Mark Blyth: How Austerity Brought Us Donald Trump
Mark Blyth wasn’t surprised by the rise of Donald Trump, nor Brexit, nor the crises spreading across Europe. He actually predicted them all. Blyth, the author of “Austerity: The History …
‘White genocide’ with George Ciccariello-Maher
George Cicariello-Maher is professor of political science at Drexel University and author of several books, including Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela, published by Verso as part of the …
Fighting the Trump bans: Linda Sarsour and Nicholas Espíritu
Today, we bring you two interviews. The first is with Nicholas Espíritu from the National Immigration Law Center, one of the groups mounting legal challenges against the ban, who will explain …
Diane Ravitch on Trump, DeVos and the corporate ed “reform” agenda
Donald Trump has nominated Betsy DeVos, a free-market, far-right Christian billionaire dedicated to privatizing public schools, to be his Secretary of Education. In her confirmation hearing, DeVos made it painfully …
Jacobin’s All-Star Socialist Anti-Inauguration Extravaganza
This week we re-broadcast Jacobin Magazine, Verso, and Haymarket Books‘ anti-inauguration event from The Lincoln Theatre in Washington, DC. featuring Naomi Klein, Anand Gopal, Jeremy Scahill, Owen Jones, & Keeanga-Yamahtta …
Building a diverse working class movement to transform America
What is to be done? How can I get involved? Those are questions that a lot of people are asking now that Donald Trump is about to become president of …
Glenn Greenwald on Trump and the National Security State
Presidents Bush and Obama both presided over an expansive War on Terror and a national security state with a lethal and global reach. Permanent war and warrantless snooping have become …
Trump didn’t invent being terrible on immigration: César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández & Chris Newman.
Donald Trump launched his campaign by calling Mexican immigrants “rapists” and pledged to build a “a big, fat, beautiful wall” on the southern border that, of course, Mexico is going …
Americans in Revolt: Sarah Jaffe on social movements
Journalist Sarah Jaffe’s new book Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt chronicles the movements for economic and racial justice that will be at the forefront of the fight against Trump. Daniel …
Why Trump Won: Stephanie Coontz, Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Matt Karp
Donald Trump’s election was shocking, if actually not so surprising, and has prompted widespread protests against a cresting right-wing reaction taking shape as a strange and potent combination of white …