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The Vast Majority: Joe Biden Returns with Branko Marcetic Mar 05, 2020

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Super Tuesday has come and gone, and Joe Biden is now the frontrunner. There's nobody better to talk about this stuff than Jacobin staff writer and Senior Biden Correspondent Branko Marcetic, author of the new book Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden. We discussed Biden and the state of the race as a whole.

Branko's book is excellent. You can buy it for just $10: https://jacobinmag.com/store

The Dig: Bernie 2020 with Michael Brooks and Natalie Shure Mar 02, 2020

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A special pod ep from Sunday's live Boston canvass kickoff with Michael Brooks and Natalie Shure.

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The Dig: Race for Profit with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Feb 28, 2020

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Dan interviews Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on her book Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership.

Come see Dan discuss All-American Nativism in Boston on 3/4 facebook.com/events/522615241724284/

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The Dig: Bernie 2020 with Alex Press and Bhaskar Sunkara Feb 26, 2020

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Live show with Jacobin's Bhaskar Sunkara and Alex Press in Cambridge, MA for Bernie 2020. Recorded the night of Nevada caucuses.

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Behind the News: Colleen Eren and Jamieson Webster Feb 25, 2020

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Colleen Eren, author of Bernie Madoff and the Crisis, on why the Ponzi schemer deserves release from prison (op-ed here). Then, Jamieson Webster psychoanalyzes money and left melancholy (interview with Fiona Alison Duncan here).

The Dig: Catholic Anticommunism with Giuliana Chamedes Feb 21, 2020

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The Catholic Church was a powerful force throughout the first half of the 20th century. It was a force for right-wing reaction. That’s what Dan discusses today with Giuliana Chamedes, the author of the remarkable book A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe.

Live Massachusetts Dig for Bernie! With Bhaskar Sunkara and Alex Press at Harvard this Saturday 2/2, 7pm: facebook.com/events/604111176850753/

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Behind the News: Yasha Levine and Lizzie O'Shea Feb 19, 2020

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Yasha Levine on Chrystia Freeland, Ukrainian Nazis, and the proxy war against Russia. Then, Lizzie O’Shea, author of Future Histories, on fake techno-utopianism and imagining a better future.

The Vast Majority: The Path to Bernie Victory Goes Through the Working Class with Shawn Gude Feb 17, 2020

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Bernie Sanders has won two states in a row, first Iowa and then New Hampshire. But how exactly did he do it? We talked to Jacobin's Shawn Gude, who gives some details about what the Sanders campaign's organizing looked like in Iowa, who ended up turning out for him, why Sanders has to overcome the barrier of post-Obama political despondency, and the campaign's path forward post-New Hampshire. Here's Shawn's article from Iowa: https://jacobinmag.com/2020/02/iowa-working-class-satellite-caucus-sanders And here's Meagan Day's article on the campaign's organizing: https://jacobinmag.com/2020/02/bernie-iowa-caucus-immigrant-factory-workers-organizing

The Dig: Right-Wing Racism with Daniel Martinez HoSang & Joe Lowndes Feb 15, 2020

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Racism on the right wing is changing in weird and important ways, and liberal anti-racism offers no viable solution. Dan interviews Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joe Lowndes, authors of Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity.

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Jacobin Radio: Geo-Engineering; Bolivia Feb 14, 2020

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Suzi talks to Ansar Fayyazuddin, theoretical physicist and writer, who has written on geo-engineering as an approach to mitigate the climate disaster that he contends offers a false solution, filled with fallacies bound to create unforeseen consequences. Ansar’s critique is lucid and devastating, and he argues that geo-engineering technological fixes will not get us out of this mess, but will further entrench us in a deeply eco-destructive mode of life. He finds hope in the social movements demanding fundamental change and that means not just a Green New Deal, but conceiving the possibility of the end of capitalism.

Turning to the aftermath of the Bolivian coup, Suzi talks toLinda Farthing, Bolivia-based journalist and writer who gives us her account and analysis of what has happened in the three months since the coup that ousted President Evo Morales, sending him into exile. We get Linda’s insights on what led to the coup, who has reaped the benefits, and what has happened to the largely indigenous social movements that propelled Evo Morales to power and now face a horror show of violence. We also ask what lies ahead given elections have been called for May 2020.

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