The Marc Steiner Show
The Marc Steiner Show meets you at the intersection of politics and culture. We produce dynamic conversations and visual productions with activists, actors, artists and authors to creatively get to the root of the social, political and cultural issues that we and our world face.
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‘You have to kill people’: The US, Israel, and Latin America’s far right are plotting to crush the left
“You have to do everything to not let go of power, and you have to make it seem like everything that will happen—the killings, the kidnappings—are all being done by the communists.”
Recent episodes
‘You can’t say ‘genocide’’: How US media sanitized Israel’s destruction of Gaza
“These journalists and these editorial boards—they need to be held accountable… I have fantasies of somebody holding my book at the Hague and calling out the media at the International Court of Justice.”
Ghada Karmi: How Gaza shattered the myth of coexistence
“For the first time in my life I’m contemplating the physical end of Palestine. That’s something I never, ever thought would happen.”
Oren Ziv: Israel is erasing the West Bank’s boundaries
“[Israeli] settlers have continued their attacks since the beginning of March. 13 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank during settler raids on Palestinian villages, some of them by civilians, some of them by settlers who serve in the army.”
Peter Beinart: What does it mean to be Jewish after the destruction of Gaza?
“American Jews and Jews in general are safer in countries where everybody is treated equally under the law,” Peter Beinart tells TRNN. “The principle of Jewish supremacy, and Christian supremacy, and Hindu supremacy, and Islamic supremacy—all of those things are wrong.”
Everyone knows Israel is sabotaging the Iran ceasefire—even the Trump administration
“It’s really a bit of a clown show… I think the US administration is quite committed to brokering this ceasefire with Iran, but Israel will not allow for it”
How Democrats helped clear Trump’s path back to power
The Democratic Party has chosen again and again to abandon working people and cling to corporate power, militarism, and a feckless, out-of-touch leadership class, Norman Solomon of RootsAction says. And we’re all paying the price.
‘There are scarcities of everything’: Trump isn’t helping Cuba, he’s strangling it
“It’s a very dire situation in Cuba right now… [Trump] has made every aspect of life in Cuba much more difficult,” Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK tells us.
Afghanistan War vet blasts Trump’s ‘pathetic and horrific’ war with Iran
“They called Afghanistan ‘the place where empires go to die,’ and Iran is very similar in that terrain. You put boots on the ground in Iran, and we’re in for a lot of pain.”
The US and Israel push Iran—and the Middle East—to the brink
Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the war hawks in their cabinets are pushing the Iranian regime to the point that surrender would be worse than war.
Columbia University is doing Trump’s anti-constitutional dirty work
“We now have a system where the federal government will, by proxy, take away all of our rights through economic coercion of our private institutions.”
SOS: The US is manufacturing a humanitarian crisis in Cuba
“I need to believe that Cuba is going to survive this. We are survivors, the whole Cuban population. But the situation is really critical…”
How the destruction of Gaza’s medical system became a weapon of war
Gaza’s healthcare collapse is killing children right now, doctors warn.
Trump’s government hasn’t won its case against Mahmoud Khalil—yet
We speak with one of Mahmoud Khalil’s lawyers about what the latest ruling in his case means, what comes next, and how the future of free speech in the US hangs in the balance.
‘We are still living in a selective ceasefire’: Gaza, 2026
“What’s happening now is that we are still being settled silently, we are still being killed slowly, away from the world’s cameras. That’s the real meaning of the ceasefire.”
Venezuela: A show of US force, a testament of US decline
Trump’s invasion of Venezuela and kidnapping of President Maduro is “a performance” of the kind of US imperial power “that [Trump] knows is waning” on the global stage, scholar and author Geo Maher tells us.
Standing Together: Inside Israel’s Jewish-Arab movement for equality and peace
“We need to make a choice: Are we going to allow our leadership to continue to push us [in] the direction of eternal war, genocide, annihilation, occupation, and apartheid… or are we going towards a historic solution of Israeli-Palestinian peace—of freedom and dignity and equality and safety to all?”
How to stand up to ICE: Lessons from Chicago and Charlotte
We speak with organizers on the ground in Charlotte, NC, and Chicago, IL, about what to do when ICE invades your town.
The Israeli and Palestinian combatants building a shared movement for peace
“I would like for people to bear in mind this one message: Please do not stand with Israel, and do not stand with Palestine. Please stand with all of us. Please stand with peace.”
‘This is the hill to die on for universities’: free speech can survive Trump, but not without a fight
A veteran of the free speech movement in the ‘60s, historian David Hollinger shares hard-won lessons about defending free speech and academic freedom from extinction in the age of Trump.
We’ve reached the ‘show me your papers’ stage of American authoritarianism
“It’s just really, really bleak, and I don’t think people outside of Chicago understand the scope of it,” CODEPINK co-director Danaka Katovich says. “What I saw is Border Patrol agents barreling out of their vans, rolling up on two men who were working… and asking for their papers.”
Workers replaced by AI have a dire warning for the world
“Basically, the most evil billionaires in Silicon Valley want to consume everything before it’s too late, and then kick the tires and leave us all to drown…”
A civil rights icon’s advice for combatting Trump, ICE, and fascism today
“When you see some of the tactics people are using now to try and monitor these ICE arrests… it’s similar to what we did when we were in SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee).”
We won!
The results are in! The Marc Steiner Show and Stories of Resistance have each won Gold in the 2025 Signal Awards.
How can anyone still deny Israel is committing genocide in Gaza?
“There is this very specific criteria for what makes something genocide, and it doesn’t have to look anything like the Holocaust.”
US veterans’ final message from the Global Sumud Flotilla before being intercepted by Israel
“We’ve heard that there’ll be a floating prison, basically, for us this time, since this is the biggest flotilla in history…”
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