Nation Conversations
By The Nation
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Nation Conversations features exclusive audio of Nation forums, events, seminars and salons.
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Angela Bonavoglia: The Vatican Is Targeting America's Nuns With a 'Takeover Decree' | Why is the Vatican cracking down on the Leadership Conference of Women Religious? | 5/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Allison Kilkenny: Chicago Is in Lockdown for This Weekend's NATO Summit | Several cities in the United States, including Chicago, prepare for upcoming protests and major conventions with unprecedented levels of security. | 5/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brentin Mock: How the Right Intimidates Voters of Color Away From the Polls | You may have never heard of True the Vote, but the organization has major plans for upcoming elections across the country. | 5/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ari Berman: How Dangerous Is Romney's Foreign Policy Team? | Mitt Romney is easily influenced and highly malleable when it comes to foreign policy. | 5/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gabriel Thompson: How the USDA Is Endangering Workers' Health | The USDA proposes to increase the line speed at poultry plants, which could endanger employees who already work long hours doing repetitive hand motions. | 4/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jane McAlevey: Building a Real Blue-Green Alliance | Why labor unions and environmental activists need to revive a crucial alliance. | 4/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rick Perlstein: Republicans, Crazy; Democrats, Stupid | How did American politics degenerate into the two opposing worldviews battling for control today? | 4/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Aziz Huq: The Real Battle Over the Affordable Care Act | Why conservatives have abandoned their principles in their attack on Obama's healthcare act. | 4/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alisa Solomon: Grappling With Mike Daisey's 'Journalism' | How the artist's narrative carried everyone away. | 3/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gar Alperovitz: Can Cooperative Workplaces Save America's Economy? | Are cooperatives the answer to America's economic woes? | 3/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jeff Clements: How Can We Defeat 'Citizens United'? | How can we build an effective movement against corporate personhood? | 3/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Where's the Outrage Over the NYPD's Spying Operation? | For there to be any kind of change, outrage over the NYPD's spying operation will need to spread more broadly throughout the progressive community. | 3/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Maria Margaronis: Something New Is Happening in Greece | How are ordinary Greeks dealing with a country spiraling out of control? | 3/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Eyal Press: What Makes a Rebel? | What makes a rebel? | 2/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sarah Wildman: Pioneering Magazine '+972' Challenges the Status Quo | What makes +972 such a unique magazine with an extraordinary ability to shake up conventional ideas about Israel and Palestine? | 2/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jeremy Scahill: Militant Blowback in Yemen | What role and responsibility does the United States have for the situation in Yemen? | 2/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Sifton: Why Do Drones Disturb Us? | What makes drones so frightening to us now, when they have actually been around for decades? | 2/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Eyal Press: Refusing to Serve in Israel's Occupation | Eyal Press discusses his new book, Beautiful Souls, which tells of a young Israeli who struggles with the question of whether to serve in the occupied territories. | 2/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ari Berman: The GOP's Redistricting Campaign Is Turning the South Red | How a Republican strategy to control politics on a local level affects the entire nation—politically, socially and beyond. | 2/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Madeline Ostrander: How Nebraskans Defeated the Keystone XL Pipeline | The grassroots victory shows that concern for fundamental issues such as health and clean water transcends party politics. | 2/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Derek McGee: From Occupied Iraq to Occupy Wall Street | Iraq vet, former financial adviser and OWS protester Derek McGee reflects on the changes that have occurred in this country since September 11, 2001. | 1/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ben Adler: Gingrich, Romney, Santorum and the Fight for Florida | Will the state's Republicans respond more to Gingrich's social conservative act, or Romney's businessman persona? | 1/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jack Abramoff: 'Reform Bills Are Jokes' | The former "killer lobbyist" and convicted felon explains that although it will be difficult, the system he exploited must be changed. | 1/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jack Abramoff: I Never Liked Newt Gingrich | Abramoff made a lot of powerful friends during his days peddling influence in DC, but he never took a shine to Newt. | 1/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sharif Kouddous: Is Egypt's Revolution Over? | One year after their revolution, Egyptians are facing a much deeper struggle. | 1/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Victoria