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Stephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors looks on against the Los Angeles Lakers during the first half of an NBA preseason basketball game at Chase Center on October 5, 2025, in San Francisco, California.

“Black History Is for Everyone,” and a Western Conference Preview “Black History Is for Everyone,” and a Western Conference Preview

Historian Brian Jones joins the show to talk about his book, and Arya Shirazi and I talk about the upcoming NBA season.

Oct 13, 2025 / Podcast / Dave Zirin

President-elect Donald Trump speaks to Brendan Carr, his intended pick for Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, as he attends a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas.

We Defeated McCarthyism Before. We Can Do It Again. We Defeated McCarthyism Before. We Can Do It Again.

It’s easy to feel despair about what looks like a new age of government censorship. But being around for 160 years gives you perspective.

Oct 13, 2025 / Katrina vanden Heuvel, John Nichols for The Nation

Call It What It Is: Genocide

Call It What It Is: Genocide Call It What It Is: Genocide

The Gaza genocide is the ongoing, intentional, and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people, by Israeli forces.

Oct 13, 2025 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

Members of Indigenous People’s Day New York City Committee held a Circle of Belonging in Columbus Circle on June 30, 2020.

Renaming Columbus Day Was Never the End Goal Renaming Columbus Day Was Never the End Goal

Don’t let fights over names distract you from the real fights over Indigenous land, sovereignty, and rights.

Oct 13, 2025 / Joseph Lee

Mustafa Tafesh and the Palestine National Baseball team.

“The Occupation Kills Everything, Including Athletes” “The Occupation Kills Everything, Including Athletes”

Mustafa Tafesh and Ashraf Murad, members of the Palestine National Baseball Team, are just two of 800 athletes who have been killed during Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Oct 13, 2025 / StudentNation / Khadeejah Khan

The Triumphs and Travails of American Marxism

The Triumphs and Travails of American Marxism The Triumphs and Travails of American Marxism

Karl Marx never visited the United States, but he and his ideas left an imprint nonetheless.

Oct 13, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Robin Blackburn

Fans cheer at an event for the movie

Revolutionary Violence and “One Battle After Another” Revolutionary Violence and “One Battle After Another”

On this episode of The Time of Monsters: David Klion on the historical resonance of Paul Thomas Anderson’s new movie.

Oct 12, 2025 / Podcast / Jeet Heer

It’s Never a Strategy to Remain Quiet, With Nick Tilsen

It’s Never a Strategy to Remain Quiet, With Nick Tilsen It’s Never a Strategy to Remain Quiet, With Nick Tilsen

On A People's Climate: A call for big, bad, bold courage.

Oct 11, 2025 / Podcast / Shilpi Chhotray

Sad Emmanuel Macron

Venezuela-US Escalation, Myanmar Air Strike, France’s Political Crisis Venezuela-US Escalation, Myanmar Air Strike, France’s Political Crisis

The news from American Prestige.

Oct 10, 2025 / Podcast / Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison

A protester in a frog costume stands in front of a line of federal law enforcement officers outside a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland, Oregon, Monday, October 6, 2025.

Portland’s Dancing Protesters Are Showing Us How to Stand Up to Trump Portland’s Dancing Protesters Are Showing Us How to Stand Up to Trump

The president wants us to be afraid. These activists are clowning him instead.

Oct 10, 2025 / Jeet Heer

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