Living in the USA

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

Episodes

Total: 415

High unemployment usually hurts working class organizing--"except when it doesn't," Harold Meyerson

Before Bernie and AOC, before Jesse Jackson and George McGovern, there was Henry Wallace, FDR’s vice

As parts of the US reopened their economies, the Trump Administration defunded the W.H.O., and Dr. M

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says the US has “one of the poorest systems of unemplo

Mike Davis argues that the coronavirus crisis is bringing about the fragmentation of Europe and the

Despite massive Republican efforts to prevent Democrats from voting in the Wisconsin primary, the De

Republicans forced Wisconsin to go ahead with an election on Tuesday, despite the coronavirus, after

Harold Meyerson reports that Republicans in the Senate voted against expanded unemployment benefits

David Dayen of The American Prospect analyzes all the ways the economic stimulus bill passed by the

John Nichols examines everything that went wrong with Tuesday’s elections, and talks about what we m

Melina Abdullah, a founder of Black Lives Matter in Los Angeles (she's also Professor of Pan-African

Trump's Oval Office TV address on the coronavirus was followed by the biggest losses in the stock ma

Harold Meyerson of The American Prospect says "electability" trumped (no pun intended) both the grou

Bernie has already won--the ideas primary: That’s what Bob Borosage argues. Bernie sets the agenda

Democrats can win in rural America: Jane Kleeb talks about strategies for fighting Trump in red stat

Bernie emerged from the New Hampshire primary as the Democratic frontrunner; Harold Meyerson says th

It's been a big week in American politics: Monday: the long awaited Iowa Democratic caucuses failed

As Trump's impeachment trial in the Senate continues, the Democrats continue to come out ahead polit

The Senate impeachment trial shows the "ism" the Republicns fear more than socialism or liberalism i

Harold Meyerson talks about how to get past the fight between Bernie and Elizabeth Warren-- and abou