Thomas Chatterton Williams: How MAGA Learned to Love Cancel Culture
19 Sep 2025
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Cancel culture lives on, but it's taken new turns, especially among some of the loudest opponents of...
Brian Stelter and Jonathan V. Last: Worst Case Scenario
18 Sep 2025
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The administration wants people to believe that Jimmy Kimmel was pulled off the air because he suppo...
Susan Rice: A Cancer in the Body Politic
17 Sep 2025
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This country has been dealing with an increase in political violence for nearly a decade, and leader...
Joe Manchin: The Man in the Middle
16 Sep 2025
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The former senator and former Dem has some not-very-nice things to say about Schumer and Obama—as ...
Bill Kristol: What Does 'They' Mean?
15 Sep 2025
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The administration is threatening to take away money and power—and maybe even freedom—from some ...
David Frum: Leveraging Violence as a Tool of Power
12 Sep 2025
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Trump and the people around him want to use the Kirk assassination to suppress their political oppos...
Erin Ryan: The Murder of Charlie Kirk
11 Sep 2025
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This country has too many guns and too many crazy people. And the social media oligarchs are fanning...
Stephanie Ruhle and Tom Saenz: Why Aren't People Freaking Out?
10 Sep 2025
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If Zohran Mamdani, as NYC mayor-elect, held a dinner with finance bros and threatened them with a hu...
James Bennet: Trump Is Still Hacking the Media
09 Sep 2025
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More than 10 years in, journalists still have not figured out how to cover Trump. He understands the...
Bill Kristol: Escalating the Authoritarian Project
08 Sep 2025
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In seven months, Trump has accumulated an astonishing amount of unchecked power. No one inside his a...
David French: Maybe the Tariffs Are the Problem
05 Sep 2025
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Last month, Trump fired the "woke" job numbers person after she released weak employment data. Now, ...
Mark Hertling: Performative and Deadly
04 Sep 2025
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The lethal U.S. military strike on a speedboat in the Caribbean was more about putting on a show tha...
Lina Khan: The Impunity of the Elites
03 Sep 2025
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The economic populists at the Nat Con conference may be talking a lot about elites screwing over the...
Stuart Stevens: Say They're Not Patriots
02 Sep 2025
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Democrats need to learn to fight like Republicans. So when senators with serious foreign policy chop...
Jonathan V. Last: Burning Things Down
01 Sep 2025
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Red States are flexing their muscles and imposing their will on the other states through their coord...
Tom Nichols: America's Problem Child
29 Aug 2025
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Trump is like a dysfunctional 8-year-old whose parents are always in the principal's office arguing ...
Sam Stein and Talmon Smith: Brain Drain
28 Aug 2025
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The resignations of senior leaders at the CDC is a calamity. People with decades of expertise in inf...
Jake Sullivan: Trump Is Making China Great Again
27 Aug 2025
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A year ago, China was globally isolated and its economy was struggling. But once Trump was back in o...
Susan Glasser: An Exercise in National Humiliation
26 Aug 2025
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Some rando far-right social media suck-up, who Trump rewarded with an appointment to his administrat...
Bill Kristol: March to Dictatorship
25 Aug 2025
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Trump and his people have used the summer months to up the despot game—sending armed troops into t...
Tommy Vietor: Trump's Security State
22 Aug 2025
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The fears of jack-booted thugs and the military in the streets that filled the fever dreams of numer...
Garry Kasparov and Jerusalem Demsas: Democracy Can't Defend Itself
21 Aug 2025
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While Trump keeps working hard on his own monetization and glorification—and delivers a Watergate ...
Adam Kinzinger: Don't Feed the Dictator
20 Aug 2025
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Russia is losing the war in Ukraine. More than 1 million Russian troops have been killed or injured,...
David Kirkpatrick: Trump's Self-Enrichment
19 Aug 2025
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Back in the day, Trump used to puff up his wealth to get on the Forbes list. Lately though, he doesn...
Bill Kristol: Authoritarian Takeover
18 Aug 2025
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Militarizing the nation's capital is not a distraction, and Democrats really need to stop using that...
Hakeem Jeffries: More Is More
15 Aug 2025
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While Donald Trump delivers chaos, cruelty, and corruption—and Republicans play the facts-and-hypo...
Michael Weiss: Helsinki in Anchorage?
