Personality Crisis

Etan Nechin is the New York correspondent for Haaretz. Born in Israel, he was previously a freelancer whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, Haaretz, Vice, Jacobin, Huffington Post, The Independent, Jewish Currents, Medium, Columbia Journal, and more. In this episode, Etan talks about US/Israeli politics, starting with Netanyahu’s long personal and political relationship with the US. After that, he explains how Netanyahu was able to make Israel a partisan issue in...

Eric Benson began contributing to Texas Monthly in 2014, covering politics, crime, business, and the U.S.-Mexico border and writing cover stories on everything from the supersized gas station chain Buc-ee’s to the Nobel Prize–winning immunologist James P. Allison. His articles and podcasts have won awards from New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and the City and Regional Magazine Association and have been recognized on best-of-the-year lists in The New Yorker and Vultu...

Alex González Ormerod is the editor/creator of the Mexico Political Economist site. Listeners will note that he’s got an English accent, but he’s born and raised in Mexico with an English mom and a Mexican dad. He’s written for, edited, and worked at some of the best outlets covering Mexico both in the US and locally, including Whitepaper, Americas Quarterly, Time Magazine, Rest of World, and more. In this episode, he talks about the critical importance of the Mexico-US economic r...

Jay Watts is a photojournalist and editor of the English-language Mexican news site Mexico Solidarity, which also hosts the podcast Soberanía. The site is part of the Mexico Solidary Project, which aims to promote “people-to-people understanding across borders and to concentrate efforts to oppose the US dominance that undermines México’s national sovereignty.” In the first of two episodes, Jay talks with Dylan Ris, standing in for John Cole, who’s getting ready for his twice-yearly relocation...

Episode 11 of Personality Crisis is a little different than our usual political fare. This one has John Cole interviewing Dylan Ris, who is a creative writer and composer living in LA. Dylan and John have a wide-ranging discussion about what’s keeping Hollywood from green-lighting anything but derivative copies of already successful franchises. John also expresses his opinions about who should be in the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame, other than Oasis. Dylan’s latest project is a...