This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek speak with Udi Greenberg, associate professor of history at Dartmouth College, about the protests in Israel over Benjamin Netanyahu’s government’s legislation seeking to overhaul the Israeli judiciary. They discuss the background and scope of the protests, concessions made to the far right while the legislation is shelved, and more.

Danny and Derek welcome back Alex Thurston, assistant professor of political science at the University of Cincinnati, to discuss the 2023 Nigerian presidential election. They discuss the three main candidates, controversy around the election itself, issues the country is currently grappling with, what a Bola Tinubu presidency might look like, the legacy of incumbent Muhammadu Buhari, the international response, and more. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.americanprestigepod.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com The greatest franchise in podcast history, the American Prestige Mailbag, is back with stunning developments. Actually, it’s like the other mailbags, where our dear paid subscribers submit questions and prompts of the highest quality for Danny and Derek (and sometimes Jake). This edition of the mailbag features questions about the New Cold War, world-sy…

Our mainframe computer, DEREK, gave us the news before it became sentient and we had to unplug it. This week: the new IPCC report on climate and UN report on water access (0:38), good and bad news from Yemen (4:34), Israel makes moves on a new bill legalizing old settlements and Smotrich gets in trouble with Jordan (6:45), Ethiopia sees progress in implementing the Tigray peace deal (10:44), pension problems in France (13:42), a Russia/Ukraine update (18:16), and a New Cold War update (26:50) featuring Xi Jinping visiting Russia, Kishida Fumio visiting Ukraine, and Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen visiting the US. Recorded Thursday, March 23, 2023 This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.americanprestigepod.com/subscribe

Hello, Prestigeheads! We had such a great response last week that we’re bringing you another episode of Shoot the Messenger! This week we continue with the story of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi with friends of the pod Nando Vila & Rose Reid. We learn Khashoggi wasn't just targeted — he was hunted. This is the behind-the-scenes story of how Pegasus works, and how it was discovered (and found in Khashoggi's inner circle). This episode is part of Shoot the Messenger's 10-part series on "Espionage, Murder & Pegasus Spyware." This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.americanprestigepod.com/subscribe

Danny and Derek welcome Eric Alterman, CUNY distinguished professor of English and Journalism at Brooklyn College, to discuss the history of America’s relationship with Israel. They touch on Eric’s own story, the evolution of the Israeli and the Arab in the American Jewish imagination, the inflection points of the 1967 war and the 1982 Lebanon invasion, the Left’s history with Zionism, and more. Be sure to grab a copy of We Are Not One: A History of America’s Fight Over Israel! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.americanprestigepod.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek are joined by Spencer Ackerman, journalist and founder of Forever Wars, to take a look back at America in the early days of the Iraq invasion. They discuss Spencer’s time as a lonely anti-war voice at a liberal hawk publication, how the failure of the war shook up the consensus at such establishments, Democrats defending the war but crti…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek welcome back Michael Brenes, associate director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and lecturer in history at Yale University, to discuss the shocking, scandalous, and salacious history of the United States’ military-industrial complex (MIC). They pick up in the 1970s, touching on the advent of the all-volunteer force (AVF), …

Derek now comes with USB-C connections, making it that much quicker to obtain…The News. This week: polling from Turkey as election season heats up (1:08), negotiations between Colombia and the ELN plus problems with the Clan del Golfo (5:14), a US drone and Russian jet close encounter (7:38), a Ukraine update (11:07), the Saudi-Iran diplomatic agreement (15:42), and a New Cold War update featuring AUKUS (18:21), the Japan-South Korea meeting (20:12), and Honduras switching recognition from Taiwan to the PRC (22:49). Recorded Thursday, March 16, 2023 This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.americanprestigepod.com/subscribe

This is the first episode of PRX and Exile Content Studio’s Shoot the Messenger: Espionage, Murder & Pegasus Spyware entitled “What Really Happened to Murdered Journalist Jamal Khashoggi?”, as the crew discussed on this week’s episode of AP. Check out the show (without Danny chiming in) wherever you get podcasts! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.americanprestigepod.com/subscribe

Danny and Derek welcome Rose Reid and Nando Vila, co-hosts of the new podcast Shoot the Messenger: Espionage, Murder & Pegasus Spyware. They discuss mass surveillance, (the totally legal) Pegasus spyware, how the grisly murder of Jamal Khashoggi fits into this, the vulnerability of journalists, and more. Check out the first episode of the podcast, which we put on our feed, and other episodes on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download your podcasts. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.americanprestigepod.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek welcome back Bob Wright, of the Nonzero Newsletter and the Nonzero podcast, to discuss Vladimir Putin and the Ukraine War. The discussion also veers into ideology, discussing leftist vs. left liberal views of the conflict, the utility of the United Nations and international law, and more. Checkout the Nonzero Newsletter and podcast! Recor…

