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Recent Episodes

Emily Atkin: Harvey Is Political

Posted September 1, 2017 • 00:21:17

New Republic reporter Emily Atkin (@emorwee) talks about why Harvey is already and inherently political thanks to climate change and the potential for...

Adrian Chen: Factcheck.org Won’t Save America

Posted August 29, 2017 • 01:06:45

Is the internet good or bad? The debate is more often than not a proxy for one about politics more generally and populism in particular. But the real...

Alex Pareene: Trump’s Happy Place Is Racism

Posted August 25, 2017 • 00:31:42

Dan talks to Splinter Politics Editor Alex Pareene about his recent piece “Charlottesville Was a Preview of the Future of the Republican Party”...

Andrew Bacevich: This Is the War That Never Ends

Posted August 22, 2017 • 00:57:28

This is the war that never ends. The War on Terror’s permanence should be remarkable. It should be an outrage. But it is precisely because the war...

Sarah Jones: Why Establishment Dems Punch "Alt-Left"

Posted August 18, 2017 • 00:24:09

New Republic writer Sarah Jones joins Dan to talk about Trump's invocation of the "alt-left" and to explain the term's unseemly centrist history. And...