Day: July 24, 2025

International Outrage at Deliberate Starvation in Gaza Grows

We will begin with the possibility of a ceasefire in Gaza with the U.S. negotiator Steve Witkoff meeting with Israelis and Qataris while Netanyahu says he is reviewing the latest proposal from Hamas. Meanwhile international indignation grows over the deliberate starvation of Palestinians who are being shot down at the few aid centers as they desperately struggle to get food. Joining us from Amman, Jordan is Omar Shakir, who serves as the Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch, where he investigates human rights abuses in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza and has authored several major reports, including a 2021 report comprehensively documenting how Israeli authorities are committing the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution against millions of Palestinians. As a result of his advocacy, the Israeli government deported Omar in November 2019. He has an article at Human Rights Watch, “Desperate Pleas from Starving Palestinians Shouldn’t Be Ignored.”

An Analysis of Working Class Social and Economic Attitudes For the Democratic Party to Consider

Then we speak with Jared Abbott, a political scientist, professor, and director of the Center for Working-Class Politics with nearly two decades of experience in progressive politics and the labor movement. His research focuses on class politics, participatory democracy and the Left in the United States and Latin America. He is the co-author of a new report we will discuss: Working-Class Social and Economic Attitudes from the Center for Working-Class Politics and his latest article at Jacobin is “What Mamdani’s Win Can (and Can’t) Teach Us.”

A New Book Chronicles Karl Marx in America as Young Americans Embrace Socialism

Then finally we speak with Andrew Hartman, a Professor of History at Illinois State University who was the founding President of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History. He is the author of A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars and Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School. He is also the co-editor of American Labyrinth: Intellectual History for Complicated Times, and we will discuss his latest book, just out, Karl Marx in America.