It’s Hump Day! Sam speaks with Judd Legum, proprietor of the Popular Information newsletter on SubStack, to discuss his recent piece entitled “Feds raid corporate landlord, escalating nationwide criminal probe of rent increases.” Then, he speaks with Usamah Andrabi, communications director & ...

It’s Hump Day! Emma speaks with Jeremy Gantz, contributing editor at In These Times, to discuss the recent unionization efforts at Trader Joe’s. Then, she speaks with Leah Goodridge, Commissioner on the New York City Planning Commission and former member of the New York City Rent Guidelines Board...

Happy Monday! Sam and Emma speak with David Masciotra, author, lecturer and journalist based in Indiana, to discuss his recent book Exurbia Now: The Battleground of American Democracy. First, Sam and Emma run through updates on Israel’s continuing operations in the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, mount...

It’s an EmMajority Report Thursday! She speaks with Arvin Alaigh, writer & political activist from New Jersey, currently a Ph.D student at the University of Cambridge, to discuss his recent piece in The Nation entitled “Abolishing the “Ballot Line” Will Reshape Progressive Politics.” Then, sh...

It’s News Day Tuesday! Sam and Emma break down the biggest headlines of the day. But first they speak with David Dayen, executive editor at the American Prospect, to discuss his recent piece regarding The National Association of Realtors decision to end their practice of 6% agent commission sales...

It’s Hump Day! Sam speaks with Nicholas Boni, writer, photographer and musician based in Brooklyn, & Cea Weaver, tenant organizer with Housing Justice For All in New York, to discuss Nicholas’s recent piece in Jacobin entitled “Social Housing for New York Is on the Table”. Then, Sam speaks wi...

Happy Monday! Sam is BACK from vacation. He and Emma speak with Richard Kahlenberg, education & housing policy consultant and non-resident fellow at Georgetown University, to discuss his recent book Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don’t See. First, Sam an...

It’s Hump Day! Sam hosts Anjeanette Damon, government accountability reporter in ProPublica’s Southwest Office, and Byard Duncan, engagement reporter also at ProPublica, to discuss their recent piece entitled ”The Ugly Truth Behind “We Buy Ugly Houses”. Then, Sam is joined by Vilma Serrano of the...

Samuel Stein joins Sam to discuss his book, Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State. In this book, Stein shows how the $200T real estate industry has accounted for more than 60% of the global assets and how urban planning policy has enabled its tremendous growth.

Sam is joined by author Chloe Thurston to discuss her new book, ‘At the Boundaries of Homeownership: Credit, Discrimination, & the American State.’