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Trump Asia Tour and Xi Summit, RSF Massacres in Sudan, US Continues Bombing Boats Off South America Coast | American Prestige
What’s spookier than international relations? This week in the news roundup: Trump tours Asia to talk trade deals (1:28), a Thai-Cambodia accord (7:11...
We Need to Cut Our Dependence on US Tech. Here’s How to Start. | Tech Won't Save Us
Paris Marx celebrates the 300th episode of Tech Won’t Save Us by sharing his reasons to push for digital sovereignty and get off US tech. On top of ex...
Voters, Democrats, and Redistricting—Plus, Confederate Monuments in LA | Start Making Sense
Voters can take a stand against Trump’s candidates in next Tuesday’s elections in Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California, and New York City –...
ICE and the Age of Grift w/ Alex Aviña | American Prestige
Alex Aviña is back on the podcast, this time to talk about the evolution of ICE and the U.S. security state. They discuss the convergence of the war o...
The Rush to War Against Venezuela with Van Jackson | The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
On Friday, the self-styled “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth announced the US was sending an
aircraft carrier to bolster its attacks on Venezuelan...
Trump's Designs on Latin America with Greg Grandin | The Nation Podcast
On October 14, Donald Trump announced that the United States had blown up a boat off the coast of Venezuela, killing six people on board. It was the f...
All Revolution Is Based On Land with Leah Penniman | A People's Climate
Solving the climate crisis isn’t about reinventing the wheel or the latest tech scheme — it can be as simple as growing food and building community. <...
Gaza Ceasefire Tenuous, US Strikes More “Drug Boats,” Saudi State Visit | American Prestige
Rest assured, no one on the AP team has any undeclared tattoos. In this week’s news roundup: In Israel-Palestine, Gaza’s so-called ceasefire holds aft...
Silicon Valley Doesn’t Know What Makes a Good City w/ Joanne McNeil | Tech Won't Save Us
Paris Marx is joined by Joanne McNeil to discuss the proliferation of delivery bots and robotaxis and how they recycle disproven claims about how tech...
Rebecca Solnit on No Kings—Plus, Reforming the LAPD after Rodney King | Start Making Sense
No Kings Day on Oct. 18 was the largest peaceful protest in American history. Rebecca Solnit comments, and refutes Republican statements about violenc...
The Myth of Free Speech w/ Fara Dabhoiwala | American Prestige
Danny and Derek speak with historian Fara Dabhoiwala, author of What Is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea, about the complex history of one...
Trump’s Theory of Politics w/ Kim Phillips-Fein | The Nation Podcast
"Are Trump and Trumpism best understood as the consolidation of an elite economic program, as a nostalgia-laced brew of prejudice and rage, or as a c...
The Political Consequences of Gaza w/ Yousef Munayyer | The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
The fragile ceasefire negotiated between Israel and Hamas hasn’t ended the violence, but it has
for now lessened it. But even if the ceasefire h...
The Water Remembers with Amy Bowers Cordalis | A People's Climate
For the first time in over a century, the Klamath River flows free again—thanks to the vision, courage, and determination of the Yurok Tribe.
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Gaza Ceasefire, CIA in Venezuela, Madagascar Coup w/ Nathaniel Powell | American Prestige
Lead might be in our protein supplements, but Danny and Derek bring you the news free of most heavy metals. This week: the ceasefire in Gaza begins wi...
Smart Glasses Are Ushering In An Anti-Social World w/ Chris Gilliard | Tech Won't Save Us
Paris Marx is joined by Chris Gilliard to discuss how tech CEOs are pushing a new generation of AI-powered smart glasses by promising they’ll be styli...
No Kings Day: “It’s Gonna be Fun,” plus “One Battle After Another” | Start Making Sense
Saturday is the second No Kings Day – it should be the biggest single day of protest in American history, with more than 2,500 events planned. Leah Gr...
American Sociocide w/ Charles Derber | American Prestige
Danny and Derek speak with sociologist Charles Derber about how American society is tearing itself apart, as explored in his book Bonfire: American So...
Revolutionary Violence and One Battle After Another w/ David Klion | The Time of Monsters
Few movies have ever been as timely as Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film One Battle After
Another, which traces the battle between revolutionar...
