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Can Democrats Hold the Senate? Plus: Ken Burns’s The U.S. and the Holocaust

On this week's episode of the Start Making Sense podcast, John Nichols comments on the future of the Senate, and David Nasaw reviews a new documentary.

Jon Wiener and Start Making Sense

September 29, 2022

Can Republicans win control of the Senate? Trump’s candidates are the GOP’s biggest problem, starting in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin. Nation national affairs correspondent John Nichols has our analysis.

Also on this week’s episode of Start Making Sense, a discussion about Ken Burns’ dnew documentary on PBS, The U.S. and the Holocaust. Historian David Nasaw comes on the show to discuss why the film may be the most politically engaged and relevant work of Burns’s career.

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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.


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