DSA Kicking Ass with Lee Carter and David Duhalde
Last week was a bad week for Republicans and a good week for Democrats—and for Democratic Socialists. It’s now pretty clear that Republicans will pay a price for the fact …
The Hollow Center with Molly Ball and Eric Levitz
Centrist business elites believe in an America that doesn’t exist. Two guests this episode: first, @mollyesque talks about her piece “On Safari in Trump’s America” for The Atlantic. Her article follows …
Let’s Elect Left Candidates with Joe Dinkin
Since Bernie Sanders’s success in the 2016 Democratic primary, much of the Left, from progressive Democrats to socialists, has had its sights set on something we had long at least …
Nina Turner: Let’s Keep the Political Revolution In Motion
Former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner talks about being horrified by Trump, why single-payer is suddenly hot among likely 2020 Democratic contenders, and the work that Our Revolution is doing …
Bonus Episode: Larry Krasner’s Full Interview
Here’s Dan’s full interview with civil rights attorney and Democratic nominee for Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner. You heard some of it yesterday on the first in a four-part series …
Part One: The Story Behind America’s Mass Incarceration Experiment
In the late 1960s, criminologists like Todd Clear predicted America would soon start closing its prisons. They couldn’t have been more wrong. Interviews with Clear, formerly incarcerated poet and legal …
Marisol LeBrón & Brandy Jensen: Puerto Rico, Austerian Disaster; Roy Moore, Perfect Republican
Today’s Diglet is not really diminutive at all. Dan has two interviews with two separate guests because too much has happened over the past few weeks and there are too …
Eve Peyser: What Happened Is Not About What Actually Happened
For this Diglet, Dan and Eve discuss Hillary Clinton’s new book What Happened. Eve also talks about spending time with Jill Stein recently, and argues that it’s wrongheaded to blame …
Alex Pareene: Trump’s Happy Place Is Racism
Dan talks to Splinter Politics Editor Alex Pareene about his recent piece “Charlottesville Was a Preview of the Future of the Republican Party” and about why Phoenix is Trump’s happy …
Sarah Jones: Why Establishment Dems Punch “Alt-Left”
New Republic writer Sarah Jones joins Dan to talk about Trump’s invocation of the “alt-left” and to explain the term’s unseemly centrist history. And more. We’re gonna try doing two …