NBA players walk off the court after a police shooting in Wisconsin, sparking a work stoppage across professional sports. And federal troops are deployed to Portland in an attempt to quell the country’s most sustained protests against police violence. We speak with DAVE ZIRIN and MAC SMIFF about the wildcat strikes in pro sports and 100-days on the streets in Portland. &nbsp; And in the debut of our new segment, The Bookend, we speak with VICKY OSTERWEIL about her new book, In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action (Bold Type August 2020)

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We speak with Max Haiven, the author of Revenge Capitalism, about the opioid crisis and its roots in neoliberal empire and Garth Mullins, host of Crackdown podcast, about drug user-led resistance to the drug war.

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