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Living in the USA

Living in the USA

Talking about politics, thinking about the Left. Hosted by Jon Wiener, co-author of "Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties," contributing editor at The Nation, and broadcast live at KPFK 90.7FM in LA Thursdays at 4.

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58:01

From the shutdown to the Epstein files: Harold...

Living in the USA ·

2025/11/15

Last week ended with the Democrats triumphant after huge wins with voters across the country; then at the start of this week the Republicans were triumphant when eight Senate Democrats caved on the shutdown; but then, since Wednesday, Trump and the Republicans have been reeling since Democrats on the House oversight committee released devastating emails from the Epstein files – Harold Meyerson comments. Also: As mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani will be the first socialist in American history

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57:52

The Blue Wave: Harold Meyerson; The Springsteen...

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2025/11/08

The blue wave – or "blue tsunami" – this week restored the Democrats' winning coalition: people of color, young people and women. Harold Meyerson on how Tuesday shows us that while "candidate Trump is good for Republican turnout, President Trump is good for Democratic turnout".Also: Greil Marcus comments on the new film about Bruce Springsteen writing the songs for his 1982 album “Nebraska”, starring starring Jeremy Allen White of ‘The Bear.”The movie misses the context: working class decline in

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57:37

Voters and Redistricting: Harold Meyerson;...

Living in the USA ·

2025/10/31

Voters can take a stand against Trump’s candidates in next Tuesday’s elections in Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California, and New York City—and move toward redistricting that favors Democrats.Harold Meyerson of The American Prospect explains.Also: A new art exhibit in Los Angeles, called Monuments, displays 10 decommissioned Confederate monuments alongside the work of 19 artists responding or relating to them. It’s at MOCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and at the Brick, an arts nonprofit

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57:12

Trump's bad week: Harold Meyerson; After No Kings:...

Living in the USA ·

2025/10/24

From the biggest single day of protest in American history – 7 million people demonstrating against Trump – to his worst major poll since he took office in January – it hasn't been a good week for Trump – unless you count the tearing down of the east wing of the White House. Harold Meyerson comments.No Kings Day on Oct. 18 was the largest peaceful protest in American history.Rebecca Solnit comments, and refutes Republican statements about violence on the left.Her most recent book is “Orwell’s

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57:50

New Threats from The Supremes: Harold Meyerson; No...

Living in the USA ·

2025/10/17

The Supreme Court vs. The Voting Rights Act: The conservative majority of SCOTUS plans to eliminate 12 Democratic seats in the House, currently held by Black representatives.What are the implications for the 2026 midterms; and, what can the Democrats do to counter this latest gerrymandering nightmare? Harold Meyerson comments.Also: Saturday is the second No Kings Day – it should be the biggest single day of protest in American history, with more than 2,500 events planned. Leah Greenberg will explain

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46:07

Peace in Gaza: Harold Meyerson; plus the courts v....

Living in the USA ·

2025/10/10

Harold Meyerson comments on what remains to be done for genuine peace in Gaza; he also reviews the National Guard deployments to Portland and Chicago, the upcoming elections in California and elsewhere, and Trump's lastest attacks on universities.Also: as the Supreme Court begins its new term, Trump lost six different cases in district courts just last week, ranging from bans on deploying the National Guard to defending freedom of speech for noncitizens, to yet another court rejecting his executive

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46:03

The Shutdown and the Dems: Harold Meyerson; Trump and...

Living in the USA ·

2025/10/03

For Senate Democrats this is a big week for defiance. At last they are making popular demands as part of a deal to pass a budget and avoid a government shutdown. But Trump still holds a lot of cards.Harold Meyerson will comment.Also: None of us were prepared for the double whammy of last week’s White House press conference, where Trump made false claims not only about vaccines but also about Tylenol causing autism.We’ll have analysis from Gregg Gonsalves. He teaches at the Yale School of Public

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57:12

Bhaskar Sunkara on Trump & Jimmy Kimmel; Beverly Gage...

Living in the USA ·

2025/09/26

Trump is trying to stop speech that criticizes him and his administration. Last week began with JD Vance complaining about an article in The Nation that criticized the ideas of Charlie Kirk. Two days after that, ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel. And a few days after that, a protest movement forced ABC to put him back on the air. Bhaskar Sunkara comments on the fight over freedom of speech—he’s president of The Nation magazine.Also: Attacking Harvard is not unique to Trump. For decades, indeed for

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57:19

Trump v. Jimmy Kimmel: Harold Meyerson; Some Good...

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2025/09/19

With his attacks on late-night comedians, Trump is practicing the "cancel culture" he pledged to eliminate. Harold Meyerson comments.Also: Democrats have been winning big victories in special elections in diverse places across the country. John Nichols comments.Plus: Why fascists fear teachers - starting in L.A. Randi Weingarten, president of the AFT, explains - her new book is "Why Fascists Fear Teachers."

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57:24

Mamdani v. Schumer & Co.: Harold Meyerson; Courts v....

Living in the USA ·

2025/09/12

Who is the real mainstream of the Democratic party? Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani? Or Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries? Some recent polls might have the answer – Harold Meyerson comments.Also: Trump had four major court decisions against him in a single week last week: on tariffs, defunding Harvard, sending troops to LA, and deporting Venezuelans, different courts and appellate panels said he was violating the law.Erwin Chemerinsky comments – he’s Dean of the Law School at Berkeley.Plus: The

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58:09

Bill McKibben: 'Here Comes the Sun,' plus Eric Foner...

