On this episode of Start Making Sense, Bhaskar Sunkara on working-class issues, and Sophia Lin Lakin on the ACLU’s preparations.
Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally on October 28, 2024, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.(Brandon Bell / Getty Images)
New research suggests what messages win working-class votes in Pennsylvania—strong economic populism, and not Trump’s threat to democracy. Bhaskar Sunkara, The Nation’s president, is on the podcast to discuss.
Also: The ACLU has been preparing for Election Day threats to voting and vote counting for years. Sophia Lin Lakin, director of the ACLU’s voting rights project, explains.
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Republicans are about to end Obamcare subsidies, driving up premiums for 20 million people during the year of the midterm elections. How have they managed to end up after all these years with no health insurance plan of their own? John Nichols comments.
Also: Bob Dylan’s earliest recordings have just been released—the first is from 1956 when he was 15 years old—on the 8-CD set ‘Through the Open Window: The Bootleg Series vol. 18” – which ends in 1963, with his historic performance at Carnegie Hall. Sean Wilentz explains – he wrote the 120 page book that accompanies the release.
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Jon WienerTwitterJon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation and co-author (with Mike Davis) of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.