Living in the USA

Talking about politics, thinking about the Left. Hosted by Jon Wiener, co-author of "Set the Night

Episodes

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Pence faced an impossible task in the VP debate Wednesday night - defending Trump's inaction on the

Trump made no attempt in the first debate to win over undecideds- so what WAS his plan? And what is

Trump’s rush to fill the Supreme Court vacancy will help Biden in several ways, Harold Meyerson says

We are in “one of the most perilous and fraught moments for American democracy since the mid-ninetee

Rick Perlstein talks about the rise of Reagan, from what seemed like a career-ending defeat in the 1

After Kenosha: will Trump’s efforts to mobilize white backlash voters succeed, the way Nixon did in

The Republican National Convention is hard to watch, but Harold Meyerson is doing it for us. He rep

The Democratic National Convention featured several Republicans but almost no Bernie supporters: Har

The pandemic has slowed the speed of life under capitalism, Naomi Klein suggests in her recent conve

We’ve been told many times that Trump won the 2016 election because his populist appeal won the whit

The Feds vs the Protests in Portland: David Cole, National Legal Director of the ACLU, explains what

Trump’s “performative authoritarianism” as a campaign ploy designed for Fox News—that’s what Harold

Black Lives Matter-L.A. says “defund the LAPD.” And the sherriffs, and the school police. Kelly Lyt

The US accounts for 4 per cent of the world’s population, but 25 per cent of the people who have com

As new cases of Covid-19 continue to climb, the price of the drug Remsidivir, which helps reduce hos

The Trump campaign said that a million people had requested tickets but the Tulsa arena seated only

Today's number one topic is the people and the police. The Democrats have unveiled a new law to refo

"The best thing about the protests during the last few weeks is that they are NOT about Donald Trump

In almost all of our big cities we've seen massive protest against racist police violence after the

Did Joe Biden sexually assault Tara Reade in 1993? Katha Pollitt examines the evidence—and conclude