Gaza and Elite Accountability w/ Connor Echols
Many of Joe Biden’s closest advisors are now well-ensconced in the sinecures reserved for the elite, working at think tanks, academia, and major media outlets. Normally, they could expect to have futu...
4 Loka 34min
The Obama Center as a Tomb of Neoliberalism w/ Kate Wagner
My Nation colleague Kate Wagner has written a brilliant critical essay on the Obama Center, which just opened in Chicago. I talk to her about how the history of presidential libraries, a now anachroni...
27 Syys 20min
Jon Ossoff and the Georgia Battleground w/ Joan Walsh
My Nation colleague Joan Walsh recently profiled Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff for the magazine. Georgia is very much a purple state. The fact that Ossoff won there and stands a good chance at re-electio...
20 Syys 39min
The Iran War Stalemate w/ Trita Parsi
The Trump administration has announced a new set of harsh sanctions against Iran. This is a strange development since originally Trump launched a war on Iran on the pretext that sanctions weren’t work...
30 Elo 37min
Trump’s Chaotic Foreign Policy w/ David Klion
There’s an ongoing feud in the Trump administration between restrainers (advocates of a less hawkish foreign policy) and neoconservatives (advocates of militarism on multiple fronts). David Klion wrot...
16 Elo 43min
The Return of McCarthyism w/ Chris Lehmann
Republicans are plummeting in the polls in the lead-up to the midterm thanks to the unpopularity of the Iran War and the attendant inflation. As my Nation colleague Chris Lehmann has noted, in an atte...
2 Elo 44min
Iran War Heats Up w/ Matt Duss
The purported ceasefire in the Iran War was always tenuous and now the war is not only heating up but entering a dangerous new phase. The Iranians have closed the Strait of Hormuz and the Houthis are ...
26 Heinä 37min