14 Aug 2025
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At the Alaska summit, Putin will likely be angling for a sequel of the Helsinki meeting, the infamou...
Jason Calacanis: Anarcho Capitalism
13 Aug 2025
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Tim Cook groveling to Trump with a golden trophy and a dash of MAGA identity politics is probably a ...
Amanda Carpenter: Fake Emergencies
12 Aug 2025
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Trump keeps creating all these phony crises—an 'invasion' at the border, immigrants in the interio...
Bill Kristol: The Lawless Administration
11 Aug 2025
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Crime is down in D.C., but Trump is using the pretext of an attempted carjacking of "Big Balls," the...
Lis Smith: Dems Need to Burn Down the Party Establishment
08 Aug 2025
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There's a direct line between when the Democratic Party got nationalized and when it started getting...
Anne Applebaum: What USAID's Absence Looks Like on the Ground
07 Aug 2025
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The United States, through USAID, not only supplied a big chunk of the world's humanitarian aid, it ...
Zerlina Maxwell and Josh Barro: We Are in a Bad Place
06 Aug 2025
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Gerrymandering has always been partisan, but what's happening in Texas is straight-up racial politic...
Chuck Todd: Is the Economy the Biggest Political Threat to Trump?
05 Aug 2025
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Voters in the seven swing states that elected Trump in 2024 thought he'd make the economy better. Hi...
Bill Kristol: This Is So Third World
04 Aug 2025
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The boss only wants to hear good news: that's the takeaway from Trump's high-profile firing over the...
Dan Osborn: Connecting with Working People
01 Aug 2025
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Osborn, the populist independent who ran a surprisingly close campaign for a Senate seat in Nebraska...
Marc Elias: An Election War Machine
31 Jul 2025
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Texas Republicans are busy gerrymandering their already gerrymandered congressional map, and other r...
Franklin Foer: Elon, the Man Who Ate NASA
30 Jul 2025
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The rise of Elon—and why he is still involved with our government—has everything to do with the ...
David French: Israel's Humanitarian Obligations
29 Jul 2025
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Gaza is strewn with rubble, the war's end is nowhere in sight, and an entirely predictable humanitar...
Bill Kristol: Trump Is a Moral Monster
28 Jul 2025
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The man who cavorted with Jeffrey Epstein for 15 years never even bothers to feign empathy for Epste...
Andrew Weissmann: It Stinks to High Heaven
25 Jul 2025
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The deputy attorney general of the United States, who took an oath to help Donald Trump no matter wh...
Mike Murphy: Trump's Kryptonite
24 Jul 2025
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The one thing Mr. Authenticity was supposed to be was the anti-politician: the guy who would suppose...
Neera Tanden: Aiding and Abetting Trump
23 Jul 2025
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Mike Johnson is racing to shut the business of the House down to avoid a vote on releasing the Epste...
Chris Murphy: Time to Break Norms(?)
22 Jul 2025
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Republicans are nullifying bipartisan budget deals and planning a mid-decade redistricting to try to...
Bill Kristol: It's the Crimes and the Cover-Up
21 Jul 2025
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Our government disappeared hundreds of Venezuelans to a hellish Salvadoran prison for 125 days. When...
Tom Nichols: Secrets and Lies
18 Jul 2025
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If anyone in America was still thinking that Trump's ties to Epstein were a nothingburger, Trump’s...
David Wallace-Wells: The U.S. Is Handing the Baton to China
17 Jul 2025
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While the Trump administration is doubling down on fossil fuels, China is annihilating us in the cle...
Ben Wittes and Michael Feinberg: Breakdown at the FBI
16 Jul 2025
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In addition to eviscerating the top leadership at the Bureau, Kash Patel has assigned whole squads o...
Brian Beutler: Time to Pop Off, Dems
15 Jul 2025
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The majority of elected Democrats would prefer to talk only about policy, but that's not enough for ...
Bill Kristol: Has Trump Trapped Himself?
14 Jul 2025
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With the Epstein case, the conspirator-in-chief has finally found a hoax that MAGA isn't buying—an...
Sam Stein: This Is the Country They Want
03 Jul 2025
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Republicans are creating, and celebrating, an immigration police state financed by their megabill. O...
Galen Druke: Americans Do Not Like Trump's Deportations
02 Jul 2025
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Trump has moved public opinion against his own immigration policy platform by sending masked agents ...
