Why Harvard Won’t Settle—Plus, the Struggles of Supermarket Workers Why Harvard Won’t Settle—Plus, the Struggles of Supermarket Workers
On this episode of Start Making Sense, Randall Kennedy analyzes Harvard v. Trump, and Ann Larson explains work behind the grocery store checkstand.
Jun 17, 2026 / Podcast / Jon Wiener
Human Prehistory and How Societies Rise and Fall—With Patrick Wyman Human Prehistory and How Societies Rise and Fall—With Patrick Wyman
Historian Patrick Wyman returns to the show to talk about the deep history of human societies and how they can inform the current moment.
Jun 17, 2026 / Podcast / Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison
The Bari Weiss Problem at CBS The Bari Weiss Problem at CBS
It isn’t her ideology. It’s her product.
Jun 16, 2026 / Michael Massing
The Knicks Lifted a City on Their Backs The Knicks Lifted a City on Their Backs
After 53 years, the city and its basketball team can finally celebrate together.
Jun 16, 2026 / Dave Zirin
Alex Bores: Silicon Valley Is Spending $10 Million Against My Campaign Alex Bores: Silicon Valley Is Spending $10 Million Against My Campaign
A super PAC bankrolled by tech billionaires is trying to sink my run for Congress. What happens here will tell every other politician whether AI can be checked at all.
Jun 16, 2026 / Alex Bores
Bernie Sanders’s Revolution Bernie Sanders’s Revolution
The senator may be remembered as a bridge between the promise of America and the fulfillment of that promise.
Alexander Hamilton, the Wrong Founder Alexander Hamilton, the Wrong Founder
Dismantling the cult of personality created around the founding era's plutocratic foe of democracy.
Jun 16, 2026 / Feature / William Hogeland
How a Collective Dedicated to Black Liberation and Indigenous Sovereignty Is Reclaiming the Story of America How a Collective Dedicated to Black Liberation and Indigenous Sovereignty Is Reclaiming the Story of America
A June 20 festival will tell a truer story of the nation’s semiquincentennial, braiding narratives of Black and Indigenous struggles and visions for our collective liberation.
Jun 16, 2026 / Fatima B. Jalloh
How Reactionary Zionists Became the New Birchers How Reactionary Zionists Became the New Birchers
We are seeing a kind of modern-day John Birch Society with Zionist characteristics. I call it the Jonah Birch Society.
Jun 16, 2026 / Dan Berger