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  • Jesse Jackson’s political legacy in the Trump era

    Jesse Jackson’s political legacy in the Trump era
    Feb 20 2026
    On Tuesday, we learned that the US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson had died at the age of 84. Tributes flooded in from political figures across the aisle for the Baptist minister who twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination. This week, the Guardian’s Jenna Amatulli speaks to George Chidi about how Jackson transformed the Democratic party and empowered minority communities at the ballot box, and what Jackson might have thought about the party today as it takes on Donald Trump
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    27 min
  • Trump dismantles the arts and tries to rewrite history

    Trump dismantles the arts and tries to rewrite history
    Feb 13 2026
    When Donald Trump returned to the White House last year, he vowed to kill off ‘woke’ in America. From the Kennedy Center to the Smithsonian museums and the Stonewall national monument, the Trump administration has imposed its values on American culture and history. Jonathan Freedland and the Guardian’s Washington bureau chief, David Smith, discuss the consequences for millions of Americans of Trump reimagining history and culture in his image
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    28 min
  • Epstein files: why is Trump defending the Clintons?

    Epstein files: why is Trump defending the Clintons?
    Feb 6 2026
    After months of negotiations, threats and refusals, Bill and Hillary Clinton have finally agreed to testify in front of Congress as part of a Republican-led investigation into the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Jonathan Freedland speaks to the Politico Magazine columnist and former federal prosecutor Ankush Khardori about why Donald Trump thinks it is a ‘shame’ the Clintons have been forced to testify
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    28 min
  • Is Trump’s ICE dream over?

    Is Trump’s ICE dream over?
    Jan 30 2026
    After weeks of federal insurgency, Minnesota fought back, and it seems Donald Trump has lost faith in the people running his ICE operation in the state. So where does this leave Trump’s ‘ICE patriots’? How do Republicans unite over immigration policies that kill Americans? And where does it leave the far-right agitators in Trump’s cabinet? Jonathan Freedland speaks to George Conway, a founding member of the Lincoln Project, who is running for Congress, about what happens next
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    28 min
  • ICE shootings, tariffs and Greenland: why we’re experiencing ‘Trump exhaustion syndrome’

    ICE shootings, tariffs and Greenland: why we’re experiencing ‘Trump exhaustion syndrome’
    Jan 22 2026
    At the beginning of Donald Trump’s trip to Davos, the US president’s plans for Greenland were vague, and a worry to European leaders. By the end of the day, military force was off the table and threats of tariffs dropped. This is just one example of what it has been like to follow Trump 2.0 in the last year. This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to Ashley Parker of the Atlantic about why she thinks Americans are suffering from a new politically induced condition and why the midterms in November might be the perfect remedy
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    30 min
  • Is Trump regretting his battle with the Fed?

    Is Trump regretting his battle with the Fed?
    Jan 16 2026
    Last week, Department of Justice opened a criminal investigation into the chair of the Federal Reserve – and longtime foe of Donald Trump – Jerome Powell. In an extraordinary move, world central bank governors and bank bosses in America pushed back against the Trump administration. This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to the economist Heather Boushey about why a fight with Wall Street might be one the president regrets
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    23 min
  • Watch out Greenland: Trump is pro-imperialism now

    Watch out Greenland: Trump is pro-imperialism now
    Jan 8 2026
    If it’s not threats of military action against Colombia and Cuba, or talk of taking Greenland from Denmark, it’s seizing oil tankers in European and Caribbean waters. All of it has world leaders scrambling to figure out how to handle Donald Trump’s revived form of US imperialism. Jonathan Freedland speaks to the Pulitzer-winning author Anne Applebaum about what to expect from a world changing by the hour at the hands of the US president
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    28 min
  • Trump captures Maduro and vows to ‘run’ Venezuela

    Trump captures Maduro and vows to ‘run’ Venezuela
    Jan 3 2026
    Early on Saturday morning, Donald Trump announced that US forces had captured the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores. Hours later, they were indicted on drug and weapons offences in New York. Later on Saturday, he suggested that the US was “going to run” the country for the time being Jonathan Freedland speaks to the Guardian’s Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, about whether or not Trump is likely to end his military campaign in the region – or if this is just the beginning
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    20 min