E. Jean Carroll and Sarah Longwell: Such a Bad Man
01 Jul 2025
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Ever the journalist, E. Jean took assiduous notes about her two civil suits against Donald Trump, th...
Bill Kristol: Limp Opposition
30 Jun 2025
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Thom Tillis finally showed some backbone and opposed Trump—because of the giant Medicaid cuts in t...
Nicholas Kristof: Gratuitous Cruelty
27 Jun 2025
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A miracle food paste that fights malnutrition in children, that taxpayers have already paid for, is ...
Michael Weiss and Jonathan Cohn: Animal House at the Pentagon
26 Jun 2025
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Trump was so awestruck by Israel's intel infiltration and air supremacy over Iran that he just had t...
Derek Thompson: Winning Without Anger
25 Jun 2025
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A DSA candidate winning a Democratic primary in New York City is not an ideal laboratory for other D...
Nicolle Wallace: The Silence of Republicans Is the Bigger Threat
24 Jun 2025
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While Trump and his administration are the ones politicizing the rule of the law, ignoring due proce...
Bill Kristol: Trump Is Not the Right Man for a Crisis
23 Jun 2025
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Tim and Bill may have different takes on the wisdom of the U.S. bombing of Iran's nuclear sites—an...
Mark Cuban: Character Is Destiny
20 Jun 2025
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What if it had been a Harris-Cuban ticket in 2024? Well, it turns out the billionaire entrepreneur h...
Mark McKinnon and Dan Shapiro: Mid-Wreckage
19 Jun 2025
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Because half the country so desperately wanted Trump back, we may now be on the verge of attacking I...
Ben Rhodes: The World We Made
18 Jun 2025
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Iran is in a vulnerable spot for a variety of reasons, and Israel sees this as a stars-aligning mome...
Zohran Mamdani: FYPod Crossover
17 Jun 2025
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NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani joins Tim and Cam for a special edition of the daily pod to dis...
Bill Kristol and Terry Moran: True American Spirit
16 Jun 2025
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In contrast to the saddest military junta parade in history, millions of patriotic people took to th...
Tom Nichols: Remember the Split Screen
13 Jun 2025
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On Saturday, Trump would like nothing more than images from Los Angeles of tear gas and balaclava-cl...
Andrew Weissmann: Outlandish and Outrageous
12 Jun 2025
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Trump is outright fabricating a justification for sending Guard troops into Los Angeles, and his dir...
Mark Hertling: Contrary to American Values
11 Jun 2025
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Trump keeps wrapping himself in the American flag while while behaving in a very anti-American way—...
Bill Kristol: People Should Be Mad
10 Jun 2025
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Where is Obama? Where is George W. Bush? A Marine battalion and the National Guard have been deploye...
S2 Ep1060: Ta-Nehisi Coates: A Natural Human Reaction
09 Jun 2025
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Trump and Stephen Miller wanted a backlash against the immigration raids, because even they know tha...
S2 Ep1059: Sam Stein: The Divorce
06 Jun 2025
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Elon went nuclear, accusing Trump of being a pedo, taking credit for his election victory, and calli...
S2 Ep1058: Matt Yglesias: Elon's Smash and Grab
05 Jun 2025
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Trump's and Musk's very public breakup may be amusing, but don't lose sight of the fact that DOGE wa...
S2 Ep1057: Rahm Emanuel: Trump Is a Chump
04 Jun 2025
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The lovelorn TACO trader has been hanging by the phone at 2am hoping China's Xi will call him to mak...
S2 Ep1056: Catherine Rampell: Slow Burn
03 Jun 2025
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Jamie Dimon is spooked about the bond market, business uncertainty about tariffs is dragging the eco...
S2 Ep1055: Bill Kristol: The Grotesqueness of It All
Mon, 02 Jun
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Mike Johnson and Russ Vought outright lied on camera about the proposed Medicaid cuts and the impact...
S2 Ep1055: Bill Kristol: The Grotesqueness of It All
02 Jun 2025
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Mike Johnson and Russ Vought outright lied on camera about the proposed Medicaid cuts and the impact...
S2 Ep1054: Adam Serwer, Lauren Egan, and Justin Jones: The Attack on Knowledge
Fri, 30 May
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The Trump administration is trying to exert ideological control over every knowledge-producing insti...
