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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

January 2025

  • Woman holds up sign outside court

    US politics live with Chris Stein
    Trump signs executive orders targeting abortion rights – as it happened

  • NateKitch OPINION 250124 WEB

    Through the blizzard of edicts, see Trump for what he is: an autocrat reaching for limitless power

    Jonathan Freedland
  • Donald and Melania Trump seated among worshippers at a prayer service in Washington

    Politics Weekly America
    Can anyone hold back Donald Trump? – podcast

  • Donald Trump raises his hand during his swearing-in ceremony

    Politics Weekly America
    Executive orders, Gulf of America and flags on Mars: Trump’s first day in office – podcast

  • Relief at this Gaza deal should be tempered by rage at Hamas and Netanyahu. How dare they take so long?

    Jonathan Freedland

  • Politics Weekly America
    The Middle East, inflation and Trump’s return – what will Biden’s legacy be? – podcast

  • Trump and his henchman Musk treat America’s oldest allies as enemies. Britain can’t face that threat alone

    Jonathan Freedland

  • Politics Weekly America
    Silicon Valley leaders bend the knee to Trump – podcast

  • How will 2025 turn out? The life of Jimmy Carter offers an unexpected clue

    Jonathan Freedland

  • Politics Weekly America
    What happens if Trump pardons the January 6 rioters? – podcast

December 2024

  • Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter (AP Photo, File)

    Politics Weekly America
    What is Jimmy Carter’s legacy? – podcast

    Jonathan Freedland talks to Jimmy Carter’s biographer, Jonathan Alter, about why history should look favourably on the peanut farmer turned politician
  • Donald Trump holds the UFC heavyweight championship belt as a crowd at Madison Square Garden, including Elon Musk, applaud. Credit: Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC

    Politics Weekly America
    UFC, boxing and golf: what is Donald Trump’s relationship with sport? – podcast

    The US president-elect’s ties with the Ultimate Fighting Championship and boxing, as well as World Wrestling Entertainment, might tell us about the kinds of sport he appreciates. But then there’s golf …

    As the US prepares to host the World Cup and the Olympics during Trump’s presidency, Jonathan Freedland and Karim Zidan walk through his history with sport to see if it explains more about him

    • Middle East crisis live
      Middle East crisis: mediators push on with Gaza ceasefire talks amid fresh strikes – as it happened

    • ‘How do we live in this terrible world?’ a reader asked me. Here’s the only answer I have

      Jonathan Freedland

    • We cannot afford for Starmer’s government to fail. Because Farage is lying in wait

      Jonathan Freedland

November 2024

  • King Winter's Birthday Hardcover – 14 Nov. 2024 by Jonathan Freedland

    How I brought a Jewish wartime refugee’s lost fairytale back to life

    Ulrich Boschwitz, who wrote the recently rediscovered thriller The Passenger, left another gift behind him when his life was tragically cut short. I had the honour of reinterpreting it for today’s children
  • Donald Trump with circular EU stars logo in the background

    Brexit makes no sense in a world dominated by Trump. Britain’s place is back in the EU

    Jonathan Freedland
    From defence to trade, the incoming US president is upending the old order – and standing apart from our neighbours leaves us dangerously exposed, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

    • Politics Weekly America
      How the left is defending itself in the Democratic blame game – podcast

    • Full Story
      James Carville on where he thinks the Democrats went wrong – Full Story podcast

    • Benjamin Netanyahu is a wanted man – and he has only himself to blame

      Jonathan Freedland
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