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Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without the boring parts, featuring the writers, activists and artists who shape the news.Start Making Sense hosted by Jon Wiener, Edge of... Read more

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ISIS and American Muslims; Republicans and American Guns

ISIS and American Muslims; Republicans and American Guns

Laila Lalami talks about what ISIS wants from American Muslims; Joan Walsh explains the real reason we don’t have gun co... Read more

9 Dec 2015

45mins

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Trump Will Lose in 2020: Stan Greenberg, plus Naomi Klein on the Green New Deal and J. Hoberman on Reagan and the Movies

Trump Will Lose in 2020: Stan Greenberg, plus Naomi Klein on the Green New Deal and J. Hoberman on Reagan and the Movies

The 2020 election will liberate us from Donald Trump and Republican hegemony. A sweeping Democratic victory will make it... Read more

31 Dec 2019

48mins

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Naomi Klein: The Paris Climate Conference Protests Will Not Be Stopped

Naomi Klein: The Paris Climate Conference Protests Will Not Be Stopped

Naomi Klein on the Shock Doctrine and the Paris climate protests, Katha Pollitt on Europe’s refugee crisis, Eric Foner o... Read more

2 Dec 2015

39mins

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Trump’s Tax Returns: Why We Will See Them, and What We Will Find: David Cay Johnston, plus Zoe Carpenter on plastics and Laurie Winer on Stephen Miller

Trump’s Tax Returns: Why We Will See Them, and What We Will Find: David Cay Johnston, plus Zoe Carpenter on plastics and Laurie Winer on Stephen Miller

The chair of the House Ways and Means Committee formally requested six years of Trump’s personal & business tax retu... Read more

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Socialism is on the Agenda for 2020: Katrina vanden Heuvel, plus Kathleen Belew on White Nationalism and Rick Perlstein on Impeachment

Socialism is on the Agenda for 2020: Katrina vanden Heuvel, plus Kathleen Belew on White Nationalism and Rick Perlstein on Impeachment

Capitalism is broken – that's why socialism is on the agenda for 2020.  Katrina vanden Heuvel explains - she's publisher... Read more

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White Nationalists in Charlottesville & DC: Eric Foner; plus Bob Dreyfuss on Manafort and Robert Lipsyte on Trump and Golf

White Nationalists in Charlottesville & DC: Eric Foner; plus Bob Dreyfuss on Manafort and Robert Lipsyte on Trump and Golf

Plus Bob Dreyfuss on Paul Manafort, and Robert Lipsyte on Trump and golf Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/b... Read more

17 Aug 2017

41mins

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Joe Biden’s Zombie Campaign: Jeet Heer on Moderate Dems, plus Elie Mystal on Senate Republicans and Amy Wilentz on Haiti

Joe Biden’s Zombie Campaign: Jeet Heer on Moderate Dems, plus Elie Mystal on Senate Republicans and Amy Wilentz on Haiti

Joe Biden may be the frontrunner, but he’s slipping, and it seems doubtful that he will get better at this.  Big donors ... Read more

30 Oct 2019

39mins

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How to Beat Trump in 2020: John Nichols on Strategy, Michael Kazin on Southern Democrats, and Katha Pollitt on Women

How to Beat Trump in 2020: John Nichols on Strategy, Michael Kazin on Southern Democrats, and Katha Pollitt on Women

The Democrats’ picking Milwaukee for their convention in 2020 indicates how that Wisconsin is a key battleground the par... Read more

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How TV Made Trump: Tom Carson, plus David Perry on Ilhan Omar and Pico Iyer on Japan

How TV Made Trump: Tom Carson, plus David Perry on Ilhan Omar and Pico Iyer on Japan

We all know Trump got famous on TV with The Apprentice – but how many of us ever watched The Apprentice?  Reality TV was... Read more

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The Trump Reelection Scenario: Thomas Frank; plus Adam Hochschild on Guns and Gary Younge’s Return to Muncie

The Trump Reelection Scenario: Thomas Frank; plus Adam Hochschild on Guns and Gary Younge’s Return to Muncie

Trump is the most unpopular president in history—but could he be reelected in 2020? Thomas Frank says it wouldn’t be har... Read more

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Chris Hayes: Trump ‘Knew Literally—And I Mean Literally—Nothing About’ His Health-Care Bill

