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Start Making Sense: Fintan O’Toole on the Next Insurrection; Katha Pollitt on “She Said”
If you were planning a future coup, what could you learn from the failure of Trump’s efforts on January 6? Fintan O’Toole says it would need a better…
3 years, 4 months ago
Nelson Lichtenstein's Post-Mortem on the UC Strike and Andrew Bacevich on America’s “Very Long War”
Teaching Assistants and other grad student employees at the University of California won a historic victory in their strike last month. What does tha…
3 years, 4 months ago
Best of 2022: Elie Mystal on the Constitution, plus Kelly Lytle Hernández on “Bad Mexicans”
For our end-of year show, we are featuring a couple of our favorite book segments from 2022. First, a Black guy’s guide to the Constitution: Elie Mys…
3 years, 5 months ago
UC Strike Settlement? Nelson Lichtenstein; plus Sean Wilentz on Bob Dylan’s Xmas Album
The biggest strike in the country this year, and the biggest in the history of American universities, may be over. After five weeks of picketing and …
3 years, 5 months ago
Steve Phillips on Sinema and Nelson Lichtenstein on the U.C. Strike
The Democrats triumphed in Arizona this November, electing the governor and the secretary of state, and reelecting senator Mark Kelly --in what used …
3 years, 5 months ago
Joan Walsh on the Georgia runoff and Nelson Lichtenstein on the UC strike
On this episode of the Start Making Sense podcast, Nation correspondent, Joan Walsh, comments on Democratic incumbent, Senator Raphael Warnock beatin…
3 years, 5 months ago
Beverly Gage on J. Edgar Hoover, plus Erwin Chemerinsky on Originalism
We know a lot about the bad things J. Edgar Hoover did, but it turns out there’s a lot we didn’t know. Historian Beverly Gage joins the podcast to ex…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Undocumented Can Work Jobs at the U. of Calif., and Latinas Are Fighting Toxic Pollution
Hundreds of thousands of young immigrants brought here by their undocumented parents since 2007 are not eligible for DACA. But now they may be eligib…
3 years, 6 months ago
Joan Walsh on the Georgia Runoff; Gustavo Arellano on the LA Vote
The Georgia Senate runoff campaign has begun--Joan Walsh has just returned from Atlanta, and explains why Trump’s candidate Herschel Walker seems lik…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Nation and the Midterms: D.D. Guttenplan, Elie Mystal, Joan Walsh, John Nichols, and Chris Lehmann
The Nation's political writers analyze the good, the bad, and the ugly in the midterms, and find keys to building a winning coalition for 2024.
Our Sp…
3 years, 6 months ago