Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Olivia Nuzzi and Dana Mattioli: A Deflated Trump
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The one-time most powerful man in the world is now being told when to sit, when to stand, and what h...
Frank Bruni: The Age of Grievance
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tocqueville noted that Americans forever brood over advantages they do not possess, but now our grie...
Tom Mauser and Bill Kristol: Columbine, 25 Years On
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Mauser lost his son, Daniel, in the Columbine High School massacre in 1999. He joins Tim Miller ...
Amanda Carpenter: Welcome to Coalition Government
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hey, look: Republicans and Democrats are working together! Meanwhile, Trump is still trying to destr...
Ali Vitali and Will Saletan: An Epiphany on Ukraine?
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Johnson shows hints of Reaganism with his new push for a foreign aid bill that includes support...
David Sanger: New Cold Wars
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the United States lived in a delusion that Russia an...
Ross Douthat: Elite Outrage Is Not Enough
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Trump wins voters who don't read The New York Times or listen to The Bulwark Podcast, and elite oppo...
Bill Kristol and Ben Wittes: The Split-Screen Reality
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While Biden spent the weekend helping fend off Iran's missile and drone attack, supposedly pro-Israe...
Jonathan Chait: Trump Broke the Scales
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Pound for pound, the media treats Trump better than any Democrat. Plus, talking about abortion in a ...
Isaac Arnsdorf and Joe Perticone: Trying to Finish What They Started
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Bannon fueled the rise of MAGA by offering true believers a sense of community and purpose. A ...
Olivia Nuzzi: Kari Lake Is No Meryl Streep
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kari Lake can deliver a good performance, but she's not really a true believer, as her flip on the A...
Adam Kinzinger: Yes, Russian Propaganda Is Infecting the GOP
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two powerful Republican congressmen say some of their colleagues are advancing Russian propaganda, b...
Bill Kristol: Pure Oligarchic Greed
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Trump's billionaire donors had it so bad under Obama, Clinton, and RINO presidents that they just ha...
Ron Brownstein: A Republican Realignment?
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While Trump's calling card is stoking white grievance, he's making unprecedented inroads with Black ...
Ruth Ben-Ghiat: There Is No Alternative
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Republicans can't get off the Trump highway to hell, but business and media elites are also cozying ...
Rep. Jared Moskowitz and Marc Caputo: The Least Productive Congress
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The 118th Congress has made history: by removing a speaker, expelling a member, and holding sham imp...
Stephen Richer and Will Saletan: Kari Lake Lied
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kari Lake said she'd fight to the bitter end to prove the AZ governor's race was stolen from her, bu...
Bill Kristol: Easter Egg (T)roll
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
MAGA spent the holiday weekend arguing that Trump is more faithful than Biden, and also managed to s...
A.B. Stoddard: Liz Cheney Groupie
29 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cheney makes clear where she comes down on the POTUS rematch and is showing ex-Trumpworld figures ho...
David Frum: American North Korea
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Republicans have entrapped themselves with the promise of a massive surveillance state for American ...
Justin Kanew and Justin Fenton: Tennessee, Laboratory of Theocracy
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As local news is hollowed out, rightwing news fills in the gaps. In Tennessee—ground zero for the ...
Don Lemon: Elon Is a Troll
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk, for all his keyboard courage, couldn't handle Don Lemon's Q and A, but then sicced his Tw...
Bill Kristol and Joe Perticone: The Quitters
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Gallagher is following Ken Buck out the House door, as they both abandon their jobs, their vote...
Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman: White Rural Rage
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rural white voters wield outsized power in our democracy, yet they are also more likely to support v...
Jake Tapper: American Scandal
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It used to be that politicians who had affairs, took bribes, and paid people off lost their office o...
Stephen Hayes: Grading Biden
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A recent editorial in The Dispatch rejected both Trump and Biden as acceptable choices in 2024. Tim ...
Susan Glasser: An Edifice of Lies
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Trump's 2024 lies are not just the familiar ones about a 'rigged election' and 'Sleepy Joe.' He's al...
Bill Kristol and Ben Wittes: A Subversive Enterprise
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Trump stands and salutes the insurrectionists during the national anthem, and may rehire the treas...
Amanda Carpenter: Is Trump Depressed?
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
He lost, he's low on campaign cash, and he's juggling criminal court dates. Are the bad things he sa...
Josh Barro: Dear Fed, Please Lower Interest Rates
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the biggest reasons voters are not happier about the economy is because interest rates are mu...
Sasha Issenberg: Politics, Disinformation, and 2024
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2016, the Trump campaign used microtargeting to suppress the Clinton vote. Since then, digital ma...
Evan Osnos: Biden Brims with Confidence
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Biden has the air of a man with no doubt about his campaign strategy—which is not exactly soothing...
Bill Kristol and Sarah Longwell: Is the Wishcasting Over?
