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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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...

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A Tale of Two Conventions

Episode Date: August 29, 2020

The Democratic and Republican conventions are finally over but most of the major credible pollsters are waiting for the dust to settle before tracking...

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Unrest in Wisconsin

Episode Date: August 26, 2020

Widespread destruction of businesses and private property has devastated Kenosha, Wisconsin, in the wake of the police shooting of a Jacob Blake last...

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GOP Flirts with QAnon

Episode Date: August 14, 2020

When Politico reported on Republican congressional candidate Marjorie Greene’s racist and bigoted comments in June, several top GOP officials—includin...

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It's Kamala Harris

Episode Date: August 13, 2020

On Tuesday, Joe Biden tapped Kamala Harris as his running mate. But let’s be honest—we all saw this coming. As we wrote in The Morning Dispatch today,...

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Iceberg, Right Ahead!

Episode Date: August 5, 2020

Last week, President Trump experienced one of the most challenging interviews of his presidency when he sat down with Jonathan Swan from Axios. Swan a...

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Chaos vs. Community

Episode Date: July 31, 2020

As our colleague Jonah Goldberg always says, the parties have never been weaker than they are right now. Democratic political strategist Joe Trippi jo...