Belabored Stories: “Let’s Shut it Down”
Fast food workers in North Carolina are on strike today after being deemed “essential workers” yet treated as anything but.
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Belabored Stories: Masks Make the Customers Nervous
A Domino’s delivery driver decided to stop working in unsafe conditions. He worries a coworker with respiratory problems “will most likely work until he is dead.”
Belabored Stories: “I Have to Feed My Family”
Amazon workers face hazardous conditions, but many can’t afford to stay home.
Belabored Stories: Who Counts as Essential?
“Do they plan to just keep replacing people as they get sick, quit in fear or burnout, get quarantined, self-isolate, or die off over the coming weeks or even months?”
Know Your Enemy #15: The Year the Clock Broke, with John Ganz
John Ganz joins us to discuss David Duke, Pat Buchanan, Sam Francis, and paleoconservatism’s undying influence on the Republican Party.
Belabored Podcast #193: Work in the Time of Coronavirus
As the coronavirus spreads across the world, we discuss what it means for workers in healthcare, the gig economy, and other frontline industries.
It’s the Electoral Infrastructure, Stupid
Choose your metaphor for the Democrats’ quandaries. Circular firing squad? Refighting 2016? Or 1972? We latch on to a surfeit of speculation mixed with a few shreds of evidence. Acrimony seeks a vacuum. Anxiety is the mother of metaphors. How …
[EVENT | February 13] Winter Issue Launch: Democracy and Barbarism
Join Jedediah Britton-Purdy, Aziz Rana, and Alyssa Battistoni for the launch of our Winter 2020 issue.
Know Your Enemy #14: Morbid Symptoms, with Ross Douthat
Matt and Sam welcome their first “enemy” onto the show—Ross Douthat, New York Times columnist and author of the new book The Decadent Society—to talk about the state of conservatism.
Belabored Podcast #192: Unions for All, with SEIU Local 26
Why is the labor movement in Minnesota thriving? SEIU Local 26 joins us to talk about the Twin Cities’ robust network of grassroots worker centers and unions.
We Own the Future
A stunningly original and timely collection that makes the case for democratic socialism—American style.
Know Your Enemy #13: What Happened to Norman? with David Klion
To plumb the depths of the neoconservative soul, Matt and Sam read Norman Podhoretz’s 1967 memoir Making It with David Klion of Jewish Currents.
Belabored Podcast #191: A Mass Strike Against Macron, with Colin Kinniburgh
Workers across France have been on strike over pension reforms for six weeks. Dissent editor at large Colin Kinniburgh joins us from Paris.
Yes, We Should Put Liberty First
A reply to Jeffrey Isaac.
A Missed Opportunity
A response to Dimitrina Petrova.
