Living in the USA Podcast
1) After impeachment: the 2020 election--Stan Greenberg; plus Jeet Heer on Hunter Biden and Eric Foner
Could the Republican defense of Trump in the impeachment proceedings open the door to a watershed victory for Democrats across the board? Even before Nancy Pelosi finally agreed that it was time to b...Show More
2) Trump's Grip on the GOP is Slipping: Harold Meyerson; Epstein's Friends: Katha Pollitt
Last week, the Indiana state legislature voted down Trump's redistricting demands that would've created more Republican seats in the House; now, four Republicans have joined the Democrats in forcing a...Show More
3) Dems win all over: Harold Meyerson; Origins of the Culture War: Adam Hochschild
In this week's special elections, a Democrat got elected mayor of Miami for the first time in almost 30 years — by a 19-point margin; and, even Trump country in Georgia is not safe from Democratic win...Show More
4) Affordability politics: Harold Meyerson; Bob Dylan's beginnings: Sean Wilentz
Trump on Wednesday declared that Democrats who say we are in an affordability crisis are "pulling a con job" – he said prices are "falling across the country, just about everything is down." But the ...Show More
5) From Marjorie Taylor Greene to Mamdani: Harold Meyerson; Alice Waters on School Lunch; Sonia Nazario on 'Enrique's Journey'
Last Friday Marjorie Taylor Greene announced she was quitting after Trump excommunicated her from MAGA, while the same day Trump welcomed Zohran Mamdani to the White House with open arms and high prai...Show More
6) Trump's big defeat: Harold Meyerson and John Nichols, 'The Wounded Generation': David Nasaw
On Wednesday night, Trump signed the bill requiring release of the Epstein Files; something he devoted all of his political power to preventing. What does this mean for Trump, for MAGA, and for the r...Show More
7) From the shutdown to the Epstein files: Harold Meyerson; plus Bhaskar Sunkara on Mamdani, and John Fabian Witt on the 1920s
Last week ended with the Democrats triumphant after huge wins with voters across the country; then at the start of this week the Republicans were triumphant when eight Senate Democrats caved on the sh...Show More
8) The Blue Wave: Harold Meyerson; The Springsteen Movie: Greil Marcus; William RAndolph Hearst: David Nasaw
The blue wave – or "blue tsunami" – this week restored the Democrats' winning coalition: people of color, young people and women. Harold Meyerson on how Tuesday shows us that while "candidate Trump is...Show More
9) Voters and Redistricting: Harold Meyerson; Confederate Monuments: Christopher Knight; Mansplaining: Rebecca Solnit
Voters can take a stand against Trump’s candidates in next Tuesday’s elections in Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California, and New York City—and move toward redistricting that favors Democrats....Show More
10) Trump's bad week: Harold Meyerson; After No Kings: Rebecca Solnit; Reforming the LAPD: Danny Goldberg
From the biggest single day of protest in American history – 7 million people demonstrating against Trump – to his worst major poll since he took office in January – it hasn't been a good week for Tru...Show More