The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali
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The Left Hook is a thoroughly opinionated and biased intellectual playground for people who enjoy political, cultural, and religious hot takes without corporate censorship and nonsense centrism.
Hoosier, Political Analyst, articles at Dispatches From A Collapsing State, author The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis
Activist, organizer. Author of Chop Wood Carry Water Daily Actions. Political content creator. @jesscraven101 on all socials.
Editor-at-Large, Jewish Currents. New York Times and MSNBC Contributor. Prof, Newmark School of Journalism, CUNY. Fellow, Foundation for Middle East Peace
My book about the sports betting boom is due out January 2026. My reporting has appeared in The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and the Columbia Journalism Review. I live in Charlotte with my wife, son, and cat.
I'm a writer, I should know what to put here.
Writer and Journalist
Rebekah Jones is a climate and disaster scientist, famed government whistleblower, and former nominee for Congress. Rebekah's expertise includes climate science, natural disasters, politics, and media.
Finding out.
I write books, teach at Baylor U (opinions here are my own), work in the larger Church, and write, speak, teach, and preach about race, religion, politics, and culture. John Lewis, of Blessed Memory, invited us to start Good Trouble. Let's go.
Founder, CEO, and editor-in-chief of Zeteo
Writer, editor, child-wrangler, sometimes-filmmaker, Missoulian dropped on my head in NYC. Wandering Agent-lessly (She/Her)
Host of The Danielle Moodie Show (YouTube); The Fire Pit series(Substack); co-host of #democracyish Live (YouTube and Podcast)
executive editor, The American Prospect
Bhaskar Sunkara is the president of The Nation magazine and the founding editor of Jacobin.
Mom, wife, writer, defender of democracy.
Francesca Fiorentini is a political commentator, stand-up comedian. She is the host of The Bitchuation Room Podcast, a weekly progressive speakeasy featuring new comedians, organizers and experts hosted by Francesca Fiorentini.
Founder, Built to Win PAC Founder, JAB Advocates Author, UNPOLISHED — Sept 1st Igniting The People’s Truth to Power
ALWAYS YELL THE TRUTH. Lifting up voices and shining a light on injustices in Tennessee.
Progressive YouTuber
Podcasts for people who care about health care, democracy, and the policies that shape both. \ud83e\udd7c Paging America \ud83c\udfe5 Situation Womb \ud83d\udea8 On Call by Paging America. Project of the Committee to Protect Health Care.
First generation Indian-American. Progressive dem strategist. Proud Michigan, MoveOn, Bernie, and Harris alum. Signal: bhavml.88
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