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The Political Scene The New Yorker

The Political Scene The New Yorker
Welcome to "The Political Scene by The New Yorker," a riotous romp through the sometimes tumultuous, always tantalizing world of politics, where facts are like family: messy, argumentative, but ultimately lovable. Hosted by two bright sparks of political journalism, Dorothy Wickenden and Ryan Lizza, they've swapped the silent halls of The New Yorker for the humbling echo of the podcast world. Here, they tackle every jab, jape, and jest of the political climate. Ideal for politically incisive minds, news junkies, or anyone who loves a good verbal tussle. Don't forget the popcorn as they navigate the circus of government absurdity! One riveting episode? "Democracy vs. Autocracy," where the age-old debate finally gets its podcast pants on. Dive in deeper, if you dare, and absorb the intellectual banquet. A feast your cerebellum can sink its teeth into.

Latest The Political Scene The New Yorker Episodes

Andrew Ross Sorkin on What 1929 Teaches Us About 2025

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000
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Is the Epstein Scandal Trump’s Kryptonite?

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 01:00:00 -0000
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How Zohran Mamdani Won, and What Comes Next

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 23:41:49 -0000
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What Resistance Means to Governor J. B. Pritzker

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000
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The Washington Roundtable Answers Your Questions

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 01:00:00 -0000
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Have the Democrats Figured Out How to Win Again?

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 01:25:00 -0000
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Jon Stewart on the Perilous State of Late Night and Why America Fell for Donald Trump

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:21:00 -0000
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From In the Dark: “Blood Relatives,” an investigative series

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 10:00:00 -0000
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How Bad Is It?: Why an Antifascism Scholar Fled the Country

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 03:57:00 -0000
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Zadie Smith on Politics, Turning Fifty, and Mind Control

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 10:00:00 -0000
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How the Trump Administration Made Higher Education a Target

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 10:00:00 -0000
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The Ceasefire and the Business of Trump’s Diplomacy

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0000
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How Much More Can Federal Workers Take?

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 21:40:00 -0000
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Zohran Mamdani Says He's Ready for Donald Trump

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 10:00:00 -0000
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What Does Donald Trump’s “War from Within” Mean in Practice?

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0000
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After James Comey, Who’s Next on Trump’s Revenge Tour?

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 23:43:00 -0000
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A Conservative Professor on How to Fix Campus Culture

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 10:00:00 -0000
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How Russell Vought Broke the U.S. Government

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0000
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Will the Supreme Court Hand Trump Another Slate of Victories?

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 23:56:00 -0000
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Ezra Klein’s Big-Tent Vision of the Democratic Party

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 10:00:00 -0000
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Jimmy Kimmel and the Power of Public Pressure

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0000
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How MAHA Is Sowing Vaccine Confusion

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:14:00 -0000
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Is The 2026 Election Already in Danger?

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 10:00:00 -0000
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Hillary Clinton on the Psychology of Autocrats

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:00:00 -0000
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How Bad Is It?: Political Violence in the U.S., and What We Can Learn from Brazil

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0000
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How the “Dangerous Gimmick” of the Two-State Solution Ended in Disaster

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 10:00:00 -0000
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Charlie Kirk and the Long Shadow of Political Violence

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0000
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The New Yorker’s Head of Fact Checking on Our Post-Truth Era

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:08:00 -0000
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Anna Wintour Embraces a New Era at Vogue

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 14:30:00 -0000
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Trump Has Grabbed Emergency Powers. How Will He Use Them?

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0000
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Why Pam Bondi Is the Attorney General of Trump’s Dreams

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 23:16:00 -0000
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Donald Trump’s War on Culture Is Not a Sideshow

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 21:00:00 -0000
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The Democratic Party’s Identity Crisis

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 02:06:52 -0000
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Dexter Filkins on Drones and the Future of Warfare

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 10:00:00 -0000
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Is Trump the Roman Tyrant America's Founders Feared?

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:00:00 -0000
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How Bad Is It?: Trump’s Self-Dealing and the Question of Kleptocracy

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 01:51:00 -0000
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A Palestinian Journalist Escapes Death in Gaza

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:00:00 -0000
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What Happens After Someone Is Arrested by ICE?

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 23:55:00 -0000
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Your Questions Answered: Trump vs. the Rule of Law

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 10:00:00 -0000
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How Bad Is It?: Trump’s War on Comedians

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0000
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Mayor Karen Bass on Marines in Los Angeles

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 10:00:00 -0000
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Wired’s Katie Drummond on What the Tech Titans Learned from DOGE

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 21:19:56 -0000
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How the Epstein Conspiracy Theory Took Over Politics

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0000
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Michael Wolff on MAGA’s Revolt over Jeffrey Epstein

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 10:00:00 -0000
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Leah Litman on Trump’s Supreme Court

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 19:00:00 -0000
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Janet Yellen on the Danger of a “Banana Republic” Economy

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:00:00 -0000
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Fiona Hill on What Putin Tells Us About Trump

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 20:55:44 -0000
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Andy Beshear Has a Plan for the Democratic Party

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 20:56:14 -0000
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The Scientists Studying the End of the World

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 10:00:00 -0000
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Bret Baier On Trump’s Love-Hate Relationship with Fox News

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 10:00:00 -0000
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How Bad Is It?: Trump Strikes Iran and His Base Hits Back

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0000
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Why Israel Struck Iran First

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 10:00:00 -0000
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Where Is the Iran-Israel Conflict Headed?