DeFrancesco Soto: Latino Voters Go Beyond Immigration | To reconnect with the Latino vote that helped elect him in 2008, Obama needs to take two important steps, says Dr. Soto. | 1/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Spencer Woodman: Can Walmart Be Unionized? | Faced with the retail giant's continued suppression and intimidation, Walmart workers have found untraditional ways to unionize. | 1/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Lizzy Ratner on Food Stamps' Surprising Success Story | Lizzy Ratner argues that the food stamp program is one of the few American safety net institutions that actually functions. | 12/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Frances Fox Piven: Occupy the Safety Net | The human crisis caused by extreme unequal distribution of wealth did not happen overnight. So why hasn't there been nation-wide populist movements like Occupy Wall Street until now? | 12/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Norm Stamper: The Police Are Not the Military | The militarization of our police forces has turned a vital public-safety institution against its own people. | 12/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Jordan Smith: Reproductive Health? Not in Rick Perry's Texas | As governor of Texas, Rick Perry has deliberately and systematically bankrupted state-provided healthcare for low income and uninsured women. | 12/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Mike Konczal: What Can We Do About Inequality in America? | With a prejudicial tax code and a decrease in financial regulations, it's a good time to be a CEO. | 11/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Graham Usher: Why Won't Pakistan Fight the Afghan Taliban? | American politicians try not to talk about it, but it's been apparent to the Pakistani security complex for some time: the Afghan Taliban cannot be militarily defeated. | 11/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Emily Douglas and Sarah Seltzer on Women at Occupy Wall Street | Occupy Wall Street may be a directly democratic and leaderless movement, but that doesn’t mean it lacks structure—or that it isn’t preoccupied by questions of representation. In this week’s installment of Nation Conversations, web editor Emily Douglas and reporter Sarah Seltzer discuss the role of women in Zuccotti Park, and the complex issues of minority participation that female activists have encountered. | 11/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Roane Carey and William Greider on the Housing Crisis's 'Death Spiral' | The only way out of our national mortgage crisis is through widespread debt forgiveness. | 10/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Roane Carey and Ari Berman on the Rise of the Austerity Class | Why do austerity measures remain so popular within the beltway while the overwhelming evidence in the rest of the country points to the fact that such measures increase unemployment and hinder economic growth? | 10/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Katrina vanden Heuvel and Jonathan Steele on Afghanistan's Future | Ten years into the US occupation of Afghanistan, how can we effectively and humanely end an unwinnable war? | 10/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Liliana Segura and Laurie Penny on Hacktivism and Social Change | From the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street, 2011 will be remembered as a year of youthful mass movements and popular revolts—none of which could have occurred without the surreptitious help of computer hacktivists. | 10/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Betsy Reed and Anna Lappé on the Global Food Movement | It's been forty years since food activism became a global phenomenon, and the social and environmental goals of the movement are more pressing than ever. | 9/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Roane Carey and John Nichols on Rick Perry's War on Democracy | Why is one of the leading Republican candidates for president trying to stop the direct election of senators? | 9/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Betsy Reed and Arun Kundnani on Surveillance of Muslim-Americans | The American government is currently employing counterterrorism strategies against Muslim communities here in the United States that were first developed by the military for use abroad. | 9/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Roane Carey and Graham Usher on Tunisia's Other Revolution | With promised reforms still not materializing, protests from Islamists, Leftists and others are demanding a redistribution of wealth in the economically stratified country. | 8/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Nada Alwadi on Bahrain's Government Crackdown | Nada Alwadi visits the offices of The Nation to discuss her experiences as a reporter in Bahrain. | 8/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Roane Carey and Stephen Glain on Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood | Foreign correspondent Stephen Glain discusses the internal conflict that exists within the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. | 8/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: George Zornick and Robert Pollin: Why Do Ratings Agencies Matter? | Why did Standard & Poor's take the seemingly radical step of downgrading the US government's credit rating, and how do ratings agencies wield such power in the first place? | 8/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Roane Carey and Paul Wachter on Squash in Egypt | Despite Hosni Mubarak's support for their sport, Egyptian squash players now show no sympathy for the fallen dictator. | 