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Spencer Ackerman’s New York State of Mind: Peace, Populism, and Zohran Mamdani | Ep. 250
Award-winning journalist, author, and lifelong New Yorker Spencer Ackerman joins the show to talk about the world from a New York point of view:
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Run For Your Life: Appearance on The Nostalgia Trap
The Nostalgia Trap was one of the first podcasts I regularly listened to, way back in 2016 or so, and now I’ve made my first appearance on it.
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New Left Review Gets It Half Right on Israel and China
Over at the New Left Review, Tariq Ali interviewed Jean-Luc Mélenchon (the de facto leader of the left in France).
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Political Consciousness and The State Department Purge
Can a downsized “lanyard class” learn to see US foreign policy differently?
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Trump is Sanctioning THE WORLD
Tariffs are not “reciprocal,” and they’re not meant to get “good deals” for “America.” They’re a bid to restructure global order; to make the world safe…
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Steve Bannon is Not a Leftist
I studied this guy during Trump 1.0, and have kept tabs on him ever since. Here’s how I think we should understand what he’s doing.
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The Art of Memoir and Stories of Conversion
The question of “Which side are you on?” haunted me intermittently throughout the long Global War on Terror.
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Project 2029: Six Questions for Democratic “Leaders”
The new Democratic (foreign) policy project is not the change anyone seeks in this world. This is how we know.
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Project 2029 Farce | The Zohran Mamdani Model | Fascist Public Policy | Peter Thiel, Anti-Christ? | Nobody Likes Hegemony | Ukraine-China…
New episode of the pod, guaranteed to make you laugh or cry (or both):
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Elbridge Colby Trades Defending Ukraine for War With China
The latest Ukraine news out of the Pentagon reminds everyone what a key MAGA voice was all about this entire time.
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Welcome to the Age of Disappearance
America's new era of secret police.
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June 2025

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