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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When Zionists redefine ‘antisemitism’ into a political cudgel
The IHRA definition of antisemitism is designed to muzzle criticism of Israel. It should be rejected in favor of a more historically informed discussion on Zionism’s origins in European antisemitism.
Recent episodes
Socialist cowboys in the Texas ‘Fence Cutting Wars’
Once upon a time, an interracial movement of 19th century Texas cowboys took up arms against big ranchers trying to enclose the land and restrict their access to water.
Norman Solomon: How America hides its secret wars
A mass peace movement rose to resist the Vietnam War. Since then, America’s wars have only proliferated, but the anti-war movement has not. How did we get here?
The Jewish political tradition demands solidarity with Palestine
Dave Zirin discusses identity and political evolution on his journey to solidarity with Palestinian liberation.
The March on Washington was a labor struggle too
Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have A Dream’ speech just scratches the surface of the March on Washington and the working class, multiracial movement that made it possible.
India and Israel’s fascists are in cahoots. Can Hindu and Jewish progressives form an alliance too?
Hindu nationalist collaboration with Israel extends to massive arms deals and cooperation in influencing US politics. How can progressives from these communities fight back?
On Israel and Palestine, public opinion is finally changing—when will US policy change with it?
As attitudes towards Israel and its apartheid regime continue to change, and as more constituents demand accountability and action from their elected officials, when will that translate to substantive changes in US foreign policy?
Mainstream Democrats’ complacency will doom us all
Max Elbaum on blocking the fascist threat and building real grassroots power.
Should Cornel West run as a Democrat?
Bhaskar Sunkara and D.D. Guttenplan make the case for why Cornel West should bring his candidacy into the Democratic Party.
The far right is using climate disasters to organize
Organizations like the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys are exploiting FEMA’s failure to keep up with the climate crisis to gain trust.
Israel’s war on Jenin and the push for ‘final victory’
Israeli forces killed 12 Palestinians in the most recent military raid on Jenin in the West Bank. While the Israeli government vows this is just the beginning, its bravado belies an underlying weakness.
America’s lost promise of economic rights
Economic justice was a principle of American thinkers from Thomas Paine to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.—how have we strayed so far from these ideals?
The anti-LGBTQ backlash can’t crush 50 years of Pride
The LGBTQ movement’s history provides important references and parallels to understand the reactionary forces trying to push queer and trans people out of public life today.
Shasta County is a new blueprint for neo-fascists nationwide
The quiet California county’s Board of Supervisors has been seized by an extremist majority who rode to power using popular discontent with COVID-19 health measures. But their agenda goes way beyond anti-masking.
Yes—the far-right wants civil war
From Kyle Rittenhouse to Daniel Penny, the celebration of racist vigilantes reflects an agenda to establish political supremacy at home through violence.
Marc Steiner: My life in the Civil Rights Movement
In a special episode of the show, Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez turns the tables on host Marc Steiner, who is now in the interview seat.
America is in the middle of a ‘slow civil war,’ but only one side is acting like it
“‘Do you think there’ll be a civil war?’” Jeff Sharlet asked “true believers” of the far right in his new book, The Undertow. “They all said ‘Yes.’ Most thought it was coming, soon, and some said it was already here.”
‘For us, extractivism is lethal’: The ongoing colonial violence of resource extraction in Latin America
Even leftist governments in Latin America have failed to rein in the environmentally destructive excesses of the resource extraction economy. Indigenous and environmental activists from Ecuador to Bolivia say it’s only going to get worse.
The GOP is holding the US economy hostage in the debt ceiling fight
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s Limit, Save, Grow Act would raise interest rates on credit cards and consumer loans, and create more loopholes for the rich to avoid paying taxes.
For a glimpse of America’s future, look at Texas
From Gov. Abbott’s planned intervention in the case of Daniel Perry, who killed a BLM protestor, to attacks on abortion and voting rights, the Lone Star State is a signal of times to come.
The Ron DeSantis counter-revolution is about stopping Florida’s progressives
Contrary to popular perception, Florida can be a progressive state—that’s precisely why DeSantis is so intent on stoking the forces of reaction.
Israel’s protest movement can’t succeed without embracing Palestinian liberation
Rabbi Arik Ascherman talks about the current protest movement in Israel and why democracy there cannot be attained without Palestinian liberation in a special Passover installment of the “Not in Our Name” series on The Marc Steiner Show.
Pink Tide 2.0? Latin America’s new wave of leftist governments
A resurgence of mass movements in the region has returned the left to power from Mexico to Brazil—but the struggle for political hegemony is far from over.
Before the Black Panther Party, there was the Lowndes County Freedom Organization
Former SNCC organizers Jennifer Lawson and Courtland Cox look back on their time in Lowndes County, Alabama—the birthplace of the Black Power movement.
‘Black Power was the height of expression of love’: A deeply personal struggle for Black liberation
Marc Steiner interviews Dan Berger, author of ‘Stayed on Freedom: the Long History of Black Power Through One Family’s Journey’, along with Dr. Zoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons, whose stories are featured in the book.
How the Mexican Revolution shaped radical politics worldwide
Before the Russian Revolution of 1917, a peasant revolution in Mexico showed the world how the downtrodden could seize their place in history.
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