Gold · No. 1 in America · Week of November 9, 2026
Broadcaster, founder of Zeteo
Mehdi Hasan is a broadcaster and the founder of the media company Zeteo, and the author of Win Every Argument.
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Score breakdown
Nine parts, measured fresh each week. This is where Mehdi Hasan's points came from, and the evidence behind each one.
Debate record
Wrote Win Every Argument, a guide to debate and persuasion, and hosted Al Jazeera's Head to Head, facing guests before a live audience at the Oxford Union.
A graduate of Christ Church, Oxford, Hasan worked at the BBC, Channel 4 and the New Statesman before presenting for Al Jazeera English. He moved to Washington, D.C. in 2015.
He hosted The Mehdi Hasan Show on Peacock and MSNBC from 2020 to 2023, then founded Zeteo.
On the record
2026
May 5, 2026
Formal debate
Against Michael Knowles · Dartmouth Political Union
A formal campus debate with The Daily Wire's Michael Knowles on whether the president has kept to constitutional norms.
2025
July 20, 2025
One against many
Against 20 self-described far-right conservatives · Jubilee, Surrounded
Hasan met his opponents for the first time in the studio. The episode passed 3.5 million views within days, and one participant declared himself a fascist under questioning.
2024
June 17, 2024
Formal debateLost the audience vote
Against Douglas Murray and Natasha Hausdorff · Munk Debates, Toronto
Hasan and Gideon Levy opposed the motion at Roy Thomson Hall. Hasan framed the debate around whether critics of Israel can speak without being called racists. The audience vote moved toward the motion.
2023
April 2023
Broadcast debate
Against Matt Taibbi · MSNBC, The Mehdi Hasan Show
Hasan pressed Taibbi on errors in his Twitter Files reporting and asked whether he would now criticize Elon Musk, in one of the year's most-discussed television confrontations.
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