Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDavid French: Maybe the Tariffs Are the Problem
Last month, Trump fired the "woke" job numbers person after she released weak employment data. Now, we have even worse jobs numbers—and burgeoning si…
10 months, 1 week ago
Mark Hertling: Performative and Deadly
The lethal U.S. military strike on a speedboat in the Caribbean was more about putting on a show than countering the drug trade out of South America.…
10 months, 1 week ago
Lina Khan: The Impunity of the Elites
The economic populists at the Nat Con conference may be talking a lot about elites screwing over the little guy, but the Trump administration itself …
10 months, 1 week ago
Stuart Stevens: Say They're Not Patriots
Democrats need to learn to fight like Republicans. So when senators with serious foreign policy chops vote to confirm a middling weekend talk show ho…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Jonathan V. Last: Burning Things Down
Red States are flexing their muscles and imposing their will on the other states through their coordinated redistricting efforts. And if they deploy …
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Tom 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…
10 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…
10 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…
10 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 …
10 months, 2 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…
10 months, 3 weeks ago