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On a recent episode of the podcast Bad with Money with Gaby Dunn , Gaby explored some basic questions about capitalism with Jacobin managing editor Nicole Aschoff: what is it? Why does it encourage companies like Facebook to monetize our personal lives? Why do young people think it's so bogus? Why is it so bogus? Thanks to Gaby for letting us use the interview. You can subscribe to Bad with Money...

On January 20, 2017, just a few hours after the inauguration of Donald Trump, one thousand people gathered in Washington, DC’s Lincoln Theatre (and 200,000 across the United States and abroad watched at home or at livestreaming parties) for The Anti-Inauguration, an event from Jacobin , Verso Books, and Haymarket Books. The event featured author and activist Naomi Klein, journalist Anand Gopal, th...

The depravity of Donald Trump’s fear-mongering, xenophobic, anti-Muslim politics are now in full swing. The new president has barred people from seven Muslim-majority countries — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen — including, to an unclear and ultimately-walked back degree, lawful permanent residents, from entering the United States for ninety days. All refugees are barred for 12...

<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" summary="Blog Post / Episode Notes"><tbody><tr><td colspan="3" align="left" valign="top"> Donald Trump has nominated Betsy DeVos, a free-market, far-right Christian billionaire dedicated to privatizing public schools, to be his Secretary of Education. In her confirmation hearing, DeVos made it painfully clear th...