Harold Meyerson analyzes the Republican failure to elect a Speaker of the House - and what it tells us about the future of the new Congress.
Teaching Assistants and other grad student employees at the University of California won a historic victory in their strike last month. What does that mean for other universities and other union organizing campaigns? Nelson Lichtenstein joins the show to comment.
Also this week, Andrew Bacevich talks about our “very long war” going back to the sixties, and the relative insignificance of Donald Trump. Bacevich's new book is On Shedding an Obsolete Past: Bidding Farewell to the American Century.
Hollywood Strikes: Light at the end of the tunnel? Harold Meyerson; plus Erwin Chemerinsky on the Georgia Indictments
Sasha Abramsky on the Culture Wars; D.D. Guttenplan on Cornel West; Francine Prose on "Vixen"
Abortion Rights Win Again: Harold Meyerson; Trump's Jan. 6 indictment: Erwin Chemerinsky; "Barbie": Katha Pollitt
Trump's Big Crime: Harold Meyerson; "Barbie" and Oppie: John Powers
Teamsters victory: Harold Meyerson; Hollywood strikes update: Ben Schwartz; Ireland since the '50s: Fintan O'Toole
Trump's worst crimes: Harold Meyerson; War on Black Studies: Robin Kelley; RFK Jr.: Joan Walsh
Actors on Strike: Harold Meyerson; The Supremes in 2023: David Cole; Cornel West: D.D. Guttenplan
LA's Summer of Strikes: Harold Meyerson; After Affirmative Action: John Nichols; Writers and Politics: Adam Shatz
L.A. Strikes: Harold Meyerson; Abortion Borderlands: Amy Littlefield; 'Learning to Drive': Katha Pollitt
Democrats and Working Class Voters: Katie Rader; Doctors vs. Hospitals: Eyal Press; Biden and 'Freedom': Eric Foner
Cornel West Should Not be Running for President: Joan Walsh; plus Katha Pollitt on divorce and Brenda Stevenson on the enslaved Black family
Actors, Dock Workers, threaten strikes: Harold Meyerson; Shasta County Takeover: Sasha Abramsky; Black Migration: Isabel Wilkerson
Biden's Debt Deal: Harold Meyerson; The Oklahoma City Bombing: Jeffrey Toobin; Margo Jefferson's Memoir
Minnesota Takes the Lead: Harold Meyerson; plus Eyal Press on Planned Parenthood and Christopher Leonard on the Koch Brothers
A Good Week for Workers: Harold Meyerson; plus Bhaskar Sunkara on Biden and Adam Hochschild on Woke History
Worrying about Biden: Harold Meyerson; Writers' Strike: Josh Gondelman; Working Class Voters: Senator Sherrod Brown
The Writers' Strike: Harold Meyerson; plus D.D. Guttenplan on Clarence Thomas and Anatol Lieven on Ukraine
Tucker Carlson & History: Harold Meyerson; Amy Wilentz on Haiti; Anatol Lieven on Ukraine
Fox News & Us: Harold Meyerson; Afghan girls: Shabana; Abortion Politics: John Nichols
Abortion politics: Harold Meyerson; J. Edgar Hoover: Beverly Gage
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