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President Trump’s Post-Mueller Corruption Problem
Episode 85
When elected, most presidents either sell their assets or put them in a blind trust. Isolating a president’s financial interests from their time in o…
6 years, 11 months ago
Paul Manafort and the Problem of White-Collar Crime
Episode 84
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort will spend around seven years in federal prison — far less than the nineteen to twenty-four years recomm…
6 years, 11 months ago
The Future of the Democratic Party
Episode 83
The Democratic party is in a battle with itself. After devastating losses in 2016, the party was resurgent in 2018, but the lessons from both electio…
6 years, 11 months ago
President Trump's New Legal Nightmare
Episode 82
On Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee, Michael Cohen called the president a racist, a conman, and a cheat. He also brought documents.
Trum…
6 years, 11 months ago
State of Emergency
Episode 81
Last week, President Trump declared a national emergency to get funding for the wall. The move gave him elevated power to move money around, but it w…
7 years ago
Pecker Pics and Tabloid Tricks
Episode 80
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos recently accused the National Enquirer of “extortion and blackmail” over private photos of him obtained by the tabloid. In …
7 years ago
Something Rotten in the State of Virginia
Episode 79
Recently, news broke that Virginia’s Democratic governor and attorney general both wore blackface in the 1980s. The controversy now enveloping the st…
7 years ago
Kamala Harris, Progressive Prosecutor?
Episode 78
Senator Kamala Harris has drawn criticism for beginning her 2020 campaign by pitching herself as a ‘progressive prosecutor’ despite a more mixed reco…
7 years ago
The Art of the Shutdown Deal
Episode 77
The government shutdown is now the longest in U.S. history, but President Trump seems no closer to a deal to resolve it. Why does the “master dealmak…
7 years, 1 month ago
Is the President a Russian Asset?
Episode 76
On Friday, the New York Times published a startling story: In 2017, days after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, the bureau opened an inquiry int…
7 years, 1 month ago