A Granddaughter of Genocide Survivors Dreams of Never Again A Granddaughter of Genocide Survivors Dreams of Never Again
A walk though Gaza with Raphael Lemkin, the father of the UN convention on genocide.
Feb 22, 2024 / Feature / Dana Mashoian Walrath
To Seek Peace in Ukraine, Remember the End of the Cold War To Seek Peace in Ukraine, Remember the End of the Cold War
US-Russia relations once seemed so promising after the collapse of the USSR. An honest look at how they soured can help us understand today’s conflicts.
Feb 22, 2024 / Anatol Lieven
“Renters Are the Sleeping Giants of LA Politics”—Plus the Hidden History of AIDS “Renters Are the Sleeping Giants of LA Politics”—Plus the Hidden History of AIDS
On this episode of Start Making Sense, Peter Dreier reports on the fight for control of LA, and Kai Wright and Lizzy Ratner talk about “the plague in the shadows.”
Feb 21, 2024 / Podcast / Jon Wiener
Can We Afford to Sit Out the Fight Against Fascism? Can We Afford to Sit Out the Fight Against Fascism?
Choosing the lesser evil is never inspiring. Still, it’s a choice all of us will have to face.
Feb 20, 2024 / D.D. Guttenplan
What Happened to the Democratic Majority? What Happened to the Democratic Majority?
Today the march of class dealignment feels like an inexorable fact of American political life. But is it?
Feb 19, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Matthew Karp
From McCarthyism to “Citizens United” From McCarthyism to “Citizens United”
On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Douglas Bell discusses Chandler Davis and the contest over free speech.
The Party of Lincoln Is Really the Party of Calhoun The Party of Lincoln Is Really the Party of Calhoun
Nikki Haley and Greg Abbott echo the theorist of secession.
Feb 2, 2024 / Jeet Heer
The First Time the Nazis Tried to Take Power The First Time the Nazis Tried to Take Power
The year that broke Germany.
Jan 29, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Richard J. Evans
When Her Neighbors Began Dying, the World Looked Away When Her Neighbors Began Dying, the World Looked Away
A new podcast takes us back to the early days of the HIV/AIDS crisis, when a mystery virus began spreading among New York’s Black and brown communities.
Jan 25, 2024 / Lizzy Ratner
New Hampshire Left And Right, Plus Frantz Fanon Today New Hampshire Left And Right, Plus Frantz Fanon Today
On this episode of Start Making Sense, John Nichols analyzes the first primary of 2024, and Adam Shatz talks about his new book, The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Fra...
Jan 24, 2024 / Podcast