Chris Hayes: Trump ‘Knew Literally—And I Mean Literally—Nothing About’ His Health-Care Bill

Chris Hayes assesses the damage to Trump and to the Republicans caused by the failure of their effort to end Obamacare—a... Read more

29 Mar 2017

41mins

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James Comey’s Self-Justification Is Just ‘Not Good Enough’—Jonathan Freedland, plus Lawrence Wright on Trump and Texas and Margaret Atwood on ‘The Handmaid’s Tale'

James Comey’s Self-Justification Is Just ‘Not Good Enough’—Jonathan Freedland, plus Lawrence Wright on Trump and Texas and Margaret Atwood on ‘The Handmaid’s Tale'

James Comey’s monster best-seller, A Higher Loyalty, is “a plea for exculpation,” says Jonathan Friedland, but its self-... Read more

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Naomi Klein: To Fight Climate Change, We Have to Radically Rethink What Is Possible; plus Dahlia Lithwick on Trump’s ‘Emergency’ and Manuel Pastor on Calif. vs. Trump

Naomi Klein: To Fight Climate Change, We Have to Radically Rethink What Is Possible; plus Dahlia Lithwick on Trump’s ‘Emergency’ and Manuel Pastor on Calif. vs. Trump

Naomi Klein says the Green New Deal needs to follow the example of the New Deal of the 1930s, when nothing would have ha... Read more

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Republicans and Impeachment: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly--Joan Walsh, plus Andrew Bacevich on Afghanistan and Azadeh Moaveni on ISIS Women

Republicans and Impeachment: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly--Joan Walsh, plus Andrew Bacevich on Afghanistan and Azadeh Moaveni on ISIS Women

The big question about impeachment is not the House -- there now seem to be enough votes there to pass at least one arti... Read more

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Is Trumpism Fascism? Katha Pollitt; plus Mike Lux on Political Strategy and Harold Meyerson on Jonathan Gold

Is Trumpism Fascism? Katha Pollitt; plus Mike Lux on Political Strategy and Harold Meyerson on Jonathan Gold

Katha Pollitt is not happy with leftists calling Trump a “fascist” – maybe there’s a better term for his attacks on demo... Read more

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Sherrod Brown: How to Beat Trump; plus D.D. Guttenplan on Joe Biden and Thom Hartmann on the Supreme Court

Sherrod Brown: How to Beat Trump; plus D.D. Guttenplan on Joe Biden and Thom Hartmann on the Supreme Court

Sherrod Brown, the senior senator from Ohio, was re-elected in 2018. He won by 7 points—in a state Hillary Clinton had l... Read more

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“Whiteness Is All They’ve Got”: Gary Younge on Trump’s Working Class Supporters; Plus D.D. Guttenplan on Jackson, Miss., and Amy Wilentz on Ivana

“Whiteness Is All They’ve Got”: Gary Younge on Trump’s Working Class Supporters; Plus D.D. Guttenplan on Jackson, Miss., and Amy Wilentz on Ivana

Gary Younge interviews Trump’s white working class supporters; D. D. Guttenplan spends a week reporting on Jackson, Miss... Read more

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How the Dems Can Win in 2020: Lessons of the Virginia Victories--Joan Walsh, plus Jeet Heer on Trump and War Crimes and Bryce Covert on Strikes

How the Dems Can Win in 2020: Lessons of the Virginia Victories--Joan Walsh, plus Jeet Heer on Trump and War Crimes and Bryce Covert on Strikes

Democrats need to learn the lessons of their historic victory last month, when Virginia became the first Southern state ... Read more

4 Dec 2019

35mins

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Frank Rich: How Hillary Could Lose to Trump

Frank Rich: How Hillary Could Lose to Trump

A Clinton vs. Trump campaign in the fall would be a battle of the negatives, Frank Rich says--and Hillary’s are dangerou... Read more

20 Apr 2016

40mins

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‘It Can’t All Be Bernie’: The Candidate with John Nichols, plus Adam Hochschild on deportation and John Powers on “The Irishman”

‘It Can’t All Be Bernie’: The Candidate with John Nichols, plus Adam Hochschild on deportation and John Powers on “The Irishman”

Bernie Sanders says it will take a movement to change America: “It can’t all be Bernie.”  John Nichols comments on his i... Read more

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