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Old guy Biden got Ezra Klein to back down—and Kristol a little bit as well. Plus, Orbán at Mar-a-...
Ben LaBolt and Will Saletan: The Stakes of the Moment
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The White House explains why Biden led his State of the Union speech with the threats to democracy a...
Tom Nichols: The GOP Needs a Fake Joe Biden
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Republicans keep painting Biden as an antifa-loving, Iran-coddling communist as they try to create a...
Errin Haines: A Not So Super Tuesday
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Biden campaign is facing a buyer's market among voters and will really have to up its persuasion...
Catherine Rampell: Trump Would Be Bad News for the Economy
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Trump's plans to add tariffs and shrink the labor force— via an immigration crackdown— would lik...
Bill Kristol and Ben Wittes: We Still Have to Do the Work
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The courts aren’t taking care of Trump and we can’t live in denial about the state of play. Mean...
Kara Swisher: A Tech 'Tough Love' Story
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tech has allowed some very bad people to do some very bad things—including in the democracy arena....
Jamie Weinstein: The Cowardice of Mitch McConnell
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
McConnell wouldn't put the stake in the heart of Trump—will that overshadow his legacy? Plus, Dan ...
John Avlon: Winning Back the House from the MAGA Minions
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The MAGA crew in the House is against majoritarian democracy and thinks bipartisanship is bad—Demo...
Matt Yglesias and Brian Beutler: The Left Hits Biden Harder than Trump
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In our first crossover pod, Tim queries Yglesias and Beutler about Biden's Gaza response, and why De...
Bill Kristol: A Shot of Hopium
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Voters who backed Haley in South Carolina are not buying the American carnage message, and may repre...
Bonus Episode: South Carolina Circus Special
24 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tim is joined by John Heilemann, Jennifer Palmieri, and Mark McKinnon, his former colleagues from "T...
Rob Reiner and Dan Partland: God & Country
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Christian nationalism is not only a threat to democracy, but also to Christianity itself. Prominent ...
Glenn Thrush and Tim Mak: Russia's Plots Against the West
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A rundown on double agent Alexander Smirnov, and Republicans' eagerness to amplify information sourc...
Katie Couric: Not A Libtard
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Couric revisits the impact of her Sarah Palin interview, and shares her views with Tim on the evolut...
Jane Coaston: The Culture War of Absurdity
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie Kirk hates Taylor, pro sports, Disney—and anything normal. Plus, the Alabama ruling on fro...
Bill Kristol: A Tacky, Low-Life Con Man
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The vulgar carnival barker used the holiday weekend to hawk crummy, over-priced sneakers, and compar...
Ben Wittes: Putin's Cheerleaders
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alexei Navalny heroically stood up to Putin, but Tucker and MAGA's worst actors can't get enough of ...
Robert Draper: The Talented Mr. Meadows
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The immunity order Mark Meadows has in the election subversion case could be a big problem for Trump...
Rep. Dean Phillips: The Pitch
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The congressman states his case for why he's challenging Biden, and Tim Miller grills him.
James Carville: Mock Him
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Much of MAGA thinks Trump was sent by God, but King Cyrus probably didn't wear a diaper. Don't skimp...
Bill Kristol and A.B. Stoddard : Soak Up the Schadenfreude
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A Super Bowl W for Dark Brandon & the Deep State brings MAGA tears. Plus, Mike Gallagher steps a...
David French and Bill Kristol: The Age Thing
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The special counsel's report on Biden's docs—and a gaffe about Mexico—have placed Joe's age and ...
He's Staying on the Ballot
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court sounded ready to reject a Colorado ruling that barred Trump from the state ballot....
Tom Nichols: Citizen Trump
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court's legitimacy would really be on the line if it took up Trump's completely lunatic ...
Jonathan Taplin: The End of Reality
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Four billionaires—Musk, Zuckerberg, Thiel, and Andreessen—are part of an antidemocratic turn in ...
The Fifth Avenue Rapist
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
J.D. Vance has extended Trump's Fifth Avenue immunity claim to sexual assault, espionage, RICO, and ...
Michael Steele: Let it Rip, Joe
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Surprise, surprise, Biden drops F-bombs when he talks about the former insurrectionist president. Pl...
We're Talking Real Money
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Trump hasn't re-defamed E. Jean Carroll, so it basically takes about $83 million to get him to shut ...
Joe Klein & John Ellis: A Torrent of Stupid
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
MAGA has put Taylor at the top of its enemies list, Greg Abbott is inviting another Jan 6 at the bor...
Brian Klaas: Why Everything We Do Matters
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The world feels like it's falling apart, and black swan events are on the rise. Is this the result o...
Will Saletan: The New Nikki
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Haley has taken a hard turn against Trump, and is calling on him to 'man-up' and explain why he grew...
Edward Luce: Why Big Business Is Caving to Trump
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tax cuts and a gutted regulatory state are a big draw for Wall Street. But under a Trump 2.0, it wou...
