Finding the Line Between Celebrity and Politician With Tressie McMillan Cottom
The sociologist and New York Times columnist Tressie McMillan Cottom joins the hosts this week to discuss the role of celebrity in politics. Could Beyoncé and Taylor Swift, with their tens of millions...
29 Maalis 202435min
Texts From the Swamp
It can often feel as if politicians use a lot of words without saying much of anything. So how do journalists and citizens make sense of what’s said (and unsaid) in the many congressional reports, cou...
22 Maalis 202435min
Lydia Finds Hope in a Moment of Crisis
We’re working on this week's episode. While you wait, listen to this audio essay from one of our hosts, Lydia Polgreen, on the situation unfolding in Haiti. This audio essay was originally made for th...
18 Maalis 20246min
The Election of Our Discontent
Many voters from both parties are less than enthusiastic about their likely options this November.This week the Opinion writer and editor Katherine Miller joins Michelle, Lydia and Carlos to talk abou...
15 Maalis 202433min
Trump 2.0: ‘A Blueprint for Retribution’
Could Donald Trump’s promise to be a dictator on day one come true?On this episode of “Matter of Opinion,” the hosts debate which policies could be most consequential in a potential second Trump term ...
8 Maalis 202439min
The Pro-Life Movement Had a Plan Post-Roe. The G.O.P. Didn’t.
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, the Republican Party declared victory.But the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision last month that frozen embryos are considered “extrauterine childr...
1 Maalis 202434min
Paul Krugman on the Economy as a Voting Issue
Why does the economy look so good to economists but feel so bad to voters? The Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman joins the hosts to discuss why inflation, interest rates and wages aren’t in line w...
23 Helmi 202435min
The Presidential Fitness Test
Who’s your ideal American president? A strategic thinker who is calm in a crisis? A charmer with boundless aplomb? Perhaps a principled leader with an unwavering moral compass?This week, the hosts dis...
16 Helmi 202432min
