The Marc Steiner Show lives at the intersection of politics and culture. Hosted by Peabody Award–winning journalist Marc Steiner — a lifelong organizer who walked his first picket line at 13 and spent 25 years as one of Baltimore’s most trusted radio voices on WYPR and WEAA — the show digs beneath the headlines to get to the root of the struggles shaping our world. Marc sits down with activists, artists, authors, and organizers for candid, searching conversations on racial and economic justice, war and peace, movement history, and the fight for democracy.
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Recent episodes
‘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.”
‘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.”
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