Against the Grain is a radio and web media project whose aim is to provide in-depth analysis and commentary on a variety of matters -- political, economic, social and cultural -- important to progressive and radical thinking and activism. Against the Grain is co-hosted and co-produced by Sasha Lilley and C.S. Soong.

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Against the Grain: Tariq Ali.
Tariq Ali discusses what the Cold War and the so-called war on terror has done to Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Against the Grain - November 25, 2008 at 12:00pm

Against the Grain - November 12, 2008 at 12:00pm
Immanuel Wallerstein comments on the structural constraints faced by Obama, and asserts that we're in a depression, not a mere recession. Ismael Hossein-Zadeh enumerates several major flaws in what he calls the Wall Street bailout scam.

Against the Grain - November 11, 2008 at 12:00pm

Against the Grain - November 10, 2008 at 12:00pm
In his ten-play cycle, August Wilson sought to illuminate the 20th-century Black experience. Scholar Harry Elam, Jr. and actor Brent Jennings describe Wilson's project, both generally and in the context of the play "Joe Turner's Come and Gone." And Ian Williams spells out foreign policy priorities

Against the Grain - November 5, 2008 at 12:00pm

Against the Grain - November 4, 2008 at 12:00pm

Against the Grain - November 3, 2008 at 12:00pm