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Election Anxiety - Trump, the media and fear for American democracy

In this bonus episode, podcast host Rafael Behr turns to his old friend and New York Times columnist Ben Smith for analysis of the state of US politics a week before the biggest election in living memory, and for reassurance that, maybe, everything is gonna be alright. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Doom audit - a conversation with Jonathan Freedland about America, Israel,…

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  Moving the needle - Tom Gray of Gomez on swapping the recording studio for…

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  'Bonus Couch Chat'

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  'Beyond the Red Wall'

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  'Beyond parody' - a conversation with Rob Hutton about political journalis…

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  Trapped! Democracy's struggle to cope with modern life and what we can do …

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  Kindness - a conversation about political empathy, its power and its limit…

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  Contrarianism, social media and the future of culture wars - a conversatio…

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  Populism, democracy and the parliamentary battle over Brexit

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  Party People - a stroll around the grassroots of democracy

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  The French Connection - myth and misunderstanding across the Channel

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  'The world's a stage' - politics and storytelling with James Graham

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  Procrastination - the politics of putting off hard choices and why it's so…

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  'Putinophilia' - how America's radical right fell for a Kremlin strongman,…

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  'Bregret' - how is Britain coping with a Brexit that nobody loves?

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  Consciousness - a deep dive into the politics of brain science with Anil S…