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“Men in hard hats were once the heart of America’s working class. Now it is women in scrubs,” says historian Gabriel Winant, author of The Next Shift, who joins Suzi to explain how deindustrialization made health care the country’s largest employer, but the jobs are lower paid, u ...  Show more

Aditya Nigam looks at the “Cockroach” protest movement in India. Then, Gerald Epstein and Juliet Schor outline a detailed set of proposals to transform the US economy. Read their papers here: https://peri.umass.edu/gamechangers/ Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the ...  Show more

Samira Ahmed speaks to the author Fatima Bhutto about the power of writing fiction, growing up in one of Pakistan’s most famous political dynasties and why she blames her aunt, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, for the death of her father. Learn more about your ad choices. Vi ...  Show more

Fatima Bhutto returns to the show to talk about her most recent novel, The Runaways Please consider supporting the show and help me hit my goal of $1500 a month. I have a Patreon and Gofundme. You can also donate directly with Venmo or Paypal.  Links on the homepage, eastpodcast. ...  Show more

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the Karachi-based journalist Sanam Maher to discuss cliché and originality in foreign correspondents' writing on Pakistan; a whistle-stop tour through (some) of the books of 2021; Lucy Scholes reviews a clutch of novels in ...  Show more

In episode 165, the girls are joined by Fatima Iqbal-Zubair aka Fatima For Assembly! They get into her upbringing and living in New Jersey after 9/11 and her experiences with that, what being Muslim means to her, her career and what brought her to run for state assembly of Califo ...  Show more