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Episode 326
There's an intra-party fight on the right — and it's not (all) about Trump! For decades, conservatives have called for the government to take a hands…
4 years, 7 months ago
How Kamala Harris is embracing — and changing — the system
Episode 325
Kamala Harris entered law school as the daughter of activists and came out as a prosecutor — an evolution that shaped the politician she is today. No…
4 years, 7 months ago
The first true foreign policy test of Biden's presidency
Episode 324
The Taliban's return to power marks the first real foreign policy crisis of the Biden administration — and a rare moment of bipartisan criticism of J…
4 years, 7 months ago
Vote-a-rama drama and the national debt
Episode 323
Nobody on Capitol Hill got much sleep this week. The Senate passed its infrastructure bill, stayed up all night in a vote-a-rama and provided foresha…
4 years, 7 months ago
The Democratic ‘civil war’ in Ohio
Episode 322
The Democratic establishment dealt a crushing blow to the progressive movement this week in Ohio, where tensions, bad blood and intraparty allegiance…
4 years, 8 months ago
Strange but true: Bernie's pragmatic turn
Episode 321
Bernie Sanders is behaving a lot like a pragmatist (just don’t say it to his face). As the Senate Budget chair and a member of Sen. Chuck Schumer’s l…
4 years, 8 months ago
Inside Biden’s slow-walk on Cuba
Episode 320
Cuba’s sweeping protests — and sweeping crackdown — are historic. But the situation is a political hot potato for Biden, whose sanction orders came n…
4 years, 8 months ago
Biden’s student debt promise comes due
Episode 319
$1.6 trillion — that's how much student loan debt there is in the United States. Progressives want to cancel student loan debt. Republicans say that'…
4 years, 8 months ago
How the 'burbs turned blue
Episode 318
Michigan’s Oakland County, once a Republican stronghold, is turning blue. Playbook's Eugene Daniels and Zack Stanton (also a Michigan native — he's f…
4 years, 9 months ago
Weed is popular. So what's the holdup in Congress?
Episode 317
Eight — that’s how many states have passed some form of cannabis legalization since November. And even though marijuana is gainingpopularity in conse…
4 years, 9 months ago