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:00:00 -0000
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The Rise And Fall of DOGE

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0000
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The Unfolding Genocide in Sudan

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:00:00 -0000
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Trump Makes a Big Show of Military Force

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0000
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What Broke the U.S.-China Relationship?

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0000
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What Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Doesn’t Understand About Autism

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 10:00:00 -0000
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The Oligarchs Are Fighting

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0000
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The Man Who Thinks Trump Should Be King

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0000
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Lesley Stahl on What a Settlement with Donald Trump Would Mean for CBS News

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 10:00:00 -0000
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Examining Trump's War on the Media, and a Warning from Hungary

Thu, 29 May 2025 00:00:00 -0000
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How Experts Became the Enemy

Thu, 22 May 2025 00:00:00 -0000
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Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on President Joe Biden’s Decline, and Its Cover-Up

Mon, 19 May 2025 10:00:00 -0000
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Biden, Trump, and the Challenges of Covering an Aging President

Sat, 17 May 2025 00:00:00 -0000
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What Is Jeff Bezos’s Plan for the Washington Post?

Wed, 14 May 2025 21:40:38 -0000
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Elissa Slotkin to Fellow-Democrats: “Speak in Plain English”

Mon, 12 May 2025 10:00:00 -0000
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Decoding Donald Trump’s Love of A.I. Imagery

Wed, 07 May 2025 22:28:21 -0000
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How Donald Trump Is Trying to Rewrite the Rules of Capitalism

Mon, 05 May 2025 03:35:31 -0000
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Donald Trump Is Using the Presidency to Get Rich

Sat, 03 May 2025 00:00:00 -0000
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How Bad Is It?: Andrew Marantz on the Health of Our Democracy

Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 -0000
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Cory Booker on America’s Crisis of “Moral Leadership”

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000
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A Politics of Fear Defines Trump’s First Hundred Days in Office

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0000
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Pope Francis’s Legacy and the Coming Conclave

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 22:07:58 -0000
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How Science Fiction Led Elon Musk to DOGE

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000
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Will the Supreme Court Yield to Donald Trump?

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000
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Donald Trump Gets a “Spanking” from the Bond Market

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 21:53:49 -0000
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Sherrod Brown on Trump’s Tariffs and the Future of Economic Populism

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 23:30:04 -0000
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Why the Tech Giant Nvidia Owns the Future

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000
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Donald Trump Finally Gets His Way on Tariffs

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0000
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How Tesla Dealerships Became the Epicenter of the Trump Resistance

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 22:15:05 -0000
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Senator Chris Murphy: “This Is How Democracy Dies—Everybody Just Gets Scared”

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 10:00:00 -0000
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From “Inside the Hive”: Gavin Newsom’s Risky Podcast Gambit

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 21:48:04 -0000
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Will Trump’s Obsession with Space Save NASA?

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 23:56:56 -0000
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Kaitlan Collins Is Not “Nasty”; She’s Just Doing Her Job.

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:00:00 -0000
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Will Judges Stick Together to Face Trump’s Defiance?

Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0000
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Can Donald Trump Deport Anyone He Wants?

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0000
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Atul Gawande on Elon Musk’s “Surgery with a Chainsaw”

Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:00:00 -0000
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The “Cognitive Élite” Seize Washington

Sat, 15 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0000
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Will Trump’s Tariffs Trigger a Recession?

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 23:17:45 -0000
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How Bob Menendez Came By His Gold Bars

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 10:00:00 -0000
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America’s Founders Feared a Caesar. Has One Arrived?

Sat, 08 Mar 2025 01:00:00 -0000
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Eric Adams and Donald Trump’s Curious Alliance

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 01:00:00 -0000
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Does Tim Walz Have Any Regrets?

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:00:00 -0000
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Trump’s Putin-Like Cull of the White House Press Pool

Sat, 01 Mar 2025 01:00:00 -0000
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Is America Destined for a Future Without Children?

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 23:30:14 -0000
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John Fetterman on Trump’s “Raw Sewage,” and What the Democrats Get Wrong

Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:00:00 -0000
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What Stops Democracy from Backsliding?

Sat, 22 Feb 2025 01:00:00 -0000
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Elon Musk’s A.I.-Driven Government Coup

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 01:00:00 -0000
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The A.C.L.U. v. Trump 2.0

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 11:00:00 -0000
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What Does It Mean to Resist Trump in 2025?

