Gaslit Nation

This week we take on the new mascot of obstructionism and excuse for legislative inaction -- Joe Manchin! This human barrier to democracy has not received the level of investigation he deserves, so we...

14 Apr 20211h 3min

Gaslit Nation welcomes a special guest whose incredible life story captures the complex, often misunderstood region of the Middle East, the topic of this week's discussion. Iyad el-Baghdadi, whom some...

7 Apr 20211h 4min

We describe the uneasy interim period of the early Biden era and what's to come when the covid crisis ends – and predict that it's going to look a lot like what happened after the end of the 1918 Span...

31 Mar 202157min

This week Gaslit Nation welcomes Congresswoman Gwen Moore (D-Wisconsin) who gives us an inside view on the Capitol attack, what steps need to be taken to hold the perpetrators accountable, how the Bid...

24 Mar 202155min

Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present, explains all the ways Trump and Republican leaders rely on the dictator's playbook to weaken our democracy and consolidate...

17 Mar 20211h 11min

Wow, something good happened! This week on Gaslit Nation we give credit to (and criticism of!) the American Rescue Plan Act, which begins the process of digging this country out of the giant hellhole ...

10 Mar 20211h 16min

The Democrats have taken the House, the Senate, and the Presidency – yet they are still claiming that they can't pass the policies Americans desperately need. What's stopping them? The filibuster – a ...

3 Mar 202153min

This year we've already had a plague, a violent insurrectionist attack, and an unrepentant mafioso president running free. Apparently that wasn't enough so last week the U.S. got a once-in-a-century T...

24 Feb 20211h 8min