Know Your Enemy: The Anti-Trans Agenda, with Gillian Branstetter
Writer and advocate Gillian Branstetter joins the podcast to discuss the right’s war on trans people.
Spring 2025
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Know Your Enemy: A Second Civil War? With Jamelle Bouie
Jamelle Bouie returns to the show to discuss the rise of rhetoric—not only but especially from the right—about a “second Civil War” in the United States.
Know Your Enemy: School Wars, with Jennifer Berkshire
A guide to the conservative war on public education, from fights over desegregation to the critical race theory gag orders sweeping the nation today.
A New Era?
The work of the left at this moment is to understand what new spaces have opened up and how to build upon them.
Introducing our Winter 2022 special section, “Beyond Bidenomics.”
Born Into the Dark
What happens to progressives who give up on progress?
Lessons for Courtiers
The results of the 2020 Democratic primaries suggest the limits of a left strategy for power starting at, rather than building toward, the presidency.
An American Conception of Justice
Historians have amply demonstrated how central racism has been to the formation and reformation of the United States. But many of those same ideas and institutions have also been vital to combating white supremacy.
The Ethics of Coalition-Building
Purity is a luxury only the privileged can afford.
The Problem of Police Nationalism
Police nationalism is rooted in conservative ideas of law and order, but it has also been sustained by decades of liberal police reform.
Labor Needs an Outside Strategy
Only worker power can make good on the promises of the Biden administration.
The Fate of the New Popular Front
If the Democratic coalition remains reliant on well-to-do suburbanites reluctant to accept taxes on the rich, the new Popular Front strategy will fall short.
The Early End of Unemployment Insurance Is Class War
If the Biden administration were serious about helping workers to build power, it would push back against the Republican governors who are ending pandemic unemployment programs early.
Majority-Minority Myths
It’s time to let go of the belief that changing demographics will bring about a progressive America.
Can You Plan a Realignment?
Many of today’s organizers look to the long history of party realignment for strategic orientation. Could they drive a reordering of American politics?
The Public Sector We Need
To have any chance of implementing popular left-wing ideas, we need to restore the capacity of democratic government to serve working people.
