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Start Making Sense is The Nation’s flagship weekly podcast, hosted by contributing editor Jon Wiener, featuring the magazine’s writers and editors as well as activists who shape the week in news. Subscribe at Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts, for new episodes each Wednesday.

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Will Trump’s Senate Candidates Lose in November? Will Trump’s Senate Candidates Lose in November?

John Nichols on Congress, plus Peter Richardson on Hunter S. Thompson.

Feb 17, 2022 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Biden and the Border

Biden and the Border Biden and the Border

Ahilan Arulanantham on immigration, plus Amy Wilentz on Haiti.

Feb 10, 2022 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

The Progressives’ Agenda: What’s Left?

The Progressives’ Agenda: What’s Left? The Progressives’ Agenda: What’s Left?

Ro Khanna on the midterms, plus Katha Pollitt on The Right to Sex.

Feb 3, 2022 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Our Coronavirus Criminals

Our Coronavirus Criminals Our Coronavirus Criminals

John Nichols on pandemic profiteers, plus Eric Foner on slaveholders in Congress. 

Jan 27, 2022 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks at a press conference

California Dems’ Big Moves on Health Care California Dems’ Big Moves on Health Care

Sasha Abramsky on politics, plus Ellen Schrecker on the ’60s.

Jan 20, 2022 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Beto O’Rourke

Beto Can Win Beto Can Win

Steve Phillips on Texas, plus Dave Lindorff on atom spies.

Jan 13, 2022 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Ohio Covid

Omicron: A Kinder, Gentler Covid? Omicron: A Kinder, Gentler Covid?

Mike Davis on the pandemic, plus John Nichols on January 6.

Jan 6, 2022 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Rennie Davis and Joan Didion

Remembering Rennie Davis, Remembering Joan Didion Remembering Rennie Davis, Remembering Joan Didion

Interviews with two we lost in 2021.

Dec 30, 2021 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Ivanka Trump

What Were Ivanka, Jared, Don Junior, and Eric Doing on January 6? What Were Ivanka, Jared, Don Junior, and Eric Doing on January 6?

Amy Wilentz on the insurrection, plus Tom Lutz on The Kindness of Strangers.

Dec 23, 2021 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Trump

Why Trump Won’t Be the Candidate in 2024 Why Trump Won’t Be the Candidate in 2024

David Cay Johnston on Trump, plus Eric Foner and Henry Louis Gates on W.E.B. Du Bois.

Dec 16, 2021 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

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