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Your Questions Answered: Trump vs. the Rule of Law
From the attempt to end birthright citizenship to the gutting of congressionally authorized agencies, the Trump Administration has created an enormous number of legal controversies. The Radio Hour as…
Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago
How Bad Is It?: Trump’s War on Comedians
The New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz joins Tyler Foggatt for the latest installment of “How Bad Is It?,” a monthly series on the health of American democracy. Their guest is Roy Wood, Jr., the …
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Mayor Karen Bass on Marines in Los Angeles
The city of Los Angeles has declared itself a sanctuary city, where local authorities do not share information with federal immigration enforcement. But L.A.—where nearly forty per cent of residents …
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Wired’s Katie Drummond on What the Tech Titans Learned from DOGE
The Washington Roundtable’s Evan Osnos interviews Katie Drummond, the global editorial director of Wired, about the publication’s scoop-filled coverage of DOGE, and what Elon Musk’s experience in Was…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
How the Epstein Conspiracy Theory Took Over Politics
The New Yorker contributor Jon Allsop joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss how President Trump’s refusal to release the Epstein files has fractured his base, and how the Democratic Party has increasingly w…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Michael Wolff on MAGA’s Revolt over Jeffrey Epstein
The sense that the White House is covering something up about Jeffrey Epstein has led to backlash from some of Trump’s most ardent supporters. Even after the financier was convicted for hiring an und…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Leah Litman on Trump’s Supreme Court
The Washington Roundtable’s Jane Mayer interviews Leah Litman, a law professor at the University of Michigan, a co-host of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast, and the author of “Lawless: How the Supreme C…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Janet Yellen on the Danger of a “Banana Republic” Economy
In conservative economics, cuts to social services are often seen as necessary to shrink the expanding deficit. Donald Trump’s budget bill is something altogether different: it cuts Medicaid while sl…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Fiona Hill on What Putin Tells Us About Trump
The Washington Roundtable’s Susan B. Glasser interviews the Russia expert Fiona Hill about Vladimir Putin’s long reign and Trump’s dismantling of American institutions. Hill, a senior fellow at the B…
Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Andy Beshear Has a Plan for the Democratic Party
Andy Beshear, the governor of Kentucky, joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the damage that President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” will cause in rural America. Beshear paints a picture of how Democrats ca…
Published on 2 months ago