Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Ben Rhodes: The World We Made
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
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
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
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
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
Contributed by Lukas
On deportations and on foreign policy, the Trump administration is swapping out American values and ...
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
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
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
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
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
12 May 2025
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Trump can't abide flying around in crusty, old Air Force One. Qatar—funder of both Hamas and the l...
S2 Ep1039: Amanda Carpenter: MAGA's Bad Week
09 May 2025
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First, the Vatican chose a Bulwark pope, not an AR-15 loving, immigrant-hating pope. Then, in a majo...
S2 Ep1038: Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin: The Power of 'No'
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Protest is the new brunch again. We're witnessing historic levels of pro-democracy grassroots engage...
S2 Ep1037: Katie Phang and Greg Casar: Trump & Co Are the Real Flag Burners
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Supreme Court is working hard to tend to Mr. Presidential Immunity's wounds because he just can'...
S2 Ep1036: Jonathan V. Last: An Economic Tsunami Is Coming
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Because Donald Trump's stupid trade embargo has us reading shipping charts, we now know that 40% of ...
S2 Ep1035: Bill Kristol: A Reckless, Tin-Pot President
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Trump 2.0 is showing so little concern for his political standing that even Fox made primetime room ...
S2 Ep1034: Derek Thompson: Trump's War on Dolls
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Just imagine Fox's histrionics if a President AOC had said that American kids have too many dolls an...
S2 Ep1033: Tom Nichols: The Hollow Opportunists
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Marco Rubio was supposed to be one of the only adults in the room, and now he's become a shell of hi...
S2 Ep1032: Tony Blinken: America Alone
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
For 80 years, the United States built strong economic, military, and political alliances around the ...
S2 Ep1031: Joe Weisenthal: Everything Screams Recession
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The markets may be hanging in there but they also held strong in early 2020—right up until Covid h...
S2 Ep1030: Bill Kristol: Creepy and Wrong
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Trump administration keeps showing it's sooo tough on immigration that it deported three U.S. ci...
S2 Ep1029: Beto O'Rourke: Never Lose Hope
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Since this country's founding, we have been tested. And the Americans before us somehow stood up and...
S2 Ep1028: Cory Booker: A National Crisis and a Global Crisis
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Donald Trump is trying to foist the worst peace deal in the last 100 years on Ukraine, as he gets re...
S2 Ep1027: Jonathan Rauch: Focus On the Corruption
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Trump may be brilliant at assaulting us with his daily distractions, but Democrats need to relentles...
S2 Ep1026: Michael Steele: Your Voice Matters
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Trump and the people around him are trying to weaken our constitutional protections like due process...
S2 Ep1025: Bill Kristol: Hegseth Keeps Proving his Unfitness
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Republican senators could have insisted on someone who was even minimally competent to run our milit...
S2 Ep1024: Anne Applebaum: Everything Is a Game to Trump
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Sen. Van Hollen showed that Congress actually does have agency, and a federal judge finally scorched...
S2 Ep1023: Ben Wittes: Sorry, We Still Have Due Process
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The White House is doubling down on justifying its extra-judicial actions around Abrego Garcia by tr...
S2 Ep1022: Stephanie Ruhle: Only Trump Is Happy
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Manufacturing orders are down, stocks are down, and mortgage rates are up. But Trump and his family ...
S2 Ep1021: Josh Barro: Total Idiocy
15 Apr 2025
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Trump & company want to turn us into Taiwan circa 1985. But the brilliant minds behind the idea ...
S2 Ep1020: Bill Kristol: Staring Down the Barrel
14 Apr 2025
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We are here: Trump is openly defying the Supreme Court while sitting side-by-side with a Latin Ameri...
S2 Ep1019: David Frum: It's Too Late to Stop the Pain
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Trump has effectively imposed a trade embargo on China, which means that after the inventory runs ou...
S2 Ep1018: Andrew Weissmann and Patrick Gaspard: Naked Corruption
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Just before he paused the tariffs on Wednesday, an unusual spike in activity on the S&P 500 prom...
S2 Ep1017: Catherine Rampell: Trump's Tariffmageddon
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The White House is pumping out a lot of happy talk about countries wanting to make deals over the ta...
