Guy Standing on Rentier Capitalism and the Precariat

We talk with Guy Standing about the precariat class. This is a very special episode. The conversation fundamentally changed the way I understand things. Guy Standing is a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London, and a founder and co-President of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), an NGO promoting basic income as a right. He has held chairs at the Universities of Bath and Monash (Australia) and was previously Director of the Socio-Economic Security Programme of the International Labour Organisation. He is currently working on pilot basic income schemes in India and on issues relating to his two recent books, The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (2011) and A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens (2014).

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The Wild World of Medical Debt

We talk with Olga Khazan about what happens when you don’t pay your hospital bill. Olga Khazan is a staff writer at The Atlantic.

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Understanding Class Warfare

We speak with Ramaa Vasudevan about class war. Ramaa Vasudevan is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Colorado State University. She completed her Ph.D. in economics from New School University, New York. Her research engages with the political economy of money and finance. She is a Catalyst editorial board member.

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Chile Explodes

With speak with Kenneth M. Roberts about the protests in Chile. Kenneth M. Roberts is Professor of Government and Senior Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University. His teaching and research interests are focused on parties, popular movements, and the politics of inequality. He is the author of Deepening Democracy? The Modern Left and Social Movements in Chile and Peru (Stanford University Press), and co-editor of The Diffusion of Social Movements (Cambridge University Press) and The Resurgence of the Left in Latin America (Johns Hopkins University Press).

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The Border-Industrial Complex

We talk with Todd Miller about the militarization of the border. Todd Miller has researched and written about border issues for more than 15 years, the last eight as an independent journalist and writer. He resides in Tucson, Arizona, but also has spent many years living and working in Oaxaca, Mexico. His work has appeared in the New York Times, TomDispatch, The Nation, San Francisco Chronicle, In These Times, Guernica, and Al Jazeera English, among other places.

Miller has authored three books: The forthcoming Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World (Verso, 2019),  Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security (City Lights, 2017), and Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security (City Lights, 2014).

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The Egyptian Economy: On the Brink of Collapse?

We speak with Maged Mandour about the Egyptian economy, the protests against al-Sisi, and what Western powers want from the regime. Maged Mandour graduated from Cambridge with a Masters in International Relations. He is a political analyst and the columnist of “Chronicles of the Arab Revolt” on openDemocracy. He is also a writer for Sada, the online journal for Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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Daily Life in Eastern Ukraine

We speak with Alisa Sopova about the hardships people face in the war zone of eastern Ukraine. Alisa Sopova is an independent journalist from Ukraine.

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The Political Economy of Land Conservation

We speak with Prakash Kashwan about the best ways to protect nature (and why more land conservation might not be the answer). Prakash Kashwan is an Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut who has studied the politics of wildlife and biodiversity conservation for over a decade and a half.

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The Public Option: Why Stop At Health Care?

We speak with Ganesh Sitaraman about why we need public options for everything. Ganesh Sitaraman is a professor at Vanderbilt Law School. He is the co-author of “The Public Option: How to Expand Freedom, Increase Opportunity and Promote Equality.

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Vox: The New Far Right Force in Spain

We discuss Spanish politics with Vicente Rubio-Pueyo. Vicente Rubio-Pueyo is a professor at Fordham University. He has written extensively, both in academic contexts and in the press, on the current social and political conjuncture in Spain, and on political forces including Podemos and the Municipalist Confluences. A Spaniard living in the US for more than ten years now, Vicente has also been active in building connections and mutual understanding between these forces and their counterparts in North America.

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