8/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Katrina vanden Heuvel and Dave Zirin on The Nation's Sports Issue | From Jackie Robinson and the first integrated sports teams to Pat Tillman and our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, sports is woven into the fabric of our nation. | 7/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Betsy Reed and Jeremy Scahill on Reporting From Somalia | Jeremy Scahill joins Betsy Reed on Nation Conversations to describe his experience as an independent journalist traveling to and reporting on the CIA's secret sites in Somalia. | 7/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Emily Douglas and Bryce Covert on the Childcare Dilemma | Domestic workers need rights—but can the families that employ them afford what they'll cost? | 7/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Betsy Reed and Christian Parenti on Global Warming's Violent Repercussions | Christian Parenti joins Betsy Reed to discuss how climate change is exacerbating violent political situations. | 6/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: P. Sainath on the Tarnished Truth Behind 'India Shining' | Indian journalist P. Sainath explains the disastrous consequences of his country's extreme income inequality. | 6/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Betsy Reed and Dan Coughlin on WikiLeaks Haiti | The explosive diplomatic cables prove what many Haitians already knew about US and UN meddling in the country. | 6/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Rose Ann DeMoro on Demanding a Decent Standard of Living For All Americans | Rose Ann DeMoro discusses the Mainstreet Contract for America, a new activist movement inspired by nurses but extending to everyone. | 6/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Betsy Reed and Dana Goldstein on the Future of Higher Education | Our colleges and universities have never been truly open to everyone. But against the backdrop of a worsening high school drop-out rate and rising student debt burdens for those who do make it to college, can American higher education be saved? | 6/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Mustafa Barghouti on the Burgeoning Palestinian Anti-Violence Movement | The activist and thinker explains how the unity agreement between Hamas and Fatah could prove to be a pivotal moment for Palestine. | 6/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Mark Sorkin and William Greider on Reimagining Capitalism | The political and economic system is broken. It's time we step back and rethink how we can make capitalism work for us. | 6/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Roane Carey and Ari Berman on Elizabeth Warren and the CFPB | Why does the bank lobby and the politicians in its pocket feel so threatened by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? | 6/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Barbara Dudley on Oregon's Efforts to Create a State Bank | Oregon attempts to follow in North Dakota's footsteps by pushing forward a bill to establish a publicly-owned bank. | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Anatol Lieven on Pakistan's Delicate Balance of Power | The Pakistani government is too weak to compel its elites to contribute to the system, leaving the country in a near-feudal state. | 5/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Grace Lee Boggs on the Moment for Revolution | Legendary activist Grace Lee Boggs says that a revolutionary transformation of our society is not only possible, but necessary. | 5/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Andy Worthington on the Guantánamo Files | The release of previously classified reports on Guantánamo Bay detainees has resuscitated stories of horror and suffering that have been largely forgotten in recent years. | 4/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Emily Douglas and Bryce Covert on What New Credit Card Regulation Means for Women | Bryce Covert explains how new credit card regulations designed to stop predatory practices could end up disproportionately hurting women. | 4/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Betsy Reed and Kathryn Joyce on the Evangelical Adoption Movement | In this Nation Conversation with executive editor Betsy Reed, Kathryn Joyce explains how the evangelical adoption movement is now even pushing to get rid of the bureaucracy and vital safeguards of international adoption—and how they have friends in high political places. | 4/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Jay Rosen: Dissecting the American Media | The Internet has revolutionized the media: not only has it put the powers of production in the hands of the audience, but it has also drastically increased participation in a previously exclusive profession. | 3/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Betsy Reed and Jeremy Scahill on Unrest in Yemen | Is the US supplying a dictator with arms and training to suppress the Yemeni people? | 3/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Juan Cole and Katrina vanden Heuvel: Do We Belong in Libya? | The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel speaks with Juan Cole about his open letter to the left on Libya. | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Jesse Jackson on the Energy of Egypt in Wisconsin | Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson explains how the protests in Cairo and Madison have broken our "cynical disbelief" and revealed that people have the power to change their situations. | 3/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Jesse Jackson: Without Collective Bargaining, Workers Face Private