Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBill Kristol: The Law Be Damned
The new administration has been routinely breaking the law, including on Friday when it announced it was cutting funding for universities doing medic…
1 year, 1 month ago
Ezra Klein: The Resistance, Back from the Dead
Partly because of the courts and partly because the White House keeps stepping on rakes or trying to break everything, the Dems who were too chill ab…
1 year, 1 month ago
Michael Steele: Gum Up the Works
After the dumbest member of the Senate, Tommy Tuberville, was able to block military promotions for months during the Biden administration, Dems shou…
1 year, 1 month ago
Ben Stiller: 'Severance,' but Real Life
With Elon's 20-something operatives running the Treasury Department, it's hard not to feel that we've been severed from reality and a better Earth so…
1 year, 1 month ago
Anne Applebaum: Outside the Rule of Law
If the Chinese hacked the U.S. government the way private citizen Elon has, it would be a major act of cyber warfare. And since Elon is a government …
1 year, 1 month ago
Will Saletan and Scott Lincicome: A Crime Boss Has Taken Over
The president of the United States is putting his Jan 6 accomplices in charge of the Justice Department and the FBI, and clearing out any officials w…
1 year, 1 month ago
Andrew Weissmann: A MAGAtocracy and a Babytocracy
While Republican senators worked to protect Kash Patel from answering some ver-wee hard questions at his confirmation hearing, not one of them had th…
1 year, 1 month ago
Tommy Vietor: Deniability Is All That Matters
Republican senators don't care that Trump's nominees are lying—like Kash pretending he didn't know a Nazi-adjacent podcaster whose show he's been on …
1 year, 1 month ago
Mona Charen: A Moment of Truth
Trump is trying to seize powers he doesn't have—like unilaterally rewriting laws and deciding on his own how he wants to spend money Congress appropr…
1 year, 1 month ago
Chris Hayes and Alex Kantrowitz: Trying To Break the Whole Thing
The directives putting a pause on federal grants and the firing of career DOJ prosecutors is about trying to make the entirety of the federal governm…
1 year, 1 month ago