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Katie Zacharia and Trump’s women problem

October 21, 2026 · 34 min

In this episode of Guardian Australia’s US politics podcast, co-hosts Jonathan Yerushalmy and Reged Ahmad look at how Katie Zacharia broke the record for shortest tenure as White House press secretary. They then examine the pattern of how…
Everything you need to know about the midterms

October 14, 2026 · 33 min

In this episode of Guardian Australia’s US politics podcast, co-hosts Reged Ahmad and Jonathan Yerushalmy take a special look at the midterms which are coming up in early November. All 435 House seats are up in this election as…
What next after Christa Pike’s botched execution?

October 7, 2026 · 33 min

A warning for this episode - it covers details of a murder and an execution that some might find distressing. In this episode of Guardian Australia’s US politics podcast, co-hosts Jonathan Yerushalmy and Reged Ahmad examine what happened…
Decoding America: Trump’s war on the media

September 23, 2026 · 33 min

In this episode of Guardian Australia’s weekly US politics podcast, co-hosts Reged Ahmad and Jonathan Yerushalmy dive into what’s driving Donald Trump’s ban on journalists from CNN, MS Now and Politico - and the significance of the…
Decoding America: Why won't Donald Trump regulate AI?

September 16, 2026 · 31 min

In this episode of Guardian Australia’s weekly US politics podcast, co-hosts Jonathan Yerushalmy and Reged Ahmad look at whether there is any appetite across the political spectrum to put guardrails on artificial intelligence as around the…

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Decoding America: How Trump is powering the global right

September 9, 2026 · 28 min

In this episode of Guardian Australia’s weekly US politics podcast, co-hosts Reged Ahmad and Jonathan Yerushalmy look across the water to Germany, where the rightwing political party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has had a landslide…
Decoding America: Could datacentres lose Trump the midterms?

August 26, 2026 · 30 min

In this episode of Guardian Australia’s US politics podcast Decoding America, co-hosts Jonathan Yerushalmy and Reged Ahmad explore why datacentres in the US have provoked such anger – and whether that could harm Republicans in the midterms…
Decoding America: Why Maga vaccine scepticism might be catching

August 19, 2026 · 32 min

In this episode of Guardian Australia’s US politics podcast, co-hosts Reged Ahmad and Jonathan Yerushalmy look at what the reported food shortages and mental health crisis on the USS Lincoln say about whether the US military is stretched…
Decoding America: are the Democrats having their own Maga moment?

August 5, 2026 · 29 min

In this episode of Guardian Australia’s weekly US politics podcast, co-hosts Jonathan Yerushalmy and Reged Ahmad take a look at how the Michigan Senate primaries could decide the future of the Democrats. This is a race that has revealed…
Decoding America: has Trump turned on Netanyahu?

July 29, 2026 · 30 min

In this episode of Guardian Australia’s weekly US politics podcast, co-hosts Jonathan Yerushalmy and Reged Ahmad discuss Donald Trump’s closed-door meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. They also examine the president’s…
Decoding America: making the US military macho again

July 22, 2026 · 28 min

Co-hosts Reged Ahmad and Jonathan Yerushalmy look at why Donald Trump chose to make a prime-time address about the US electoral system: was he trying to destabilise and undermine confidence before the midterms, and will it work? Also: why…
Decoding America: Behind the scenes of Trump’s red card call

July 8, 2026 · 30 min

Co-hosts Reged Ahmad and Jonathan Yerushalmy look at the reported details emerging about Trump’s Fifa World Cup intervention and whether it will change the ‘beautiful game’. They also discuss the growing calls for Democratic Maine Senate…

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Each week hosts Reged Ahmad and Jonathan Yerushalmy peel back the surface of Trump's America. Each episode examines the most consequential stories of the week as well as the underreported stories that tell us a lot more about what's going on than the headlines reveal.