Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
David Brooks on Why the Democrats Are Losing to Trump
The columnist David Brooks joins Patrick Healy to take stock of President Trump’s fifth address to Congress, to analyze the Democrats’ response, and …
1 year, 7 months ago
Elon Musk and the Useless Spending-Cut Theater of DOGE
As a fiscal conservative, the columnist David French would normally be excited about a Department of Government Efficiency and the opportunity to rei…
1 year, 7 months ago
What Man's Man Politics Is Doing to America
President Trump’s outsize performance of masculinity has won him attention, elections and the support of manosphere influencers like Andrew Tate and …
1 year, 7 months ago
The Most Important Lesson in Sex Ed Isn’t Actually Sex
When Hillary Frank took her middle-school-age daughter to see “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.,” she was surprised to learn that the fictional …
1 year, 7 months ago
What an F.B.I. Under Patel and Bongino Might Mean for America
President Trump has appointed Dan Bongino — a former U.S. Secret Service agent, right-wing podcaster and an outspoken critic of the F.B.I. — as the a…
1 year, 7 months ago
Trump’s Bargain With Putin Is ‘Shameful’
Turning our back on Ukraine would only weaken America.
The Trump administration may be considering negotiating a peace deal with Russia that would end…
1 year, 7 months ago
Thomas Friedman Has Given Up on Politics — but Not on the World
President Trump appears ready to cut a deal that could end Russia’s war in Ukraine without ever consulting Ukraine. In this episode, the deputy Opini…
1 year, 7 months ago
Trump and Musk, the ‘Co-Presidents’
In this episode, the Opinion editor Aaron Retica and the columnist Jamelle Bouie discuss how President Trump, Elon Musk and their supporters are tryi…
1 year, 8 months ago
My Values ‘Can’t Be Nullified by an Executive Order’
Kirk Wallace Johnson served with U.S.A.I.D. in Baghdad and Fallujah. When he returned to the United States, he spent much of his career helping thous…
1 year, 8 months ago
Please, Don't Buy Flowers for Valentine's Day
It’s Valentine’s Day, and if you celebrate, the chances of giving or receiving a bouquet of flowers is high. But have you considered the environmenta…
1 year, 8 months ago