It’s Never A Strategy To Remain Quiet with Nick Tilsen | A People's Climate
What does true climate justice look like when it’s rooted in sovereignty, resistance, and liberation?
In this powerful episode of...
Venezuela-US Escalation, Myanmar Airstrike, France’s Political Crisis | American Prestige
Yes, we will be releasing 25 subtle variations of this news roundup in order to catapult ourselves to the top of the podcast charts, and no, we are no...
The Gilded Rage of Tech Billionaires w/ Jacob Silverman | Tech Won't Save Us
Paris Marx is joined by Jacob Silverman to discuss Jacob’s new book Gilded Rage, which explores the radicalization of Silicon Valley leaders, who are...
The Courts vs. Trump—Plus, "Gotham at War" | Start Making Sense
As the Supreme Court begins its new term, Trump lost six different cases in district courts just last week, ranging from bans on deploying the Nationa...
The Deep Politics of the Government Shutdown
Donald Trump has plunged the nation into another government shutdown. I spoke with my Nation colleague Chris Lehmann about the larger political stakes...
Mass Movements with Patrisse Cullors | A People's Climate
This is when people-powered movements matter most.
In this episode of A People’s Climate, host Shilpi Chhotray sits down with Patr...
Trump’s Gaza “Peace Plan,” UN Reimposes Sanctions on Iran, "Gen Z Protests" in Madagascar and Morocco | American Prestige
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The Growing Divide Between MAGA and Big Tech w/ Tina Nguyen | Tech Won't Save Us
Paris Marx is joined by Tina Nguyen to discuss the divisions within the American far-right between the Trump administration, the wider MAGA movement,...
Senate Dems Stand Up to Trump-Finally; plus Trump and Tylenol | Start Making Sense
For the Senate Democrats this is a big week for defiance. At last they are making popular demands as part of a deal to pass a budget and avoid a gover...
How The Internet Broke America w/ Garrett Graff | American Prestige
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Danny welcomes to the show journalist and historian Garrett Graff, host of th...
The Emptiness of Bob Woodward w/ Matt Duss | The Nation Podcast
For over 50 years, Bob Woodward has had an uncanny ability to get sources talking—and to sell books. From Watergate to Trump, no political era has gon...
Who Are the Shooters? w/ Ken Klippenstein | The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
The United States continues to be roiled by political violence, with the recent shooting at an ICE
facility in Dallas coming hot on the heels of...
An Unreasonable Woman with Diane Wilson | A People's Climate
In this episode of A People’s Climate, Shilpi Chhotray sits down with Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation shrimper and relentless environmental activist...
The US Military vs. the Environment w/ Gretchen Heefner | American Prestige
Danny and Derek speak with historian Gretchen Heefner about how the US military (unsuccessfully) set out to conquer extreme environments and what thos...
Is Tesla Still a Car Company? w/ Ed Niedermeyer | Tech Won't Save Us
Paris Marx is joined by Ed Niedermeyer to discuss the mission to turn Elon Musk into the world’s first trillionaire, Tesla’s growing interest in makin...
How We Defeated Trump on Jimmy Kimmel—plus, the attacks on Harvard | Start Making Sense
Trump is trying to block speech that criticizes him. Last week began with JD Vance complaining about an article in The Nation that criticized the idea...
A New History of the Americas, Pt. 2 w/ Greg Grandin | American Prestige
Danny and Derek once again speak with historian Greg Grandin about his recent book, America, América: A New History of the New World. In this second p...
The MAGA Fashion Revolution | The Nation Podcast
Donald Trump and his MAGA movement haven’t just taken over Republican politics. They’ve also taken over Republican fashion.
Gone is the stuffy,...
What Bari Weiss Is Really Up To | The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
Bari Weiss, founder and editor of The Free Press, has often been profiled in the media, but usually in a superficial way that focuses on her personali...
Gaza City Ground Invasion, US War on “Narco-Terror” in the Caribbean, Russia Sanctions Standoff | American Prestige
Derek is joined once again by guest co-host Alex Jordan to bring you the news. This week: in Israel-Palestine, Israel commences its ground operation i...
TRAILER: A People's Climate Podcast—Coming Soon!
“A People’s Climate” is a new climate podcast by Counterstream Media and The Nation. Hosted by Shilpi Chhotray.
This isn’t climate talk as usua...