John Nichols reports on Monday’s Republican caucuses in Iowa, and explains why Iowa is the state with the biggest shift from blue to red between Obama in 2008 and Trump in 2020.
Also: The new film "American Fiction," starring Jeffrey Wright, takes up the question, do Black writers have to "write Black"? The film is based on the novel "Erasure" by Percival Everett, which is considerably wilder and more uncompromising than the film. John Powers comments—he’s critic at Large on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross.
Plus: Fintan O’Toole’s personal history of Ireland since the fifties: how a country dominated by a corrupt Catholic church came to legalize gay marriage and abortion — by referendum. His much-honored ‘personal history’ of Ireland, titled “We Don’t Know Ourselves,” is out now in paperback. (Originally recorded in February, 2023.)
Senator Mazie Hirono on politics; Harold Meyerson: Eli Broad; Ella Taylor: “Exterminate the Brutes”
Biden's 100 Days: Harold Meyerson; Amy Wilentz: Hunter Biden; Ella Taylor: The Oscars
The George Floyd Verdicts: Jody Armour, Harold Meyerson; Earth Day Action: Mark Hertsgaard
Why the Union lost at Amazon: Harold Meyerson; Breyer Retire: Joan Walsh; 'Our Towns': Ella Taylor
Global Corporate Taxes: Harold Meyerson; LA’s Homeless: Ananya Roy; Ella Taylor on film
Biden's Infrastructure Plan: Harold Meyerson; Covid & Big Pharma: Gregg Gonsalves; TV: Ella Taylor
Biden’s next big thing: Harold Meyerson; Michelle’s memoir: Amy Wilentz; Q-Anon: Ella Taylor
Bernie & Biden's covid relief bill: Harold Meyerson; BLM & the LAPD: Carol Sobel; TV: Ella Taylor
Biden's Triumph: Harold Meyerson; Parents in Prison: Chesa Boudin; 'Night of the Kings': Ella Taylor
Biden & Unions: Harold Meyerson; Trumpers & Us: Katha Pollitt; Will Smith on Netflix: Eric Foner
Biden's Pandemic Relief Bill: Meyerson; Trump's future: Perlstein; TV this week: Taylor
Biden & the economy: Meyerson; UCLA & the LAPD: Hernandez & Speed; TV this week: Taylor
Impeachment: Harold Meyerson; the Progressive Agenda: Alan Minsky; 'The Maurianian': Ella Taylor
Pandemic Aid: Harold Meyerson; plus Barbara Ransby, Ella Taylor--& Remembering Rennie Davis
Biden's First Week: Harold Meyerson; The Insurrectionists: Gary Younge; "White Tiger": Ella Taylor
Returning to Normal: Harold Meyerson; Progressives and Biden: Alan Minsky; 'Assassins': Ella Taylor
Impeachment: Harold Meyerson; History: Eric Foner; “MLK/JFK”: Ella Taylor; Trump & Golf: Bob Lipsyte
The Trump mob at the capitol: Harold Meyerson; Gregg Gonsalves on Vaccines; Ella Taylor on TV
White Voters in 2020: Joan Walsh; Trump Kids in 2020: Amy Wilentz; Films in 2020: Ella Taylor
Politics in 2020: Harold Meyerson; Remembering John le Carré: John Powers
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