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22 episodes transcribedIn 2022, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, ushering in, by some estimates, nearly half a trillion dollars of investment in green ene...
Donald Trump will enter office at a time when presidential power has significantly expanded, because of a string of Supreme Court decisions in recent...
This election felt like the peak of the TV-ification of politics. There’s Trump, of course, who rose to national prominence as a reality-TV character...
It was possible to see Donald Trump’s first election victory as some kind of fluke. But after the results of this election, it’s clear that America is...
Right after the election, I talked about how the results reminded me of 2004. George W. Bush won re-election that year — and unlike four years earlier...
There are a lot of different opinions about how the Democratic Party should rebuild after the blow of Donald Trump’s victory. And for the next two epi...
The core conflict in our politics right now is over institutions. Democrats defend them, while Republicans distrust them, and seek, in some cases, to...
I’ve been watching since the election to see what timeline we’re in. And Donald Trump’s first wave of selections for appointees were pretty straightfo...
The Democratic Party has been hemorrhaging nonwhite and working-class voters. There are a lot of theories about why that has been happening, blaming i...
To understand the 2024 election results, it helps to go back to 2020. Donald Trump lost the election that year, but he made significant gains with non...
The coalition the Democratic Party built in the Obama years has crumbled. But Democrats can choose how to respond.Mentioned:“Democrats Have a Better O...
In 2010, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert held a satirical rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., called the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fe...
Our politics are increasingly divided on fundamental issues like the legitimacy of elections and the nature and integrity of the basic systems of Amer...
Vivek Ramaswamy burst onto the national scene last year as a wild card candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. Here was a relatively unk...
This week I published an audio essay about what I think is unique about Donald Trump as a personality and political figure and the dangers he poses if...
I think there’s an answer. But it’s not age — or, at least, it’s not just age.Mentioned:“White House aides lean on delays and distraction to manage Tr...
Crime data has been a flashpoint in this election. Kamala Harris has claimed that violent crime is at a “near 50-year low,” while Donald Trump has ins...
As of this week, the archive of this show is behind a paywall. The three most recent episodes are free, but earlier episodes are available only to New...
In his new book of essays, “The Message,” Ta-Nehisi Coates writes about a trip he took to Israel and the West Bank in May 2023. “I felt lied to,” he t...
On Oct. 6 of last year, the Biden administration was hammering out a grand Middle East bargain in which Saudi Arabia would normalize relations with Is...
