debt crisis

Sam hosts Mark Joseph Stern, senior writer at Slate, to discuss the recent opening arguments that have come in front of the Supreme Court. First, Sam runs through updates on the Democratic victory in Arizona bringing Kari Lake down, the GOP creeping even closer to a House majority, Biden’s attemp...
It’s Casual Friday! Sam and Emma host Alex Pareene, Contributing Editor at the New Republic and proprietor of the AP newsletter on Substack, to sum up what’s happened since Tuesday night’s midterm elections. First, Emma and Sam run through updates on Elon’s Twitter, inflation beginning to ease, A...
Emma hosts Destin Jenkins, assistant professor of history at Stanford University, to discuss his recent book The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City. Emma starts off by re-capping the troubling election results out of Italy showing that Giorgia Meloni and Italy’s far-rig...
Emma hosts Ryan Cooper, national correspondent for The Week, to discuss his recent piece “The Most Underrated Part of the Electric Revolution”, on the connections between inflation and a green transition, and how making a shift away from gases and to electricity, especially in transportation, can...
Emma hosts Rupa Marya, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, to discuss her recent book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice that she co-authored with Raj Patel, on the socioeconomic roots of poor health, and the colonial seeds that brough...
It’s Casual Friday with a very special guest! Sam and Emma host Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota’s 5th District, whose recent book, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman, is out in paperback now! Representative Omar, Sam, and Emma take on a variety of issu...
Sam and Emma tackle a huge last week in news, as well as what’s coming down the pike in Congress, the courts, and more. They also speak with Bhairavi Desai, Executive Director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA), to discuss NYTWA’s new debt forgiveness campaign for Medallion cab drivers...
Emma hosts Astra Taylor, activist, and member of the Debt Collective, to discuss her new book Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions on how we can and must organize around each other to help lift ourselves out of the confining and isolating world that has only been exacerbated by the b...
Sam and Emma host author and activist Astra Taylor (@astradisastra) to discuss how and why the Biden administration can wipe out student debt for millions of Americans. They’re also joined by special guest Elizabeth Alvarez from Debt Collective (@StrikeDebt) to discuss the organization’s new stri...
Marshall Steinbaum (@Econ_Marshall), assistant professor of economics at the University of Utah, joins Sam to discuss his latest piece in Current Affairs, “Cancelling Student Debt Reduces the Racial Wealth Gap.” Michael Brooks hosts the fun half.
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