Episodes

  • News - Biden Green-Lights US Weapons Against Russia, ICC Issues Warrants for Israeli Leadership, Leftist Victory in Sri Lanka

    News - Biden Green-Lights US Weapons Against Russia, ICC Issues Warrants for Israeli Leadership, Leftist Victory in Sri Lanka
    Nov 22 2024
    One more news episode before us Yankees have a holiday. Note: Although we will not have a news roundup next week, we'll have other new content. This week: in Israel-Palestine, the ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant (1:14) and the US vetoes another ceasefire resolution (6:29); US envoy Amos Hochstein is working on a ceasefire in Lebanon (9:08); in Sri Lanka, the leftist coalition wins a parliamentary majority (12:44); in Sudan, new RSF atrocities (14:30) and Russia vetoes a ceasefire (16:51); in Russia-Ukraine, Biden gives Ukraine permission to use long-range US weapons in Russia (18:47) while Reuters reports Putin is open to peace negotiations (23:37); the US recognizes opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez as president of Venezuela (25:13); new armed group violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti (27:27); and a New Cold War update featuring the final Biden-Xi meeting (29:28) and Biden's last G20 summit (31:24). Subscribe now for more content and features! Watch the new documentary from Al-Jazeera's Fault Lines program, "All That Remains", which follows a 13-year-old amputee from Gaza named Leyan as she seeks treatment in the United States.
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    36 mins
  • E185 - The First Barbary War and America on the Global Stage

    E185 - The First Barbary War and America on the Global Stage
    Nov 19 2024
    Abby Mullen, assistant professor at the US Naval Academy, joins the program to talk about her book To Fix a National Character: The United States in the First Barbary War, 1800–1805. The group explores the conflict, American geopolitics in its infancy, the Barbary States and piracy committed on their behalf at the time, how US naval expeditions in an era without a global network of bases functioned, the myth of the war in "The Marines' Hymn", and more.
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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Bonus - Foreign Policy, the Election, and Trump 2.0 w/ Stephen Wertheim (Preview)

    Bonus - Foreign Policy, the Election, and Trump 2.0 w/ Stephen Wertheim (Preview)
    Nov 17 2024
    Danny and Derek welcome back to the program Stephen Wertheim, senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, this time to talk about foreign policy and the election. They discuss the professionalization of the Democrats, the Harris campaign's decision to ally themselves with the likes of the Cheney family, national security FP, Trump as the "peace candidate", how defense spending might exceed $1 trillion going forward, the fate of Ukraine, Israel/Palestine/Lebanon, and more. Subscribe now for the full episode and more content! Grab a copy of Stephen's book Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy.
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    10 mins
  • AP x Nonzero - Will Trump Go Full-On Authoritarian? w/ Robert Wright

    AP x Nonzero - Will Trump Go Full-On Authoritarian? w/ Robert Wright
    Nov 15 2024
    It's another edition of the bi-monthly collaboration between AP and Nonzero Newsletter continues! For the full version of this episode, subscribe now at Supporting Cast, where you'll also get a discounted subscription for Nonzero Newsletter! Part one video 0:00 Another high-synergy, brilliant collaboration 1:15 Is Elon our first true oligarch? 9:57 Trump assembles his Justice League of hawks 16:29 Biden’s awful foreign policy team 21:25 Trump’s plan to purge the military 33:06 Will Trump go full-on authoritarian? 40:21 Left-wing capitalists—and a discount offer
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    44 mins
  • News - UN Petrol State Climate Summit, Israel Ready to Annex Palestinian Territories, Japanese PM Remains in Power

    News - UN Petrol State Climate Summit, Israel Ready to Annex Palestinian Territories, Japanese PM Remains in Power
    Nov 15 2024
    Your weekly news roundup from two happy warriors. This week: struggles at the UN COP29 climate change conference (1:48), not the least of which is the incoming climate denier president of the US (5:45); in Israel-Palestine, the US shockingly doesn't follow through on its 30-day humanitarian aid deadline (7:57), Trump appointments signal imminent formal annexation of Palestinian territories (12:24), and Qatar withdraws from ceasefire talks (16:48); in Lebanon, Israel is working on a ceasefire as a "gift" for Trump (18:33); Xi and Biden to meet in China (21:35); the Japanese government survives a confirmation vote (23: 45); a new report on horrifying death toll figures in the Sudan war (25:48); in Russia-Ukraine, Russia pushers to retake Kursk (28:01) while Europe and Ukraine show new flexibility to exchange land for a peace deal (30:25); Germany prepares for a snap election in February in the wake of the government coalition collapsing (32:38); in Haiti, the transitional council fires the PM (34:44) while the US bans flights there (36:15); and Trump announces a number of new appointments for his second term (37:35). Subscribe now at Supporting Cast for more content like our election-related specials: The 2024 US Presidential Election The U.S. Presidential Election, the Latino Vote, and the Deportation Regime w/ Alexander Aviña What Would Secretary of State Marco Rubio Look Like? w/ Steven Cohen
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    40 mins
  • Special - What Would Secretary of State Marco Rubio Look Like? w/ Steven Cohen (Preview)

    Special - What Would Secretary of State Marco Rubio Look Like? w/ Steven Cohen (Preview)
    Nov 13 2024
    Danny and Derek speak with Steven Cohen, PhD candidate in history, working on drug war political economy in the Americas, about what we might see if, as expected, Marco Rubio is named as secretary of state in the new Trump administration. Subscribe now for the full episode!
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    4 mins
  • E184 - Studying the Far Right w/ Benji Rolsky

    E184 - Studying the Far Right w/ Benji Rolsky
    Nov 12 2024
    Historian Benji Rolsky speaks with Danny about how others in their profession have thought about the far right, a subset of history which has expanded greatly in the last decade or so. They explore how the study of the far right might be "broken", anti-fundamentalism, Christian nationalism, the episodic nature of this field, and how Trump might have changed the historiography. Read Benji's piece "Why the Study of the Right is Broken": Part 1 and Part 2. Also check out his book The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left: Politics, Television, and Popular Culture in the 1970s and Beyond. Subscribe to the show for more episodes and content!
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    50 mins
  • Special - The 2024 US Presidential Election (Unlocked)

    Special - The 2024 US Presidential Election (Unlocked)
    Nov 10 2024
    This is a re-post of an special episode we did for subscribers on Wednesday, November 6. Subscribe now for immediate access to breaking news specials and much more content. Danny and Derek jump on the mic to break down Donald Trump's decisive election victory. Topics include the crisis of liberalism, the end of the road for the Democrats' status quo, what Trump and Vance mean for American foreign policy, the Boomers and members of the Silent Generation holding onto power, and the profound alienation of our time.
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    56 mins