Just What Putin Wanted
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Moscow Mitch capitulated to Trump's electoral interests, Justice Scalia speaks from beyond, Lindsey ...
Benjy Sarlin: Wake up to Reality
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As we pivot from primary season to the general election, Biden is telling Democrats to accept that T...
Michael Kruse: Trump's Grand Finale
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As a longtime legal combatant, probably no one else on earth is more prepared to leverage four prose...
Will Saletan: A Rogue Presidency
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Trump wants to put his knee on the neck of America with a violent, illegal presidency. Plus, the sel...
Amanda Carpenter: The Authoritarian Playbook
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump has been making extreme promises on the campaign trail. And unlike in 2016, this time h...
Complete and Total Immunity
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
No, American presidents don't need to be able to commit crimes to do their job. Plus, Trump is beggi...
Tina Nguyen: The MAGA Diaries
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The young people who show up at CPAC and Turning Point events are there because of a deeply entrench...
A.B. Stoddard: Dead Ends after Iowa
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Almost half of Iowa's caucus-goers voted for someone besides Trump—evidence that a criminal defend...
Will Saletan: The GOP Surrenders before First Vote
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Republicans are racing to bend the knee before the Iowa caucuses even start, while also looking like...
Karen Tumulty: The World's Biggest Victim
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As Trump prepares to clean up in the Iowa caucuses, his campaign narrative has gone full 'Trump: The...
The MAGA Pathology
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Christie dropping out shows that one party is at war with the idea of democratic self-governme...
Mark Hertling: Defending American Values
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While North Korea has jumped in to arm Russia, Republicans in Congress are dallying over supporting ...
Tim O'Brien: The Most Corrupt President. Ever.
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Trump is hoping for a market crash on Biden's watch, vowing revenge prosecutions, and plotting on ho...
Will Saletan: Erasing History
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jan 6 insurrectionists are innocent, and the Art of the Deal guy could've taught Lincoln how to nego...
Tom Nichols: Claudine Gay Had to Go
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Harvard was justified in protecting its academic standards and the institution itself. But people ar...
What Will the Supreme Court Do?
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
SCOTUS will have to take up up the insurrectionist clause, after Colorado and Maine took steps to re...
Susan Glasser: The Fever Won't Break
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump experience can't just be undone—we are a different country now, and we're not going back...
Will Saletan: The Guts to Tell the Truth
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Christie makes clear he's not dropping out, because Nikki Haley is not the one we've been wait...
The Day After: The Night My Father Scared America
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
ABC's The Day After, the 1983 drama about a nuclear strike on America, was the most-watched movie i...
Sam Wasson: A Francis Ford Coppola Story
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Coppola is like a Method actor behind the camera—living the movie to make the movie. For The Godfa...
Yair Rosenberg: Israel Is Not a White Colonial Project
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The left is lazily applying American ideas about racial identity and intersectionality to the Israel...
Anne Applebaum: The Irreparable Damage of a Second Term
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anne Applebaum discusses a ray of hope in Europe with the defeat of Poland's authoritarian governmen...
Will Saletan: Trump Is Anti-America
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the stump in New Hampshire, Trump parroted Putin condemning the American political system. Plus, ...
Ready for 2024?
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It was a year of heroes and zeros, highs and lows, and shocks and fizzles. Mona Charen, A.B. Stoddar...
Jack Smith Calls Trump's Bluff
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The special counsel is short-circuiting Trump's foot-dragging strategy and mining his phone data to ...
Where Have All the Democrats Gone?
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Democrats used to be the party of the common man and woman, but they have taken a back seat to Holly...
David Frum: A Dark Path
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If Trump wins, the first crime of his second term will be committing perjury—when he swears to def...
Will Saletan: Political Delusion
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin swears that Trump will stop with the retribution talk. Meanwhile, the aspiring dictator says i...
Tim Alberta: American Idolatry
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is the Almighty, who made heaven and earth, also biting his nails over next year's election? Tim Alb...
A.B. Stoddard: No One Feared Kevin
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
And now no one is afraid of Mike Johnson—so he won't be able to lead either. Plus, a Christie-Hale...
Liz Cheney: A Clear and Present Danger
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump will never be the lesser of two evils. We must unite, look beyond partisanship, and vot...
Philip Bump: The GOP Stumbles Towards Impeachment
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The smoking gun turns out to be a dud, but James Comer and the Republicans move ahead on their evide...
Will Saletan: The #MeToo Fail
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The progressives both-sidesing the sexual violence against Israeli women and girls has only added to...
Adam Kinzinger: Why Trump 2.0 Will Be Worse
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Trump wants to weaponize the office of the presidency, and who would stop him? We have a built-in we...
The Banality of Crazy
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From Elon to Trump to Kanye, public decompensation is a part of our culture now. Plus, Georgia's ina...