The Trump Effect on Elections Abroad

Secretary of War/little boy Pete Hegseth will be testifying before Congress this week — starting with a hearing before the House Armed Services Committee today. And if you ask him, everything in Iran and everything else is going just fine! Great, even! But Colorado Democratic Rep ... Show More

MAGA is getting nervous as polls in the Michigan U.S. Senate race show Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed leading. According to new polling from Detroit News/WDIV-TV, El-Sayed had 51.4% support, compared with Republican candidate Mike Rogers at 45.1%. Of the 600 likely voters, 3 ... Show More

Georgia's first day of early voting set a midterm-voting record. But should record turnout reassure us, or can turnout be high and suppression still be real? Jane discusses this, ballot access, and how to secure your vote with Stacey Abrams, former leader of the Georgia House, le ... Show More

Capitalism has entered its villain era. In a new series running Fridays this month, we look at how Americans came to blame it for just about everything. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd an ... Show More

We’re sharing an episode of The Gray Area from our friends at Vox.  The Gray Area is a philosophical take on culture, politics, and your daily life. In the episode we’re sharing with you today, host Sean Illing speaks with New York Magazine writer Eric Levitz about the viability ... Show More

President Trump’s interventions are raising questions about the U.S. approach to free markets. Host Carmel Crimmins talks to Reuters U.S. business editor David Gaffen and White House correspondent Trevor Hunnicutt about recent White House deals with U.S. corporates and what they ... Show More

President Trump is threatening CEOs, nationalizing the steel industry, and demanding a cut of Nvidia's profits. There's a term for all that — and it's not "free-market." This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by ... Show More

Two wildly different political movements — Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party — emerged from the Great Recession. They forever changed the way Americans think about capitalism and democracy. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by La ... Show More

****************************************************************************** [EU S14 E04] US Capitalism At The Crossroads ****************************************************************************** This week's Economic Update Professor Richard Wolff discusses the special dim ... Show More

It’s … Indicators of the Week! Our weekly look at some of the most fascinating economic numbers from the news. On today’s episode: the concept of capitalism is cooling in American minds; the U.S. policies behind the Hyundai ICE raid; and an influential family’s succession saga co ... Show More

It’s well understood that capitalist economies are a recent development in human history. But there is persistent disagreement on the Left over exactly how and where the transition to capitalism occurred, as well as what role colonial plunder played in enriching the West. On this ... Show More

Today we’re all getting smarter about some of the economic and political terms dominating the headlines these days. Terms like “authoritarianism” and “state capitalism” that have been hotly debated during the second Trump administration. Plus, “stagflation” and other vocabulary w ... Show More