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Acclaimed program of ideas, in-depth analysis, and commentary on a variety of matters—political, economic, social, and cultural—important to progressive and radical thinking and activism. Against the Grain is co-produced and co-hosted by Sasha Lilley and C. S. Soong.
Jessica Henry protests the “unjustified and almost commonplace imposition” of life-without-parole sentences. Also, Part Two of an interview with Tony Platt about efforts to repatriate Native American remains that were dug up and collected for almost two centuries. (Part One aired on July 10.)
A look at the politics of rioting through the lens of the urban unrest that took place last summer in the UK, with Roger Wilson of the Bristol Radical History Group.
Uranium fuels nuclear weapons and controversial power plants. But uranium mineworkers labor in obscurity — and in exceptionally dangerous settings. Gabrielle Hecht has gone to Africa to investigate.
Biological anthropologist Agustín Fuentes explores myths about evolution and genetics that lead some to conclude erroneously that races exist, that we are monogamous as a species, and that humans — especially men — are inherently aggressive.
Tony Platt recounts the shocking history of the looting and collecting of Native American remains, and James Miller discusses the infamous case of the so-called Scottsboro Boys.
Danny Dorling, author of the No-Nonsense Guide to Equality,” enumerates the beneficial effects that redound to more equal societies, from education to low crime rates.
James Cockcroft’s book “Mexico’s Revolution Then and Now” begins with the Revolution of 1910-1917 and culminates in a discussion of current-day struggles, both in Mexico and among immigrants in the US.
As part of its effort to build a socialist society, the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST) has worked to transform education, drawing on the ideas and inspiration of Paulo Freire and several Soviet educational theorists. Rebecca Tarlau explains.
Does the internet diminish our ability to think deeply? Nicholas Carr argues just that in “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains.”
Immanuel Wallerstein describes the French Revolution’s momentous impact on the development, to the present day, of both radical and liberal ideology and action.
