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🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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This week on Fake the Nation! America’s sweetheart Tom Hanks gets in Trump's crosshairs. Plus, why are we all still buying iPhones? On the political front, the panel discusses the Department of War name change and the possible Chicago National Guard deployment. Finally, performative masculinity - what is it and are you performing it? Comedian and host Negin Farsad is joined by The Nation magazine's DD Guttenplan and Arc Magazine's editor Mark Oppenheimer.
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| 1:17.7 | phones that are not iPhones. And we'll talk about the Department of War, Chicago, and the Murdochs. |
| 1:22.7 | And finally, what is performative masculinity? and are you performing it? |
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