D.D. Guttenplan

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D.D. Guttenplan is a special correspondent for The Nation and the former host of The Nation Podcast. He served as editor of the magazine from 2019 to 2025 and, prior to that, as an editor at large and London correspondent. His books include American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F. Stone, The Nation: A Biography, and The Next Republic: The Rise of a New Radical Majority.

World Cup Makes British-US Feud Over Oil a Whole New Ball Game World Cup Makes British-US Feud Over Oil a Whole New Ball Game

It’s not about the oil.  After all, if President Obama really thought that protecting the American shoreline was so important, he wouldn’t have opened up vast new ...

Jun 11, 2010 / D.D. Guttenplan

Shakeup in the UK

Shakeup in the UK Shakeup in the UK

Nick Clegg has taken the Liberal Democrats into government with the Tories, serving as deputy prime minister to David Cameron, a politician he has called "the con man of Bri...

May 13, 2010 / Feature / Maria Margaronis and D.D. Guttenplan

Britain: The Morning After

Britain: The Morning After Britain: The Morning After

Though it's still too soon to declare a winner, Britain's parliamentary election has some clear losers.

May 7, 2010 / D.D. Guttenplan

Letters Letters

Letter published in the May 3, 2010, issue of The Nation.

Apr 14, 2010 / Our Readers, D.D. Guttenplan, and Maria Margaronis

Who Speaks for Human Rights? Who Speaks for Human Rights?

A clash between a feminist activist and a former Guantánamo detainee divides the left.

Mar 18, 2010 / Feature / D.D. Guttenplan and Maria Margaronis

Blair: Shaken, Not Sorry Blair: Shaken, Not Sorry

The Chilcot Inquiry's lesson is the terrible cost to any country that defines the national interest as standing shoulder to shoulder with Washington.

Feb 4, 2010 / D.D. Guttenplan

Swing Time: On Morris Dickstein Swing Time: On Morris Dickstein

Morris Dickstein's elegant cultural history of the Great Depression.

Feb 4, 2010 / Books & the Arts / D.D. Guttenplan

Tony Blair Channels Piaf: Je Ne Regrette Rien Tony Blair Channels Piaf: Je Ne Regrette Rien

What did Tony Blair know, and when did he know it?

Jan 29, 2010 / D.D. Guttenplan

Memo to Hillary: Friends Don’t Let Friends ♥ Fascists Memo to Hillary: Friends Don’t Let Friends ♥ Fascists

How much should it matter to Americans that David Cameron, who will probably become the Prime Minister of Britain in May, recently took his party out of the main center-right group...

Oct 21, 2009 / D.D. Guttenplan

Brighton Beach Postcard Brighton Beach Postcard

Brighton. Short of sashaying over the waves, or flying Harry Potter's Nimbus 2000 (perhaps on loan from his good friend J.K. Rowling) into the Labour Party conference here yester...

Sep 30, 2009 / D.D. Guttenplan

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