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March 17, 2023
Democrats Face a Terrible Reckoning on Bank Bailouts
Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, and a phalanx of senators are way too cozy with finance capital.
Jeet Heer
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January 30, 2023
The Killing of Tyre Nichols Is an Indictment of the Entire Political System
After BLM and the George Floyd protests, the bipartisan elite embraced bolstering police power.
Jeet Heer
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December 30, 2022
How the GOP Learned to Hate the FBI
And why it matters that Democrats and Republicans have switched positions on the national security state.
Jeet Heer
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November 2, 2022
Student Debt and Democracy
On this week’s episode of The Time of Monsters, Astra Taylor joins the show to discuss the politics and morality of debt.
Jeet Heer
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September 30, 2022
Remembering Frank Watkins, Longtime Lieutenant to Jesse Jackson
Though he preferred to work behind the scenes, Watkins was a crucial force in opening the Democratic Party to Black leadership—and pulling it to the left.
Kevin Alexander Gray
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September 26, 2022
NPR’s Nina Totenberg, Friend of the Reactionary Court
How the supposedly liberal media protected a right-wing Supreme Court.
Jeet Heer
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September 21, 2022
Remembering Ying Lee
Looking back at the life of a trailblazing activist and Berkeley’s first Asian American city council member.
David Bacon
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September 15, 2022
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August 29, 2022
Biden’s Debt Relief Is Actually a Victory for Left Organizing
The former “senator from MBNA” didn’t deliver student debt relief out of the goodness of his heart—but in response to a long, well-organized campaign.
Jeet Heer
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July 13, 2022
This Doesn’t Have to Hurt: An Argument Against BDSM Economics
Inflicting pain on workers to fix inflation isn’t just unfair. It’s stupid, ineffective, and completely unnecessary.
Zack Exley and Robert Hockett