S2 Ep1016: Jonathan Cohn and Mark Lilla: Lobotomizing America
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
When it comes to biomedical research, America is already great. We are the world's leader in the fie...
S2 Ep1015: Bill Kristol: The High Cost of Stupidity
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Part of the reason for the market bloodbath is because the finance wizzes didn't factor in that Trum...
S2 Ep1014: Adam Kinzinger: Mortal Damage to the American Empire
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
It's been great to live in America since World War II, but Trump is in the process of blowing up tha...
S2 Ep1013: Mallory McMorrow and Tracy Alloway: A Self-Inflicted Crisis
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The market plunge is just pure Trump chaos, and perfectly matches his record as a businessman. From ...
S2 Ep1012: Sam Stein: Elon Is Toxic
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Musk was so high on his own supply that he thought he and his money were magic—but Wisconsin voter...
S2 Ep1011: Susan Rice: This Is Bloody Serious
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The administration admits it mistakenly sent a Maryland father with protected status to the Salvador...
S2 Ep1010: Bill Kristol: Stiffen Your Spines, Democrats
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
If Joe Rogan is the voice in the wilderness on the disappearing of migrants to El Salvador, then the...
S2 Ep1009: Amanda Carpenter: Daddy? No, Manny Trump
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Trump is siccing the thought police on the Smithsonian, he's got an FBI task force set up to protect...
S2 Ep1008: Jon Lovett: A Worst Case Scenario Comes Into View
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Trump so far is not delivering on his promised spike in deportations, but he is creating a permissio...
S2 Ep1008: Michael Weiss, Ben Smith, and Annie Karni: Radioactively Stupid
26 Mar 2025
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No matter how hard Republicans try to spin the sharing of top secret military attack plans on an ins...
S2 Ep1007: Jeffrey Goldberg and Peter Wehner: What's Going on with Our National Security?
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Senior members of Trump's Cabinet got caught sharing attack plans—down to details of who they were...
S2 Ep1006: Live from Phoenix
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Bill Kristol joined Tim Saturday in Arizona to rip the atrocious behavior of our government—depriv...
S2 Ep1005: Michael Lewis: Government Workers Aren't the Corrupt Ones
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Trump loves to complain about the deep state while Elon claims he's rooting out waste, fraud, and ab...
S2 Ep1004: Wes Moore: The System Doesn't Work for a Lot of People
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Trump is a vessel for frustration over the status quo, but he is not a vehicle for a solution—sinc...
S2 Ep1003: Ben Wittes: Putin Makes A Fool of Trump, Again
19 Mar 2025
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The Art of the Deal guy gave a master class on how to get worked over by Putin: First, wait around f...
S2 Ep1002: Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov: The Cheap Whore at the White House
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The fastest growing demographic class in America is billionaires—we've gone from 500 to 2,500 in t...
S2 Ep1001: Bill Kristol: Give Back the Statue of Liberty
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Trump is taking liberties with our country's role in the world as a land of hope and opportunity by ...
S2 Ep1000: David French: Trump Admits He's Violating the Constitution
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Trump & company aren't even attempting to create a pretext for why they're punishing the free sp...
S2 Ep999: Sam Stein: How Do You Negotiate with Nihilists?
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Democrats are stuck with two terrible options: Either facilitating a government shutdown or allowing...
Mark Hertling: Aiding and Abetting a War Criminal
12 Mar 2025
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Putin has been named a war criminal because of the Russian way of war in Ukraine—bombing Kyiv and ...
Will Sommer: Across the MAGA-Verse
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
To find out what's really going on in Trumpistan, the AP is out and random lifestyle Instagrammers a...
S.E. Cupp: The Outrage Is the Point
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This time around, Trump has dispensed with the ribbon-cutting side of being president—he's just no...
Tom Nichols: Covid Trump 2.0
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
They end up sounding ridiculous whenever they try—like the treasury secretary saying that access t...
Neera Tanden and John Fetterman: They're Playing With People's Lives
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Donald Trump is hurting the American people. The DOGE cuts are not only waging war on jobs, they're ...
