The Marc Steiner Show
The Marc Steiner Show meets you at the intersection of politics and culture. We produce dynamic conversations and visual productions with activists, actors, artists and authors to creatively get to the root of the social, political and cultural issues that we and our world face.
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As US politics drifts further to the right, what is the left’s strategy?
While many progressive causes remain widely popular, there is a serious lack of institutional power on the left and strategic coordination between political organizations. But, as veteran activist and organizer Bill Fletcher Jr. argues, that can change.
Recent episodes
‘We have fewer voting rights today than we did 56 years ago’
August 6 marks the 56th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act, but we find ourselves fighting today for the same rights that have been methodically stripped away over decades.
Seven months after Capitol riots, we still haven’t confronted what caused them
World-renowned author and historian Rick Perlstein discusses the historical roots of the Capitol riots and the right’s slide toward authoritarianism; will unprecedented opposition to Israeli occupation lead to change?
Unearthing the horror of Native American boarding schools
Calls for deeper investigations rise after hundreds of unmarked graves were recently discovered at Canadian boarding schools used to assimilate Native children; Jews against Israeli apartheid say “Not in our name.”
Grim grinning ghosts come out to moralize
Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis translates culture war paranoia into state law; Current Affairs Amusements and Managing Editor Lyta Gold asks if Americans are capable of processing mass death.
International commission indicts American policing system for “crimes against humanity”
A long-awaited international report investigating racist violence perpetrated by US police is very damning; through literature, writer and translator Joanna Chen navigates the violence of Israeli occupation.
The coordinated assault on voting rights is ‘Jim Crow 2.0’
Georgia’s new voting law is the latest example of the right wing’s naked assault on democracy; Vice President Kamala Harris’s trip to Mexico and Guatemala proves the US government has no interest in addressing the “root causes” of Central American migration.
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