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Start Making Sense is The Nation’s podcast, hosted by Jon Wiener and coproduced by the Los Angeles Review of Books. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts for new episodes each Thursday.

 

Ai Weiwei on Refugees: They Are Part of Us

Ai Weiwei on Refugees: They Are Part of Us Ai Weiwei on Refugees: They Are Part of Us

Plus: David Dayen on JPMorgan Chase and Amy Wilentz on Ivanka, Jared, and Don Jr.

Oct 12, 2017 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Say It Again: Donald Trump Did Not Win the Popular Vote

Say It Again: Donald Trump Did Not Win the Popular Vote Say It Again: Donald Trump Did Not Win the Popular Vote

E.J. Dionne on America after Trump, Ari Berman on gerrymandering, and Joan Walsh with Hillary.

Oct 5, 2017 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Trump with a bullhorn

Trump Is Inviting America Into the Torture Chamber Trump Is Inviting America Into the Torture Chamber

Sasha Abramsky on Trump and fear, plus Katha Pollitt and D.D. Guttenplan on Hillary’s memoir.

Sep 28, 2017 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Trump’s Campaign Chief Paul Manafort Faces Indictment 

Trump’s Campaign Chief Paul Manafort Faces Indictment  Trump’s Campaign Chief Paul Manafort Faces Indictment 

Bob Dreyfuss, plus Sarah Leonard on Hillary’s book and Todd Gitlin on Ken Burns’s Vietnam.

Sep 21, 2017 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Hurricane Politics and Climate Change in the Age of Trump

Hurricane Politics and Climate Change in the Age of Trump Hurricane Politics and Climate Change in the Age of Trump

Mark Hertsgaard and John Nichols on Harvey and Irma; plus Alfred McCoy on cyberwar with China.

Sep 14, 2017 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Trump in Virginia

Behind Trump’s Heartless Attack on the DREAMers Behind Trump’s Heartless Attack on the DREAMers

John Nichols, plus Elizabeth Holtzman on Robert Mueller and Joan Walsh on Mike Pence.

Sep 7, 2017 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Tropical Storm Harvey Flood Damage

Houston Developers’ Losing Battle With Climate Change Houston Developers’ Losing Battle With Climate Change

Roane Carey, plus Erwin Chemerinsky on Trump’s pardon of Joe Arpaio and Bob Dreyfuss on Seth Rich.  

Aug 31, 2017 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Donald Trump and Jared Kushner

Steve Bannon’s Exit: All Power to Jared Kushner? Steve Bannon’s Exit: All Power to Jared Kushner?

Amy Wilentz on the boy wonder, John Nichols on Trump after Bannon, and Joshua Holland on Russia and democracy.

Aug 24, 2017 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

White Surpemacists Charlottesville

White Nationalists in Charlottesville and the White House: Eric Foner White Nationalists in Charlottesville and the White House: Eric Foner

Plus Bob Dreyfuss on Paul Manafort, and Robert Lipsyte on Trump and golf.

Aug 17, 2017 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Trump Air Force One

Coming Undone: Frank Rich on How the Trump Presidency Ends Coming Undone: Frank Rich on How the Trump Presidency Ends

Plus Joshua Holland on Trump voters and David Cole on the resistance.

Aug 10, 2017 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

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