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Back to SearchHow Washington’s top book critic reads between 2024’s political lines
Episode 453
Carlos Lozada is a columnist for The New York Times, and before that, the longtime nonfiction book critic for The Washington Post.
In 2019, Lozada wo…
2 years, 1 month ago
Nancy Mace’s main character energy
Episode 452
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) has a way of being in the middle of things, whether it’s standing up to Trump after Jan. 6 when many in her party kept quiet…
2 years, 1 month ago
Jim Himes on satellites, space nukes and Section 702
Episode 451
Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, joins host and Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza to discuss everything …
2 years, 1 month ago
Chris Murphy's untold border bill backstory
Episode 450
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) was the Democratic lead on the much anticipated bipartisan border legislation that was supposed to sail through the Senat…
2 years, 2 months ago
How the border is splitting Biden’s closest allies
Episode 449
Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) discusses the unique role she plays as one of President Joe Biden’s campaign co-chairs who is also opposed t…
2 years, 2 months ago
Meet the pollster who is getting under the Democrats’ skin
Episode 448
Mark Penn is best known for two things: his devotion to centrist politics and his former role as the top pollster and strategist for Bill and Hillary…
2 years, 2 months ago
Is this the end of the New Hampshire primary as we know it?
Episode 447
Joe McQuaid, the longtime publisher of The New Hampshire Union Leader – the 161-year old conservative paper that has operated like a Republican party…
2 years, 2 months ago
Joe Biden called David Axelrod a ‘prick.’ It won’t shut him up.
Episode 446
David Axelrod, the former top Obama strategist, has been offering some tough medicine to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign. In November, he suggested…
2 years, 2 months ago
How Trump and Biden could blow it in 2024
Episode 445
As the Iowa caucuses near, Playbook’s Ryan Lizza and POLITICO Politics Bureau Chief Jonathan Martin go deep on what we know – and what we’ll soon fin…
2 years, 3 months ago
The most unlikely ingredient to a successful career in Washington
Episode 444
Arthur Brooks ran the American Enterprise Institute for more than a decade. Now, he’s a fulltime happiness scientist. Here’s his guide to making it i…
2 years, 3 months ago