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Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Read more about it here ...
In one sense, Kinkade got lucky. He started working in the 1980s, as the modern Christian right took shape and sought to flex its muscles. We had always had our own colleges and radio stations and ...
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Spring 2025
Thomas Kinkade’s paintings show conservatives a world they have already won.
Federal housing policies contributed to the segregation of American cities in the twentieth century. But it was private interests that led the way.
American media blamed the massive collapse of Albanian pyramid schemes in 1997 on greedy small-time investors unschooled in the free market. It could never happen here.
The idea that more degrees, credentials, and skills will raise the bottom of the economic floor has become an article of national faith. But educational systems can just as easily reproduce inequality ...
The Supreme Court is poised to overturn race-based affirmative action. But preferences based on socioeconomic disadvantage—which are both politically popular and legally sound—could produce similarly ...
A conversation with Ilya Budraitskis on how the invasion of Ukraine has transformed Russian society.
Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell May 9, 2022 William F. Buckley Jr. and Edgar Smith (right) in 1971 (Bettmann/Getty Images) Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew ...
Belabored is a labor podcast hosted by Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen. Belabored Stories, a new feature, will present short accounts of what workers are facing during the coronavirus pandemic. Send us ...
Sarah Jaffe March 23, 2021 Someone working on a computer (Nenad Stojkovic/Flickr) The following conversation is excerpted from the latest episode of Belabored. Co-host Sarah Jaffe is joined by labor ...
History suggests that what you see on the campaign trail, or even in a candidate’s past legislative record, is not necessarily what you get from a president once in power.