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Law and Disorder January 12, 2026

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2026/01/12

Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded AgeBeing homeless is not a reflection on the inadequacy of a person. It is not a moral issue even though right wing figures such as President Trump‘s former lawyer Rudolph Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, and Andrew Cuomo, the failed candidate for mayor in the 2025 election in New York City maintain that essentially cruel position. They were against giving people subsidized homes and treatment, if they required it, for health problems, addiction

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Law and Disorder January 5, 2026

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2026/01/05

Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote The Constitution and Dismantled Our RightsEarly in his second term, after addressing a joint session of Congress, as he shook hands walking down the aisle, President Donald Trump turned to Chief Justice John Roberts, patted him on the back, and said, “Thank you again. Thank you again. I won’t forget.” What had Roberts done to deserve such gratitude? A lot. In her withering and revealing new book, Without Precedent: How

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Law and Disorder December 29, 2025

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2025/12/29

Remembering Michael RatnerHosts Heidi Boghosian and Michael Smith interviewed some of Michael Ratner’s closest friends and colleagues as part of a special broadcast highlighting Michael Ratner’s legal work and mentorship. The special also marked the upcoming release of Michael Ratner’s autobiography Moving The Bar: My Life As A Radical Lawyer published by OR Books. We hear from attorneys including Eleanor Stein, Richard Levy, Ray Brescia and David Cole. Michael Ratner’s pathbreaking legal and

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Law and Disorder December 22, 2025

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2025/12/22

Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship Artificial intelligence and democracy are two of the most charged words in the news right now. To hear the headlines tell it, AI is either about to save us—or quietly break everything that makes self-government possible. A new book refuses that false choice. It asks a more uncomfortable—and more political—question: who is using AI, how, and for whose benefit? The book is Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform

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Law and Disorder December 15, 2025

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2025/12/15

Jewish Voice For Peace: West Bank Divided and ConqueredOur guest today is Leta Hirschmann-Levy, a young Jewish New Yorker, who just returned from a solidarity delegation to the Israeli militarily occupied West Bank of Palestine. Ms. Hirschmann-Levy is a leading activist in Jewish Voice Peace, a writer and an actress. Her grandparents on her mother’s side were German Jewish refugees from the holocaust. Israel has killed at least 1000 Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since October

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Law and Disorder December 8, 2025

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2025/12/08

Locals On Edge As Right Wing Christian Company Builds CommunityA quiet rural county in Tennessee has become an unexpected frontline in a national struggle over identity, democracy, and belonging. Jackson County—a small Appalachian community of rolling hills, family farms, and a slowly revitalizing town center—is now at the center of a political and ideological clash. Longtime residents are facing a wave of out of state White Christian nationalists developers. Their stated goals include rolling

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Law and Disorder December 1, 2025

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2025/12/01

From The Flag To The Cross: Fascism American StyleFrom The Flag To The Cross: Fascism American Style is the title of a recently published anthology edited by Zachary Sklar and our own Michael Smith. Co-host Jim Lafferty wrote the introduction. The book draws from seven key interviews with prominent socialist thinkers in the United States and Canada. They include Margaret Kimberly, Henry Giroux, Dianne Feeley and Bill Mullen. Bill will also be joining Michael and Jim in the guest seat. He’s

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Law and Disorder November 22, 2025

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2025/11/24

Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote The Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights Early in his second term, after addressing a joint session of Congress, as he shook hands walking down the aisle, President Donald Trump turned to Chief Justice John Roberts, patted him on the back, and said, “Thank you again. Thank you again. I won’t forget.” What had Roberts done to deserve such gratitude? A lot. In her withering and revealing new book, Without Precedent: How

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Law and Disorder November 17, 2025

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2025/11/17

Socialist Democrat Voted Into NYC Mayoral Seat: What Happens Now?Thirty-three year-old Zohran Mamdani, an immigrant from Uganda, a Muslim, and a member of the Democratic Socialist of American won an overwhelming victory in New York City’s primary in September’s and then won the mayoral race in New York City December 4. His team of some 100,000 door knockers and canvassers swept the charismatic Mamdani into first place over the former governor and main line Democrat Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo was

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Law and Disorder November 10, 2025

