The Dispatch Podcast

Host Sarah Isgur is joined by Steve Hayes, and Jonah Goldberg for a weekly thoughtful discussion on politics, policy, and culture.

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Let's Talk About Facts

Episode Date: November 7, 2020

Does a video show someone burning ballots with votes for Trump? No. Did Michigan ‘magically’ find 138,339 votes for Joe Biden? Nope. What about Wiscon...

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The Long Road to 270

Episode Date: November 5, 2020

Minutes before 5 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, the president took to Twitter to claim victory in Georgia, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. The preside...

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It All Leads to This

Episode Date: October 30, 2020

What do Republican lawmakers want the Republican party to look like in a post-Trump era? “There’s a great fear of one scenario which is that Donald Tr...

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Closing Arguments

Episode Date: October 28, 2020

The idea that Joe Biden will somehow heal America in a post-Trump era has become the closing argument of the Democratic candidate’s campaign. Will Bid...

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The Science of Politics

Episode Date: October 23, 2020

Is the presidential race where the polls say it is? What might pollsters be missing this election cycle? Is there a scenario in which Biden wins the e...

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2016, 2020 and This Moment

Episode Date: October 21, 2020

The story that the New York Post published last week about Hunter Biden raised all sorts of red flags for veteran journalists. How did they come into...

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Narrative Laundering

Episode Date: October 16, 2020

How do journalists and tech platforms determine what information is verifiable online? How can news consumers determine which media outlets to trust w...

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Chekhov's Gun

Episode Date: October 14, 2020

How is Amy Coney Barrett holding up in her Senate confirmation hearings? Well, her record is squeaky clean, she’s held fast to the Ginsburg rule, and...

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The Power Washer Approach

Episode Date: October 9, 2020

Donald Trump is trailing in the polls by roughly 4.2 points in Arizona, a state Republican presidential candidates have won consistently in recent dec...

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For Whom the Bell Tweets

Episode Date: October 7, 2020

Do this week’s national presidential polling averages doom Donald Trump’s chance at winning the election? Joe Biden has maintained a steady national p...

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Virus Inside the Wire

Episode Date: October 2, 2020

Donald Trump shocked the world when he announced overnight via Twitter that he and the first lady tested positive for the coronavirus, a startling dev...

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Fight for the Highest Court

Episode Date: September 25, 2020

Why are Supreme Court vacancies more important to Republicans than they are to Democrats at the ballot box? It all goes back to conservative resistanc...

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Principle vs. Prudence

Episode Date: September 23, 2020

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death on Friday immediately kickstarted a battle among conservative pundits and politicians over the prudence of pushing...

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The Long Road to Peace

Episode Date: September 16, 2020

On Tuesday, Israel signed two historic peace agreements with Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates in a major step toward greater diplomacy in the Midd...

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An Enduring Memory

Episode Date: September 11, 2020

It’s the 19th anniversary of September 11, 2001, one of the most harrowing historical events in living memory. Today, our podcast hosts reflect on the...

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Latino Voters and 2020

Episode Date: September 9, 2020

News broke overnight of President Trump’s plans to reduce U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, less than a week after Jeffrey Goldberg’s bombshell art...

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The Art of Nuance

Episode Date: September 4, 2020

Erick Erickson, host of 95.5 WSB’s Atlanta’s Evening News and creator of The Resurgent, joins Sarah and Steve on the latest Dispatch Podcast to state...

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'Mostly Peaceful'

Episode Date: September 2, 2020

On the campaign trail and throughout his presidency, Donald Trump has painted himself as a law and order candidate. We’re now three years into Donald...