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Subscribe now for the full episode and no ads. Danny and Derek speak with ⁠Séamus Malekafzali⁠ about Israel’s strike on Iran, Iran’s response and attack on Israel, U.S. and geostrategy, and more. Lear...

· 12 min 38 sec

Subscribe now for an ad-free experience and more content. "Top Secret" subscribers get a complimentary one-year digital subscription to The Nation! Danny and Derek are everyday people who still believ...

· 39 min 13 sec

Subscribe now for the full episode and access to all breaking news specials. Spencer Ackerman of ⁠Forever Wars⁠ is back on the podcast to talk about the LA protests and his piece on them for Zeteo, ⁠"...

· 8 min 31 sec

For an ad-free experience and much more content, subscribe now. Subscribers at the "Top Secret" tier get a one-year digital subscription to The Nation! In this week’s episode, Danny speaks with journa...

· 59 min 57 sec

Subscribe now for the full episode and much more content. "Top Secret" subscribers get a free one-year digital subscription to The Nation! Danny and Derek welcome back to the program AP Mexico desk Al...

· 10 min 57 sec

Subscribe now for an ad-free experience and much more content. The "Top Secret" tier gets you the show plus a one-year digital subscription to The Nation! We’re sorry to say that we’re professionals,...

· 47 min 38 sec

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 author Eva Payne to talk about h...

· 58 min 57 sec

Subscribe now for the full episode. At the "Top Secret" tier, you get a 1-year digital subscription to The Nation! Danny and Derek are pleased to welcome to the podcast Mike Duncan, history podcaster...

· 10 min 34 sec

Subscribe now for an ad-free experience! In this week’s news roundup: US-Iran negotiations might be making progress (1:02); in Israel-Palestine, a new aid program implemented gets people killed (6:30)...

· 56 min 48 sec

Enjoy the full version of this special we published last week! Subscribe now for an ad-free experience and much more content! Danny and Derek invite ⁠Zachary Karabell⁠, historian and founder of ⁠the P...

· 54 min 36 sec

Subscribe now for an ad-free experience and much more content! Writer and researcher Joshua Craze returns to the program to talk about the situation in South Sudan. They cover the collapsed 2018 “peac...

· 55 min 59 sec

Subscribe now for the full episode and much more content! Danny and Derek welcome to the program political scientist Francis Fukuyama to talk about his recent article for the Journal of Democracy, “De...

· 11 min 25 sec

Subscribe now for an ad-free experience and much more content! This week in the news roundup: the Ukraine peace talks collapse (3:30) as Trump stuns European allies with his sudden pivot back to posit...

· 51 min 3 sec

Danny and Derek welcome Emily Herring, a writer based in Paris, to the program. They discuss her new book, Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People. The conversat...

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Subscribe now for the full episode! Danny and Derek invite ⁠Zachary Karabell⁠, historian and founder of ⁠the Progress Network⁠, as well as host of the podcast ⁠What Could Go Right?⁠, to talk about the...

· 10 min 34 sec

Derek welcomes back Jake Werner, director of the East Asia Program at the Quincy Institute, to talk about the latest New Cold War developments. They discuss the Chinese government’s view of Donald Tru...

· 9 min 8 sec

Alex Jordan rejoins the show to see if he can impersonate Danny as well as he impersonated Derek a couple of weeks ago. He and Derek discuss the India-Pakistan ceasefire (01:23); Donald Trump’s big Pe...

· 56 min 4 sec

The bi-monthly collaboration between AP and Nonzero Newsletter continues! Our dear paid subscribers also get access to the additional "Overtime" conversation and a discounted membership to Nonzero, so...

· 32 min 37 sec

Kevin Schultz, Chair of the Department of History at the University of Illinois-Chicago, returns to the program to continue the discussion of his new book⁠ ⁠Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Includin...

· 57 min 4 sec

Danny and Derek invite Vincent Bevins, author of The Jakarta Method and If We Burn, back to the podcast to talk about the early days of the Trump Administration; how the rest of the world views Trump;...

· 9 min 38 sec