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Subscribe now for an ad-free experience. Subscribers at the "Top Secret" tier get a one-year digital subscription to the Nation! Danny and Derek welcome to the program au...
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Subscribe now for an ad-free experience and much more content. Please listen to our Sino-Soviet primer episode and part one of this discussion for some background! Danny and Derek welcome back Jere...
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Subscribe now for the full episode and much more content! Danny and Derek are joined by Van Jackson, author of the Un-Diplomatic newsletter and podcast, Elizabeth Shackelford, Senior Policy Directo...
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Subscribe now for an ad-free experience and much more content.Derek makes his grand return to the AP newsroom! This week: Pope Francis dies (0:30); India sees the worst attack on civilians in Kashmir...
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Subscribe today for an ad-free experience and much more content!Derek once again speaks with Mohammad Alsaafin, journalist at AJ+, this time to talk about where things stand in Gaza and the West Bank....
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Subscribe now for the full episode!Danny and Derek welcome to the program Luke Savage, writer at Jacobin and host of the Michael and Us podcast, to talk about next week’s election in Canada. They delv...
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Subscribe now for an ad-free experience and much more content!One last news roundup without Derek, but Danny and Alex Jordan of the Quincy Institute are on the case!This week: the RSF announces plans...
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Subscribe now for an ad-free experience and much more content.Please listen to our Sino-Soviet primer episode for some background!Danny and Derek welcome back Jeremy Friedman, assistant professor in t...
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In anticipation for our two-part conversation on the Sino-Soviet split, we're reposting the episode we did laying the groundwork.Danny and Derek welcome Jeremy Friedman, Marvin Bower associate profess...
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Subscribe now for the full episode!Danny and Derek welcome back to the program Ben Fogel, head of publishing at the Alameda Institute and contributing editor at Jacobin, to chat about South Africa. Th...
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Subscribe now for the full episode and access to all breaking news specials.Danny sits down with Jacobin’s Branko Marcetic to talk about yesterday's ruling that Columbia organizer Mahmoud Khalil may b...
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We reluctantly approved Derek’s vacation time, but the news marches on, so Danny welcomes back to the show Alex Jordan of the Quincy Institute to help bring you headlines from around the world. They f...
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Danny and Derek welcome to the show Katrina vanden Heuvel, editorial director and publisher of The Nation, for a wide-ranging discussion on this moment in politics. They delve into the radicalization...
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Danny and Derek welcome to the show Andy Liu, professor of history at Villanova, for a discussion on Trump, Xi, their respective histories, and the current trade situation between the US and China. Th...
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Danny and Derek welcome to the show Vivek Chibber, editor of Catalyst and host of the Confronting Capitalism podcast, to talk about the widespread tariffs Trump announced this week, what it would mean...
· 5 min 51 sec
This week on the news roundup: the US and Iran are making moves risking escalation to a conflict (0:43); Israel rejects another Gaza ceasefire as it plans to carve up the Strip (7:28); the IDF resumes...
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Yoni Appelbaum, a deputy executive editor at The Atlantic, joins the program to talk about his book Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity. They discuss...
· 1 hr 8 min 26 sec
Aziz Rana, J. Donald Monan, S.J., University Professor of Law and Government at Boston College, is back on the program to talk about the 20th and 21st century constitutional order leading to the curre...
· 9 min 27 sec
This week in the world: the IDF seizes more territory in Gaza (1:01) and the Israeli government forms a “voluntary emigration bureau” (5:19), while protests against Hamas break out in the Strip (7:53)...
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Hugh Wilford, professor of history at California State University, Long Beach, is on the program for the first of two episodes on his book The CIA: An Imperial History. In this first part, they explor...
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Danny and Derek welcome back to the program Mark Ames, co-host of Radio War Nerd, to talk about where things stand in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. They discuss Trump and Putin's relationship, the stat...
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