Will the real Vivek Ramaswamy please stand up?
He’s an entrepreneur, a former libertarian, a lover of rap, and has been labelled ‘Trump 2.0’ by some. He’s also campaigning to be the Republican nomi...
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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.
The winners and losers of the first GOP debate
Republican presidential candidates took to the stage this week to try to convince voters they should be the one to take on Joe Biden in 2024. There wa...
Georgia takes on Trump and his allies
Until five months ago, no former US president had ever faced criminal charges. As of Monday evening, Donald Trump is facing 91 felony counts. The 97-p...
The power of junk food companies in Washington
When and why did so-called food deserts first emerge? How has the fast food industry become so powerful? And despite the growing rate of obesity in th...
Al Sharpton on 60 years since the civil rights march on Washington
On 26 August, Rev Al Sharpton, Martin Luther King III, and other civil rights activists will commemorate the 1963 march on Washington, which was organ...
Why do Republicans hate the Barbie movie?
Moviegoers flocked to cinemas last weekend for the highly anticipated release of two of the year’s biggest movies – Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer an...
How would a possible third indictment affect Trump’s 2024 run?
On Tuesday, Donald Trump said he had received a letter suggesting he was about to be indicted by special counsel Jack Smith in connection with the cri...
Will Hunter Biden damage his father’s bid for re-election?
Last month we learned that President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, will plead guilty to two counts of misdemeanour tax crimes and accept a deal with pros...
How do Democrats fight back against the US supreme court?
As the dust settled on last week’s judgments from the conservative-led bench, progressives voiced their anger at what they see as a lack of determinat...
Is the US supreme court bad for democracy? – podcast
As this year’s summer session draws to a close, Jonathan Freedland speaks to Michael Waldman, whose new book The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court ...