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"Don’t open the door to nobody!” Life in Pinochet's Chile and Trump's America.
Stacy Torres' Chilean father advised her to be extremely suspicious about anyone who wanted information from her. She now knows why he seemed so…
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Jeremy Goldkorn
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Maria Repnikova
50:08
How should we live in Erdoğan's Turkey and Trump's America?
The author Kaya Genç is the most compelling chronicler of Istanbul and Turkey of our times. We talked about his country, and the U.S.A. under Trump.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
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Kaya Genç
51:34
Rhyming News: Trump and Musk's "white genocide" scam
South African investigative journalist Richard Poplak explains the unedifying spectacle of Trump ambushing South African president Cyril Ramaphosa on…
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Jeremy Goldkorn
18:23
The fall of Saigon and the fall of D.C.
Vietnamese-American author Andrew Lam left Saigon on April 28, 1975. We talk about his childhood, his family's flight to the U.S., and how he sees…
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Jeremy Goldkorn
47:40
Don’t shoot your neighbors, invite them to dinner
Filip Noubel has been training journalists and lawyers in authoritarian countries for decades. We asked him how we should handle Trump and Musk's…
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Jeremy Goldkorn
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Maria Repnikova
57:25
North Korea, a model for Donald Trump?
Paul French is a bestselling author of histories of East Asia. We chatted about what in America in 2025 reminds him of North Korea.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
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Paul French
44:20

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March 2025

Falsified democracy in Hungary and America
Is Donald Trump following the Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán's lead? A conversation with Miklós Haraszti.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
33:17
Pol Pot's Cambodia, Musk and Trump's America
From Year Zero to Project 2025: A conversation with author and journalist Elizabeth Becker
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Jeremy Goldkorn
45:28
Trump—the Hugo Chávez of the U.S.A?
The U.S. has more in common with Venezuela than many care to admit — a conversation with Parsifal D’Sola
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Jeremy Goldkorn
49:22
Turn it off!
Advice from a 1980s South African countercultural icon on switching off the screen when you've had enough of Elon Musk and Donald Trump's crimes and…
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Jeremy Goldkorn

February 2025

How to loot a country: Lessons for the U.S. from South Africa
Listen now (64 mins) | State capture in South Africa and the United States with investigative journalist Richard Poplak.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
1:03:59
Elon Musk’s daddy on Elon Musk’s daddy issues
Errol Musk is the father of the richest man in the world, and he has plenty to say about his son.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
Annotated transcript of interview with Errol Musk by MacG
A transcript, with explanatory notes, of an interview with Elon Musk’s father, Errol Musk by MacG of Podcast and Chill.
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Jeremy Goldkorn
How to commit a self-coup, in the U.S. and in China, with Geremie Barmé
What recent Chinese history can teach us about the Musk-Trump power grab
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Jeremy Goldkorn
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Geremie Barme
50:10

January 2025

November 2024

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