Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTom Nichols: America's Problem Child
Trump is like a dysfunctional 8-year-old whose parents are always in the principal's office arguing that their son is a good boy. The media, CEOs, an…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Sam Stein and Talmon Smith: Brain Drain
The resignations of senior leaders at the CDC is a calamity. People with decades of expertise in infectious disease are leaving the agency because th…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Jake Sullivan: Trump Is Making China Great Again
A year ago, China was globally isolated and its economy was struggling. But once Trump was back in office pursuing his own personal and political gai…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Susan Glasser: An Exercise in National Humiliation
Some rando far-right social media suck-up, who Trump rewarded with an appointment to his administration, is pushing mortgage fraud investigations of …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Bill Kristol: March to Dictatorship
Trump and his people have used the summer months to up the despot game—sending armed troops into the streets, taking over the police in D.C., and pro…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Tommy Vietor: Trump's Security State
The fears of jack-booted thugs and the military in the streets that filled the fever dreams of numerous people on the right since the 90s have come t…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Garry Kasparov and Jerusalem Demsas: Democracy Can't Defend Itself
While Trump keeps working hard on his own monetization and glorification—and delivers a Watergate practically every hour—the pro-democracy coalition …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Adam Kinzinger: Don't Feed the Dictator
Russia is losing the war in Ukraine. More than 1 million Russian troops have been killed or injured, and it's been estimated that it would take anoth…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
David Kirkpatrick: Trump's Self-Enrichment
Back in the day, Trump used to puff up his wealth to get on the Forbes list. Lately though, he doesn't talk about how much money he has, especially n…
7 months ago
Bill Kristol: Authoritarian Takeover
Militarizing the nation's capital is not a distraction, and Democrats really need to stop using that term. Trump is trying to seize power, intimidate…
7 months ago