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The Upside of Dyslexia – NYTimes.com

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dissent magazine

Los Deliveristas Unidos Demand Justice January 21, 2021
“One of our dreams that we have as workers is to be treated as essential workers. We just don’t want people to say that we are essential workers, but to be treated as that.”
Michelle Chen
The Not-So-Strange Death of Right Populism January 20, 2021
A string of pseudo-populist conservative movements have reverted to the same agenda of tax cuts and deregulation. Why should we expect anything different?
Daniel Luban
Know Your Enemy: Did It Happen Here? January 19, 2021
Is Donald Trump a fascist? A breakdown of the long-roiling debate.
Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell
The COVID Conspiracies January 15, 2021
A wildly popular documentary shows the depth of coronavirus denialism in France—and its relationship to right-wing movements worldwide.
Mitchell Abidor
Disenfranchisement: An American Tradition January 14, 2021
Invoking the specter of voter fraud to undermine democratic participation is a tactic as old as the United States itself.
Julilly Kohler-Hausmann
Organizing the Unemployed January 13, 2021
A replicable strategy for organizing the jobless on a mass scale has yet to emerge. The future may depend on finding one.
Sam Adler-Bell
Don’t Blame “Defund” January 12, 2021
We haven’t seen much to suggest that last summer’s uprising pushed persuadable voters to the Republican Party. And in a number of states, the protests ignited voter registration efforts that directly helped Democratic candidates.
Jasson Perez
The Austerity Politics of White Supremacy January 11, 2021
Since the end of the Confederacy, the cult of the “taxpayer” has provided a socially acceptable veneer for racist attacks on democracy.
Vanessa Williamson
Comforting Myths January 11, 2021
The 2020 election wasn’t a decisive victory, and Trump and his supporters won’t disappear forever.
Timothy Shenk
The Desperate Need for an Immigration Overhaul January 11, 2021
Biden could ease the suffering inflicted by his predecessors on migrants to the United States. But his administration is unlikely to resolve the structural injustices at the root of the immigration enforcement system.
Michelle Chen

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#1393 Opportunists, Enablers and Seditionists, the Rot at the Heart of the GOP January 20, 2021
MEMBERSHIP, Gift Memberships and Donations! (Get AD FREE Shows & Bonus Content) MERCHANDISE! REFER-O-MATIC! Sign up, share widely, get rewards. It's that easy! Air Date 1/19/2021 Today we take a look at the historical roots and modern manifestations of how white supremacy has turned the GOP base into Frankenstein's monster which cannot be controlled and has […]
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#1392 The Coup Klux Klan and the January 6 Insurrection January 17, 2021
Air Date 1/16/2021 Today we take a look at the underlying fears and motivations for the insurrection that go beyond the Big Lie™ of a stolen election to the bedrock of white supremacy that has driven white riots for more than 100 years. Be part of the show! Leave us a message at 202-999-3991 or […]
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#1391 The Road to Sedition January 10, 2021
Air Date 1/10/2021 Today, in our 15th-anniversary episode, we take a look at the the years and years of warning signs we having been highlighting since 2006 that collectively predict the armed insurrection against the government as the natural end point for a radicalized, conspiratorial, White/Christian-supremacist, permanently-minoritarian political movement that has lost its ability to […]
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#1390 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Our Second Founding (Reconstruction) January 6, 2021
MEMBERSHIP, Gift Memberships and Donations! (Get AD FREE Shows & Bonus Content) MERCHANDISE! REFER-O-MATIC! Sign up, share widely, get rewards. It's that easy! Want to advertise/sponsor the show? Details -> advertisecast.com/BestoftheLeft Air Date 1/5/2021 Today we take a look at the often-overlooked decade of Reconstruction in the wake of the Civil War. After hundreds of years of […]
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#1355 I Can't Breathe, The Three Words That Define an Era (Repost) January 3, 2021
MEMBERSHIP and Gift Memberships! (Get AD FREE Shows & Bonus Content) MERCHANDISE! REFER-O-MATIC! Sign up, share widely, get rewards. It's that easy! Air Date 6/29/2020 Today we take a look deeper at the concept of "I can't breathe," going beyond the literal utterances by victims of police brutality and COVID-19 sufferers to the metaphorical epidemic of […]
BestOfTheLeft.com
#1333 An Examination of Fear, Anger, Forgiveness and Grace (and Mr. Rogers) (Repost) December 31, 2020
Air Date 2/20/2020 Today we take a look at the relationship between fear, anger and how to deal with the structural forces of harm in our society. To help us, we examine two of the greatest thinkers of the past 65 years, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mister Rogers, and go beyond the nonviolence of […]
BestOfTheLeft.com

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Ep 128 - Thanks Obama w/ Aaron Thorpe & Andray Domise January 20, 2021
Jamie is joined by Aaron Thorpe (@posadist_trapgd) of Trillbilly Workers Party and A Time Of Monsters and Andray Domise (@andraydomise) of The Drop Squad on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to discuss the first volume of Barack O'bummer's serial killer memoir "A Promised Land." What is 44 trying to do here? Is he Lena Dunham, […]
Jamie Peck, Sean KB and AP Andy
BONUS - Electric Boogaloo w/ Shemon and Arturo January 15, 2021
Our guests from episode 127 stick around to discus a topic that's floating around more and more these days: civil war. What does the 1861-65 conflict and its aftermath tell us about the role that the proletariat must take in the coming months and years? And what are the stakes of the coming rupture? Become […]
Jamie Peck, Sean KB and AP Andy
Ep 127 - Riot Cars Go Vrrrrroom w/ Arturo & Shemon January 13, 2021
Our friends Arturo and Shemon stop by to discuss the George Floyd rebellion and how it might go from a series of isolated insurrections to a glorious proletarian revolution. Radical geography, looting caravans, white accomplices, organized labor, and the black counter-insurgency as viewed through a Fresh Prince of Bel-Air lens. Stay tuned for Friday's bonus […]
Jamie Peck, Sean KB and AP Andy
Gen-X Ghost Stories w/ Douglas Lain (PREVIEW) January 11, 2021
Douglas Lain of Zer0 Books chats with us slightly youngsters about zines, indymedia, adbusters anti-globalization, anti-war, and the world this radicalism has left us with. Was it all radical liberalism or did 2008 break part of the counterculture towards a revolutionary path? For the full episode support us at Patreon.com/TheAntifada Closing song: Jimmy Buffet - […]
Jamie Peck, Sean KB and AP Andy
The 17th Nivôse of Donald J. Trump w/ Matt Christman (PREVIEW) January 7, 2021
Cushbomb comes by our weekly Wednesday twitch show to talk about the chud invasion of the capital. Was it a grassroots uprising, an attempt coup, or a color revolution in the making? How should the left respond? For the full podcast and all our bonus material support the show at Patreon.com/TheAntifada Also joining us was […]
Jamie Peck, Sean KB and AP Andy
Ep 126 - Lasch Back w/ Douglas Lain January 6, 2021
The editor of Zer0 Books and host of Zer0 Squared talks about his recent video that was too hot for Youtube. What is "the Great Reset," what does Christopher Lasch's "The Revolt of the Elites" have to say about (via Paul Sweezy and the Johnson-Forest Tendency), and how did that critique not go far enough? […]
Jamie Peck, Sean KB and AP Andy

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