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Jonathan Freedland

Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist and the host of the Guardian's Politics Weekly America podcast. He also presents BBC Radio 4's The Long View and is the author of the award-winning The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, along with several thrillers under the pseudonym Sam Bourne. He is a past winner of an Orwell prize for journalism. Twitter @freedland

September 2024

  • Donald Trump and Kamala Harris

    Full Story
    US politics: how Trump and Harris are preparing for their showdown – Full Story podcast

    What can the rivals do before meeting face to face to increase their chances of coming out on top? Will this encounter be as election-defining as the last? Jonathan Freedland speaks to Al Gore’s former campaign adviser Paul Begala
  • Keir Starmer

    Keir Starmer has united Israelis and Palestinians – both hate his arms exports policy

    Jonathan Freedland
    Supporting Israel while defending Palestinians is a tricky balance to achieve, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
  • Donald Trump and Kamala Harris

    Politics Weekly America
    Debate camp, role play and rival advice: Trump and Harris prepare for showdown – podcast

    What can Harris and Trump do before their debate to increase their chances of coming out on top? Will this debate be as election-defining as the last? Jonathan Freedland speaks to the former campaign adviser to Al Gore, Paul Begala

August 2024

  • Lake standing at a lectern at a Trump campaign rally in Glendale, Arizona, last week. The lectern reads 'Text Arizona to 88022: Trump'

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    US politics: Will election denier Kari Lake help Trump win Arizona? – Full Story podcast

  • Lake standing at a lectern at a Trump campaign rally in Glendale, Arizona, last week. The lectern reads 'Text Arizona to 88022: Trump'

    Politics Weekly America
    Will Kari Lake help Donald Trump win Arizona? – podcast

  • Republican presidential nominee and former US President Donald Trump attends a campaign event in Asheville, North Carolina

    Full Story
    US politics: Trump and his terrible, horrible, no good, very bad month – Full Story podcast

  • Kamala Harris

    Kamala Harris has made a dream start. But it’s too early to count out Donald Trump

    Jonathan Freedland

  • Politics Weekly America
    Trump and his terrible, horrible, no good, very bad month – podcast

  • Full Story
    US politics: who is Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’s running mate? – Full Story podcast

  • You know who else should be on trial for the UK’s far-right riots? Elon Musk

    Jonathan Freedland

  • Politics Weekly America
    Kamala Harris picks her running mate – podcast

21 July 2024

  • US President Joe Biden waves as he leaves after speaking during a press conference at the close of the 75th NATO Summit at the Walter E Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC on July 11, 2024. Joe Biden on July 21, 2024 dropped out of the US presidential election and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party's new nominee, in a stunning move that upends an already extraordinary 2024 race for the White House. Biden, 81, said he was acting in the "best interest of my party and the country" by bowing to weeks of pressure after a disastrous June debate against Donald Trump stoked worries about his age and mental fitness. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

    Full Story
    Joe Biden drops out – what happens now? – Full Story podcast

    Jonathan Freedland is joined by politics reporter Nikki McCann Ramírez to discuss what happens next.
  • FILE: U.S. President Joe Biden Will Not Seek Re-election, Endorses VP Harris<br>FILE: U.S. President Joe Biden has announced that he will not seek re-election and has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee. PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA - MAY 29: U.S. President Joe Biden and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris wave to members of the audience after speaking at a campaign rally at Girard College on May 29, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Biden and Harris are using today's rally to launch a nationwide campaign to court black voters, a group that has traditionally come out in favor of Biden, but their support is projected lower than it was in 2020. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

    Today in Focus
    President Biden steps aside

    President Joe Biden upended the 2024 US election race by withdrawing as his party’s canidate to face Donald Trump and instead throwing his support behind his vice president Kamala Harris. Jonathan Freedland spoke to Nikki McCann Ramirez of Rolling Stone for a special episode of Politics Weekly America
  • President Joe Biden arrives for the Nato summit in Washington, July 10, 2024

    Politics Weekly America
    Biden drops out – what happens now? – podcast

    Jonathan Freedland is joined by politics reporter Nikki McCann Ramírez to discuss the breaking news that Joe Biden has withdrawn from the presidential race after weeks of pressure to quit

19 July 2024

  • Donald Trump gives his speech at the Republican national convention in Milwaukee.

    Donald Trump’s run of good luck could end this weekend – if Joe Biden does the right thing

    Jonathan Freedland
  • Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump (L), and his vice presidential running mate Senator JD Vance (R) attend the second day of the Republican National Convention (RNC) at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, 16 July 2024.

    Full Story
    US politics: who is JD Vance, Donald Trump’s candidate for vice-president? – Full Story podcast

17 July 2024

  • Donald Trump and JD Vance laughing, in blue suits

    Politics Weekly America
    JD Vance: who is Donald Trump’s new vice-president? – podcast

    Jonathan Freedland is joined by a former Republican congressional communications director, Tara Setmayer, to find out more about Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance

14 July 2024

  • Donald Trump gestures with a bloodied face while he is assisted by Secret Service personnel after he was shot in the right ear during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania

    Full Story
    The attempted assassination of Donald Trump – Full Story podcast

    As the US comes to grips with the shooting at a Trump rally, Jonathan Freedland and Sidney Blumenthal discuss what this tragedy means for the former president’s image with less than five months until the election
  • Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surround by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally, Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

    Today in Focus
    The attempted assassination of Donald Trump – Politics Weekly America

    On Saturday night in London, word came through that Donald Trump had been injured during one of his rallies in Pennsylvania. A shooter, who killed another person and seriously injured others, was killed by Secret Service agents.As the US comes to grips with what just happened, Jonathan Freedland presents as special edition of Politics Weekly America. He hears from former Bill Clinton advisor, Sidney Blumenthal on what this tragedy means for Donald Trump with less than five months until the election
  • REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds a campaign rally in Butler

    Politics Weekly America
    Republicans elevate Trump to ‘living martyr’ status after shooting – podcast

    As the US comes to grips with what happened in Pennsylvania, Jonathan Freedland and Sidney Blumenthal discuss what it means for the former president’s image with less than five months until the election
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