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Start Making Sense is The Nation’s flagship weekly podcast, hosted by contributing editor Jon Wiener, featuring the magazine’s writers and editors as well as activists who shape the week in news. Subscribe at Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts, for new episodes each Wednesday.

Talban in Herat

Andrew Bacevich: The Taliban’s Triumph Andrew Bacevich: The Taliban’s Triumph

Plus John Powers on Dick Gregory.

Aug 19, 2021 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Trump rally

Trump: the Big Loser on the Infrastructure Bill Trump: the Big Loser on the Infrastructure Bill

Joan Walsh on the GOP, and Anne Sebba on Ethel Rosenberg.

Aug 12, 2021 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Capitol building

The Democrats Made Miserable Concessions on Their Infrastructure Bill The Democrats Made Miserable Concessions on Their Infrastructure Bill

John Nichols on “bipartisanship,” plus Art Spiegelman on Street Cop.

Aug 5, 2021 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Joe Biden speaks at Mack Truck Lehigh Valley Operations

The Delta Variant: What Joe Biden Needs to Do Now The Delta Variant: What Joe Biden Needs to Do Now

Gregg Gonsalves on the pandemic, plus John Powers on Summer of Soul.

Jul 29, 2021 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Bernie Sanders

Bernie’s Big Deal Bernie’s Big Deal

John Nichols on the budget, plus Francine Prose on Ethel Rosenberg.

Jul 22, 2021 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Biden and Putin

Rethinking Global Security: Katrina vanden Heuvel Rethinking Global Security: Katrina vanden Heuvel

World politics after the Biden-Putin Summit: Katrina vanden Heuvel argues that we need to rethink what real security means, and that it can’t mean a new cold war but joint ac…

Jul 15, 2021 / Podcast

Utopia

Why We Need the Utopian Imagination: Jeet Heer Why We Need the Utopian Imagination: Jeet Heer

Plus George Sanchez on LA’s Boyle Heights.

Jul 8, 2021 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Critical Race Theory protest

The Attack on ‘Critical Race Theory’ The Attack on ‘Critical Race Theory’

Kimberlé Crenshaw on the term she helped create, plus David Talbot and Margaret Talbot on the 1960s.

Jul 1, 2021 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Voting in San Francisco

It’s Time to Mobilize for Voting Rights It’s Time to Mobilize for Voting Rights

John Nichols on the franchise, plus David Kipen on a new Federal Writers Project.

Jun 24, 2021 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Filibuster protest

It’s Not Just Joe Manchin It’s Not Just Joe Manchin

Joan Walsh on ‘moderate’ Democrats, plus Kai Bird on Jimmy Carter.

Jun 17, 2021 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

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