S2 Ep1054: Adam Serwer, Lauren Egan, and Justin Jones: The Attack on Knowledge
30 May 2025
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The Trump administration is trying to exert ideological control over every knowledge-producing insti...
S2 Ep1053: Live from Chicago
29 May 2025
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Adam Kinzinger joined Tim on stage in the Windy City Wednesday night to dis Chicken Trump, who's mad...
S2 Ep1052: George Packer: JD, Hollow Man
28 May 2025
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Our VP used to think his path to power was through the ruling class at Yale Law School. But after 20...
S2 Ep1051: Pete Buttigieg: Dream Bigger, Talk More Boldly
Tue, 27 May 2025 18:43:32 +0000
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Democrats need vastly more imagination to confront the enormous challenges the country faces politic...
S2 Ep1051: Pete Buttigieg: Dream Bigger, Talk More Boldly
27 May 2025
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Democrats need vastly more imagination to confront the enormous challenges the country faces politic...
S2 Ep1050: Bill Kristol: Something Worth Fighting For
Mon, 26 May
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Despite our missteps in some of our more recent wars, we were fighting to bring freedom, democracy, ...
S2 Ep1050: Bill Kristol: Something Worth Fighting For
26 May 2025
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Despite our missteps in some of our more recent wars, we were fighting to bring freedom, democracy, ...
S2 Ep1049: James Comey: Uncomfortably Numb
Fri, 23 May
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Public corruption used to be a congressman hiding $90,000 in his freezer. Now, we have a president t...
S2 Ep1049: James Comey: Uncomfortably Numb
23 May 2025
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Public corruption used to be a congressman hiding $90,000 in his freezer. Now, we have a president t...
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is
Thu, 22 May 2025 19:22:30 +0000
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Republicans moved at such lightning speed that even they don't know how many people would lose healt...
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is
22 May 2025
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Republicans moved at such lightning speed that even they don't know how many people would lose healt...
S2 Ep1047: Susan Glasser: American in Name Only
21 May 2025
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On deportations and on foreign policy, the Trump administration is swapping out American values and ...
S2 Ep1046: David French: Schizo-in-Chief
Tue, 20 May 2025 19:06:56 +0000
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One day Trump sounds like Bernie promising the government will provide for everything. Then the next...
S2 Ep1046: David French: Schizo-in-Chief
20 May 2025
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One day Trump sounds like Bernie promising the government will provide for everything. Then the next...
S2 Ep1045: Bill Kristol: A New Gilded Age
Mon, 19 May
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No, the Trump administration is not focused on the forgotten man or bringing industrial jobs back. I...
S2 Ep1045: Bill Kristol: A New Gilded Age
19 May 2025
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No, the Trump administration is not focused on the forgotten man or bringing industrial jobs back. I...
S2 Ep1044: Peter Hamby: All in Service of Kissing Trump's Ass
16 May 2025
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MAGA is having a performative tantrum calling for James Comey to be jailed over a seashell meme beca...
S2 Ep1043: Michael Weiss: All Bribes Accepted
Thu, 15 May 2025 18:15:30 +0000
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American taxpayers may have flown Donald Trump to the Middle East, but he's not there to negotiate o...
S2 Ep1043: Michael Weiss: All Bribes Accepted
15 May 2025
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American taxpayers may have flown Donald Trump to the Middle East, but he's not there to negotiate o...
S2 Ep1042: Leah Litman and Andrew Egger: Grievance All the Way Down
Wed, 14 May
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The five men on the Supreme Court are so easily triggered and seem to be making law based on their e...
S2 Ep1042: Leah Litman and Andrew Egger: Grievance All the Way Down
14 May 2025
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The five men on the Supreme Court are so easily triggered and seem to be making law based on their e...
S2 Ep1041: Justin Wolfers: Trump's Centrally Planned Economy
Tue, 13 May 2025 18:33:15 +0000
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China sounds downright Reaganesque and is acting like a more stable, attractive trading partner than...
S2 Ep1041: Justin Wolfers: Trump's Centrally Planned Economy
13 May 2025
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China sounds downright Reaganesque and is acting like a more stable, attractive trading partner than...
S2 Ep1040: Bill Kristol: A Golden 747 from Hamas's Sugar Daddy
Mon, 12 May
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Trump can't abide flying around in crusty, old Air Force One. Qatar—funder of both Hamas and the l...