Politics Weekly America
Every Friday, Guardian columnist and former Washington correspondent, Jonathan Freedland, invites experts to help analyse the latest in American politics. From politicians to journalists covering the White House and beyond, Jonathan and his guests give listeners behind the scenes access to how the American political machine works.
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- https://www.theguardian.com/politics/series/politics-weekly-america
- Description
- Every Friday, Guardian columnist and former Washington correspondent, Jonathan Freedland, invites experts to help analyse the latest in American politics. From politicians to journalists covering the White House and beyond, Jonathan and his guests give listeners behind the scenes access to how the American political machine works.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-01-21 23:27
- last episode published
- 2025-01-20 23:48
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- 6.21 days
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- theguardian.com
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- The Guardian
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- Number of Episodes
- 173
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- News Politics
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-01-20 |
Executive orders, Gulf of America and flags on Mars: Trump’s first day in office The cold forced the speeches indoors but it didn’t stop Donald Trump from announcing a flurry of executive orders dismantling much of the work of his predecessor. Jonathan Freedland speaks to the US commentator Molly Jong-Fast about what a virtual decl... |
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| 2025-01-17 |
The Middle East, inflation and Trump’s return – what will Biden’s legacy be? After 15 months of war, a ceasefire deal in Gaza has been reached. In his farewell address to the nation, Joe Biden tried to convince the US public that it was just one of many successes he’d had in the White House. But is that how his time in office w... |
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| 2025-01-10 | This week we learned that Meta is dropping third-party fact-checking, the Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, spiked a cartoon that made fun of him and other tech leaders kneeling before a statue of Donald Trump, and just about all the big Silicon Valley compa... |
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| 2025-01-03 | Four years after the 6 January attack on the Capitol, Donald Trump has promised he will pardon hundreds of his supporters who were convicted over their roles in it. This comes after Joe Biden gave an unconditional pardon to his own son, Hunter, for fed... |
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| 2024-12-30 | Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, has died. He was 100 years old. Today, Jonathan Freedland talks to Jimmy Carter’s biographer, Jonathan Alter, about why history should look favourably on the peanut farmer turned politician |
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| 2024-12-27 |
UFC, boxing and golf: what is Donald Trump’s relationship with sport? The US president-elect’s ties with the Ultimate Fighting Championship and boxing, as well as World Wrestling Entertainment, might tell us about the kinds of sport he appreciates. But then there’s golf …As the US prepares to host the World Cup and the O... |
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| 2024-12-20 | As Donald Trump’s nominees woo Senate Republicans to secure their confirmation, Joan E Greve and Hugo Lowell look at who could be in charge of the major government departments and what they’ll have to do to keep the president happy for the next four ye... |
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| 2024-12-13 |
Revisited: Did the assassination of JFK kickstart the conspiracy theory movement? Jonathan Freedland speaks to Prof Kathryn Olmsted, author of Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11 about why the assassination of JFK spawned dozens of conspiracy theories that have persisted for decades? Because... |
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| 2024-12-06 |
Revisited: Henry Kissinger and the man who wanted to confront him Journalist and author Michael Goldfarb, talks to Jonathan Freedland about the legacy of the former secretary of state under Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger Because of industrial action taking place by members of the National Union of Journalists at the ... |
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| 2024-11-29 |
How the left is defending itself in the Democratic blame game Last week on this podcast, James Carville blamed identity politics and ‘woke’ theory for the Democrats losing the election. Waleed Shahid, a former senior adviser to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Uncommitted campaign, believes this argument is lazy.... |
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