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Gaza Is a Laboratory for Future Warfare w/ Spencer Ackerman | Tech Won’t Save Us Oct 10, 2024

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Paris Marx is joined by Spencer Ackerman to discuss the past year of Israel's actions in Palestine and the innovations in war technology being used to carry out what the ICJ has deemed a "plausible" genocide in Gaza.

Spencer Ackerman is a Pulitzer-prize winning author of Reign of Terror. He’s a contributor at Zeteo and publishes the Forever Wars newsletter. He’s also writing a new series of Iron Man comics that come out very soon.

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The Polls--and Us; plus How A Dem Wins in a Red District | Start Making Sense Oct 09, 2024

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The polls have had disastrous failures for decades, but people continue to focus on them; Rick Perlstein has a better idea: ‘don’t follow polls—organize.’

Also: Democrat Marie Gleusenkamp Perez won a House seat in a Trump district, pointing the way for others. Marc Cooper analyzes her current reelection campaign in southwestern Washington State, starting from the fact that she’s a working class woman in a rural area.

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Marx’s Capital Re-Translated w/ Paul North and Paul Reitter | American Prestige Oct 08, 2024

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Translating Marx’s Capital might be daunting to some, but Paul North, professor of Germanic languages and literature at Yale, and Paul Reitter, professor of Germanic languages and literature at Ohio State University, felt up to the task. On this episode of American Prestige, Danny and Derek talk to them about their new translation of Capital, what goes into capturing the nuances of the original German text, why they chose the second edition in particular, the cosmopolitanism of the book, Marx’s anger, and what they each brought to the table in taking on this massive project.

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Expanding Wars With a Lame Duck President w/ Matt Duss | The Time of Monsters Oct 06, 2024

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On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Jeet Heer is joined by Matt Duss, a seasoned foreign policy analyst at the Center for International Policy, to discuss how the Biden administration keeps adding fuel to the fire.

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Did the Veep Debate Change Anything? | See How They Run Oct 05, 2024

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On this episode of See How They Run, D.D. Guttenplan is joined by Chris Lehmann and Jeet Heer to discuss the Walz-Vance showdown.

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Letting It All Burn w/ Derek Davison | American Prestige Oct 04, 2024

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On this episode of American Prestige, Daniel Bessner interviews Derek Davison on whether he sees any way out of the status quo in Western/North Atlantic politics.

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Don’t Fall for Mark Zuckerberg’s Rebrand w/ Karl Bode | Tech Won't Save Us Oct 03, 2024

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Paris Marx is joined by Karl Bode to discuss how Mark Zuckerberg's makeover and the PR campaign that’s accompanied it shouldn’t distract from the ongoing harms of his company.

Karl Bode is a freelance tech journalist and consumer rights reporter.

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Travels in Trumpland; plus the Fight Over ‘Freedom’ | Start Making Sense Oct 02, 2024

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John Nichols has been driving to places in middle America where Trump has gotten big majorities in the past: Iowa and Nebraska, central and Western Illinois, and southwestern Wisconsin, asking Democrats there about politics in their towns right now.

Also: Kamala’s campaign is challenging the Republican conception of “freedom” as freedom from government regulation, advancing instead a positive conception of the government’s ability to protect and expand freedom. Eric Foner explains the history, and significance, of this conflict.

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Welcome to Gun Country w/ Drew McKevitt | American Prestige Oct 01, 2024

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On this episode of American Prestige, hosts Danny Bessner and Derek Davison welcome Drew McKevitt, the John D. Winters Endowed Professor of History at Louisiana Tech University, to talk bout his new book Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America.

Pick up a copy of Drew's book here.

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Israel Escalates in Lebanon, More US $ and Weapons to Ukraine, Morales v Arce Supporters in Bolivia | American Prestige Sep 27, 2024

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On this week’s world news roundup from American Prestige: Derek Davison and Danny Bessner bring you the latest in world news:

Israel's latest escalations in Lebanon (1:13), the potential Israeli invasion (4:23), and Israel’s rejection of the US-France ceasefire push (5:57); Israel’s potential besieging of the north of the Gaza strip (8:22), the Biden administration’s forfeiting of a ceasefire (10:06), and ProPublica‘s report on an apparent humanitarian coverup by State Department leadership (13:24); heavy fighting in Al Fashir and Khartoum in Sudan (16:19); US forces in Chad (18:49); Sri Lanka’s election of a leftist president (20:37); Russian negotiations with the Houthis/Ansar Allah over missiles (22:42); Zelenskyy floating a “victory plan” for Ukraine (25:22); in Bolivia, more fighting between Arce and Morales supporters (30:41); a New Cold War update featuring China testing an ICBM (33:06), Biden’s last Quad meeting (34:59) and final United Nations General Assembly address (36:51).

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