fresh audio product: vouchers, sex workers
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): September 17, 2026 Jennifer Berkshire talks about the anti-school voucher backlash (articles here and here) • Heather Berg, author of Notes from the Sex Worker Left, on what that formation brings to politics
fresh audio product: AI, Zinn
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): September 10, 2026 Garrison Lovely, author of Obsolete, on the terrors and possible promise of AI • Dave Zirin on Howard Zinn, the subject of his new biography
Alex Vitale imagines a postcarceral future
This interview was first broadcast on Doug Henwood’s show, Behind the News, on KPFA, Berkeley, on September 3, 2026, and circulated to the podcast universe shortly after. The full archive of BtN, going back to 2002, can be found here. Its Apple Podcasts page is here. Doug Henwood Next, cops and jails. More precisely how to get rid of them and what a postcarceral future might look like. Here to imagine that for us is Alex Vitale. Alex is a professor of sociology and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project… Read More
fresh audio product: Trump’s Venezuela oil grab, life after cops and jails
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): September 3, 2026 Alejandro Velasco on Trump’s oil grab in Venezuela • Alex Vitale on a post-carceral future
Everybody hates data centers, and they don’t even create many jobs
The president, ignoring the polls that show data centers to be enormously unpopular across the political spectrum, is pushing them because he sees them as essential to “beating” China and also as great economic stimuli. As Politico put it, “The bright spot in construction is increasingly data centers, not the factories Trump promised through his push to reshore manufacturing.” Or “let Data Reign,” as he put it, with his unique capitalization practice. As one former administration official told the outlet, “Trump is married to data centers no matter what because it’s the… Read More
