Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow Hunter Biden, Jack Smith, and Trump’s legal troubles are setting the stage for 2024
Episode 443
A week of new developments in impeachment, Donald Trump’s D.C. case, and Hunter Biden’s congressional inquiry showcased how the collision of law and …
2 years, 3 months ago
Why James Lankford expects a border breakthrough
Episode 442
The GOP’s lead negotiator on the embattled Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and border security supplemental believes that a compromise will happen. But do h…
2 years, 4 months ago
Steve Scalise reveals what’s really happened since McCarthy’s fall
Episode 441
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise illuminates what happened behind closed doors after Kevin McCarthy’s ousting as well as what to expect next on im…
2 years, 4 months ago
Why the era of the ‘Emerging Democratic Majority’ is collapsing
Episode 440
John Judis and Ruy Teixeira, co-authors of “The Emerging Democratic Majority,” are back with a new book that argues that the Democrats are imperiled …
2 years, 4 months ago
Why US politics has become must-see TV abroad
Episode 438
Australian TV hosts Chas Licciardello and John Barron explain how American politics has influenced culture and government in their homeland; and whic…
2 years, 5 months ago
Why Democrats keep stubbing their toes on the working class vote
Episode 437
On this week’s episode of Deep Dive, Pulitzer Prize winner David Leonhardt joins host and Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza to talk about his new book an…
2 years, 5 months ago
The GOP’s new strategy to win on abortion
Episode 436
Since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in June 2022, the GOP has repeatedly paid a price electorally for its stance on abortion.
The chaos has been …
2 years, 5 months ago
How GOP moderates have Jim Jordan pinned
Episode 435
Host and Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza joins Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) to learn how he and other GOP moderates, institutionalists, and Biden-district…
2 years, 5 months ago
Biden deputy national security adviser lifts the fog of war in Israel
Episode 434
Jon Finer, President Joe Biden’s principal deputy national security adviser, opens up to Playbook co-author and Deep Dive host Ryan Lizza about how t…
2 years, 5 months ago
How to fight a president, please a billionaire, and save a newspaper
Episode 433
Marty Baron ran The Washington Post’s newsroom for nine years.
In that time, Marty clashed with then-president Donald Trump.
He pacified rebellions fro…
2 years, 6 months ago