D.D. Guttenplan

Special Correspondent

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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.

Continental Drift Continental Drift

To an American, Europe is a cautionary tale.

Mar 16, 2005 / Books & the Arts / D.D. Guttenplan

Still Blair’s Party Still Blair’s Party

D.D. Guttenplan would like to thank Glenda Jackson MP for her assistance in gaining admission to the Labour Party Conference.

Oct 7, 2004 / D.D. Guttenplan

Britain’s Secret Sharers Britain’s Secret Sharers

Barely a month ago Prime Minister Tony Blair looked unstoppable. He'd survived, narrowly, a revolt within his own party over plans to allow universities to charge higher tuition ...

Mar 4, 2004 / Maria Margaronis and D.D. Guttenplan

Whitewashing Blair Whitewashing Blair

Meteorologists may disagree, but the political weather in Britain almost always comes from the United States.

Feb 5, 2004 / D.D. Guttenplan

Blair, Triumphant Blair, Triumphant

In the end, Tony Blair had nothing to fear but fear itself. As the Labour Party assembled for its annual conference here on Britain's Yiddish Riviera, the news looked grim.

Oct 9, 2003 / D.D. Guttenplan

UK Sideshow to Iraq UK Sideshow to Iraq

With its daily dominance of the headlines and a stellar cast from the worlds of government, secret intelligence and the media, the Hutton inquiry, playing here until the end of...

Sep 4, 2003 / D.D. Guttenplan

The Poodle That Barked The Poodle That Barked

George Bush is supposed to be the cowboy, Tony Blair the sidekick--or, in some versions, the presidential poodle.

Mar 20, 2003 / D.D. Guttenplan

Europe on the March Europe on the March

So this is what it feels like to be in the political mainstream.

Feb 20, 2003 / Maria Margaronis and D.D. Guttenplan

Letter From London Letter From London

Europeans opposed to war in Iraq are united by a deep distrust, even fear, of America.

Feb 6, 2003 / Feature / D.D. Guttenplan

Letter From London Letter From London

A specter is haunting the Jews of Europe: the specter of anti-Semitism. A synagogue is firebombed in Belgium; three more are burned in France, where Jean-Marie Le Pen's National F...

Jun 13, 2002 / D.D. Guttenplan

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