Begging | The massive resistance being seen in the streets of Wisconsin, Reverend Jackson says, is a result of workers understanding they “either have collective bargaining or private begging.” If they let collective bargaining go, workers will likely become “victims of arbitrariness.” That means they will not be able to negotiate layoffs and may wake up one morning to read in the newspaper that they have just been fired, like ousted school board member Martha Harris in Ohio did recently, Jackson says. | 2/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Jane McAlevey on Why Unions Are Not the Problem | Instead of giving in to the conservative campaign to demonize organized labor, progressives should push to secure higher benefits for all workers. | 2/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Janet Elise Johnson on Iceland's Feminist Successes | Johnson sits down with executive editor Betsy Reed to explain how the tiny Nordic country came to be the most feminist place on earth. | 2/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Carne Ross on Diplomacy and WikiLeaks | The former British diplomat recounts his own whistleblowing and the benefits and dangers of the WikiLeaks dipomatic cables dump. | 1/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Wendell Potter on the Health Insurance Industry's Lock on Congress | As Republicans gear up to challenge Obama's healthcare reform legislation, former insurance executive Potter explains how the move to repeal is a smokescreen for the health industry's true motives. | 1/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Jesse Jackson on Progressive Politics in the Obama Era | If you're disappointed with Obama, Rev. Jesse Jackson has a reminder for you: American presidents haven't done many great things without a mass movement pushing them every step of the way. | 12/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: National Drug Policy Director Gil Kerlikowske on the Possibility of Reform under Obama | After assuming the directorship of the Office of National Drug Control Policy in February 2009, Gil Kerlikowske announced that the US would no longer use the term "war on drugs" to describe the government's approach to controlled substances. In this conversation with The Nation's Sasha Abramsky in October of this year, Kerlikowske argues that the problem with characterizing his work as a "war" is that "war often has specified enemies...with an outcome, and a win or a loss, and all of those things do not apply very well to the complexity of the drug problem." | 12/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Ari Berman, Tim Egan and Eli Sanders on the Democrats' Future | For Berman, Obama's grassroots victory in 2008 built heavily on the fifty-state electoral strategy which Howard Dean pursued as DNC chairman. But in a political climate far different than the one that brought Obama to power, how can the Democrats harness this enthusiasm once again? | 11/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Calvin Trillin on Calvin Trillin | "Deadline Poet" Calvin Trillin reflects on the writing life and his favorite low-paying pinko rag. | 11/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Obama and the World | In a panel discussion moderated by Katrina vanden Heuvel entitled "Obama and the World: Is There a New National Security Policy?" Lt. General Robert Gard and Nation writers Jeremy Scahill, Stephen Cohen and John Nichols discuss how far Obama has diverted from his promise to end the culture of fear that led the US into the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. | 11/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Amitava Kumar and Hari Kunzru on Islamophobia | At the conclusion of a campaign season marred by Islamaphobic flash-points, how will politicians' increasing scapegoating of Muslim communities play out on the national and international political stage? | 11/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Judy Collins on a Life in Music and Politics | On this year's Nation Cruise, folk singer and life-long activist Judy Collins treated The Nation's readers, editors and writers to a humorous and engaging conversation with political correspondent John Nichols. Nichols introduces Collins as a “definitional” artist who “transformed what we thought of as folk music,” but also notes that Collins is as adept at speaking on such diverse topics as suicide and sexuality as she is at singing. | 11/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: The Political Moment | A panel moderated by Calvin Trillin with Katrina vanden Heuvel, Jim Hightower, Melissa Harris-Perry, Chris Hayes and John Nichols weigh in on the current political moment and how progressives can change it for the better. | 11/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Richard Kim and John Nichols on Elections 2010 | During this year's Nation Cruise, senior editor Richard Kim and Washington correspondent John Nichols explained how the Tea Party's influence and the Democrats' dreaded enthusiasm gap will play out in this election. | 10/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: The Future of Film Criticism | On October 7th, The Nation's film critic Stuart Klawans joined David Sterrit of the National Society of Film Critics and Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly for a panel discussion moderated by Cinema Journal’s Heather Hendershot on the future of film criticism and the new methods for disseminating thoughtful writing about film. Klawans, Sterrit, Schwarzbaum and Hendershot expressed optimism for the upcoming generation of movie makers and critics, saying that though the publishing industry's shift