How the Swedes Do It

We talk with Monica Prasad about taxes in Sweden. Sweden has lower poverty rates, less inequality and higher mobility than the U.S. How do they do it? The answer is not what you expect. Monica Prasad is a professor of sociology and a faculty fellow in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, and is the author, most recently, of “Starving the Beast: Ronald Reagan and the Tax Cut Revolution.”

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The Causes and Implications of Regional Economic Disparities

We speak with Gerald Friedman about the growing economic gap between the poorer states in the U.S. and the wealthier coastal regions. Gerald Friedman is a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Professor Friedman has research interests in the areas of economic history, specifically 19th- and 20th-century France and the US; political economies; and the economics of healthcare. He has drafted financing plans for single-payer healthcare systems, and has served on the editorial boards of several academic journals.

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Two events in NYC this week!

We speak with Garon Scott of the NYC DSA Racial Justice Working Group about two important events happening this week. On March 7th, the Elected Civilian Review Board Campaign will have a speaker at the police-accountability-focused Charter forum at City Council Chambers, and hopes to pack the chambers with at least 100 campaign supporters. On March 9th, the campaign against school suspensions will hold a public delivery of petition signatures on the steps of City Hall. Listen to the show for more details!

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The Weaponization of Anti-Semitism

We speak with Dr. Stephen R. Shalom about the weaponization of anti-semitism against supporters of BDS and critics of Israel. Steve Shalom teaches political science at William Paterson University in New Jersey, where he is director of the Middle East Studies minor. He's a member of the editorial board of the journal New Politics and works with the northern NJ chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace. He has written extensively on U.S. foreign policy and on the Middle East.

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Why the Democrats will win in 2020

We speak with Rachel Bitecofer on why the Democrats will win the 2020 election, whether Bernie is a good candidate, and the implications of a polarized America. Rachel Bitecofer (@RachelBitecofer), a political-science professor at the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University, in Virginia, is the author of “The Unprecedented 2016 Presidential Election.” Professor Bitecofer successfully predicted the outcome of the 2018 mid-term elections months before 538 and other experts. We were introduced to her work when we read David Leonhardt’s column here and you can find her most recent NYT Op-Ed here.

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Operation Ajax

We speak with Bridey Heing about the CIA’s first coup. Bridey Heing is a writer and critic based in Washington, DC. Her writing on literature, culture, and politics has been published by The Economist, the Times Literary Supplement, and Pacific Standard, among others.

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Something Rotten: Danish Social Democrats Find Common Ground With The Far-Right

We speak with Martin Bak Jørgensen about immigration in Denmark. Martin Bak Jørgensen is an associate professor at the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University. He is coeditor of Solidarity without Borders: Gramscian Perspectives on Migration and Civil Society and coauthor of Solidarity and the ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Europe.

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The Zapatistas: 25 Years of Revolution

We speak with Hilary Klein about the lessons of the Zapatista Revolution. HILARY KLEIN spent six years in Chiapas, Mexico, working with women’s projects in Zapatista communities. After she compiled a book of Zapatista women’s testimony to be circulated in their own villages, women in the Zapatista leadership suggested that Hilary compile a similar book for an outside audience. Hilary has been engaged in social justice and community organizing for twenty years. After spending five years at Make the Road New York, a membership organization that builds the power of immigrant and working-class communities, she joined the Center for Popular Democracy in May 2015.

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Neoliberal NYC Episode 1: In conversation with Kim Phillips-Fein

Ernest Leif Boyd speaks with Kim Phillips-Fein about her book Fear City. Kim Phillips-Fein teaches American history at New York University, where she is an associate professor in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study.  She is the author of Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal (W.W. Norton, 2009).  She is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians (2017 – 2020). Fear City was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for history and  was one of Kirkus Review's Best American History Books for 2017. 

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A New Understanding of Congress

This episode might radically change the way you think about Congress. We speak with political scientist Frances E. Lee about the new hyper-competitive nature of Congress and the implications of congressional parity. Professor Lee has been a member of the University of Maryland faculty since 2004. Her work has received national recognition, including the American Political Science Association's Richard F. Fenno Award for the best book on legislative politics in 2009, the D. B. Hardeman Award presented by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation for the best book on a congressional topic in both 1999 and 2009, and the APSA's E. E. Schattschneider Award for the best dissertation in American Politics in 1997. To watch an interview with Lee about her book Beyond Ideology on C-SPAN's Book TV, click here. To watch Ezra Klein's interview with Lee about presidential leadership of Congress on Vox.com, click here.

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