The 1600

In this episode of The 1600 podcast, Newsweek’s Carlo Versano interviews Memphis mayor Paul Young, whose local initiatives, reforms, and approach to cross-party cooperation provide a common-sense model for governing in the Trump era.

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David Adler joins Carlo to talk the Nuestra América Convoy, a flotilla launching on March 21 to deliver crucial humanitarian aid to Cuba amid a U.S. "siege," and cautions against a Trump-style-regime-change excursion on the island nation. 

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Carlo is joined by Nick Kristof of the New York Times to discuss his reporting on the public education breakthrough happening in the Deep South.

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Read Nick Kristof’s article, “These Three Red States Are the Best Hope in Schooling:" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/opinion/red-states-good-schools.html

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John Bolton served under four GOP administrations. He's been calling for regime change in Iran for decades. But now that President Trump has initiated a regime-change war in Iran, Bolton is sounding the alarm.

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What does blowback look like? Noah Kulwin joins Carlo to offer a historical framework for the moment the U.S. finds itself in Iran. 

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Are we taking Trump's Iran war seriously? Quincy Institute's Trita Parsi tells Carlo why we're not anxious enough about the president's latest conflict in the Middle East.

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As the United States and Israel strike Iran, Carlo quizzes Tom O’Connor, Newsweek’s Deputy Editor of National Security and Foreign Policy, on what America really wants from this conflict, how the war might play out, and the situation on the ground.

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Does anyone want what big tech is selling? Ed Zitron is back to talk AI and its lack of political constituency. Plus: Ed's impeccable Trump impression.

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Carlo analyzes the growing drumbeat for war with Iran, while President Trump simultaneously works for peace in Gaza. Could he actually pull it off? Could Trump’s “Board of Peace” be more than a scam? We discuss why there is one element of the organization that the media keeps missing, and which could be cause for optimism.

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Carlo speaks with Empathy AI founder Ángel Maldonado for a philosophical conversation about AI, its capacity to reason and how young people can use it as a tool for their own creativity.

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Empathy AI: https://empathy.ai/

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