Oct 5

Confronting Labor’s Crisis w/ Chris Brooks

Featuring Chris Brooks on labor’s crisis and the strategic, militant class struggle that can turn it all around. Brooks, former chief of staff to UAW President Shawn Fain, urges organizers to be flexible in their methodology, explains the federal monitor’s anti-left lawfare again ... Show More

2h 29m

Sep 26

Muskism w/ Ben Tarnoff & Quinn Slobodian

Featuring Ben Tarnoff and Quinn Slobodian on their book Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. What the world’s bizarre richest man reveals about our financially fabulist, hard tech, far-right political-economic era. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Find Against Tech Oligarchy ... Show More

2h 46m

Sep 19

Winning Providence w/ Ben Shanahan

Featuring Ben Shanahan, the architect of socialist David Morales’ victorious campaign to be the Democratic nominee for mayor of Providence, Rhode Island. The Providence left ran a slate of left-wing candidates that not only elected Morales but also swept every single contested ci ... Show More

2h 26m

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 11m

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

May 2020

We're Doped Up

Why are we in an opioid epidemic? How did we get here, and what can be done? We hear from pain experts as well as from survivors of siblings lost to overdoses, who share their experiences of the drug crisis and its toll. Sponsored by Tremeau Pharmaceuticals Produced by BloodStrea ... Show More

24m 57s

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

Racism, Class, and the Opioid Crisis