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How Zohran Mamdani Can Fix the Housing Crisis 8 min
How Zohran Mamdani Can Fix the Housing Crisis
8 min · The US housing crisis isn’t natural — it’s the result of decades of policy decisions made to benefit landlords and the wealthy. Today, millions of Americans are being squeezed by rising...
Trump’s GLOBAL Far Right Network Is Growing 11 min
Trump’s GLOBAL Far Right Network Is Growing
11 min · From Brasília to Budapest, a global network of far-right forces has grown to include parties and politicians, judges and journalists, foundations and financiers, academics and oligarchs...
How the US Privatized WAR 11 min
How the US Privatized WAR
11 min · The ways of war are changing. Artificial intelligence is used to bomb families in Gaza. Flying drones are deployed to track down refugees on the US-Mexico border. But the biggest change...
How to Stop WORLD WAR III 15 min
How to Stop WORLD WAR III
15 min · The original goal of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), according to its first Secretary General, was "to keep the Soviets out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.”...
How the United States RIGGED the Global Economy 10 min
How the United States RIGGED the Global Economy
10 min · Globalization, in theory, means the free flow of goods, money, and ideas around the world. In practice, its rules are set to benefit powerful nations like the United States. Over the...
Mass Media Is an Arm of the Ruling Class — Matt Christman 19 min
Mass Media Is an Arm of the Ruling Class — Matt Christman
19 min · On The Jacobin Show, Chapo Trap House co-host Matt Christman explains why the media is getting worse and worse.
Base and Superstructure, Explained (Finally) 18 min
Base and Superstructure, Explained (Finally)
18 min · Nando Vila and Cale Brooks explore the concepts of “base” and “superstructure” and discuss the relationship between the two. Subscribe to the channel and hit the like button!
The Misguided Fixation on Racial Disparities — Adolph Reed & Walter Benn Michaels 21 min
The Misguided Fixation on Racial Disparities — Adolph Reed & Walter Benn Michaels
21 min · On The Jacobin Show, Adolph Reed and Walter Benn Michaels discuss the trouble with disparity and how antiracism has come to play a role in upholding capitalism in the twenty-first century.
Call of Duty Is Imperialist Propaganda 27 min
Call of Duty Is Imperialist Propaganda
27 min · Brandon Sonju breaks down how video games — and, in particular, first-person shooters like Call of Duty — function as propaganda for American empire, and discusses how people can enjoy...
The Myth of Class Reductionism with Adolph Reed 81 min
The Myth of Class Reductionism with Adolph Reed
81 min · Today Bhaskar Sunkara, editor & publisher of Jacobin magazine, is joined by professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Adolph Reed Jr., to talk about...
The School Closure Playbook 22 min
The School Closure Playbook
22 min · "The School Closure Playbook" is a video essay about Chicago's education policies, and how they have served as a prototype for a broader neoliberal campaign against public schools. This...
"The Job Guarantee" featuring Pavlina Tcherneva 14 min
"The Job Guarantee" featuring Pavlina Tcherneva
14 min · The reaction to Jesse Myerson’s Rolling Stone piece “Five Economic Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting For” went beyond anyone’s expectation. Many conservative commentators
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