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Li: Reform redistricting before it’s too late

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Michael Li, Senior Counsel of the Democracy Program of the Brennan Center for Justice, calls voting rights “The Infrastructure of Democracy”, and worries that the proposed voting rights act, which will work toward fair redistricting and representation of all people in upcoming elections is taking a backdoor to the current budget bills and may not […]

Education and Democracy in Crisis

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Today on the show, social and cultural critic Henry Giroux joins Thursday host Allen Ruff to talk about manufactured ignorance, the infodemic, neoliberal capitalism, and other threats to education and democracy. Henry Giroux is a professor in the English and cultural studies department at McMaster University. His research focuses on critical pedagogy, education, neoliberalism, and the […]

Let’s Talk About Haiti

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Haitian president Jovenel Moïse was assassinated last Wednesday, leaving the country in turmoil—and putting Haiti back in the news here in the U.S. It’s true that most of the world only turns its sights to Haiti when there’s a crisis. When reporting on Haiti, international news outlets often neglect to consult Haitians or Haitian media, […]

Voting Rights are Under Attack

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According to research from the Brennan Center for Justice, lawmakers in forty-seven states have recently proposed legislation with restrictive provisions related to voting, including limiting early and absentee voting, voter ID law, election-day registration, disability access, and availability of polling places and ballot drop boxes. To get a clearer picture of what this means for […]

Histories of Racial Capitalism and Resistance

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Today, we spend the hour with scholar activist and historian Robin D. G. Kelley to discuss the long and recent histories of racial capitalism, democracy, abolitionist politics, and Black anti-fascism—and how liberal administrations have held back the movement. Robin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at […]

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