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Behind the News: Impeachment; Sanders's Climate Plan Oct 04, 2019

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Samuel Moyn (author of this article and this) on the political snares of impeachment. Then, Tom Athanasiou on the Sanders climate plan and the need for a global Green New Deal (article here)

The Dig: Palestine and the Law with Noura Erakat Oct 04, 2019

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Dan interviews Noura Erakat, the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine, a new book that analyzes the history of settler-colonialism in Palestine and the Palestinian struggle for liberation from just before the British mandate to the present through the lens of the law.

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The Vast Majority: "War Is A Racket" with Rory Fanning and Sarah Lazare Oct 01, 2019

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Our newest print issue is “War Is a Racket,” focused on war and imperialism. At the Chicago issue release party, I spoke with two organizers and writers who appear in the issue: Rory Fanning and Sarah Lazare. Rory is a former Army Ranger who fought in Afghanistan and became a war resister there. He’s the author of the book ‘Worth Fighting For’ and now works at Haymarket Books. He was profiled by our assistant editor Alex Press in the new issue. Sarah is a web editor at In These Times. She has an overview of where the top five Democratic candidates stand on the issue of foreign policy and war in the issue. If you’re not a subscriber, please buy a copy of the issue. You can purchase it here: https://jacobinmag.com/issue/<wbr />war-is-a-racket And subscribe to Jacobin here:https://jacobinmag.com/<wbr />subscribe/?code=WARISARACKET

Behind the News: Israeli Elections; Justin Trudeau Sep 30, 2019

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Joel Schalit, co-founder and editor of The Battleground, on the Israeli election. Then, Martin Lukacs, author of The Trudeau Formula, on that slippery Canadian prime minister.

The Dig: Ayn Rand's Optimistic Cruelty with Lisa Duggan Sep 27, 2019

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Lisa Duggan wrote a book that explains everything you need to know about Ayn Rand and why she became so enormously consequential so that you don't have to read Rand's work yourself. Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed is out now from University of California Press.

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Behind the News: UAW Strike; Slavery in the Early United States Sep 23, 2019

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Sam Gindin on the UAW’s strike against GM, and the possibilities for the green repurposing of a plant GM is abandoning. Then, Robin Einhorn on the role of slavery in shaping tax politics in the early United States (article here).

The Dig: The Class Politics of Suburban Racism with Matt Lassiter Sep 20, 2019

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The history of suburbanite reactions to school integration in Atlanta and Charlotte reveal the class power underpinning both racism and the demolition of the New Deal order. Dan interviews Matt Lassiter, discussing suburbanite resistance to school busing, why Nixon's Silent Majority was the the product of a suburban strategy rather than a Southern one, and why the class base of all politics matters.

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The Vast Majority: "West Virginia Isn't Just Trump Country" with Cathy Kunkel Sep 19, 2019

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As we trudge closer to 2020, candidates are emerging for elected office beyond the presidency. And, thank God, they don't all suck. Like Cathy Kunkel, who is running for Congress in West Virginia's second district. Cathy is an energy analyst, cochair of the Working Families Party in West Virginia, an activist during the 2018 West Virginia teachers strike, and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. She's also a contributor to Jacobin, where she's written half a dozen articles about West Virginia and Puerto Rico. You can read her Jacobin articles here: https://www.jacobinmag.<wbr />com/author/cathy-kunkel You can learn more about her campaign at her website: https://<wbr />kunkelforcongress.com

Jacobin Radio: Paul Mason and George Kerevan on Brexit Sep 17, 2019

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Suzi talks to Paul Mason on Brexit and George Kerevan on Brexit in Scotland — to unravel the complexities and many political-economic ramifications of the issue. The Brexit crisis is as consuming for the United Kingdom as Trump is for the United States. Paul Mason calls it "Brexhaustion," and says chaos is being normalized … albeit manufactured. The daily ins and outs are confusing, especially to outside spectators, but we shed light on this now constitutional crisis with British journalist and writer Paul Mason, and with political economist, journalist, and former SNP MP George Kerevan, who fills us in on the Scottish case by framing for us just how the United Kingdom came to this pass, how Britain has been massively convulsed by the internal divisions rocking the dominant Conservative (Tory) Party — such that Boris Johnson, now in power, could be seemingly denouncing the very capitalist interests the Conservative Party was supposed to represent. Brexit didn’t create these developments, but it is the outward form in which these divisions are being played out — and we get both George Kerevan and Paul Mason’s analyses.

Behind the News: Brexit; Slavery Sep 16, 2019

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Margaret Corvid, city councilor in Plymouth, England, on Boris Johnson and Brexit madness. Then, John Clegg on slavery’s profound effects on the US political structure.

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