New Deal that...

Over the past several weeks, Iran has experienced its most serious wave of protests since the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising of 2022. What be...