Capitol Hill’s Thin ICE

Eriq Gardner joins Julia Alexander to revisit the lasting fallout from Hulk Hogan’s landmark lawsuit against Gawker—backed by Peter Thiel—and how it reshaped the media industry’s legal risk calculus. ...

29 Jul 202523min

Jon Kelly reunites with Peter to chew over the Trump administration’s official blessing of the Skydance–Paramount merger—and the controversial ‘South Park’ broadside that almost blew it all up. Then t...

28 Jul 202530min

NASCAR commissioner Steve Phelps joins John Ourand for a candid conversation about the sport’s evolving media ecosystem, including new deals with Fox, NBC, and Amazon Prime. Phelps also outlines NASCA...

26 Jul 202551min

Kim Masters joins Peter to discuss how Hollywood insiders are reacting to CBS's abrupt cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert—and whether it’s less about cost-cutting and more about appeas...

25 Jul 202524min

Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter to examine the political bind facing the G.O.P., as Speaker Mike Johnson chooses to recess the House rather than confront growing demands from his own party to release n...

24 Jul 202526min

Eriq Gardner joins guest host Julia Ioffe to unpack Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over a lewd birthday card he allegedly doodled for Jeffrey Epstein, and which...

23 Jul 202524min

Ian Krietzberg joins guest host Julia Ioffe to unpack the class-action lawsuit against the A.I. company Anthropic, and how publishers are drawing a line in the sand when it comes to A.I. models traini...

22 Jul 202523min

Jon Kelly reunites with Peter to unpack Substack’s billion-dollar valuation and its pivot from newsletter darling to multimedia hype darling. Then they dig into the culture-war-infused intrigue surrou...

21 Jul 202523min