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You Can’t Deal with Capitalism Unless You Deal With Patriarchy

Achieving social justice is going to take much more than reforming our criminal justice system. Valuing all lives equally is going to require a profound reckoning with every system of “othering” that lies at...

Black Candidates, Black Media: Making Coverage Complex—And Better

New York City will likely elect its second African American mayor in November. Eric Adams, currently the Brooklyn Borough President, was declared the winner of the Democratic primary in July. A former police officer...

Public Safety in Public Hands

A special thanks to our Patreon community for supporting us through this difficult time and making it possible to keep this content free for everyone.Over the last 50 years, nearly every public service in...

The Opportunity Cost of Trump TV

 I’ve been on the road a bit and catching up on email’s been hard; staying up with social media even tricker because I have been failing, failing to keep up with Trump TV.Now don’t...

Chinese Women Then And Now: Yang Lan, China’s Premier TV Anchor

How do we define "love is love," and what are we willing to do to defend one another? This week, we speak with a group of LGBTQIA leaders on just that.

American Decline: A Case for Optimism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4p7DYMzBJsThis week, Soul Fire Farm’s Leah Penniman talks with Chris Hedges, author of "America: The Farewell Tour," about environmental threats, societal breakdown, and how we might come back together as humans. Then, a glimpse...

The Future is Public: Special Report from Amsterdam

From Austria to Chile, Lagos to London, people are demanding policies that democratize economies and keep public resources in public hands. In just the last decade, more than 2,400 cities in 58 countries have...

Institutional Racism Endemic in Higher Education

A special thanks to our Patreon community for supporting us through this difficult time and making it possible to keep this content free for everyone.The Black and Latinx Student Caucus at Columbia University's Mailman...

The City as Living Laboratory: Mary Miss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8HCNVvtNiMIn this excerpt we visit Mary Miss, a Guggenheim fellow and celebrated artist, whose organization, The City as Living Laboratory, strives to empower people to create not the cliché of the sustainable city, she...

Puerto Rico: Freedom From Fantasy

Puerto Rico: Freedom From FantasyAbout the ShowWhat does freedom from fantasy mean? When most Americans know about Puerto Rico is based on a colonial fantasy, says journalist and Columbia University professor, Ed Morales. This...

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