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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Olayemi Olurin: ‘If we can abolish slavery, the prison system is not untouchable’
New York public defender Olayemi Olurin joins Marc Steiner to discuss the recall of Chesa Boudin, the slaughter in Uvalde, the right’s celebration of Kyle Rittenhouse, and what it will really take to end America’s epidemic of violence.
Recent episodes
The right won by playing the long game—what is the left’s response?
From stacking the courts and overturning Roe to enriching the oligarchy and empowering an electoral minority, the right has played the long game and won. The left needs its own long-term vision of change.
The nation’s poor are descending on Washington
The US is barreling toward societal catastrophe. On June 18, poor and low-income people from around the country will march in Washington, DC, to demand systemic change before it’s too late.
Trump wanted to privatize Medicare. Biden’s letting it happen
The Trump administration initiated a program that critics say will pave the way for the total privatization of Medicare. Biden is quietly letting that program continue.
Roe is about freedom, choice, and equality—that’s why the right wants it gone
Overturning Roe v. Wade is part of a broader, reactionary effort to undo decades of social progress and solidify the US as a hyper-unequal, theocratic, undemocratic fortress state.
Luis J. Rodriguez, the Chicano activist poet running against Gavin Newsom
‘Liberals are gonna lose the country,’ Luis J. Rodriguez warns, if they don’t fight for working people and seriously address the systemic rot that has caused so many to lose faith in our political system.
George Yancy: ‘F*ck this entire indifferent, hypocritical, and violent world!’
‘Thoughts and prayers’ haven’t done shit to help our suffering people. Now is the time for rage and action, philosopher George Yancy argues.
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