Aug 5

Making the Jewish Bund w/ Molly Crabapple

Featuring Molly Crabapple on her book Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund. The first episode of a two-part interview. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Buy Unions of Our Own and Femmephilia at Haymarketbooks.org

2h 24m

Jul 22

Nusantara Ep. 8 – Reform Stalls, Oligarchy Triumphs

The eighth and final episode in a series on the history of Indonesia: a hinge in the world system where colonialism and revolution have decisively shaped the trajectory of global history. This last installment picks up with the 2014 election of Joko Widodo, or Jokowi, to the pres ... Show More

2h 15m

Jul 14

Nusantara Ep. 7 – Suharto’s Fall

The seventh episode in a series on the history of Indonesia: a hinge in the world system where colonialism and revolution have decisively shaped the trajectory of global history. This penultimate installment analyses the 1998 fall of Suharto and his New Order dictatorship. Basic ... Show More

2h 10m

Feb 2023

Helena Hansen et al., "Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America" (U California Press, 2023)

In the past two decades, media images of the surprisingly white “new face” of the US opioid crisis abounded. But why was the crisis so white? Some argued that skyrocketing overdoses were “deaths of despair” signaling deeper socioeconomic anguish in white communities. Whiteout: Ho ... Show More

1h 32m

Dec 2024

Helena Hansen et al., "Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America" (U California Press, 2023)

The phrase "racial capitalism" was used by Cedric Robinson to describe an economy of wealth accumulation extracted from cheap labor, organized by racial hierarchy, and justified through white supremacist logics. Now, in the twenty-first century, the biotech industry is the new ca ... Show More

1h 15m

Sep 2019

Companies Pay for Their Role in the Opioid Crisis | Greta Thunberg

Corporations are punished for fueling America's opioid crisis, Lewis Black talks about the effects of screen time on kids, and activist Greta Thunberg stops by. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy info ... Show More

28m 50s

Feb 2019

America's Homegrown Opioid Crisis | Kamala Harris

President Trump is accused of meddling with the investigation of Michael Cohen, Trevor examines America's opioid crisis, and Sen. Kamala Harris discusses "The Truths We Hold." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener f ... Show More

49m 50s

Sep 2019

#169 — Omens of a Race War

<p>Sam Harris speaks with Kathleen Belew about the white power movement in the United States. They discuss white supremacy, white nationalism, white separatism, the militia movement, "The Turner Diaries," the connection between the white power movement and war, the significance o ... Show More

43m 43s

Jun 2020

The legacy of American riots

<div>Kellie Carter Jackson on the double standard that guides who can protest – and how – in the United States. And, Rachel Chason and Rebecca Tan examine what nursing home residents are experiencing during the pandemic.</div><div><br></div><div>Read more:</div><div><br></div><di ... Show More

21m 28s

Sep 2019

Come Out of the Shadows

<p>DeRay, Brittany, Clint and Sam discuss D.C. statehood, Baltimore's refusal to internally review their police department, a recently unearthed secret plan to circumvent Brown vs. Board of Education in Texas, and why South Dakota (of all places) leads the nation in jail admissio ... Show More

50m 22s

Racism, Class, and the Opioid Crisis