The Rift

11/01/2026: I speak with Dr. Conor Harrison, Associate Professor of Geography at the University of South Carolina and author of the book Brokers of Power: The Financialization of the US Electricity System, about the intersection of the financial and electrical system and how that's affected utilities and developers through the energy transition.

09/06/2026: I speak with Brian Geiringer, Executive Director of Ann Arbor for Public Power, about Ann Arbor residents' fight to create a municipal public power utility.

08/02/2026: I speak with Coileán, an organizer with the Democratic Socialists of America, about degrowth, and why it matters for the ecosocialist left.

07/05/2026: I speak with energy and industrial policy researcher Winston Yau about the political-ecological dynamics of the data center boom, and how the left should strategize in response.

05/03/2026: I speak with John Dodd, Policy Manager at Energy Alabama, over the recent legislative battle over the Power to the People Act and the fight for affordable, clean energy in Alabama.

04/05/2026: I speak with Dr. Daanish Mustafa, Professor of Critical Geography at King's College London, about imagining new ways of relating to the environment, and what the end of the West as we know it might mean for global ecological justice.

03/15/2026: I speak with Dr. Maziar Samiee, associate researcher at the University of Sussex's Center for Global Political Economy, about the fights that the Iranian environmental movement is waging, and how they are affected by government repression and imperialist wars.

02/15/2026: I speak with Emily Grubert, professor of sustainable energy policy at Notre Dame, and Joshua Lappen, postdoctoral researcher associate at Notre Dame about their new paper on the minimum viable scale of fossil energy systems and the difficult task of a truly managed transition away from fossil fuels.

2/1/2026: I speak with Ada Recinos, Associate Director of Marketing and Communications at the National Democratic Training Committee, about how people running on climate and environmental justice issues are winning local elections around the country and what it means for the climate justice movement.

1/18/2026: I speak with Tyler McDaniel and Kellye Blosser of the Little Cities of Black Diamonds Council about the history of coal mining in southeastern Ohio, the challenges these communities face, and how LCBD is trying to build community and well-being through eco-tourism.