Good Trouble

Jim Lardner

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SOCIETY & CULTURE

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

09/15/2025

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
08/07/2025

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
07/21/2025

A Chance to Reconnect

Joan Williams on the Left and the working class.

39 min
07/09/2025

We Can't Go Back

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

20 min
06/25/2025

Searching for Solidarity

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

37 min
06/17/2025

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
06/10/2025

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
05/29/2025

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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