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where all paperback books are 20% off every day. Welcome to the dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel

Denfer and I'm broadcasting this introduction from Providence, Rhode Island.

But this episode it was not recorded in Providence, Rhode Island. But this episode, it was not recorded in Providence, Rhode Island.

It's a live recording of the Dig from the Socialism 2024

conference, a truly excellent conference organized

by Haymarket books held every year in Chicago.

For this episode, I reunited our conjunctural analysis crew.

Amna Akbar, Gabe Wienin and Theoirofranco's.

I brought them back together to analyze pretty much everything about the present American

moment, everything that we could cover in an hour and a half, a tight hour and a half.

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