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On this week’s show Grace Blakeley speaks to Rutger Bregman, historian and author of Utopia for Realists (https://www.waterstones.com/book/utopia-for-realists/rutger-bregman/9781408893210) and Humankind: A Hopeful History (https://www.google.com/search?q=bregman+humankind&oq=bregman+humankind&aqs=chrome..69i57j46j0l2j0i22i30l4.3049j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8).

In January of last year, Bregman shot to international fame when video of him excoriating the tax-avoiding corporate elite (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8ijiLqfXP0) at Davos went viral – and in the latest A World to Win he discusses a range of topics from human nature to capitalism and the 24-hour news cycle.

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Thanks to our producer, Conor Gillies, and Tribune’s designer Kevin Zweerink for their work on this episode. This podcast is supported by the Lipman-Miliband Trust (https://www.lipman-miliband.org.uk/).

Workers in the United States are getting squeezed from every angle. One of the worst consequences: Americans work way too many hours, and spend way too many hours trying to figure out how to work more hours. Jamie McCallum, a sociologist at Middlebury College, explains.Our conversation in written form: https://inthesetimes.com/article/workers-work-time-jamie-mccallum-union-labor-strikeBuy Jamie's book here: https://www.powells.com/book/worked-over-how-round-the-clock-work-is-killing-the-american-dream-9781541618343

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Workers in the United States are getting squeezed from every angle. One of the worst consequences: Americans work way too many hours, and spend way too many hours trying to figure out how to work more hours. Jamie McCallum, a sociologist at Middlebury College, explains.

Our conversation in written form: https://inthesetimes.com/article/workers-work-time-jamie-mccallum-union-labor-strike

Buy Jamie's book here: https://www.powells.com/book/worked-over-how-round-the-clock-work-is-killing-the-american-dream-9781541618343

Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from November 7, 2020. The guest is Jacobin's executive editor, Seth Ackerman.

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Suzi talks to Robert Brenner about the political-economic dimension of the 2020 election, the country, and the pandemic – and what it means for the battles ahead. The corrupt and hated President Trump was defeated, yet millions more people voted for him in 2020 than in 2016. He was undone by the raging pandemic that he tried to minimize. COVID 19 wreaked havoc with an already weak economy, creating widespread economic hardship. Because Trump failed to deal with the pandemic or extend economic relief, the economic crisis threatens to get much worse. Had Trump handled it with decisive measures, we'd just be dealing with the regular features of a declining capitalism, instead of far more catastrophic ones. The Biden/Harris ticket ultimately prevailed because it meant an end to Trumpian chaos and destruction -- and represented genuine hope for compassion and decency. There's much to unpack, and we get Brenner's analysis and perspectives.

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Suzi talks to Robert Brenner (https://newleftreview.org/issues/II123/articles/robert-brenner-escalating-plunder) about the political-economic dimension of the 2020 election, the country, and the pandemic – and what it means for the battles ahead. The corrupt and hated President Trump was defeated, yet millions more people voted for him in 2020 than in 2016. He was undone by the raging pandemic that he tried to minimize. COVID 19 wreaked havoc with an already weak economy, creating widespread economic hardship. Because Trump failed to deal with the pandemic or extend economic relief, the economic crisis threatens to get much worse. Had Trump handled it with decisive measures, we'd just be dealing with the regular features of a declining capitalism, instead of far more catastrophic ones. The Biden/Harris ticket ultimately prevailed because it meant an end to Trumpian chaos and destruction -- and represented genuine hope for compassion and decency. There's much to unpack, and we get Brenner's analysis and perspectives.

Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Doug interviews Vijay Prashad and Jodi Dean (separately) on the election’s long-term meaning: where Trump(ism), came from and why it’s probably here to stay, especially if weaklings like Biden are the opposition.

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Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Doug interviews Vijay Prashad and Jodi Dean (separately) on the election’s long-term meaning: where Trump(ism), came from and why it’s probably here to stay, especially if weaklings like Biden are the opposition.