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The United States of Anxiety, Episode 7: Does Our Response to Stress Determine How Conservative We Are?

The United States of Anxiety, Episode 7: Does Our Response to Stress Determine How Conservative We Are? The United States of Anxiety, Episode 7: Does Our Response to Stress Determine How Conservative We Are?

How the burgeoning field of biopolitics can explain how you’ll vote.

Nov 3, 2016 / Podcast / Kai Wright

Peopel vote in Glens Falls, NY

Sign Our Pledge and Help Make Voting Easy and Inclusive Sign Our Pledge and Help Make Voting Easy and Inclusive

We’ve joined with voting and civil rights organizations across the country to respond to voter suppression by getting out the vote. 

Nov 1, 2016 / NationAction

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The United States of Anxiety, Episode 6: Drugs, Gang Violence, and Other Suburban Problems The United States of Anxiety, Episode 6: Drugs, Gang Violence, and Other Suburban Problems

What does all of that have to do with Trump’s appeal?

Oct 27, 2016 / Podcast / Kai Wright

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The Progressive Candidates Who Are Shaking Up This Election The Progressive Candidates Who Are Shaking Up This Election

John Nichols on the best candidates, plus Katrina vanden Heuvel on Tom Hayden, and the environmental journalist arrested for doing her job.

Oct 27, 2016 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Donald Trump Debate

Donald Trump’s ‘Horrifying’ Refusal to Accept the Election Results Donald Trump’s ‘Horrifying’ Refusal to Accept the Election Results

Joan Walsh on the debate, Kai Wright on right-wing media, and Greil Marcus on Bob Dylan.

Oct 20, 2016 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

The United States of Anxiety, Episode 5: White People, Masculinity, and Donald Trump’s Appeal

The United States of Anxiety, Episode 5: White People, Masculinity, and Donald Trump’s Appeal The United States of Anxiety, Episode 5: White People, Masculinity, and Donald Trump’s Appeal

How does a more racially equitable country with a declining manual-labor base feed into Trump’s campaign?

Oct 20, 2016 / Podcast / Kai Wright

Greil Marcus: Maybe Bob Dylan Isn’t a Poet, but He Is One of America’s Greatest Artists

Greil Marcus: Maybe Bob Dylan Isn’t a Poet, but He Is One of America’s Greatest Artists Greil Marcus: Maybe Bob Dylan Isn’t a Poet, but He Is One of America’s Greatest Artists

The music writer on how Dylan has changed his songs over the decades.

Oct 19, 2016 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Trump Sexist Debate

Donald Trump’s ‘Great Respect for Women’ Donald Trump’s ‘Great Respect for Women’

Katha Pollitt on Trump, D.D. Guttenplan on the campaigns in Ohio, and Gary Younge on children killed by guns.

Oct 13, 2016 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

The United States of Anxiety, Episode 4: The Media That Created Trump

The United States of Anxiety, Episode 4: The Media That Created Trump The United States of Anxiety, Episode 4: The Media That Created Trump

A look inside the right-wing media echo chamber that has fed Trump’s rise.

Oct 13, 2016 / Podcast / Kai Wright

Trump supporters

A Journey Into the Heart of Trump Country A Journey Into the Heart of Trump Country

Arlie Hochschild on her new book, plus Amy Wilentz on Trump’s high road and Robert Kenner and Eric Schlosser on Command and Control.

Oct 6, 2016 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

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