Reading list
Select articles
Lily Geismer, Jacobin, 02/08/2016
America Is Suffering a Crisis of Imagination
Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Time, 02/24/2016
The Real Difference Between Hillary and Bernie
Jamelle Bouie, Slate, 03/07/2016
Thomas B. Edsall, The New York Times, 04/27/2016
Liza Featherstone, Dissent, 06/2016
Laurie Penny, 07/26/2016
Laurie Penny, 07/28/2016
How A Decision In May Changed The General Election
Ruby Cramer, Buzzfeed, 09/22/2016
How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul
Matt Stoller, The Atlantic, 10/24/2016
What I learned after 100,000 miles on the road talking to Trump supporters
Chris Arnade, The Guardian, 11/03/2016
Masha Gessen, The New York Review of Books, 11/10/2016
The Other Buffett Rule: Or why better billionaires will never save us
Alex Cuadros, The Baffler, 12/06/2016
Obama's Mistake: Politics is about power. When we lose sight of that, we lose
Ezekiel Kweku, MTV News, 01/11/2017
Ezekiel Kweku, MTV News, 02/07/2017
The Hamilton Hustle: Why liberals have embraced our most dangerously reactionary founder
Matt Stoller, The Baffler, 03/07/2017
Miya Tokumitsu, The New Republic, 04/18/2017
How political nuance could save America
Sarah Smarsh, The Guardian, 04/25/2017
Race to the Bottom: How the post-racial revolution became a whitewash
Kimberlé Crenshaw, The Baffler, 06/06/2017
How Liberals Fell in Love with The West Wing
Luke Savage, Current Affairs, 06/07/2017
The Seven Trends behind the Global Rise of Populism
Iyad El-Baghdadi and Ahmed Gatnash, Islam & Liberty, 07/01/2017
Neoliberalism: the idea that swallowed the world
Stephen Metalf, The Guardian, 08/18/2017
Lords of Misrule: How the legal profession became Wall Street’s helpmeet
Matt Stoller, The Baffler, 09/05/2017
Racism May Have Gotten Us Into This Mess, But Identity Politics Can’t Get Us Out
Briahna Joy Gray, New York Magazine, 11/13/2017
The Shark and the Hound: America’s long history of predatory lending
Meagan Day, The Baffler, 12/01/2017
Destruction Of Black Wealth During The Obama Presidency
Ryan Cooper and Matt Bruenig, The People's Policy Project, 12/07/2017
Michael Hobbes, Highline, 12/15/2017
The Biggest Secret: My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror
James Risen, The Intercept, 01/03/2018
Martin Luther King’s Radical Anti-Capitalism
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The Paris Review, 01/15/2018
The Market Can't Solve a Massacre
Patrick Blanchfield, Splinter News, 03/14/2018
Dispatches from the American Gray Zone: Cultural denial in an era of global civil war
Jonathon Sturgeon, The Baffler, 05/01/2018
Candidates Who Signed Up to Battle Donald Trump Must Get Past the Democratic Party First
Ryan Grim and Lee Fang, The Intercept, 05/15/2018
In New York, Women are Taking on the New York Machine. But EMILY's List is Staying on the Sidelines
Ryan Grim, Aída Chávez, Briahna Gray, The Intercept, 06/26/2018
M.H. Miller, The Baffler, 07/03/2018
Privatizing Poverty: How the poor became an alien population
Kim Phillips-Fein, The Baffler, 07/03/2018
Briahna Joy Gray, The Intercept, 08/26/2018
Bridges to Nowhere: On liberal dreams of a more imperfect union
Nathaniel Friedman, The Baffler, 09/04/2018
How Real Estate Segregated America
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Dissent, 09/2018
Select podcast episodes and Events
On the Media: Busted: America's Poverty Myths, 09/28/2016
Chapo Trap House: Episode 58: We Live in The Zone Now, 11/12/2016
Chapo Trap House: Episode 65: No Future feat. Adam Curtis, 12/12/2016
The Anti-Inauguration: Building Resistance in the Trump Era
Naomi Klein, Anand Gopal, Jeremy Scahill, Owen Jones, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Hosted by Jacobin, Haymarket Books, and Verso Books, 01/20/2017
The Dig with Daniel Denvir: Mark Blyth on How Austerity Brought Us Donald Trump, 04/14/2017
Chapo Trap House: Episode 97: Hollywood Upstairs Medical College feat. Tim Faust, 04/16/2017
Citations Needed: Episode 05: Purging Socialists of Color From History, 08/02/2017
Citations Needed: Episode 15: The Real Estate Page As Colonial Dispatch, 11/08/2017
Chapo Trap House: Episode 164: The Deficit Rag, 12/04/2017
Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill: Professor David Harvey on Trump, Wall Street, and Debt Peonage, 01/21/2018
Chapo Trap House: Episode 184: The United States of Care Lords feat. Dino Guastella, 02/11/2018
Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill: Covert History, Revolutionary Hip-Hop, and the Politics of Empire (Interview with professor Alfred McCoy), 03/07/2018
Citations Needed, Episode 40: The Civility Fetish, 03/13/2018
Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill: Legacy of Blood—The 55-Year U.S. War Against Iraqis, 03/21/2018
Citations Needed: Episode 33: Liberals' Obsession with the Phantom Reasonable Republican, 04/11/2018
Chapo Trap House: Episode 215: In Conclusion, Palestine is a Land of Contrasts feat. @Intifadarling, 05/23/2018
Citations Needed: Episode 42:'Populism' - The Media’s Favorite Catch-All Smear for the Left, 06/27/2018
Chapo Trap House: Episode 225: The Poster's Crusade, 07/06/2018
Citations Needed: Episode 45: The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire—Bill Gates and Western Media, 07/25/2018
Select Books
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump (second edition), Corey Robin
Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy, Chris Hayes
Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt, Sarah Jaffe
Listen, Liberal: or, Whatever Happened to the Party of the People?, Thomas Frank