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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It follows political power from official decisions to their concrete effects on workers, patients, and communities.
The Real News Podcast connects large political forces to the people living with their consequences. Maximilian Alvarez's labor coverage gives union members and striking healthcare workers room to describe workplace power from inside the fight.
Kaiser picket lines, Havana blackouts: your news diet follows power across borders.
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A forceful legal conversation about how federal pressure can turn private institutions into tools of constitutional harm.
The conversation frames the Mahmoud Khalil case as a sharp test of how federal pressure can move through private institutions once they are pulled into cooperation. Amy E. Greer and Zal K.
A labor story that turns a contract fight into a clear portrait of risk, solidarity, and survival.
This story lands on a rare labor flashpoint: 3,800 workers at JBS's Greeley beef plant walking out in what is described as the largest U.S. meatpacking strike in 40 years.
A clear-eyed history of conquest with echoes in the present.
This episode follows a long U.S.-Mexico arc, opening at Churubusco Fort and moving through the Mexican-American War and the Treaty of Hidalgo, when the U.S. took more than half of Mexican territory, including what is now the western half of the United States.
A courtroom scramble that turns deportation policy into immediate human harm.
This episode tracks an urgent deportation fight and shows how quickly the system can move, how little it explains itself, and how much pressure that puts on families.
A hard-edged war brief that keeps context and civilian cost front and center.
The episode makes its case early and keeps it on track: war with Iran, the risk of a wider regional response, and a blunt look at how U.S. media can soften escalation.
A strike story grounded in bedside labor, patient safety, and the strain of being understaffed.
The episode stays with the Kaiser Permanente strike in its third week, following healthcare workers in California and Hawaii as they press for safer staffing and workloads they can actually live with.
Minneapolis becomes the local proof point for a wider argument about rightlessness and executive power.
The episode presents Minneapolis as a city hit hard by ICE, with families and neighborhoods pulled apart and Renee Good and Alex Priddy both folded into the story of Operation Metro Surge.
A labor story that turns into a hard look at who gets to keep a newspaper alive.
The episode stays with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strike after it has already dragged on for more than three years, and it lands on the January 7 press release that sharpened the stakes.
Politics argued like a public record.
This episode commemorates the 50th anniversary of Argentina's 1976 military coup by telling three stories of resistance: the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo who marched for their disappeared children, a clandestine printing press that distributed banned materials, and the student victims of the 'Night of the Pencils' kidnappings.
Taya Graham opens by laying out the show's mission.
Sarah Lazar describes Minneapolis under a federal crackdown.
The Real News Podcast episode argues that the phrase "mass incarceration" is misleading, calling it a "fraudulent" label that hides a targeted war on Black communities and other oppressed groups.
The episode centers on the urgent effort to stop a detention transfer and fight deportation.
This episode investigates Trump's Shield of the Americas summit, where he formed a military coalition with right-wing Latin American leaders to combat cartels under the 'Donroe Doctrine.' It explores the historical context of U.S.
Mark Steiner interviews attorneys Amy Greer and Zal Stroff about Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil's detention by ICE without warrant.
The Real News Podcast episode centers on East Palestine, Ohio, three years after the Norfolk Southern derailment and vinyl chloride burn on February 3, 2023.
The Post-Gazette strike may be over, but the fight is far from settled.
The Real News Podcast episode with Justine Hill-Edwards centers on how the Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company, founded in 1865, was meant to protect deposits from nearly 4 million newly emancipated African-Americans.
Beth Loudon, a neonatal nurse and NYSNA executive committee member at New York Presbyterian, says the strike has lasted 31 days and now hinges on staffing and job security.
The episode opens on the U.S.
Master Moussa opens by comparing the United States to “Germany or any other fascist, totalitarian government,” and Dylan Rodriguez answers with his book White Reconstruction, published in 2020.
Trump's talk of a friendly takeover opens the episode.
Maximilian Alvarez hosts two Teamsters challengers, Richard Hooker Jr.
Mark Steiner speaks with Medea Benjamin, who says Cuba is facing a "very dire situation" after years of sanctions, tightened restrictions under Trump, and new pressure from Marco Rubio.
Norman Solomon, author of 'The Blue Road to Trump Hill,' diagnoses why Democrats lost their base.
Maximilian Alvarez of Working People speaks with Ibtihal, a former Microsoft software engineer and organizer with the No Azure for Apartheid campaign, about protests at Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters and a return-to-office action tied to the company’s new three-days-a-week policy.
The episode opens on pollution.
Mark Steiner interviews Cuban journalist and filmmaker Liz Olivia Fernandez from Havana about U.S.
Rattlin' Balls host Manson Moussa interviews Marshall Project journalists Shannon Heffernan and Anna Flagg on the sixfold increase in child ICE detention under Trump administration (from 25 daily average under Biden to 170 average in 2025).
Working People focuses on the strike at JBS's beef plant in Greeley, Colorado.
Mark Steiner speaks with Rory Fanning, an Army Ranger veteran of two Afghanistan tours, about the Trump administration’s escalating war with Iran and why Fanning says it resembles past U.S.
The episode opens at Churubusco Fort, where the walls are still marked by old U.S.
Maximilian Alvarez opens with an urgent strike update.
An episode of Working People covering the aftermath of an industrial explosion in Roseland, Louisiana, and the community's fight for justice.
Mark Steiner interviews journalist Samira Moyadin about the fragile ceasefire negotiations in the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and ongoing Israeli bombing.
An interview discussing the increase in Palestinian detainees in Israeli custody and the failure of the ceasefire agreement.
An interview with an ACLU attorney about efforts to stop a planned ICE detention center in a Maryland warehouse.
Analysis of the wave of violence in Mexico following the killing of cartel leader El Mencho, and the political context of U.S.
This episode covers an ongoing strike by non-union security officers in Baltimore over unfair labor practices, with details on the employer, city contracts, and union support.
An interview discussing the history and current threats to the United States Postal Service, focusing on privatization efforts and the working conditions of postal workers.
Analysis of U.S.-Venezuela tensions and the challenge of international solidarity amid Maduro's resistance to imperialism and internal repression.
Interview with a co-founder of Stand Together, an Israeli-Palestinian grassroots movement opposing the occupation and war in Gaza.
Host Manson Musa interviews Nicole Porter, a civil rights leader, about abolishing the prison industrial complex and mobilizing for freedom.