Nation Podcasts

The Nation currently has two types of podcasts:

RadioNation with Laura Flanders, the weekly broadcast edition of The Nation magazine and TheNation.com. RadioNation cuts through the news and spin of the week for engaging conversations about politics, media, news and culture. Hosted by journalist Laura Flanders, RadioNation talks directly with the grassroots activists, newsmakers and artists who are making change.

Nation Conversations, a series of public policy forums and conversations with experts and elected officials from the Democratic Convention last Summer and in the aftermath of the financial crisis. These are exclusive audio of Nation-sponsored events.

How Listen and Subscribe

There are three ways to listen to The Nation's podcasts:

1. Choose a program below and use the player to listen to the full podcast here at TheNation.com. The most current podcasts are listed first.

2. Get the RSS feed here.

3. Search for RadioNation Podcasts in itunes. Sign up there and the program will be automatically delivered to your iphone, MP3 player or itunes program weekly.

Please email us at radionation@thenation.com with questions, comments, or story ideas.

Radio Nation

  • RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 12/15/08

    This week: Liberal living coast to coast. A look at the forthcoming "Nation Guide to the Nation," with Katrina vanden Heuvel. Plus: Patty Hearst, and Obama's choice for Secretary of Education.

  • RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 12/08/08

    This week: Can the people who broke the banking system fix it? We ask the Nation's national affairs correspondent William Greider. Plus: can we save Motor City while at the same time greening motors?

  • RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 12/1/08

    This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA.

  • RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 11/24/08

    This week: A preview of our Fall Books issue. Plus, Obamacons? Jeremy Scahill on Barack Obama's questionable foreign policy team.

  • RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 11/17/08

    This week: Nick Turse on a scandal that killed 11,000. Plus: Bob Dreyfuss, Patricia Williams and Frances Fox Piven on the nascent Obama policy agenda.

  • RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 11/10/08

    This week, what it all meant. Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel on Barack Obama's victory and the coming battle for progressive change we can believe in.

  • RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 11/03/08

    With two days to go it's prediction time. Nation correspondents Laura Flanders, Andrew Gumbel, John Nichols, Ari Melber, Leslie Savan and Chris Hayes preview Election 2008.

  • RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 10/27/08

    This week: Defending ACORN. Peter Dreier and John Atlas explain the controversy. Plus: Patrick Cockburn on the US Media and the "surge," and Katrina vanden Heuvel talks about taking down a red-baiting Minnesota Congresswoman.

  • RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 10/20/08

    This week: An emergency forum on the financial crisis, with Naomi Klein, William Greider, Frances Fox Piven, Doug Henwood and Arun Gupta.

  • RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 10/13/08

    This week: Green jobs and the green party. Van Jones talks with Laura about his new book proposing a "green collar solution" to the economic crisis. Plus: Vice Presidential nominee Rosa Clemente makes her case for voting Green.

  • RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 10/6/08

    Can young voters stand up to suppression and swing Election 2008? Plus: Robert Fisk on the Middle East, and McCain's Russia scandal.

  • RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 9/29/08

    This week John Nichols and Michelle Goldberg report back from Alaska. Plus: two views on the bailout, the peace movement meets Ahmandinejad, and Howard Zinn on a new New Deal.

  • RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 9/22/08

    This week: Nomi Prins and Nicholas von Hoffman on the financial panic. Plus: David Bacon on immigration raids, and a discussion about national security and the 2008 election.

  • RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 9/15/08

    This week, William Greider on the economic meltdown and Daphne A. Brooks shares her tainted love for pop phenomenon Amy Winehouse.

  • RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 9/8/08

    This Week: The highs and lows of both conventions, with Katha Pollitt, Patricia Williams and Victor Navasky. Plus: Jesse Jackson's first public comments since July, and Chris Hedges & Elizabeth Holtzman debate the role of the progressive left in the weeks to come.

  • RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 9/1/08

    This week: How the democrats can best pursue a true progressive economic platform and a fair and just immigration policy? The Nation's Bob Moser, John Nichols and Roberto Lovato debate on these two critical issues.

  • RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 8/25/08

    This week: The Nation's reporter in Georgia talks about being assaulted by Ossetian paramilitaries. Plus: Dave Zirin the Olympics, Barbara Crossette considers the future for Pakistan and John Nichols and historian Adele Oltman preview the DNC.

  • RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 8/18/08

    This week: Christian Parenti on the Chinese middle class and the impact of the Olympics. Plus: Esther Kaplan and Eric Foner on the Democratic Party's unexpected struggle for the blue collar vote.

  • RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 8/11/08

    This week some lessons to a young journalist: Betsy Reed, Amy Alexander, Chris Hayes and Michael Tomasky debate the legacy of the media's 2008 election coverage.

  • RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 8/4/08

    This week: Bob Moser on his new book "Blue Dixie" and the Democrats prospects in the South. Plus: Vincent Bugliosi on impeachment and a look back at the 1968 Democratic Convention.

Nation Conversations

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Podcast

RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 12/15/08
This week: Liberal living coast to coast. A look at the forthcoming "Nation Guide to the Nation," with Katrina vanden Heuvel. Plus: Patty Hearst, and Obama's choice for Secretary of Education. (13mb mp3)

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