from print to the web has rendered the older business model of film criticism largely unsustainable, the avenues for exploring cinema's role in society will only expand. Held in CUNY Graduate Center’s Skylight Lounge, the panel also offered advice to young reviewers hoping to contribute to the general conversation surrounding film. Cinema Journal’s Heather Hendershot moderated the panel, which was held in CUNY Graduate Center’s Skylight Lounge. Read Stuart Klawans's most recent Nation article, "Traps," which takes a look at The Social Network, A Film Unfinished and Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today. | 10/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Ari Berman and Howard Dean on the Democratic Party | On October 5, exactly one month from the midterm elections, Howard Dean joined The Nation's Ari Berman onstage at 92YTribeca in New York City to examine the future of the Democratic party in the face of lagging enthusiasm and partisan attacks. Berman's debut book, Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics, published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, tells the inside story of Dean's visionary yet controversial fifty-state strategy, charts his unpredictable journey from an insurgent presidential candidate in 2004 to the chairman and conscience of the Democratic Party and shows how President Obama's campaign—particularly its groundbreaking embrace of grassroots organizing and activism—built upon Dean's blueprint. The Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel moderated the talk, which runs one hour and eight minutes. | 10/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Richard Trumka on Labor's Challenges | On September 9 AFL-CIO president Trumka dropped by The Nation to discuss the state of the labor movement today—the challenges unions face in this economic climate, their relationship to political parties and why it's so important that progressives not forget about the principle of collective bargaining. | 9/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Greenpeace's Kumi Naidoo on Pumping Energy into the Environmental Movement | If the environmental movement wants to reach a wider audience and have any success influencing politicians and the public, says Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International, it's going to have to expand its repertoire of protest tactics. | 9/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: New York Public Advocate Bill de Blasio | The challenges facing progressives of late are many, but so are the avenues through which they can be tackled. New York City Public Advocate Bill De Blasio stopped by The Nation's offices July 15 to explain some of the ways these challenges can be turned into opportunities for progressives. The left, de Blasio says, must refocus and re-energize attention around corporate money in politics and the Supreme Court's decision in the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case. "That decision will warp our democracy forever if we let it do so. It's such a horrible, beautifully written decision that it leaves us very few courses of action." he said. "We have to demand a recalibration of our approach, and the only way that happens is through the grassroots." Listen to De Blasio's discussion of the tools we have at our disposal in this insightful Nation Conversation. | 7/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Jeff Blum on the Battle for Healthcare | This past March, Obama signed the healthcare reform bill into law, putting an end to some of the most egregious abuses of the insurance and pharmaceutical industries. Though the legislation may be imperfect, the protections it affords go a long way toward ending the incredibly unequal access to healthcare that has plagued this nation for decades. Jeff Blum's USAction helped form the 1,000-organization Health Care for America Now coalition, which played a major role in the healthcare battle. On June 24, Blum stopped by The Nation's offices to argue that progressives need to embrace Obama's healthcare reform as a major victory for the social justice movement. "We actually established a new right in America," Blum says. "Healthcare is now a right. That's huge." | 6/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nation Conversations: Ret. Col. Ann Wright on Israel's Raid | Ann Wright, longtime activist and critic of the ongoing siege of Gaza, took part in the Freedom Flotilla that was attacked by Israeli Navy commandos on May 31. A retired US Army colonel and a former high-level diplomat, Wright has served as deputy chief of mission at the US Embassy in Afghanistan, which she helped to open after the US invasion of 2001, as well as in several other countries, including Sierra Leone, where after helping to evacuate several thousand people during that country's civil war she received the State Department's Award for Heroism in 1997. Wright's distinguished career came to a sudden end in 2003 when she publicly resigned from the State Department to protest the invasion of Iraq. Since then, she has campaigned against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and for human rights for Palestinians. After working with Code Pink to organize several humanitarian missions to Gaza to break the Israeli blockade last year, Wright joined the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, only to see the activists' humanitarian mission terminated by Israel's raid. On June 9 she visited The Nation and gave this account of what she and her fellow activists experienced. | 6/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 88 Episodes |
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