It’s not quite Top Gun, but Danny, Derek, and Producer Jake fly high with a special theme song. Otherwise, in news this week: the situation in Bakhamut, Ukraine and a new narrative around the Nord Stream explosion (2:13), a Turkish politics update (8:45), Havana Syndrome is not the greatest threat to US citizens’ health (13:50), the USA is #1 [in arms deals] (16:06), a New Cold War update featuring South Korea patching things up with Japan (18:53), AUKUS making moves (21:27), Biden’s budget for the pacific islands (22:39), and McCarthy possibly pulling a Pelosi in Taiwan (26:41). Recorded Thursday, March 9, 2023 If you like “New Cold War” and the rest of the show’s music, check out Producer Jake’s band Moloq! “New Cold War” song lyrics: Jake: “Tower, this is call sign PRESTIGE. Permission to open up on this balloon bogey.” Danny: “Roger that. Take ‘em out. Put that s**t on TikTok.” We’ll roast your ass / And we’ll give you cash / It’ll be a blast Havana microwaves / There’ll be hell to pay /We’re in Taiwan to stay We’ll make wet markets dry / We’ll blow you sky high / Because the end is nigh The CCP / You won’t hear that from me / ‘Cause I’m American free, baby This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.americanprestigepod.com/subscribe

Happy Women’s History Month! Danny and Derek welcome Sarah Dunstan, lecturer in the international history of modern human rights at the University of Glasgow, and Katharina Rietzler, senior lecturer in American history at the University of Sussex, to discuss their new co-edited volume (along with Patricia Owens and Kimberly Hutchings), Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon, which is part of a larger multi-disciplinary project, “The History of Women’s International Thought”. They discuss the volume’s contributors, women’s erasure from the history of international relations (IR), the “historical woman”, how re-centering these thinkers contributes to the field of IR, historical recovery projects, and more. Follow the larger project, Sarah, and Katharina on Twitter! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.americanprestigepod.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek welcome back Samuel Huneke, assistant professor of history at George Mason University, to discuss queer life in Germany from the 18th century through the Cold War, and it’s Judgment Day: we’ve reached the Cold War. The crew discusses the quick transformation of Germany in the early Cold War period, queer life under the new Grundgesetz (e…

Derek’s your brave captain, Danny your loyal steward…it’s another News Cruise. This week: an update on the tense situation in Palestine (0:31), a welcome bit of happy news from Yemen (4:18), Tunisia sees mistreatment of asylum seekers and Saied arrests critics (6:13), the election in Nigeria (9:00), Sweden and Finland amble along toward NATO accession (13:00), a Russia-Ukraine update (18:18), and the UK and EU reach a Northern Ireland deal (22:50). Recorded Thursday, March 2, 2023 This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.americanprestigepod.com/subscribe

Danny and Derek are back with a two-part special episode on the violence in Huwara, Palestine. In the first half, Derek speaks with Jalal Abukhater, a Palestinian writer based in Jerusalem, about the background of recent settler violence in the West Bank, the details we know of the Huwara attack, the impunity with which settlers and the Israeli government act, and the Palestinian Authority and international community’s reaction to Huwara. Danny and Derek then speak with Udi Greenberg, associate professor of history at Dartmouth College, about the domestic Israeli dynamics at play behind the recent violence, the makeup of the current far-right government, its relation to the settler movement, the legal framework it is hoping to create, and more. Check out Jalal’s work on his website and Twitter. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.americanprestigepod.com/subscribe

Derek welcomes Adrien Zakar, assistant professor of history at the University of Toronto and co-host of the virtual lecture series Technologies of Power, to discuss the response in Syria to the recent earthquake in Turkey which affected the former’s northwestern region. They cover Syria’s current political situation, what it means for opposition- and Turkish-controlled enclaves regarding relief efforts, the role of sanctions, what this all means for Syrian refugees at home and abroad, and more. Check out the following organizations aiding in recovery efforts: * Disaster Philanthropy * Doctors Without Borders * International Rescue Committee * Save the Children * Syrian American Medical Society Recorded February 24, 2023 This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.americanprestigepod.com/subscribe

Danny and Derek give a quick update on today’s Israeli attacks in Huwara, a town just south of the West Bank city of Nablus. We will have a follow-up special with experts on this as soon as possible. Recorded Sunday, February 26, 2023 This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.americanprestigepod.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.americanprestigepod.com Danny and Derek welcome Josh Olson, podcaster and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, to discuss the 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate and its 2004 remake. They explore the idea of brainwashing, the influence of the respective geopolitical atmospheres’ influence on each film, what makes the original so brilliant and the remake so baffling, glean insi…