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2025/11/10

Raiding the Genome: How the United States Government Is Abusing its Immigration Powers to Amass DNA for Future PolicingWorldwide, governments are quietly stockpiling one of the most intimate forms of personal data imaginable: our DNA. What began as a tool for identifying suspects and reuniting families has become a global infrastructure for surveillance—an invisible archive of our genetic code, stored and searchable. In 2024, Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy & Technology sounded the alarm

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Law and Disorder November 3, 2025

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2025/11/03

We’re Coming for You and Your Whole Rotten System Tens of thousands of socialists, union members, and working people fought alongside Kshama Sawant and her city council office to win historic victories, like the $15 an hour minimum wage, Amazon tax on businesses, renter rights and more. Long before AOC and Bernie Sanders became household names, Kshama won elections as a socialist to the office of city council in Seattle in 2013. Twelve years ago the demand for $15 an hour was dismissed as utopian

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Law and Disorder October 27, 2025

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2025/10/27

From The Flag To The Cross: Fascism American Style: Live EventFrom The Flag To The Cross: Fascism American Style is the title of a newly published book edited by Zachary Sklar and our own Michael Smith. The book draws from seven key interviews with prominent socialist thinkers in the United States and Canada. They include Margaret Kimberly, Henry Giroux, Dianne Feeley and Bill Mullen. Last month publishers OR books held a live book launch event taking place at Live On Avenue C in the East

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Law and Disorder October 20, 2025

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2025/10/20

Non Citizens And Free Speech Rights: AAUP v RubioOn September 30, 2025 a federal judge in Boston issued one of the most important decisions that has been rendered during the 9 months of Donald Trump’s second term. Following a nine-day trial in July that included the testimony of 15 witnesses and the admission of scores of documents, US District Judge William G. Young of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled that the Trump administration’s policy of arresting,

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Law and Disorder October 13, 2025

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2025/10/13

Court Watchers: Immigrant Solidarity Working Group Monitor Deportation CasesIn New York City, a quiet act of resistance is taking place every week inside the federal immigration courts. Members of the Professional Staff Congress—the union representing faculty and staff across the City University of New York—have been showing up not as lawyers or law enforcement, but as witnesses. They call themselves court watchers. Their goal: to stand beside immigrants facing possible deportation, document

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Law and Disorder October 6, 2025

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2025/10/06

Taxpayers Against Genocide and the National Lawyers Guild Submit Petition To UN Eighty years ago, after 2 world wars claimed millions of lives, nations worldwide — including the United States — came together and established the UN system “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.” The UN Charter requires that all states settle their disputes peacefully and refrain from the use of armed force, except in self-defense after an armed attack against a UN state by another state, or when

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Law and Disorder September 29, 2025

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2025/09/29

The Library Freedom ProjectSoon after the attacks of September 11, 2001, when federal agents demanded library circulation records under the USA Patriot Act, librarians became unlikely whistleblowers for democracy. The “Connecticut Four” successfully sued the FBI in 2005 over secret National Security Letters that sought patron data and imposed gag orders. They reminded the nation that a book borrowed in silence should never be grounds for suspicion. The Library Freedom Project was born in this

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Law and Disorder September 22, 2025

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2025/09/22

Corporate Media Coverage Analysis of NYC Mayoral RaceThe majority campaign of Zohran Mamdani in New York City is the most hopeful development on the left in America today. Mamdani is a charismatic 33 year-old Uganda born one time state legislator and a wholehearted supporter and member of the Democratic Socialists of America. He is challenging former governor Andrew Como, who was recently forced to resign in disgrace after being credibly accused by 13 women of sexual harassment. Cuomo represents

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Law and Disorder September 15, 2025

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2025/09/15

Defending My Enemy: Skokie and the Legacy of Free Speech in AmericaAt the heart of Trump’s blizzard of chaotic, cruel, and corrupt attacks on our democracy is one of the most turbulent, disruptive, and consequential assaults on freedom of speech in American history. Trump and his obedient underlings have enlisted the full force of the federal government’s overwhelming criminal, civil, administrative, immigration, and national security apparatus to illegally crush protest, dissent, and free

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Law and Disorder September 8, 2025

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2025/09/08

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Law and Disorder September 1, 2025

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2025/09/01

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