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Democracies Are Not Forever...Are We Headed Down the Same Path As Rome?
Episode 290
Each day more of our national political and governmental norms fall away. Our national leadership is at best in a moral vacuum, at worst, a corrosiv…
7 years, 5 months ago
The Week Politics Went Tabloid: A Conversation with Matt Bai about Gary Hart and THE FRONT RUNNER
Episode 289
For those that study and write about politics, the holy grail is to find those seminal moments in the nation's public and political life that change …
7 years, 5 months ago
California is Burning - Here's Why
Episode 288
For those of you that are old enough, you may remember that one of the crazy ideas that came out of counterinsurgency during the Vietnam War was that…
7 years, 5 months ago
Jamal Khashoggi's Secret Interview
Episode 287
The world of journalism faces an existential crisis . Attacks on the press as "the enemy of the people" by the president of the United States and oth…
7 years, 5 months ago
Why Capitalism Matters and Why We Need to Protect It
Episode 286
Bill Clinton got it almost right when he said, “it’s the economy stupid.” But it’s more than that. It might be more accurate to say, it's capitalism…
7 years, 5 months ago
History in Plain Sight: WWI and the Unknown Soldiers
Episode 285
Someone wrote a national column last year suggesting that whoever we elect to office should at the very least be able to pass a basic high school tes…
7 years, 5 months ago
Notes On Hope from Anne Lamott
Episode 284
In looking at the world today, not just at our politics, but at our social and moral climate, it’s easy to conclude that there is no hope. Things fal…
7 years, 5 months ago
Greg Sargent looks at Thunderdome Politics in the Age of Trump
Episode 283
Just how fragile or resilient are our democratic institutions? For two years we’ve heard that the fundamental institutions, like the courts, the rule…
7 years, 5 months ago
The Forgotten and The Angry: A Search for the Trump Voter
Episode 282
Every day, as a new Trump embarrassment emerges from the White House, people ask, how did this happen?
Millions of words have now been written about …
7 years, 6 months ago
Reagan Would Be Such An Improvement Today
Episode 280
Someone said recently that Donald Trump may not be our worst President ever, the jury is still out. But for sure, he is the worst person ever to be P…
7 years, 6 months ago