Sam hosts Clara Mattei, Assistant Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research, to discuss her recent book The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism. First, Sam runs through updates on Kevin McCarthy entering day three of House purgatory, the FTC banning non-compete agreements from labor contracts, mass tech layoffs, […]

Sam and Emma break down the biggest headlines of the day as we get into the final weeks before the 2022 Midterm elections. They begin by running through updates on the Oklahoma City governor’s race, the Fed’s labor crunch and subsequent recession, and student loan relief, before talking protest, discourse, and soup in relation to great […]

Sam and Emma host professor Mark Robert Rank to discuss his new book Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong About Poverty on realities of American poverty and what has to be done to reduce suffering in 21st century America. Plus, the MR community says goodbye to Jamie. On today’s show: Fox News says Covid relief bill is too […]

Sam hosts Vanessa Williamson (@V_Williamson), a Brookings Institute fellow, to discuss her recent piece in Dissent Magazine, “The Austerity Politics of White Supremacy,” on how the cult of the “taxpayer” functions as an effective veneer to push through racist attacks on democracy. On today’s show: Cori Bush says House should impeach Trump, a white supremacist president, […]

Sam breaks down the week’s biggest headlines with Michael Brooks, including Trump’s plans to reopen, GOP disaster austerity and Bay of Pigs Pt. 2: Venezuela. On today’s show: Trump on why he didn’t get ahead of pandemic: “I had a lot of things going on.” Trump on making people go back to work: says “we have to […]

Sam hosts author and Columbia history professor Adam Tooze to discuss the on-going recession and his latest piece in Foreign Policy, “The Normal Economy is Never Coming Back.” Sam and Tooze discuss the troubling disconnect between the financial markets and the “real economy” and the strange lack of parity between them. Tooze compares this economic […]

Sam breaks down the top headlines, including the critical Wisconsin Supreme Court win for Democrats, how Sanders’ endorsement will influence Joe Biden’s campaign, and Trump’s plans and committees to reopen America. With Nomiki Konst (@NomikiKonst) of ‘The Nomiki Show’ and fun half appearance by Jamie! On today’s show: Trump says he has total authority to reopen […]

On today’s M&M Wednesday, Foreign Policy Stories Editor Seyward Darby explains how the Twa people of Rwanda were the hidden victims of the Rwandan genocide, the historical roots of the genocide, the politics of post genocide Rwanda, how erasing ethnic distinction can harm the cause of human rights and how the west is responding to […]

Chris Savage the  Editor of Eclecta Blog explains the new federal ruling that could slash Detroit’s public pensions, Governor Rick Snyder’s radical austerity policies, who is Detroit’s Emergency Manager Kevin Orr? how the labor unions are working to protect pensions, how the big banks are brutally exploiting Detroit, selling off Detroit’s public assets, what caused Detroit’s […]

Writer John Carl Baker on his article in Jacobin discussing the GOP stranglehold on Florida politics, policy and prosperity (or lack of).  Despite highly