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Back to SearchTrump's primary challengers
Episode 344
Jane, Dara, and Matt talk about Donald Trump’s potential 2020 presidential primary challengers — Joe Walsh, Bill Weld, Justin Amash, and others, and …
6 years, 9 months ago
The case for foreign policy restraint
Episode 343
Emma Ashford, a research fellow in defense and foreign policy at the Cato Institute, joins Matt for a wide-ranging discussion on China and the Middle…
6 years, 9 months ago
Trump's latest trade war
Episode 342
Ezra, Jane, and Matt talk about Trump's approach to China and what his critics get right and wrong.
Links to resources discussed:
“Making China Great …
6 years, 9 months ago
Does America need trade deals?
Episode 341
Yale's Hilary Matfess joins Matt to debate Elizabeth Warren's trade proposals, and the role of trade policy in progressive politics.
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6 years, 10 months ago
Slavery and its legacy
Episode 340
Jane, Dara, and Matt discuss the 1619 project and its critics
Related reading:
“The 1619 Project” New York Times Magazine
“Henry Clay, Edward Baptist, a…
6 years, 10 months ago
Trump's war on Medicaid
Episode 339
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' Jessica Schubel explains how Medicaid works, and how the White House is trying to undermine it.
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6 years, 10 months ago
Epstein conspiracy time
Episode 338
Jane, Dara, and Matt try to offer actual facts about prison suicide and new research on hot weather and crime.
Related reading:
“Jeffrey Epstein’s Deat…
6 years, 10 months ago
The case for a Green New Deal
Episode 337
Julian Brave NoiseCat of Data for Progress joins Matt to discuss the vision of the Green New Deal, the need to link it to social justice, and whether…
6 years, 10 months ago
Domestic terrorism after El Paso
Episode 336
ProPublica’s Dara Lind joins Jane and Matt to talk about the mass shooting in El Paso and what it means to take white nationalist violence seriously.…
6 years, 10 months ago
The second Democratic debate
Episode 335
Ezra and Matt dissect the six-hour, two-night July debate marathon.
Vox’s guide to where 2020 Democrats stand on policy
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6 years, 10 months ago