Best Immigration & Customs Enforcement Podcasts (2025)

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Surprise Special: Behind the Masks - Immigration & Customs Enforcement 39:44

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Send us a text What does immigration look like from inside the room where every word matters? I step behind the headlines to share what I’ve learned as a Mandarin interpreter working across ICE—moving from intake to medical checks to immigration court—translating for people who’ve crossed jungles, oceans, and moral gray areas in search of a future.…

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S1E8 - China's Heaven & Hell: Mystic Tibet - Part 1 13:07

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Send us a text A chance encounter with a devout Buddhist au pair changed everything about my understanding of spirituality. After watching her weep for crabs we cooked and eventually leave her family behind to become a monk, I found myself on an unexpected journey to the remote corners of Tibet – places where foreigners rarely venture and Chinese v…

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S1E7 - China's Heaven & Hell: Working as a pimp - Season Special 18:52

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Send us a text Ever heard of Dongguan? Few Westerners recognize this southern Chinese megacity that operates as a manufacturing powerhouse—but for years, it harbored a secret economy built around what might have been the world's most organized prostitution industry. Join me as I pull back the curtain on my three visits to this remarkable city betwe…

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S1E6 - China's Heaven & Hell: Working as a pimp - Part 6 14:27

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Terri Suess on Immigrant Rights Organizing

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Terri has made her living as a journalist, researcher/organizer, technical writer, and as an adjunct professor of English. She served on the board of New Jersey Peace Action and is a past President of the Essex County Ethical Culture Society. The podcast seeks to provide a substantive alternative to mainstream economics media; to communicate inform…

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S1E5 - China's Heaven & Hell: Working as a pimp - Part 5 13:41

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Send us a text Stepping back into the shadowy world of Shanghai's KTV clubs, we pick up where we left off in the previous episode - exploring life as a "duck" or paid male companion in China's evolving nightlife scene. The unexpected relationships formed with wealthy female clients reveal complex human stories beneath the surface of simple transact…

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S1E4 - China's Heaven & Hell: Working as a pimp - Part 4 16:37

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Send us a text China's opium war shame has shaped its modern approach to drugs and nightlife in ways few outsiders understand. From the death penalty for drug distribution to mandatory rehabilitation programs that leave permanent marks, these policies directly impact entertainment venues like KTVs (karaoke television clubs). Walking into these esta…

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Best Of: Gediminas Lesutis on The Politics of Precarity in Mozambique

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Gediminas Lesutis works at the intersection of global politics, human geography, and critical theory. In 2018, he completed a PhD in Politics at the University of Manchester, UK. This was followed by a 3.5-year research fellowship in Geography at the University of Cambridge and Darwin College, Cambridge, UK. He is currently a Marie Curie Fellow in …

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S1E3 - China's Heaven & Hell: Working as a pimp - Part 3 13:22

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Send us a text The shadowy economics of high-end Chinese nightclubs comes into sharp focus through this unflinching firsthand account. Taking us behind the velvet curtains of KTV establishments in early 2000s China, our host reveals the carefully orchestrated hierarchy that kept these businesses profitable and protected. We journey through the nigh…

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S1E2 - China's Heaven & Hell: Working as a pimp - Part 2 16:11

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Send us a text Step behind the velvet curtain of China's high-end nightlife as a former KTV assistant manager reveals the raw, unfiltered reality of managing an elite entertainment establishment. From the hidden door concealing hundreds of hostesses to the intricate social hierarchies that determine every interaction, this candid account offers rar…

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Mary Rizzo on Immigration Detention

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Dr. Mary Rizzo is Associate Professor and Graduate Director at Rutgers-Newark. She has written on immigration detention in New Jersey and is an immigrant advocate. Subscribe to our newsletter todayBy A Correction Team

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S1E1 - China's Heaven & Hell: Working as a pimp - Part 1 17:43

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Send us a text What happens when your father suggests you take a job as an "Assistant General Manager" at a friend's Chinese KTV nightclub? My journey through Shenzhen's vibrant nightlife industry during China's economic boom reveals a world few outsiders ever glimpse. During the early 2000s—what I consider China's golden age of economic expansion—…

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Kathy O’Leary on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

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Kathy O’Leary is New Jersey Coordinator for Pax Christi USA and a Pax Christi USA Ambassador of Peace. Subscribe to our newsletter todayBy Team

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Best of: Alberto Toscano on the March on Rome and the Meaning of Fascism Today

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Alberto Toscano is Professor of Critical Theory in the Department of Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Term Research Associate Professor at the School of Communications at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea (Verso, 2010; 20…

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Adam Hanieh on Crude Capitalism

