The Nation Podcasts

On this episode of The Time of Monsters , Jeet Heer is joined by Chris Lehmann to discuss the elite denial of presidential candidate’s mental decline. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On this episode of See How They Run , Ben Wikler and John Nichols join D.D. Guttenplan to discuss how the election will turn out in the very particular, very important swing state of Wisconsin. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On this week’s edition of the  American Prestige  world news roundup: It’s another dose of doom, but we tacked on a relatively feel-good animal story. It appears that Israel has killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar (1:32), the IDF’s brutal operation continues in northern Gaza (4:56), and the Biden administration floats withholding arms over the Strip’s humanitarian situation (6:42); an update on Israe...

Paris Marx is joined by Julia Black to discuss who Curtis Yarvin is and how his anti-democratic, far-right writings have influenced the politics of Silicon Valley and the wider American extreme right. Julia Black is a features reporter on The Information’s Weekend Team. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

One in six voters, pollsters say, are “still unsure of their choice.” What do people mean when they say they are “undecided”? Rick Perlstein says political writers have failed to understand the undecideds—and what Kamala might do to win their votes. Also: Pennsylvania is the state where this year’s election may well be decided—and where nearly two-thirds of voters don’t have college degrees. Eyal...

On this episode of American Prestige , we're joined by Rhys Machold, senior lecturer in international relations at the University of Glasgow, to talk about how India tries to achieve homeland security through its relationship with Israel. They talk about the watershed 2008 Mumbai attacks (aka 26/11), the origins of India's relationship with Israel, the latter's security tech industry,...

On this episode of The Time of Monsters , Kate Wagner on the polarizing politics of Megalopolis . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On this episode of See How They Run , D.D. Guttenplan is joined by Jane Kleeb, Anthony Flaccavento, and Sarah Taber to discuss how the party can win in small-town America. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On this week's world news roundup from American Prestige : In Palestine-Israel, the one year anniversary of October 7 (1:45), damning ProPublica  and  Drop Site  reports on US complicity in aid worker deaths (5:10), a new IDF siege in northern Gaza (10:55), and Biden and Netanyahu discuss a retaliation for Iran (13:47); Netanyahu threatens to turn Lebanon into Gaza (17:27) while the IDF invade...

Paris Marx is joined by Spencer Ackerman to discuss the past year of Israel's actions in Palestine and the innovations in war technology being used to carry out what the ICJ has deemed a "plausible" genocide in Gaza. Spencer Ackerman is a Pulitzer-prize winning author of  Reign of Terror . He’s a contributor at  Zeteo  and publishes the Forever Wars newsletter. He’s also writing a new...

The polls have had disastrous failures for decades, but people continue to focus on them; Rick Perlstein has a better idea: ‘don’t follow polls—organize.’ Also: Democrat Marie Gleusenkamp Perez won a House seat in a Trump district, pointing the way for others. Marc Cooper analyzes her current reelection campaign in southwestern Washington State, starting from the fact that she’s a working class wo...

Translating Marx’s Capital might be daunting to some, but Paul North, professor of Germanic languages and literature at Yale, and Paul Reitter, professor of Germanic languages and literature at Ohio State University, felt up to the task. On this episode of American Prestige, Danny and Derek talk to them about their new translation of Capital , what goes into capturing the nuances of the original G...

On this episode of The Time of Monsters , Jeet Heer is joined by Matt Duss, a seasoned foreign policy analyst at the Center for International Policy, to discuss how the Biden administration keeps adding fuel to the fire. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On this episode of See How They Run, D.D. Guttenplan is joined by Chris Lehmann and Jeet Heer to discuss the Walz-Vance showdown. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On this episode of American Prestige , Daniel Bessner interviews Derek Davison on whether he sees any way out of the status quo in Western/North Atlantic politics. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Paris Marx is joined by Karl Bode to discuss how Mark Zuckerberg's makeover and the PR campaign that’s accompanied it shouldn’t distract from the ongoing harms of his company. Karl Bode is a freelance tech journalist and consumer rights reporter. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

John Nichols has been driving to places in middle America where Trump has gotten big majorities in the past: Iowa and Nebraska, central and Western Illinois, and southwestern Wisconsin, asking Democrats there about politics in their towns right now. Also: Kamala’s campaign is challenging the Republican conception of “freedom” as freedom from government regulation, advancing instead a positive conc...

On this episode of American Prestige , hosts Danny Bessner and Derek Davison welcome Drew McKevitt, the John D. Winters Endowed Professor of History at Louisiana Tech University, to talk bout his new book  Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America . Pick up a copy of Drew's book  here . Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://r...

On this week’s world news roundup from  American Prestige : Derek Davison and Danny Bessner bring you the latest in world news: Israel's latest escalations in Lebanon (1:13), the potential Israeli invasion (4:23), and Israel’s rejection of the US-France ceasefire push (5:57); Israel’s potential besieging of the north of the Gaza strip (8:22), the Biden administration’s forfeiting of a ceasefir...

On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us , Paris Marx is joined by T amara Kneese to discuss the difficult question of what happens to our digital presence after we die and why some tech billionaires are so desperate to make themselves into chatbots. Tamara Kneese is a researcher, organizer, and author of  Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond . Advertising Inquiri...

Trump has cancelled his plans to visit Springfield, Ohio, but his lie about Haitian immigrants there eating cats and dogs continues to riccochet around the American political world. Amy Wilentz comments. Plus: The presidential election is the main political battle in America today, but Trump’s followers have also been fighting, for years, to take over towns across the country. Sasha Abramsky repor...

On this episode of American Prestige , Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said emeritus professor of modern Arab studies at Columbia University, is back on the program joining Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison for a discussion of where things stand regarding Palestine, the diaspora, and the Palestinian national movement. We talk about the abysmal state of US politics around the issue, Western and Israeli m...

On this episode of  The Time of Monsters , Trita Parsi on the dangers of a lame duck president with spiraling crisis. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On this week's American Prestige world news roundup: bombings via consumer electronics, likely carried out by Israel, rock Lebanon (0:55); in Palestine-Israel, the US appears to be giving up on a ceasefire (8:08), medical conditions in Gaza sink to 19th century standards (10:21), and a Houthi ballistic missile strikes within Israel (11:48); MBS of Saudi Arabia chills normalization talks with I...

On this episode of See How They Run, D.D. Guttenplan is joined by Bill Gallegos and Jack Herrera to discuss Latino voters—what kind of power they have, the complex ways they are using that power, and what Democrats need to do to stop Donald Trump's aggressive attempts to win their support. Gallegos is a longtime Chicano activist, political organizer, and a member of the  Nation  editorial boar...