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• The Dig: Confronting Labor’s Crisis w/ Chris Brooks

  October 6, 2026 · 2 hr 29 min

  Featuring Chris Brooks on labor’s crisis and the strategic, militant class struggle that can turn it all around. Brooks, former chief of staff to UAW President Shawn Fain, urges organizers to be flexible in their methodology, explains the…

• Behind the News: The Hidden 1 Percent w/ Owen Zidar

  October 5, 2026 · 53 min

  Owen Zidar, co-author of The Everywhere Millionaire, reveals the world of the hidden rich. Plus: Jake Werner surveys the latest in US-China relations. Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics…

• The Dig: Muskism w/ Ben Tarnoff and Quinn Slobodian

  October 2, 2026 · 2 hr 46 min

  Featuring Ben Tarnoff and Quinn Slobodian on their book Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. What the world’s bizarre richest man reveals about our financially fabulist, hard tech, far-right political-economic era. Support The Dig at…

• Confronting Capitalism: What Makes a Marxist?

  September 30, 2026 · 49 min

  Karl Marx famously declared that he was not a Marxist. But his theoretical work spawned many branches of research, political movements, and heated debate. Can we identify a set of unifying ideas that make up Marxism? On this latest…

• Jacobin Radio: Jewish Anti-Zionists w/ Benjamin Moser

  September 29, 2026 · 55 min

  Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser joins Suzi to discuss his new book, Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History, which recovers a century of Jewish opposition to Zionism, told through twelve lives, from an assassinated Dutch dissident to Hannah…

• Behind the News: The Gospel of Live, Laugh, Love w/ Kristin Kobes Du Mez

  September 28, 2026 · 53 min

  Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of Live Laugh Love, dives into the world of right-wing evangelical Christian women. Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the…

• Long Reads: Ansar Allah’s Offensive in Yemen w/ Helen Lackner

  September 24, 2026 · 48 min

  Over the past few weeks, Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement, also known as the Houthis, has launched a major offensive. The offensive could have major implications for the world economy, as it involves one of its most important trade routes…

• Behind the News: The Backlash to School Vouchers w/ Jennifer Berkshire

  September 22, 2026 · 53 min

  Jennifer Berkshire talks about the anti-school voucher backlash. Heather Berg, author of Notes from the Sex Worker Left, discusses what that formation brings to politics. Read Jennifer’s article for Jacobin, “Americans Are Turning Against…