Living in the USA

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

Episodes

Total: 415

The 2018 Midterm Elections: What can we learn from what happened in the Midwest and the Rust Belt?

The terrible record of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General: Ahilan Arulanantham, ACLU SoCal Senior Co

With under five days until the November 6, Midterm elections, we have two political updates: John N

From the pipe bombs sent to prominent Democrats, to Trump's efforts to distract voters with stories

The most important voting rights issue on the ballot in 2018 is restoring the voting rights of 1.4 m

What the Democrats can do about newly-confirmed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh when they win

Amy Wilentz of The Nation talks about Kavanaugh, Trump, and women --the women in the hearings, in Ka

The facade has been ripped off: Christine Blasey Ford faced the Senate Judiciary Committee today, fo

Did Trump's Supreme Court nominee try to rape a 15-year-old girl when he was 17-years old, 36 years

Republican Senate candidate and current Florida Gov, Rick Scott challenged Trump today on Puerto Ric

In a dramatic showdown on the floor of the Senate, the third day of hearings for Supreme Court nomin

After 40 years as an investigative journalist, Judith Coburn became a private investigator. We talk

Trump's attorney Micheal Cohen has pled guilty to many crimes of bank fraud and tax fraud but there

Amy Wilentz comments on the mental and emotional status of the president, as analyzed by 27 psychiat

Left politics can win all over the country, not just in New York City and Chicago and LA – that’s wh

August 1968, 50 years ago: fighting the police outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago

Pulitzer prize-winning restaurant critic Jonathan Gold died July 21; Harold Meyerson talks about how

Harold Meyerson of The American Prospect analyzes Trump’s tumultuous post-Putin week, perhaps a turn

Laurent Dubois, author of "The Language of the Game: How to Understand Soccer," and Alan Minsky, KPF

The Supreme Court gave the green light to anti-abortion 'pregnancy crisis centers' in California, an