What Comes After Trump?

What Comes After Trump?

What does 21st century authoritarianism look like in the United States? Author and Atlantic staff writer George Packer joins Offline to talk about America’s zombie democracy, who could be the most dangerous MAGA heir, and how Democrats should be fighting for the country. For our last episode of 2025, George and Jon connect the dots between Trump, polarization, oligarchs, AI, social media, Charlie Kirk and more.

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Can The Left Reclaim America's Story?

Can The Left Reclaim America's Story?

Democrats need to defend democracy without undermining it—but how? John Ganz, author of When the Clock Broke and the "Unpopular Front” substack, joins Offline to interrogate why Democrats have ceded n...

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JD Vance and the Post-Liberal Right's War on America

JD Vance and the Post-Liberal Right's War on America

As the U.S. slides into autocracy, Americans need to be reminded that liberalism can still solve the problems that Trump uses to fear monger. Jerusalem Demsas, founder and editor in chief of “The Argu...

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Have Our Screens Made Us Too Distracted For Democracy?

Have Our Screens Made Us Too Distracted For Democracy?

Ben Rhodes—bestselling author, Pod Save the World co-host, and fellow Obama administration alum—joins Offline to explain how America is being torn apart by short-term thinking and the technology that ...

21 Aug 20251h 4min

AI's Threat to Gen Z's Jobs, the FartCoin Economy, and Why the Internet Wants to Check Your ID

AI's Threat to Gen Z's Jobs, the FartCoin Economy, and Why the Internet Wants to Check Your ID

Kyla Scanlon, author and economic commentator, joins Offline to explain why our economy feels so weird. She and Jon talk about the ways AI — and Labubus — have taken over the markets, whether big tech...

14 Aug 20251h 6min

QAnon Reacts to Epstein, Laura Loomer Gets Loomered, and Jon Gets Caught Up in the Syndey Sweeney Discourse

QAnon Reacts to Epstein, Laura Loomer Gets Loomered, and Jon Gets Caught Up in the Syndey Sweeney Discourse

As the Trump administration manufactures conspiracies to distract from the president’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, some on the right are blaming the deep state while others are finally calling fo...

7 Aug 202547min

Trump Bans Woke AI, TikTok Cancels Sydney Sweeney, and How MAGA Became Multiracial

Trump Bans Woke AI, TikTok Cancels Sydney Sweeney, and How MAGA Became Multiracial

Why are non-white voters moving towards Trump? Yale professor and author Daniel Martinez HoSang sits down with Jon to examine how Democrats’ multiracial coalition fell apart during and after Obama’s p...

31 Jul 20251h 15min

Trump’s Epstein Nightmare, Jubilee’s Fascist Debate, and the Movie Twitter Wrote

Trump’s Epstein Nightmare, Jubilee’s Fascist Debate, and the Movie Twitter Wrote

Living through a deadly plague as we watched the country descend into political violence on our screens might've left us with some...unresolved issues. Director Ari Aster sits down with Jon to break d...

24 Jul 20251h 12min

Raising Boys in the Era of Incels, MAGA, and the Manosphere

Raising Boys in the Era of Incels, MAGA, and the Manosphere

Boys today are being told to man up by the right and sit down by the left. Coming of age in the shadow of #MeToo and wading through algorithms rife with manosphere content, many young men are acceptin...

17 Jul 20251h 6min

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