Among the many government agencies facing cuts from President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, USAID has garnered wide support in the media. But for whatever humanitarian good it’s done in the world, the agency has played a role in US imperialism. In this episode of Confronting Capitalism, Vivek Chibber examines the true history of USAI…

A flu-hit Matthew reveals the true villain of the Luka trade, why All-Star Games can never be what they're supposed to be, how the Yankees beard policy is just another beard and more. Then it's a conversation with soccer coach Mike Idland about sharing live sports with your kids and what a coach gets up to during their alleged "off-season."…

Egal wie genau die Wahlen ausgehen am Sonntag, scheint eine Regierung unter CDU-Führung so gut wie sicher. Heute bei Weekly sprechen wir mit Lukas Scholle, Chefredakteur von Surplus Magazin, über die Wirtschaftspläne von Friedrich Merz und weshalb sie auch in einer Großen Koalition umsetzbar sein könnten. JACOBIN produziert täglich Artikel, Podcast…

Die Ökonomin Clara Mattei hat mit ihrem Buch »Die Ordnung des Kapitals« eine herausragende Studie verfasst. Mattei zeigt, wie die Austeritätspolitik nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg zu einem weltweiten technokratischen Projekt wurde, um den Kapitalismus alternativlos zu machen und seine internen Klassenbeziehungen zu zementieren. Sie sprach bei Jacobin Ta…

On February 21, Suzi talked to Zakhar Popóvych, a Ukrainian researcher and activist in Kyiv with roots in labor and socialist organizing, and Ilya Budraitskis, a Russian historian and political theorist now in exile, about Trump’s foreign policy moves regarding Ukraine on the eve of the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion. The Trump administrati…

Anatol Lieven looks at the global dimensions of Trumpism. Quinn Slobodian, who wrote a recent article for the New York Review of Books, muses on whether Trump is a neoliberal and examines the three major strands of DOGE-ism. Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the…

For now, the ceasefire deal between Hamas and the Israeli government appears to be holding. However, Donald Trump has openly proposed the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Trump has used the destruction of Gaza with American-made bombs as a rationale for his plan. Paul Rogers, emeritus professor of peace studies at the University of Bradford and the author…

Featuring Danielle Carr on the history and present state of American unwellness and how that’s been shaped by psychiatry, prescription drugs, neuroscience, popular culture, smartphones and social media. We trace the rise of psychiatry as a Gilded Age human science, the disastrous contradictions of asylum deinstitutionalization, the invention of neu…

Our theme for today’s program is resistance in the time of monsters: resistance to the Trump/Musk wrecking ball that threatens the well-being of millions of people here and across the globe. Their actions are illegal, have provoked a constitutional crisis, and constitute a technical coup. At the same time, the Trump/Musk rampage has galvanized resi…

Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò picks apart the contradictory strands of the DEI obsession. Sophia Rosenfeld, author of the book The Age of Choice, explores the history of that concept over the last few centuries. Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find t…

Nach Jahren auf Talfahrt zählt die Linkspartei plötzlich mehr Mitglieder als je zuvor. Aber kann die neue Dynamik halten? Und wie kann sie die Fehler und Sackgassen der Vergangenheit vermeiden? Darüber spricht Parteiurgestein Gregor Gysi diese Woche bei Jacobin Weekly. JACOBIN produziert täglich Artikel, Podcasts und Videos – alles für Dich völlig …

Within weeks of assuming the presidency, Donald Trump has instituted tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China. Trump has touted protectionism as a way of supporting American workers. In this episode of Confronting Capitalism, Catalyst editor Vivek Chibber and Jacobin contributor Melissa Naschek discuss how nineteenth and twentieth-century protectionist…

Kristin Du Mez, author of the book Jesus and John Wayne, looks at the world of Christian nationalism. Jennifer Middlestadt, who wrote a recent opinion piece in the New York Times, speaks about the “sovereigntism” guiding the foreign policy of Trump et al. Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their…

Featuring Chris Newman on Trump's far-right anti-migrant agenda and Democrats' cruel and stupid complicity. Read All-American Nativism versobooks.com/products/704-all-american-nativism Read Dan's essay on Gaza and migration politics in n+1 nplusonemag.com/issue-48/politics/do-border Trump's immigration executive orders propublica.org/article/donald…

Last year, Martin Empson joined Long Reads to speak about the German Peasants’ War, Europe’s biggest social revolt before the French Revolution. Martin returns to talk about what happened next. After the revolt was crushed, radical religious tendencies became a vehicle for social discontent. The most famous of those tendencies was known as Anabapti…

Just two weeks in power, the new Trump administration has already led a horrifying whirlwind of attacks on immigrants, transgender people, tribal nations, people of color, and women. Government institutions are being dismantled. Make no mistake, these shock-and-awe actions are designed to keep people in fear and paralyzed as a fascistic presidency …

Eoin Higgins, author of Owned, talks about tech moguls and the journalists, like Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi, who work for them. Ronnie Grinberg, author of Write Like a Man, on the mostly male, mostly Jewish New York intellectuals of the postwar scene. Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and thei…

Featuring Hannah Srajer on building tenant unions by applying labor organizing models. The Connecticut Tenants Union is partnered with SEIU 1199NE to organize fighting super majority tenant unions that win collectively bargained leases and wield working class political power. It's a model that's spreading nationwide. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/…

Kaum war Biden aus dem Weißen Haus ausgezogen, fing Donald Trump an, einen Berg an Dekreten zu zeichnen, die klarmachten, dass er es ernst meint mit seiner zweiten Amtszeit. Bei Weekly spricht Loren mit Nordamerikaexpertin Margit Mayer über Trumps Agenda und vor allem über die Agenda seiner Finanziers, ohne deren Macht er vermutlich es nicht gescha…

Seth Rosenthal (The Secret Base) and Matthew talk about the ways working in sports media has changed over the years, how it hasn't, some of the behind-the-scenes truths of that world and what it's like caring about sports as all the world crashes and burns. We also talk about the greatness of this year's Knicks!…

President Trump is back in power and immediately moved to carry out his xenophobic policies with a slew of unconstitutional executive orders and plans for mass detention and deportation of the nation’s immigrants. Suzi talks to three extraordinary activists whose organizations and coalitions are building effective solidarity and defense for those a…