Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWinning in 2022: John Nichols, plus Melina Abdullah on the LAPD and Ray Suarez on “Going for Broke”
Some pundits say the only way Democrats can hold the House and Senate in 2022 is by appealing to swing voters in Republican states by talking about e…
4 years, 10 months ago
America’s Lunatics: Katha Pollitt; plus John Powers on Percival Everett’s Emmett Till novel
Are we a nation of lunatics? Katha Pollitt has been thinking about that—about the millions of people who say that Satan-worshipping pedophiles contro…
4 years, 10 months ago
Controlling the Police: What is to be Done? Erwin Chemerinsky, plus Eyal Press on Dirty Work
Many proposals to reform the police were made after the Black Lives Matter protests of last summer the largest protest movement in American history. …
4 years, 10 months ago
Biden’s Disastrous Deportation of Haitians: Amy Wilentz; plus Ruth Milkman and Stephanie Luce on Occupy Wall Street
Joe Biden is deporting 15,000 Haitian refugees who crossed the border at Del Rio, Texas, to a country ravaged by assassination, earthquake, poverty, …
4 years, 11 months ago
How Mosques Became FBI Targets after 9-11: Ahilan Arulanantham on State Secrets, plus Amy Wilentz on ‘The Chair”
We’re still thinking about the 20th anniversary of 9/11. After the attacks that day, Muslim Americans endured years of racism and discrimination, oft…
4 years, 11 months ago
Abortion Politics and Republican Power: Rick Perlstein, plus Eric Foner on Tulsa
In Texas, the Republicans are empowering vigilantes to go after people helping women who seek abortions, turning the state’s citizens as bounty hunte…
4 years, 11 months ago
Long-term political cost of the Afghan pullout? Not much: John Nichols on Biden, plus Adam Shatz on a Black American in Paris
America’s longest war came to an end on Monday as the last troops left Afghanistan, 20 years after we started fighting there. How much have the disas…
4 years, 11 months ago
What America Owes Afghan Women: Katha Pollitt, plus Eric Foner on Black politics and history
Katha Pollitt reports on Afghan womens’ organizations and what their leaders are saying about support from Americans—starting with the Afghan Women’s…
5 years ago
The Taliban Triumph: Andrew Bacevich, plus John Powers on Dick Gregory
Over almost 20 years in Afghanistan, the US lost 2,400 troops and personnel. Another 21,000 Americans have been wounded. The mission cost more than a…
5 years ago
Trump: the Big Loser on the Infrastructure Bill—Joan Walsh, plus Anne Sebba on Ethel Rosenberg
19 Republican Senators voted in favor of the bipartisan infrastructure bill on Tuesday, after Trump demanded they vote “no.” It took significant conc…
5 years ago