Daniel Bessner

4 days ago | thenation.com | Daniel Bessner |Derek Davison

Be part of 160 years of confronting power  Every day, The Nation exposes the administration’s unchecked and reckless abuses of power through clear-eyed, uncompromising independent journalism—the kind of journalism that holds the powerful to account and helps build alternatives to the world we live in now. We have just the right people to confront this moment.

1 month ago | thenation.com | Daniel Bessner |Derek Davison

Daniel Bessner Daniel Bessner is an historian of US foreign relations, and cohost of American Prestige, a podcast on international affairs. Derek Davison Derek Davison is a writer and analyst specializing in international affairs and US foreign policy. He is the publisher of the Foreign Exchanges newsletter, cohost of the American Prestige podcast, and former editor of LobeLog.

2 months ago | thenation.com | Daniel Bessner |Derek Davison

Ad Policy Ukrainian rescuers work at the site of a residential building destroyed following a drone attack in Kharkiv, on April 4, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Sergey Bobok / AFP / Getty Images)On this episode of American Prestige, we welcome to the show Katrina vanden Heuvel, editorial director and publisher of The Nation, for a wide-ranging discussion on this moment in politics.

2 months ago | vientosur.info | Daniel Bessner

jacobin El segundo mandato autoritario de Donald Trump ha llevado a algunos críticos a calificarlo de fascista en la estela de Adolf Hitler. Sin embargo, la política reaccionaria de Trump es muy autóctona, y el camino para derrotarlo pasa por la reforma de las instituciones antidemocráticas de este país.

Mar 27, 2025 | jacobin.com | Daniel Bessner

Though in its early days, the second Trump administration has proved to be significantly more radical than the first. A president who, in his initial term, lacked the wherewithal and the administrative expertise to use the power of his office to transform US politics now seems able and eager to fulfill the darkest fantasies of his critics.