Beschikbare afleveringen

• When Is It Genocide?

  In December 2023, when South Africa accused Israel of genocide before the International Court of Justice, I thought it was wrong to do so. Israel had been attacked. Its defense was legitimate. The blood was on Hamas’s hands. But over...

  13 aug 2025 6164 sec.

• Mahmoud Khalil Tells His Story

  Mahmoud Khalil was a leader in Columbia University’s pro-Palestinian protests. In March, he was arrested by ICE agents and held for more than 100 days in a Louisiana detention facility. The Trump administration claims Khalil is...

  5 aug 2025 4948 sec.

• Behind Trump and Vance Is This Man’s Movement

  Vice President JD Vance gave a speech recently that deserved more attention than it got. Accepting an award at a right-wing think tank, he argued that there’s a fundamental brokenness in how we define who is an American. He explained...

  1 aug 2025 4731 sec.

• Best Of: Barbara Kingsolver on ‘Urban-Rural Antipathy’

  “It’s so insidious, people don’t realize it,” Barbara Kingsolver told me, describing the prejudice against “country people.” Kingsolver is one of those “country people,” as well as a literary legend in her own time, who set out to write...

  29 jul 2025 3677 sec.

• Is Decarbonization Dead?

  Biden passed the most ambitious climate legislation in American history. Trump just shredded it. What does that mean for the future of renewable energy in America? Where does the climate movement go from here? And is it too late for us...

  25 jul 2025 4621 sec.

• Why American Jews No Longer Understand One Another

  The consensus that held American Jewry together for generations is breaking down.  That consensus, roughly, was this: What is good for Israel is good for the Jews; anti-Zionism is a form of antisemitism; and there will someday soon be...

  23 jul 2025 1432 sec.

• Why Trump Can’t Shake Jeffrey Epstein

  MAGA has been infighting over the Jeffrey Epstein files. And that’s because the conspiracy theories around Epstein hit at the very core of MAGA’s whole worldview. Today’s episode looks closer at that worldview. Will Sommer has been...

  17 jul 2025 4176 sec.

• Why Does My Mind Keep Thinking That?

  I have had a meditation practice for about 15 years now. I started hoping it would calm me down, and it has. But it’s also made me more aware of the strangeness of my mind. Certain thoughts emerge seemingly out of nowhere. Many of them...

  11 jul 2025 4058 sec.

• How the Attention Economy Is Devouring Gen Z — and the Rest of Us

  Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani are both proof of how the ability to capture attention is power. And the attention economy isn’t reshaping just politics; it’s also reshaping the actual economy: the crypto market, A.I. venture capital,...

  8 jul 2025 3950 sec.

• The Disaster That Just Passed the Senate

  President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is a bad piece of legislation. It includes trillions of dollars in tax cuts that are very much tilted toward the rich, along with savage cuts to Medicaid, nutrition assistance and green...

  2 jul 2025 4282 sec.

• Mamdani, Trump and the End of the Old Politics

  Zohran Mamdani created a new anti-establishment playbook — in his use of social video, his focus on affordability and his position on Israel.    His assumed victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, trouncing the former...

  28 jun 2025 5055 sec.

• A New Middle East?

  For decades, Israel has wanted American support to bomb Iranian nuclear sites. But U.S. presidents, both Republican and Democrat, have resisted — until President Trump. So, what changed? And what are the likely consequences of that...

  25 jun 2025 2927 sec.