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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

May 2025

  • Donald Trump arrives at Palm Beach airport in Florida, 1 May 2025.

    One hundred days in, Donald Trump faces a problem: he can rage, but he can’t govern

    Jonathan Freedland
    Americans are beginning to worry about their future amid a shrinking economy, warnings of empty shelves – and the president’s failed promises, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
  • Donald Trump, third from left, with other members of his cabinet, all with Maga hats in front of them

    Politics Weekly America
    What does Trump really think of his first 100 days in office? – podcast

    Time journalist Eric Cortellessa speaks to Jonathan Freedland about what he learned from his recent interview with the US president
  • Liz Oyer.

    Politics Weekly America
    ‘Armed agents nearly turned up at my house’: fired DOJ attorney on defying Trump – podcast

    The US justice department says it did not fire a former pardon attorney, Liz Oyer, after she refused to recommend reinstating Mel Gibson’s gun rights.But Oyer tells Jonathan Freedland a different story, one she believes points to a wider crackdown by the Trump administration on the rule of law in America

April 2025

  • Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Donald Trump and JD Vance in conversation.

    Ukraine has exposed Trump’s true identity: as a vandal, an autocrat, a gangster and a fool

    Jonathan Freedland
  • People walk on the business school campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    Politics Weekly America
    America’s universities stand up to Trump – podcast

  • An AI generated deepfake image of pope Francis wearing a puffer jacket. Taken off Reddit

    ‘It never happened – but the picture says it did’: 28 fake images that fooled the world

  • A close-up image of Donald Trump's face.

    What’s the true cost of Donald Trump? All the crises around the world that we’ve no time to fix

    Jonathan Freedland

  • Politics Weekly America
    Why did ‘strongman’ Trump back down on tariffs? – podcast

  • Politics Weekly America
    Has Donald Trump broken Congress? – podcast

March 2025

  • Keir Starmer speaks at the UK ambassador's residence in Paris after a meeting with European leaders on strengthening support for Ukraine, 27 March 2025.

    Trump is upending everything. The world’s leaders must tell the truth about what that means

    Jonathan Freedland
  • Mike Waltz, the White House national security adviser, listens as Donald Trump speaks

    Politics Weekly America
    Trump’s ‘Signalgate’ blame game – podcast

  • Keir Starmer on a visit to the Permanent Joint Headquarters in Northwood, London, 20 March 2025.

    Trump is abandoning democracy and freedom. That creates an opening for Europe – and Britain

    Jonathan Freedland
  • Chuck Schumer

    Politics Weekly America
    Why are Democrats so divided? – podcast

  • Why is Donald Trump crashing the US economy? Because he’s high on his own supply of fake news

    Jonathan Freedland

  • Politics Weekly America
    Has Trump broken the US economy? – podcast

  • Donald Trump is turning America into a mafia state

    Jonathan Freedland

February 2025

  • Keir Starmer places a hand on Donald Trump's shoulder

    Politics Weekly America
    Is the tide starting to turn against Trump? – podcast

  • Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. He is standing behind a microphone and a lectern with the seal of the President of the United States

    Full Story
    Trump brings Russia in from the cold, but at what cost to Ukraine? – Full Story podcast

  • Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at a G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, 28 June 2019

    Trump is the world’s greatest showman – and the weakest strongman it has ever seen

    Jonathan Freedland
  • Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington

    Politics Weekly America
    Trump brings Russia in from the cold, but at what cost to Ukraine? – podcast

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