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Dana Milbank on The Nutcase Republican House
Episode 206
Dana Milbank, Washington Post Opinion columnist joins us this week! His latest book, "Fools on the Hill: The Hooligans, Saboteurs, Conspiracy Theorie…
1 year, 1 month ago
BEST OF: Scott Galloway
Episode 205
Professor Scott Galloway is our guest in this New Year's Best Of. Galloway has thoughts on the current political climate and how extreme most of the …
1 year, 2 months ago
BEST OF: SNL's Jim Downey
Episode 204
In this Best Of episode, we revisit the conversation from earlier this year with SNL writer and producer Jim Downey. Al and Jim worked on several ico…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Atlantic's George Packer on the End of Democratic Delusions
Episode 203
The Atlantic's George Packer joins us to discuss his recent piece titled The End of Democratic Delusions. Packer discusses the new era that Donald Tr…
1 year, 2 months ago
Anne Applebaum & Frank Foer on Syria, The Middle East, and Ukraine
Episode 202
We're joined by two of our favorite foreign policy writers to examine what the end of Bashar al-Assad’s regime means to Syria and the region. Frank F…
1 year, 2 months ago
WaPo's Aaron Blake on The Transition
Episode 201
As we move closer to the second Trump administration, we are learning more about his incoming Cabinet. Aaron Blake, senior political reporter and aut…
1 year, 2 months ago
BEST OF: Anne Applebaum on her book Autocracy, Inc.
Episode 200
In this Thanksgiving Best Of, we revisit our conversation with our friend Anne Applebaum! We aired this a few months ago when Anne's newest book, Aut…
1 year, 3 months ago
Listen Now: 'Tis The Grinch Holiday Podcast
Cuddly as a cactus and charming as an eel, Whoville's favorite talk show host is back on the mic! The Grinch may hate the holidays, but he loves his …
1 year, 3 months ago
David Axelrod on The Trump Transition
Episode 199
Donald Trump's Cabinet selection is about as chaotic as we expected it to be. Matt Gaetz withdrew his name for Attorney General after a number of Rep…
1 year, 3 months ago
David Weigel - Political Writer for Semafor
Episode 198
The incoming Trump administration has started announcing some of the picks for the incoming Cabinet. Somehow, they're worse than you could have imagi…
1 year, 3 months ago