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Molly Ball on Nancy Pelosi’s future and Paul Ryan’s failure
Episode 169
The midterm elections are being interpreted almost entirely as a referendum on President Donald Trump. But it was also a referendum on Paul Ryan’s sp…
7 years, 3 months ago
Whitney Phillips explains how Trump controls the media
Episode 168
Here’s a fun fact: The best training for understanding the president’s media strategy is to have studied internet trolls for years and years. Okay, m…
7 years, 3 months ago
Ask Ezra Anything
Episode 167
You had questions. Smart, interesting questions. Questions about the zero-sum logic of markets, about whether compromise is possible or even desirabl…
7 years, 4 months ago
Presidents in crisis with Slow Burn’s Leon Neyfakh
Episode 166
Slow Burn is one of my favorite podcasts of the past few years. Its first season, on Watergate, relived the confusion, chaos, and strangeness of the …
7 years, 4 months ago
Sandy Darity has a plan to close the wealth gap
Episode 165
Here’s something to consider: For families in which the lead earner has a college degree, the average white family has $180,500 in wealth. The averag…
7 years, 4 months ago
How identity politics elected Donald Trump
Episode 164
Identity Crisis is the most important book written on the 2016 election. Based on reams of data covering virtually every controversy, theory, and exp…
7 years, 4 months ago
Rep. Mark Sanford on losing the Republican Party to Donald Trump
Episode 163
Mark Sanford was elected to Congress in 1994, where he quickly established himself as one of the most conservative members of the chamber. In 2002, h…
7 years, 4 months ago
Doris Kearns Goodwin (live!) on how great presidents are made
Episode 162
If you’ve got a question, Doris Kearns Goodwin has a charming, insightful, well-told presidential anecdote for you. Actually, a couple of them. I int…
7 years, 4 months ago
What Nate Silver's learned about forecasting elections
Episode 161
This close to an election, who do I want to hear from? Nate Silver, of course. I sat down with the FiveThirtyEight founder and math wizard to talk ab…
7 years, 4 months ago
Jay Rosen is pessimistic about the media. So am I.
Episode 160
This is a tough conversation. It was a tough one to hold, and it’s a tough one to publish. I’m a journalist. I’ve been a journalist for 15 years. I b…
7 years, 4 months ago