The State and Future of Labor Unions

"The issue is never the issue—the issue is the revolution." When we talk about political violence in America, the public conversation is overwhelmingly dominated by the threat of the far-right. But is that tracking the whole reality? In this episode, Veronique de Rugy sits down w ...  Show more

What happens when a fiscal watchdog and a government official start as fierce public rivals and end up as friends? In this episode of Qualified Opinions, host Veronique de Rugy sits down with her long-time friend Matt Mayer—former Bush administration Homeland Security official an ...  Show more

From Social Security and the minimum wage to exit signs and fire escapes, Frances Perkins transformed how people in the U.S. lived and worked. Today on the show: how a middle class do-gooder became one of the savviest and most powerful people in American politics — and built the ...  Show more

On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)--Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric and Communication at the State University of New York at Geneseo--interviews Kristen Hoerl (she/hers) on her impressive new book The Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, ...  Show more

What just happened? It’s been almost two weeks since the presidential election, and many Americans are still grappling with the result. The political reckoning will probably last for months, if not years, and we may never know exactly why voters made the choices they did. But one ...  Show more

GLORIA STEINEM – who dedicates her life to ensuring we know that we are not broken, but were born into a system intended to break us – lives in the DNA of millions who are giving birth to movements or to themselves. She reminds us why there’s nothing more radical than telling th ...  Show more