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0000
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Trump’s Boogeyman: D.E.I.

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 11:00:00 -0000
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Why Trump Is Targeting Foreign Aid, with Atul Gawande

Sat, 08 Feb 2025 01:00:00 -0000
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Is Flying Actually Becoming Less Safe?

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0000
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Bill Gates on His New Memoir and Dining with Trump at Mar-a-Lago

Mon, 03 Feb 2025 11:00:00 -0000
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on What Democrats Should Do Next

Sat, 01 Feb 2025 01:00:00 -0000
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How Trump’s Federal-Aid Fiasco Is Testing the Separation of Power

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 01:00:00 -0000
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A Spirit of Vengeance in Trump’s First Week

Sat, 25 Jan 2025 01:00:00 -0000
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David Remnick on the Dawn of Trump’s Second Term

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:24:00 -0000
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Big Money and Trump’s New Cabinet

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 01:00:00 -0000
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How the Blazes in L.A. Got Swept Into the Culture War

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 23:24:00 -0000
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Representative Ro Khanna on Elon Musk and the Tech Oligarchy

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 11:00:00 -0000
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What the End of Meta’s Fact-Checking Program Means for the Future of Free Speech

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 22:35:06 -0000
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Will Justin Trudeau’s Resignation Lead to the MAGA-fication of Canada?

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 23:21:03 -0000
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From Critics at Large: The Modern-Day Fight for Ancient Rome

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 11:00:00 -0000
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Why Banning TikTok Could Violate the First Amendment

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 11:00:00 -0000
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Remembering Jimmy Carter, a “President Out of Time”

Mon, 30 Dec 2024 14:00:00 -0000
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How Henry Kissinger Accumulated and Wielded Power

Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:00:00 -0000
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We Have Some Questions for Isaac Chotiner About 2024

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:00:00 -0000
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Rashid Khalidi on the Palestinian Cause in a Volatile Middle East, and the Meaning of Settler Colonialism

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:00:00 -0000
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Why Luigi Mangione Is Being Treated as a Folk Hero

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 11:00:00 -0000
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Inside Donald Trump’s Mass-Deportation Plans

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 11:00:00 -0000
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Is Trump’s “Shock and Awe” Transition Working?

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 11:00:00 -0000
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How the Trump Indictments Backfired

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:00:00 -0000
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Ketanji Brown Jackson on Ethics, Trust, and Keeping It Collegial at the Supreme Court

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:00:00 -0000
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How to Prepare for Trump 2.0

Sat, 23 Nov 2024 01:00:00 -0000
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What Is Donald Trump’s Cabinet Planning for America?

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 11:00:00 -0000
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The Authors of “How Democracies Die” on the New Democratic Minority

Mon, 18 Nov 2024 11:00:00 -0000
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Chris Hayes on the New Trump Coalition, and What Democrats Do Next

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 23:45:00 -0000
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Donald Trump Returns. What Now?

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 11:00:00 -0000
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How Trump Took Back America

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 03:04:34 -0000
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Liz Cheney on Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Jeff Bezos

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 11:00:00 -0000
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Why American Democracy is in Danger, with Michael Beschloss

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 17:49:49 -0000
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Is the Backlash to a Racist Joke Trump’s October Surprise

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 20:50:00 -0000
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Charlamagne tha God Has Some Advice for Harris and the Democrats

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:00:00 -0000
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The Lies Are Winning

Sat, 26 Oct 2024 01:15:00 -0000
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How Poll Watchers Could Help Trump Challenge the Election Results

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 01:55:00 -0000
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The Stakes for Abortion Rights, from the Head of Planned Parenthood

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 18:00:00 -0000
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What Billionaires See in Donald Trump

Sat, 19 Oct 2024 02:20:00 -0000
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How Hurricane Helene Has Fuelled Far-Right Conspiracies

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 23:10:00 -0000
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How Kamala Harris Became a Contender

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 14:50:00 -0000
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What Motivates Kamala Harris?

Sat, 12 Oct 2024 02:45:00 -0000
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What Some Gaza Protest Voters See in Trump

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 23:10:00 -0000
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Newt Gingrich on What Trump Could Accomplish in a Second Term

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 10:00:00 -0000
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How to Find Every Democratic Voter in Wisconsin

Sat, 05 Oct 2024 01:20:00 -0000
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Will J. D. Vance’s Debate Victory Matter on Election Day?

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 13:45:00 -0000
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Young Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, and the Dark Arts of Power

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:00:00 -0000
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The Election Dividing Husbands and Wives Across America

Sat, 28 Sep 2024 01:43:07 -0000
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From “Inside the Hive”: Behind Donald Trump's “Bro Podcast” Binge

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 14:05:00 -0000
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Timothy Snyder on Why Ukraine Can Still Win the War

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:00:00 -0000
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