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Our police system is a product of Cold War US imperialism too. Dan interviews Stuart Schrader on Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing . Support this podcast with your money at patreon.com/TheDig

This is an incredible moment to learn about the Young Lords from historian Johanna Fernández, the author of The Young Lords: A Radical History . Please support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig

Dan talks to @loggins__ and @MuseWendi about why people are reading White Fragility and ten books about racism, capitalism, and Black radicalism that you should read instead. Check out Left POCket Project @LeftPOC Blacks In and Out of the Left by Michael C Dawson Dig interview with Michael Dawson Democracy Remixed by Cathy Cohen Dig interview with Cathy Cohen, Jasson Perez, Malaika Jabali Mapping...

Aziz Rana interviews Dan Denvir on how policing and mass incarceration became core features of the war on immigrants and on his book All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It . Please support this podcast wit $ at Patreon.com/TheDig Buy Dan’s book at versobooks.com/books/2858-all-american-nativism

Mike Davis on his classic book about why the US has long lacked strong socialist and labor politics. One recurrent answer: racism. Read Dan’s essay on the moment: jacobinmag.com/2020/06/donald-trump-war-american-democracy-riots-coronavirus Not in the mood for a long, complex Dig interview? Check out Antibody , which is like commie This American Life: thedigradio.com/antibody Support this pod...

A Dig special. Zoom forum Dan hosted with leading defund police organizers from around the country. For more info: blackvisionsmn.org byp100.org daretowin.org reclaimRI.org blmla.org If you live in RI, support the fight for a people’s budget: actionnetwork.org/petitions/say-no-to-a-brutal-austerity-budget-in-rhode-island Dan’s essay on Trump’s origins in ordinary bipartisan secur...

Antibody is a narrative series about how Covid-19 has changed everything and nothing at all. In this episode: All Cops Are Idiots (featuring Kafui Attoh, you can buy his book here: ugapress.org/book/9780820354217/rights-in-transit ) A Few Basic Demands (produced by Chenjerai Kumanyika ( twitter.com/catchatweetdown ) After the Peak (by Karim Sariahmed ( twitter.com/sariahmed ), along with Alex Azan...

Dan interviews returning guests Aslı Bâli and Aziz Rana on the long history behind the crisis of American imperial legitimation that has become so manifest amid the pandemic. Some works by Bâli and Rana cited in this interview: bostonreview.net/war-security-politics-global-justice/asl%C4%B1-u-b%C3%A2li-aziz-rana-sanctions-are-inhumane%E2%80%94now-and-always lawreview.uchicago.edu/publication/const...

Antibody is a new narrative series about how Covid-19 has changed everything and nothing at all. In this episode: The Corner (featuring Pablo Alvarado and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network ) Stranger Pleasure (featuring Samuel Delany ; produced by David Gutherz) One House in Oakland (produced by Sophie Kasakove ) Role Call (produced by Andrea Long Chu ) Support day laborer economic survi...

Dan interviews Cathy Cohen, Jasson Perez, and Malaika Jabali on this uprising, the conditions that made it possible, and where it might be headed. Support Black Visions Collective at blackvisionsmn.org Check out Malaika’s short film Left Out .

Antibody is a new narrative series about how Covid-19 has changed everything and nothing at all. In this episode: Zoom Canvass (featuring Nikil Saval ) Hardwood Flesh (produced by Ari Mejia ) Dial 3 to Admit Your Personal Failure (produced by Ian Lewis and Caroline Kanner) You Can’t Go Home Again (written by Alex Press ) The International Trans Person Helpline (produced by Cass Adair and Arl...

From The Dig and Jacobin: a new narrative series about how COVID-19 has changed everything and nothing at all. The first of three episodes is coming soon.

Dan interviews anthropologist Adia Benton on the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa and what its politics reveal about the Covid-19 pandemic today. Please support this podcast with your money at patreon.com/thdig

Dan interviews Frank Rosenthal on the history of the radical science organization Science for the People and Nafis Hasan on everything about a left-wing politics of science. Subscribe to Science for the People at magazine. ScienceForThePeople.org Please support this podcast with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig

Dan is playing catch up. Here’s a fav interview from the archives: critical theorist Nancy Fraser on how a total analysis of capitalism requires analyzing capitalism’s totality, including socially reproductive work that makes possible the world that capitalism exploits. This is painfully relevant today as people everywhere do the work of staying at home and social distancing to beat th...

Dan interviews Aaron Benanav, who argues that the problem isn’t that robots are stealing our jobs but rather that capitalist growth is finding its limits and making jobs worse. Read “Automation and the Future of Work” in New Left Review . Parts one and two . Please support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig .

Dan interviews Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht, the authors of Bigger Than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism, to assess the campaign and the way forward. Please support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

Dan interviews the makers of Blowback, a new podcast series telling the history of the Iraq War. Blowback is available only on Stitcher Premium—and for a month you can listen for free. Go to stitcherpremium.com and sign up with the code BLOWBACK. Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

Dan interviews historian Kim Phillips-Fein about her book Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics and about how the destruction of social democracy made today’s city where coronavirus is killing its poor and working-class people. In other news: Dan’s Jacobin essay on keeping the Bernie infrastructure alive is here and the volunteer petition to do so...

Dan interviews veteran organizer Jasson Perez and journalist Sarah Jaffe on left organizing amid covid and where it might go. Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

Dan interviews Amy Kapczynski and Gregg Gonsalves on the politics of public health and what we can learn from ACT UP. Please support The Dig with your money at Patreon.com/TheDig

Dan interviews New York magazine writer Eric Levitz on the big corporate bailout that gave workers precious little to survive the corona crisis. Please support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

Dan interviews Marxist economist Grace Blakeley on coronavirus economics. Please support this podcast with money at Patreon.com/TheDig

Dan interviews Mike Davis about everything we are all suddenly trying to figure out. Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig

Dan interviews NYC DSA down-ballot candidates. Samelys López is running for a US House seat in the Bronx. Jabari Brisport, Marcela Mitaynes, and Phara Souffrant Forrest are running for seats in the state legislature. All four are campaigning on a platform of housing justice. Please support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig