HeyJaredWeekend Reading
Michael Podhorzer on politics, economics, and democratic crises.
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The Roberts Court and the Midterms (opens the original)
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I was thrilled to welcome back Lisa Graves this week ahead of the new Roberts Court term that starts October 5th. Her book Without Precedent is t
Why the Media Is Like This, with Perry Bacon (opens the original)
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Our guest this week was the truly great columnist Perry Bacon of The New Republic (and formerly of the Washington Post, until truly great columns stopped being part of Jeff Bezos’s business model).As a native and resident of Louisville, Kentucky, Perry has a sharp perspective on how geography shapes, and distorts, our media and political landscape. Most national political reporters cluster in D.C., New York, and to some extent Los Angeles — places where a DSA candidate is very
Midterms Overview with G. Elliott Morris (opens the original)
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This week I sat down with G. Elliott Morris — who ran FiveThirtyEight before ABC shut it down, and who’s built something better with Strength in Numbers and FiftyPlusOne — to get his read on where the midterms stand and what mainstream polling is missing. The upshot on the midterms right now, according to Elliott, is that “the cake is pretty much baked” on Republicans losing control of the House, while Republicans only have even odds or worse of keepi
Naomi Klein on What Comes Next (opens the original)
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History isn’t an endlessly repeating loop, Naomi Klein explained in our conversation this week — it’s more like a spiral, a drill bit that goes deeper and gets more dangerous with every rotation. The work we all have in front of us is how to get out of the hole and build something new. Anat and I are both longtime fans of Naomi’s work, which includes groundbreaking books like The Shock Doctrine and No Logo. (Make sure to pre-order her new book, End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living Worl
The Neo-New Deal Agenda (opens the original)
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I sat down with my friend and former AFL-CIO colleague Damon Silvers to talk about how power actually moves through the economy. Damon walked through why the ecnomic crash hasn't come yet, why the AI boom is doing double duty as GDP prop and job-market panic machine, and why the real story isn't the quarterly numbers but the wage-productivity gap most people have never heard of. We also went down the rabbit hole on why race, power, and the unraveling of the New Deal are the same story, told acro
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