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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island, where I, this week, had the great pleasure of working with just loads of incredible organizers and organizations, and we want a massive left landslide in our Democratic primaries

for state legislature. Stay tuned. I may do a show on Rhode Island at some point. But in other

less good news, what a sad mess. COVID has shined, as many have pointed out, this bright light

on every long-running crisis and also intensified

those crises, accelerating the inequalities and contradictions faster than we can process them.

Higher education is one of many, many cases in point. Decades of austerity, rising tuition,

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