Gaslit Nation provides a deep dive on the news, skipping outrage to deliver analysis, history, context, and sharp insight on global affairs. Hosted by journalist and filmmaker Andrea Chalupa, an expert on authoritarian states who warned America about Russia and election hacking before the 2016 election.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 13 days 10 hours 21 minutes
Another World is Possible [TEASER]
Dictators want us to think that the future is hopeless, that their cult of personality will last forever. Gaslit Nation exists to remind us that another world is possible. The experts we’ve brought on the show over the years have shown us how. In...
What Do We Do If Trump Wins?
On a hot afternoon in the middle of summer in New York City, people gathered together at Caveat on the Lower East Side for a special live taping of Gaslit Nation with the RISK! Storytelling Podcast. This is Part II of Andrea’s discussion with...
Peter Kurth Takes the Self Care Q&A [TEASER]
Author Peter Kurth takes the Gaslit Nation Self Care Q&A! In the second part of this special interview, Andrea interviews Peter Kurth, author of , which helped inspire Andrea’s latest screenplay based on Thompson and her urgent lessons for...
American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson
Dorothy Thompson was the leading journalist of the 1930s and 1940s, considered as influential as Eleanor Roosevelt. After becoming the first foreign correspondent to be expelled from Germany by Hitler, Thompson advised President Roosevelt, Prime...
Zelensky vs. Orban [TEASER]
In a year of hellfire, there were some signs of hope, including Ukraine moving closer to joining the European Union. Countless Ukrainians gave their lives for this, beginning with around 100 pro-democracy protesters killed by the riot police of Viktor...
No Constraint
While this news broke after we recorded this week’s episode, Gaslit Nation would like to congratulate the Colorado Supreme Court for being on the right side of history! With Trump disqualified from being on the ballot in Colorado, it’s now up to...
Gareth Jones Reports from Nazi Germany [TEASER]
Sixteen year old Kalief Browder spent 700 days in solitary confinement over a backpack he didn’t steal, and traitor to his country, former FBI agent Charles McGonigal, only got four years in prison for being on the payroll of the Russian mafia. That...
Can the Reagan Revolution Be Undone?
The Reagan Revolution and “greed is good” remain in full swing, ushering in a level of wealth inequality that surpasses the Gilded Age. "Progressives, especially, must recognize that pres erving constitutional freedoms depends on winning the...
Weapons of Mass Distraction [TEASER]
This experiment brings to mind more recent ones in Russia, where there were deliberate efforts to breed both aggressive and docile rats. One Gaslit Nation listener wondered if Russian botfarms are deliberately "engineering" (inciting) aggressive...
Who Will Protect Us From the Supreme Court?
The Supreme Court is at it again! This current season of the American Hunger Games, also known as a Supreme Court session, could be as disastrous for the American people and great for the far-right donor class since Citizens United. Here to help us...