Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast

The American Conservation Coalition was formed in 2017 to try to attract younger people to the Republican Party. But the Coalition doesn’t seem to be able to claim any actual outcomes for the environment. Journalist Gaby del Valle spent a three day weekend with this group, at their annual summit, taking part in all their hijinks, and trying to understand: what are conservative environmentalists fighting for?  Guest: Gaby del Valle, journalist, wrote about her ACC weekend for Harper's Magazine. She has a book coming out in 2027, about the history of US conservation. Producer: Ann Arnold

While negotiations over a lasting peace deal remain unpredictable, historian and author, John Ghazvinian argues that the past fifty years of hostility between the U.S. and Iran are an exception in the much longer history of relations between the two countries — a history that includes periods of fascination, cooperation, and even mutual admiration.   Guest: John Ghazvinian, historian, former journalist and author of America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present Producer: Ali Benton

Just after World War Two, leading figures from Nazi Germany were tried before an International military tribunal for their crimes against humanity - the murder of six million jews. Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, and others, met their fate in Courtroom 600 at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg. From defendants to judges, the courtroom was wall to wall men, but women did actually play a role in the proceedings. Author and journalist Natalie Livingstone tells their story in her new book, The Nuremberg Women: At the Trial that Brought the Nazis to Justice   Guest: Natalie Livingstone, author, The Nuremberg Women, At the trial that brought the Nazis to justice Producer: Ali Benton 

Janine di Giovanni has been a war correspondent for more than thirty years. She's been  shot at, kidnapped and held at gunpoint. She’s written about massacres at Srebrenica, atrocities in Kosovo, the mass killings in Rwanda, and of course Palestine. “I thought I’d seen the worst of humanity,” she wrote on X last year. “I was wrong. Nothing compares to Gaza — or the complicity letting it happen.”  When Russia began bombing Ukraine in 2022, di Giovanni decided reporting atrocities was not enough. She wanted perpetrators of war crimes held to account. So she and Ukrainian-born British journalist, Peter Pomerantsev, founded The Reckoning Project, to train journalists to do more than write stories; they gather evidence that can be used to prosecute war crimes.  Guest: Janine di Giovanni, war correspondent, CEO and co-founder of The Reckoning Project Producer: Catherine Zengerer

Despite mounting pressure at home after his Socialist Party suffered heavy losses in its former Andalusian stronghold, Pedro Sánchez has emerged as one of Europe’s strongest dissenting voices against Donald Trump. He has repeatedly clashed with Washington over issues including the war in Gaza, defence spending and immigration policy. Guest: María Ramírez, journalist and Deputy managing editor of elDiario.es, a news outlet in Spain Producer: Ali Benton