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  • 59 minutes 48 seconds
    The Forgotten Story of How Conservatives Shaped the Internet w/ Becca Lewis | Tech Won't Save Us

    On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Paris Marx is joined by Becca Lewis to discuss the right-wing project to shape the internet in the 1990s and how we’re still living with the legacies of those actions today. Becca Lewis is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University.



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    21 November 2024, 10:00 am
  • 47 minutes 37 seconds
    Trump Voters for Abortion; and Learning from John Lewis | Start Making Sense

    A lot of people who voted for abortion rights referenda this year also voted for Trump. What were they thinking? How do they understand politics? Amy Littlefield spent election day in Amarillo, Texas, trying to find out.

    Also: John Lewis, who died in 2020, challenged injustice from the sit-ins of 1960 to the Age of Trump. Historian David Greenberg talks about what we can learn from his example. Greenberg’s new book is “John Lewis: A Life.”



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    20 November 2024, 9:00 am
  • 1 hour 11 minutes
    The First Barbary War and America on the Global Stage | American Prestige

    On this episode of American Prestige, Abby Mullen, assistant professor at the US Naval Academy, joins the program to talk about her book To Fix a National Character: The United States in the First Barbary War, 1800–1805. We explore the conflict, American geopolitics in their infancy, the Barbary States and piracy committed on their behalf at the time, how US naval expeditions in an era without a global network of bases functioned, the myth of the war in "The Marines' Hymn", and more.



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    19 November 2024, 10:00 am
  • 40 minutes 26 seconds
    UN Petrol State Climate Summit, Israel Ready to Annex Palestinian Territories, Japanese PM Remains in Power | American Prestige

    On this episode of American Prestige, your weekly news roundup. This week: struggles at the UN COP29 climate change conference (1:48), not the least of which is the incoming climate denier president of the US (5:45); in Israel-Palestine, the US doesn't follow through on its 30-day humanitarian aid deadline (7:57), Trump appointments signal imminent formal annexation of Palestinian territories (12:24), and Qatar withdraws from ceasefire talks (16:48); in Lebanon, Israel is working on a ceasefire as a "gift" for Trump (18:33); Xi and Biden to meet in China (21:35); the Japanese government survives a confirmation vote (23: 45); a new report on horrifying death toll figures in the Sudan war (25:48); in Russia-Ukraine, Russia pushers to retake Kursk (28:01) while Europe and Ukraine show new flexibility to exchange land for a peace deal (30:25); Germany prepares for a snap election in February in the wake of the government coalition collapsing (32:38); in Haiti, the transitional council fires the PM (34:44) while the US bans flights there (36:15); and Trump announces a number of new appointments for his second term (37:35).



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    15 November 2024, 9:00 am
  • 1 hour 6 minutes
    Making Sense of a Pro-Tech Trump Presidency w/ Brian Merchant | Tech Won't Save Us

    On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Paris Marx is joined by Brian Merchant to discuss the fallout from the US election, what it means for the tech industry, and more importantly, what it might mean for all of us. They also celebrate the show hitting 250 episodes!

    Brian Merchant is a longtime tech writer and author of Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech.



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    14 November 2024, 9:30 am
  • 43 minutes 21 seconds
    Rebecca Solnit on Hope in the Dark; plus the Trump-Musk Bromance | Start Making Sense

    Hope does not mean saying ‘this is not bad,’ Rebecca Solnit argues; it just means we will not give up—because we know that what we do matters, and we also know we’ve been surprised by good things we never expected.

    Also: The bromance between Elon Musk and Donald Trump cannot last – historian David Nasaw will explain why.



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    13 November 2024, 9:00 am
  • 50 minutes 15 seconds
    Studying the Far Right w/ Benji Rolsky | American Prestige

    Historian Benji Rolsky speaks with Danny about how others in their profession have thought about the far right, a subset of history which has expanded greatly in the last decade or so. They explore how the study of the far right might be "broken", anti-fundamentalism, Christian nationalism, the episodic nature of this field, and how Trump might have changed the historiography.

    Read Benji's piece "Why the Study of the Right is Broken": Part 1 and Part 2.

    Also check out his book The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left: Politics, Television, and Popular Culture in the 1970s and Beyond.



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    12 November 2024, 2:00 pm
  • 53 minutes 44 seconds
    Where Do We Go From Here? | See How They Run

    On this final episode of The Nation's election coverage podcast, See How They Run, D.D. Guttenplan is joined by John Nichols and Jeet Heer to discuss lessons learned from the 2024 Presidential races.



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    9 November 2024, 9:45 am
  • 54 minutes 2 seconds
    Ethnic Cleansing in Northern Gaza, German Government Collapse, Potential End to Ukraine War | American Prestige

    On this week's edition of the American Prestige world news roundup: in Palestine-Israel, Netanyahu fires defense minister Gallant (0:57), a leak scandal involving Netanyahu's office (6:36), an update on the humanitarian situation in northern Gaza (8:52), and the IDF appears to admit to committing ethnic cleansing (13:05); in Lebanon, the ceasefire push collapses (15:39), the IDF looks to create a "buffer zone" (17:46), and the Washington Post reports that Israeli evacuation warnings are misleading civilians (19:31); in Iran, Supreme Leader Khamenei threatens an attack on Israel (27:19); a new report details the mistreatment of migrant workers in Arabian Gulf states (30:35); the DPRK/North Korea conducts a new ICBM test (33:09); new RSF massacres in Sudan (36:41); in Russia-Ukraine, North Korean soldiers join combat operations (38:35), future concerns in the US about how the war will be conducted under Trump (41:38), and Russia floats the possibility of ending the war (44:36); the German government collapses (46:59); and in Bolivia, protesters supporting former president Evo Morales pause roadblocks amid clashes with the police (49:54).



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    8 November 2024, 4:00 pm
  • 1 hour 4 minutes
    The Corruption of Open Source w/ tante | Tech Won't Save Us

    On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, Paris Marx is joined by tante to discuss troubling developments in the open source world as WordPress goes to war with WP Engine and a new definition of open source AI doesn’t require being open about training data.

    tante is a sociotechnologist, writer, speaker, and Luddite working on tech and its social impact.



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    7 November 2024, 9:30 am
  • 23 minutes 54 seconds
    What Happened, and What Comes Next | Start Making Sense

    John Nichols looks at the elections results: how we got here, and what we do next. For starters: Trump got fewer votes than 4 years ago; 55% of voters in the CNN exit poll said he was "too extreme."



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    6 November 2024, 8:00 pm
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