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House Republicans Defy Trump; plus, when WWII Vets Came Home | Start Making Sense
After almost a year of Trump stonewalling about the Epstein files, Republicans in the House finally took a stand against him. More than a hundred Repu...
Dignity, Memory, and Surveillance w/ Lea Ypi | American Prestige
Danny and Derek speak with political theorist and author Lea Ypi about her new book Indignity: A Life Reimagined, which explores how personal memory i...
Jeffrey Epstein and the American Empire w/ Van Jackson | The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
The scandal around Jeffrey Epstein, who trafficked and abused children and died in a prison cell
in 2019, has never gone away. It continues to e...
Setting the House on Fire: Lauren Michele Jackson on Nettie Jones’ Fish Tales | Reading Writers
This week, Jo discovers the seminal elegance of Sylvia Wynter’s Black Metamorphosis: New Natives in a New World, while Charlotte considers how well sh...
(Solar) Power to the People with Elizabeth Yeampierre | A People's Climate
In this episode of A People’s Climate, host Shilpi Chhotray sits down with Elizabeth Yeampierre, veteran organizer and executive director of UPROSE, B...
Thailand–Cambodia Ceasefire Breaks Down, U.S. Escalates Military Presence Around Venezuela, Gaza Ceasefire Framework Stalls w/ Nathaniel Powell | American Prestige
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Danny and Derek are vigorously programmed to bring you the news headlines. This week:...
Saudi Arabia is Using Games to Improve Its Image w/ Nathan Grayson | Tech Won't Save Us
Paris Marx is joined by Nathan Grayson to discuss how Saudi Arabia is buying its way into the sports, comedy, and video game industries in order to br...
Mamdani’s Momentum, plus ‘The Radical Fund’ | Start Making Sense
As mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani will be the first socialist in American history to hold significant power. It’s a huge opportunity, and a hu...
Silicon Valley and the Israeli Occupation w/ Omar Zahzah | American Prestige
Derek is joined by Omar Zahzah, Assistant Professor of Arab Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies at San Francisco State University, to talk about...
The Cult of the Cybertruck with Maya Vinokour | The Nation Podcast
Perhaps no single object embodies our dystopian, oligarchical, ugly present more than the Cybertruck—the hulking spacecraft-cum-tank that Elon Musk ha...
The American Right’s Civil War Over Israel w/ David Austin Walsh | The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
Much has been written about how the Israel/Palestine conflict is dividing the left, but the
same is true of the right. Tucker Carlson’s intervie...
Reading Writers Is BACK, with Rumaan Alam | Reading Writers
Reading Writers is BACK, and in partnership with Bookforum Magazine!
In this first episode of Season 3, hosts Jo and Charlotte delve into the (s...
Seeds of Resistance with Vivien Sansour | A People's Climate
In this episode of A People’s Climate, host Shilpi Chhotray sits down with Vivien Sansour, founder of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library, for a power...
Why We Need a War on Cars w/ Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear | Tech Won't Save Us
Paris Marx is joined by Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear to discuss the many ways cars have negatively affected society, how tech companies seek to entr...
Dem Voters Triumph; plus That Springsteen Movie
Democratic candidates won everywhere they ran on Tuesday – Abagail Spanberger and a Democratic state legislature in Virginia, Mikie Sherrill in New Je...
The Wagner Group and the New Era of Private War w/ John Lechner | American Prestige
Danny and Derek welcome journalist and author John Lechner to discuss his book, Death is Our Business: Russian Mercenaries in the New Era of Warfare....
Why the Supreme Court Will Never Stand Up to Trump with Elie Mystal | The Nation Podcast
It can be tempting to look away from the Supreme Court. The cases are complicated, the traditions archaic, and these days the decisions are almost alw...
After the American Empire w/ Trita Parsi | The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
Donald Trump claims he wants to be the peace president and has even lobbied for a Nobel
Peace Prize. But his foreign policy has been wildly cont...
Memphis vs. Musk, with Rep. Justin J. Pearson | A People's Climate
Host Shilpi Chhotray is joined by Tennessee State Representative Justin J. Pearson, a fierce advocate taking on corporate power — from Big Oil to Big...
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...