The Age of Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein w/ Doug Henwood
The famed economist Larry Summers, not for the first time, finds himself the center of ascandal. He’s had to take a leave from Harvard, where he teaches, because of embarrassingemails he had with his ...
23 Nov 202542min
Jeffrey Epstein and the American Empire w/ Van Jackson
The scandal around Jeffrey Epstein, who trafficked and abused children and died in a prison cellin 2019, has never gone away. It continues to explode now that House Democrats havereleased thousands of...
16 Nov 202541min
The American Right’s Civil War Over Israel w/ David Austin Walsh
Much has been written about how the Israel/Palestine conflict is dividing the left, but thesame is true of the right. Tucker Carlson’s interview with the antisemitic critic of Israel NickFuentes has c...
9 Nov 202551min
After the American Empire w/ Trita Parsi
Donald Trump claims he wants to be the peace president and has even lobbied for a NobelPeace Prize. But his foreign policy has been wildly contradictory. While the United States isclearly retrenching ...
3 Nov 202536min
The Rush to War Against Venezuela w/ Van Jackson
On Friday, the self-styled “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth announced the US was sending an aircraft carrier to bolster its attacks on Venezuelan boats (which the Trump administration alleges, without ...
27 Okt 202543min
The Political Consequences of Gaza w/ Yousef Munayyer
The fragile ceasefire negotiated between Israel and Hamas hasn’t ended the violence, but it hasfor now lessened it. But even if the ceasefire holds, the need for a political solution toPalestinian dis...
19 Okt 202538min
Revolutionary Violence and One Battle After Another w/ David Klion
Few movies have ever been as timely as Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film One Battle AfterAnother, which traces the battle between revolutionary resistance groups trying to protectimmigrants and an au...
12 Okt 202550min
The Deep Politics of the Government Shutdown w/ Chris Lehmann
Donald Trump has plunged the nation into another government shutdown. I spoke with my Nation colleague Chris Lehmann about the larger political stakes. We take up Trump’s shiftingrhetoric, which has s...
5 Okt 202537min
