Inside the WSJ’s ‘very intense’ effort to free Evan Gershkovich
A year ago today, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Russia and charged with espionage, an allegation he and the Journal said was absurd. The State Department declared that ...
29 Mar 202428min
The new politics of Israel dividing Biden’s Democratic Party
The politics of the Israel-Hamas war have become one of the most divisive issues in the Democratic Party. Mark Mellman, the president of Democratic Majority for Israel – and a longtime pollster – join...
22 Mar 202449min
Kellyanne Conway’s advice to Republicans on abortion & TikTok
TikTok, abortion, and IVF: three of the biggest issues in American politics right now and Kellyanne Conway is in the middle of all of them. Conway has been advising Donald Trump and Mike Pence for y...
15 Mar 202425min
The secrets of Jill Biden’s East Wing
First ladies are among the most powerful advisers in any White House and Jill Biden is no exception. On this episode of Deep Dive, host and Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza is joined by NYT White House c...
8 Mar 202445min
How Washington’s top book critic reads between 2024’s political lines
Carlos Lozada is a columnist for The New York Times, and before that, the longtime nonfiction book critic for The Washington Post. In 2019, Lozada won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism for a series of...
1 Mar 202453min
Nancy Mace’s main character energy
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) has a way of being in the middle of things, whether it’s standing up to Trump after Jan. 6 when many in her party kept quiet, helping overthrow House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, o...
23 Feb 202446min
Jim Himes on satellites, space nukes and Section 702
Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, joins host and Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza to discuss everything you might want to know about Russian space weapons,...
16 Feb 202445min
Chris Murphy's untold border bill backstory
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) was the Democratic lead on the much anticipated bipartisan border legislation that was supposed to sail through the Senate and unlock funding for the war in Ukraine. But ev...
9 Feb 202436min
