Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines
The writer Ta-Nehisi Coates was harshly critical of my response to Charlie Kirk’s assassination. In an article in Vanity Fair, he suggested I was whitewashing Kirk’s legacy, comparing it to the whitew...
28 Sep 20251h 8min
Trump Is Building the Blue Scare
This is McCarthyism 2.0. Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the Trump administration has been speed-running an attack on the “radical left.” And the tactics it has been using are darkly reminiscent o...
24 Sep 20251h 26min
Spencer Cox Wants to Pull Our Politics Back From the Brink
The Utah governor is trying to model a different kind of leadership in a very dangerous political moment.The Trump administration seems intent on using the assassination of Charlie Kirk to crack down ...
19 Sep 202554min
We Are Going to Have to Live Here With Each Other
This is an episode in two parts. First, my thoughts on Charlie Kirk’s murder, now that I’ve had a few days to process it, and to see the unfolding reactions and responses on both sides. Then a convers...
16 Sep 20251h 55min
If Democrats Have a Better Plan, I’d Like to Hear It
In a few weeks the government’s funding will run out. If Democrats vote for a new spending bill, they will be funding Trump’s autocratic takeover. What should they do?Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Emai...
7 Sep 202522min
The Supreme Court Is Backing Trump's Power Grab
Trump was losing in the courts. He’s not anymore.In the early months of the administration, the courts were proving a powerful check on President Trump, blocking many of his boldest actions. But those...
2 Sep 202556min
Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force
ICE now has the biggest budget of any law enforcement agency in America.“ICE and Customs and Border Protection have long been the most rogue, kind of renegade and certainly pro-Trump police agencies i...
27 Aug 20251h 8min
MAHA Is a Bad Answer to a Good Question
“Make America Healthy Again” is a great idea — somebody should try it.A lot of the concerns animating the MAHA movement — chronic disease, the unhealthiness of the American diet, how profits warp our ...
22 Aug 20251h 22min