Jim Acosta: Trump Can't Take the Heat
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Once upon a time, presidents used to take tough questions from the press, but the current White Hous...
James Carville and Michael Weiss: The Whole Country Could Go Under
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Trump is anti-American and seems to hate this country: How else can his behavior be explained? The t...
Bill Kristol: Kleptocrats and Plutocrats
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Trump is trying to chuck the post-WWII order and firmly pivot American foreign policy away from Euro...
BONUS EPISODE from Tim's New "FYPod"
02 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Tim has a new Gen Z podcast, co-hosted by Cameron Kasky. The most recent episode is called "Nazi Par...
David Frum: Both Pro-Jesus and Pro-Sex Trafficking
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Forget the Epstein files hullabaloo. Members of the Trump administration, perhaps at the urging of B...
Mike Murphy: The Chinese Own Elon
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The not-so-shadow president's largest Tesla plant is in Shanghai, but the People's Republic of China...
Ruben Gallego and Zerlina Maxwell: Make Them Own It
26 Feb 2025
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Republicans are aiming to gut Medicaid to pay for trillions in tax cuts for the richest of Americans...
Ben Wittes: Who the F*** Are You?
25 Feb 2025
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Trump administration lawyers don't know or won't tell a federal judge who is running DOGE because El...
Bill Kristol and Jared Polis: Send In the Clown
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Trump keeps filling out his administration with the unqualified and the inexperienced, including the...
Adam Kinzinger: It's Starting to Happen
21 Feb 2025
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Boos at a Republican town hall in Fulton County, and boos at the White House: We're beginning to see...
David Graham and Pablo Torre: Is Lil Marco a Cuban Communist Agent?
20 Feb 2025
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If Marco Rubio was NOT playing the long game masquerading as a patriotic neocon who gets placed in t...
Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
19 Feb 2025
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Crypto should be one of the biggest stories out of the Trump administration, but the crypto guys are...
Susan Glasser: Giving Away the Store to Putin
18 Feb 2025
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Trump is A-OK with all the murder and mayhem Russia has unleashed on Ukraine, and he's making a mock...
Bill Kristol: Taking A Wrecking Ball to the Government
17 Feb 2025
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Firing air traffic controllers over a busy holiday travel weekend, cutting a veterans crisis hotline...
BULWARK TAKES: Wrecking Ball TODDLERS Trump and Elon Are Making Susie Wiles' Life HELL
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Tim Miller and John Avlon join forces to talk about Trump and Elon's growing relationship, Susie Wil...
Andrew Weissmann and Michael Weiss: Valentine's Massacre
14 Feb 2025
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Unlike the cowardly Republican senators who are rolling over in the face of Kash Patel's bald-faced ...
Alex Wagner: The Poster Child for Corruption and Grift
13 Feb 2025
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While Elon claims he's storming the government to cut waste, he's also getting himself a big fat che...
Carol Leonnig and Robert Putnam: Lies and Moral Obligations
12 Feb 2025
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If Republican senators had any shred of dignity left, they'd demand that Kash Patel answer why he br...
Tom Malinowski: Fight the Power, Dems
11 Feb 2025
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The Democratic Party was made for different times, when rules were followed. But to preserve the bas...
Bill Kristol: The Law Be Damned
10 Feb 2025
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The new administration has been routinely breaking the law, including on Friday when it announced it...
Ezra Klein: The Resistance, Back from the Dead
07 Feb 2025
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Partly because of the courts and partly because the White House keeps stepping on rakes or trying to...
Michael Steele: Gum Up the Works
06 Feb 2025
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After the dumbest member of the Senate, Tommy Tuberville, was able to block military promotions for ...
Ben Stiller: 'Severance,' but Real Life
05 Feb 2025
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With Elon's 20-something operatives running the Treasury Department, it's hard not to feel that we'v...
Anne Applebaum: Outside the Rule of Law
04 Feb 2025
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If the Chinese hacked the U.S. government the way private citizen Elon has, it would be a major act ...
Will Saletan and Scott Lincicome: A Crime Boss Has Taken Over
03 Feb 2025
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The president of the United States is putting his Jan 6 accomplices in charge of the Justice Departm...