Living in the USA ·

2025/09/05

At a time when almost everything seems to be going wrong, Bill McKibben sees one thing that is suddenly going right – a really big thing: solar power, and wind, which now provide cheaper electricity than fossil fuels.Bill’s new book has the wonderful title “Here Comes the Sun” – he says solar is “A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for civilization.” Also: Historian Eric Foner provides some historical perspective on what seems like the unique threat Trump poses to our freedoms. His new

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58:48

The Class Struggle this Labor Day: Harold Meyerson;...

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2025/08/29

While Labor Unions are more popular than ever in America, a federal appeals court has ruled the NLRB itself is unconstitutional - which, if upheld, means it's up to the states to do what the NLRB did. Harold Meyerson comments.Also: What is Trump’s strategy in deploying the National Guard to LA, then DC, and now probably Chicago and New York? Does he want the military in the streets of blue cities for the midterms next year? They will still elect Democrats to the House. John Nichols comments.Plus:

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58:54

Trump v. DC: Harold Meyerson; Mamdani Interview;...

Living in the USA ·

2025/08/22

The National Guard, still in DC, bolstered by units from southern Red states, remains overwhelmingly unpopular, especially ICE's deportation efforts – Harold Meyerson reports.Also: In The Nation’s interview with Zohran Mamdani, he talks how he won the New York City Democratic primary for mayor, by addressing the city’s affordability crisis—and what the Democrats can learn from his victory. Katrina vanden Heuvel and John Nichols, who conducted the interview, introduce our excerpts and set the

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59:10

The National Guard in DC: Harold Meyerson; Trump v....

Living in the USA ·

2025/08/15

Report from Washington D.C. – where Trump has deployed the National Guard, ICE and FBI agents. He has also federalized the D.C. Police Department – thisrequires them to cooperate with ICE. These operations contrast with Trump's deployment of the National Guard in LA, which, has a "different political topology"– Harold Meyerson comments.Also: Donald Trump is demanding that UCLA pay a $1 billion fine for antisemitism on campus – in addition to the $584 million in cuts to medical and scientific

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58:53

Trump and Texas go after Dem. House seats: Harold...

Living in the USA ·

2025/08/08

Trump's scheme to maintain control in the House in the midterms? Eliminate Democratic seats in Texas by redistricting. Texas House Democrats have responded by fleeing the state to block the necessary quorum on the proposed district map – now, the FBI might be deployed to arrest those Democrats; but, for what crime? Harold Meyerson comments.Also: Robert Reich says the origin of our troubles with Trump and MAGA go back to the sixties; he says it started with the sixties movements – which created “a

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57:54

Dems Who Didn't Vote: Celinda Lake; Summer Reading:...

Living in the USA ·

2025/08/01

Six million Democrats who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 did not vote in 2024.What’s wrong with them?Pollster and strategist Celinda Lake explains who they are, and what it would take to get them back to the polls in the 2026 midterms – and in 2028.Also: a suggestion for summer reading: M: Son of the Century is a 750-page historical novel about the rise of Mussolini, by Antonio Scurati.John Powers, critic-at-large for NPR’s Fresh Air, says the book suggests some parallels between 1920s Italy and

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51:59

From Musk to Mamdani: Maurice Mitchell; How...

Living in the USA ·

2025/07/25

There’s trouble in Trump world: Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, is launching a Third Party to challenge Trump’s Republicans in the midterms and maybe in 2028. Maurice Mitchell, national director of the Working Families Party, explains why Musk will fail - and how Mamdani succeeded at winning the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City.Also: How does a movement build support when large parts of the country are opposed to its goals? How do you connect with people who disagree with you? For

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58:24

Stopping ICE in LA: Mark Rosenbaum; Epstein and...

Living in the USA ·

2025/07/18

A federal court in LA has ordered ICE to stop arresting people because they look Latino—because that's racial discrimination, and it's unconstitutional. Mark Rosenbaum of Public Counsel explains.Also, MAGA has accepted every one of Trump's lies, until the Jeffrey Epstein files—what makes this one different? Harold Meyerson explains.Plus: Trump’s executive order abolishing birthright citizenship—guaranteed by the 14th Amendment—has been blocked for a second time, this time because of a

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58:34

Trump vs. LA: Harold Meyerson; Musk & Technocracy:...

Living in the USA ·

2025/07/11

Trump’s ICE is attacking undocumented people in LA County because there are a lot of them -- maybe a million, out of a total of almost 5 million Latinos, and also because LA is one of the most Democratic counties in the country. And LA has a big and militant alliance of immigrants rights groups that are fighting Trump. Harold Meyerson will explain the deportation battle in Southern California at this point.Plus: Elon Musk’s obsession with rockets and robots sounds futuristic, but “few figures in

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59:16

The Dems After the Trump Budget Bill: Harold...

Living in the USA ·

2025/07/04

Now that Republicans have done immense damage to working class and poor people, the Democrats are mobilizing to win the House next year and possibly also the Senate - Harold Meyerson comments.Plus: The surprise victory of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani in New York City’s Democratic mayor primary over a well-funded establishment candidate shows that progressive politics, when pursued with discipline, vision and vigor, can win broad support.Bhaskar Sukara, President of The Nation and author of

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