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Adam Hanieh is Professor of Political Economy and Global Development at the University of Exeter, Hanieh specializes in capitalism and imperialism in the Middle East. He is the author of Crude Capitalism. Subscribe to our newsletter today A note from Lev: I am a high school teacher of history and economics at a public high school in NYC, and began …

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Best Of: Lucia Pradella on Unfree Labor in the Mediterranean

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Lucia Pradella studied Philosophy, Social Sciences and Migration Studies at the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari and the Humboldt University in Berlin. She collaborated with the project of historical-critical edition of Marx’s and Engels’s complete works at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. After completing her PhD on globa…

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Best of: Hans-Joachim Voth on Bank Failures and the Rise of the Nazis

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We talk with Hans-Joachim Voth about the link between financial crisis and Hitler’s rise to power. Hans-Joachim Voth (D.Phil, Oxford, 1996), holds the UBS Chair of Macroeconomics and Financial Markets at the Economics Department, Zurich University. He is an economic historian with interests in financial history, long-term persistence and growth, as…

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Best of: What Kind of Social Policy Does the European Far-Right Want?

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Philip Rathgeb is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Social Policy in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh and an Associated Fellow in the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konst…

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Best of: Samuel Miller McDonald on The Political Economy of Energy

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Samuel Miller McDonald is an editor at The Trouble and Epilogue, a doctoral researcher at University of Oxford, and graduate of the Yale School of the Environment and College of the Atlantic. His writing has appeared in Current Affairs, The New Republic, and The Guardian, among other publications. He is working on a book called PROGRESS about the h…

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Best of: Stefan Ouma on How Economics Would Change if Racism Was Taken Seriously

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Stefan Ouma holds the Chair of Economic Geography at the Department of Geography at the University of Bayreuth. Before that he worked as Doc and Post-Doc at Goethe-University, Frankfurt. His research interests lies in a theoretically and empirically informed economic geography of globalization and development, drawing primarily on insights from het…

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Best of: Juan Cole on Israel and Palestine (a primer)

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Juan R. I. Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. For three and a half decades, he has sought to put the relationship of the West and the Muslim world in historical context. His most recent book is Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires. He is also the author of The New Arabs: How th…

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Best of: Casey Michel on Money Laundering in America

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Casey Michel, an investigative reporter based in New York City, is the author of American Kleptocracy. His writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, ThinkProgress, The Atlantic, Politico, and The Washington Post, among others. A Correction Podcast Episodes RSSBy A Correction Team

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Best of: Srishti Yadav on the Agrarian Question in India

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Dr. Srishti Yadav is an Instructor for the Economics & Society stream in the Department of Economics at the University of Manitoba. She has a PhD in Economics from The New School in New York. Her dissertation research focuses on the political economy of development in India, investing the relationship between agrarian change and structural transfor…

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Teddy Wayne on Class in America (and his new book The Winner)

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Teddy Wayne is the author of the novels The Winner (coming May 2024), The Great Man Theory, Apartment, Loner, The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, and Kapitoil. He is the winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award and an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship as well as a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award, PEN/Bingham Prize, and Dayton Literary Peace Prize.…

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Delton Best of: Chen on The Carbon Coin (If you read The Ministry for the Future this episode is for you!)

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Delton Chen is a geo-hydrologist and civil engineer. Delton holds a Ph.D. in engineering from the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia. Delton has 20 years of combined experience in groundwater management, environmental impact assessments, mining, geothermal energy and climate mitigation; and he analyzed the mitig…

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Best of: Samuel Hughes on Ugly Buildings, Beautiful Cities and How to Build Better Suburbs

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Samuel Hughes is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and Head of Research at the Office for Place within the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. His education was primarily at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. At the former he took an MA in Philosophy Politics and Economics (2013) and a B.Phil. in Philosophy (2015); at …

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Dennis O. Flynn on The World that Silver Created

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Dennis O. Flynn is the Alexander R. Heron Professor of Economics at the University of the Pacific. He has published since 1978 dozens of essays on global monetary history, fifteen of which have been reproduced in World Silver and Monetary History in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Variorum, 1996). He has co-edited Metals and Monies in an E…

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Alberto Toscano on Israeli Politics

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Alberto Toscano is Term Research Associate Professor at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. He is also Professor of Critical Theory at the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, where he co-directs the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought. Photo by Cole Keister on Unsplash Do you get the newsletter?…

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Best of: Paolo Tedesco on How Marx Understood the Middle Ages (and what he may have gotten wrong)

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Paolo Tedesco teaches history at the University of Tübingen. His main research interests include the social and economic history of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, comparative agrarian history, the fate of the peasantry across different types of societies, and historical materialism. Photo by Rolf Schmidbauer on Unsplash DONATE TODAY A no…