Start Making Sense

@thenation

Start Making Sense is The Nation’s podcast, hosted by Jon Wiener and coproduced by the Los Angeles Review of Books. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts for new episodes each Thursday.

 

Donald Trump

Start Making Sense: Frank Rich on How the GOP Is Learning to Live With Donald Trump Start Making Sense: Frank Rich on How the GOP Is Learning to Live With Donald Trump

Plus Bill McKibben on climate change, and Anna Deavere Smith on Baltimore.

Jan 28, 2016 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Bernie Sanders town hall in Iowa

Start Making Sense: Why We’ve Endorsed Bernie Sanders Start Making Sense: Why We’ve Endorsed Bernie Sanders

Plus Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with Dave Zirin, and The Big Short.

Jan 21, 2016 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Start Making Sense: Should Feminists Vote For Hillary Clinton?

Start Making Sense: Should Feminists Vote For Hillary Clinton? Start Making Sense: Should Feminists Vote For Hillary Clinton?

Katha Pollitt vs. Liza Featherstone on Hillary; plus Tavis Smiley on Martin Luther King’s last year.

Jan 14, 2016 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Start Making Sense: Rahm Emanuel Must Go

Start Making Sense: Rahm Emanuel Must Go Start Making Sense: Rahm Emanuel Must Go

Rick Perlstein on the Chicago mayor; Adam Gopnik and Amy Wilentz on Charlie Hebdo; and Rebecca Solnit on climate change in the Himalayas.

Jan 7, 2016 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Start Making Sense: The Best of the Left in 2015

Start Making Sense: The Best of the Left in 2015 Start Making Sense: The Best of the Left in 2015

The Nation’s Progressive Honor Roll: John Nichols names names. Plus Amy Wilentz on guns and Jay Parini on Gore Vidal.

Dec 23, 2015 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Start Making Sense: Barbara Ehrenreich Explains Why the White Working Class Is Dying—Literally

Start Making Sense: Barbara Ehrenreich Explains Why the White Working Class Is Dying—Literally Start Making Sense: Barbara Ehrenreich Explains Why the White Working Class Is Dying—Literally

Also Rebecca Solnit on the Paris climate agreement and John Powers on Canada’s Justin Trudeau.

Dec 17, 2015 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Start Making Sense: The GOP’s Gun Problem

Start Making Sense: The GOP’s Gun Problem Start Making Sense: The GOP’s Gun Problem

On this week’s podcast, Laila Lalami on ISIS and American Muslims, Joan Walsh on our distorted gun politics, and Amy Wilentz and Tom Lutz on Chernobyl.

Dec 10, 2015 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Start Making Sense: Naomi Klein on the Necessity of the Climate Protests in Paris

Start Making Sense: Naomi Klein on the Necessity of the Climate Protests in Paris Start Making Sense: Naomi Klein on the Necessity of the Climate Protests in Paris

On this week’s podcast, Naomi Klein on the Shock Doctrine and the Paris climate protests, Katha Pollitt on Europe’s refugee crisis, Eric Foner on Woodrow Wilson’s racism, and Joan ...

Dec 3, 2015 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Bernie Sanders

Start Making Sense: Bernie Sanders’s Socialism Start Making Sense: Bernie Sanders’s Socialism

On this week’s podcast, Eric Foner on how Bernie should talk about socialism, Dave Zirin on parents and football, Ari Berman on the battle for the vote, and Julianne Hing on Republ...

Nov 25, 2015 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

vigil in Place de la Republique

Start Making Sense: Where Did ISIS Come From—and What Can We Do About it Now? Start Making Sense: Where Did ISIS Come From—and What Can We Do About it Now?

The first episode of our podcast features Laila Lalami on Islamic extremism, Amy Wilentz on bad Bernie Sanders coverage, Charles Blow on growing up poor and black, and Terry Gross ...

Nov 19, 2015 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

x