Good Trouble

Jim Lardner

Conversations with organizers, movement-builders, and engineers and imaginers of change.

  1. 15/09/2025

    Just Another Petrostate

    That's what the U.S. has become, says David McDermott Hughes. And the road to democracy will be a twisty one.

    32 min

  2. 07/08/2025

    The 1960s and the 2020s

    The 1960s and the 2020s: Michael Ansara on the Civil Rights struggle, the New Left, the anti-Vietnam-War movement, and what do we do now?

    42 min

  3. 21/07/2025

    A Chance to Reconnect

    Joan Williams on the Left and the working class.

    39 min

  4. 09/07/2025

    We Can't Go Back

    The country can't, says economist Mark Blyth. And the Democrats can't.

    20 min

  5. 25/06/2025

    Searching for Solidarity

    Heather McGhee on the challenge of building a multi-racial democracy when powerful interests are determined to prevent it.

    37 min

  6. 17/06/2025

    Why Do They Talk Mush?

    Democrats, that is. Brian Beutler looks under the hood of their rhetoric machine, and imagines a better model.

    28 min

  7. 10/06/2025

    Choosing Our Words

    Something too many Democrats, progressives and Resistors have in common: we talk fancy. Harold Meyerson has some language tips for us.

    20 min

  8. 29/05/2025

    Crossing the Divide

    Part two of a conversation with Arlie Russell Hochschild about the “deep story” that animates a large segment of the Trump base.

    35 min
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Conversations with organizers, movement-builders, and engineers and imaginers of change.

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    Jim Lardner
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