Start Making Sense with Jon Wiener

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Political talk without the boring parts, featuring the writers, activists and artists who shape the week in news. Hosted by Jon Wiener and presented by The Nation Magazine.

Episodes

Democrats After the Voting Rights Act, plus Jews Against Zionism

Election Protection in the Midterms, plus Racists and Neo-Nazis in the 1940s and 50s

May Day Action—Plus a Confederate Monuments Takedown

Ro Khanna: AI for the People; plus Trump’s Downward Spiral

Rebecca Solnit on Long Term Strategy, plus Resisting ICE in Small Town America

Minnesota Changed Everything—Plus, History on the Road

Protest after No Kings, plus Abortion after Dobbs

No Kings Day: We Are Everywhere; plus Trump and Antisemitism

From the Straits of Hormuz to the Streets of Minneapolis, plus Mamdani and the Midterms

War in Iran, News in America

Trump’s Attacks on Voting, and on Iran

State of the Union: Not Good; plus Jackie Robinson v. Paul Robeson

Election Protection in the Midterms, plus Slaves Escaping by Sea

The Battle for Minneapolis, and the Fight for Texas

The fight to Stop ICE—in Congress, and at the Super Bowl

Freezing ICE Funding in the Senate, plus Standing Together in Israel and Palestine

Minneapolis: the Landscape of Resistance—Plus, the Destruction brought by DOGE

Trump, from Minneapolis to Caracas—Plus, How Capitalism Came to Communist China

Venezuela in American Politics, plus VA Housing for Homeless Vets

A Year of Resistance—In the Streets, in Elections, and in the Courts