Welcome to Jacobin Radio, I'm Susie Wiseman.

We're covering three stories today, beginning with Katie Halper,

podcaster and program host of the Katie Halper show,

on her investigation of the New York Times problem

with Bernie Sanders, evident in its coverage, which is characterized

by Sidney Embers' articles using paid lobbyists and austerity ideologues as so-called

objective authorities who denounce Bernie's politics on everything

from health care to education to his supposed redness.

We then look at two articles in the new journal Commune, first with Michelle O'Brien, a New York City

teacher and writer, who has a provocative and creative article on junkie communism that

questions how the Socialist Project emphasizes the junkie

communism that questions how the socialist project emphasizes the dignity of work as its basis

but leaves out those who are unable to maintain stable employment and she posits a

politics that includes those whose lives have been

broken by the cruel conditions imposed on us all. And we then talk finally to Chloe

Waddington about her powerful article in Commune, who owns tomorrow.

It's a devastating and revealing look at deaths of despair from opioids, alcohol and unemployment

in crumbling neoliberal America. from Opioids, Alcohol, and Unemployment in Crumbling Neoliberal America,

an all-too-familiar story that is hit Chloe personally.

All this when Jacobin Radio returns in just a moment. Welcome to Jacobin Radio. I'm Susie Wiseman Radio.

I'm Susie Wiseman.

Very pleased to have Katie Halper,

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