Ep. 542 — Adrian Perkins
After graduating from Harvard Law School, Adrian Perkins decided to forgo the traditional job at a top-tier law firm, instead opting to return to his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana as a candidate f...
27 Jul 20231h 3min
Ep. 541 — Sen. Tammy Baldwin
As a child, Sen. Tammy Baldwin suffered a months-long illness, leaving her with a preexisting condition that made obtaining health insurance impossible. The experience inspired her to pursue public of...
20 Jul 202358min
Ep. 540 — Jon Meacham
Historian and writer Jon Meacham’s most recent book, “And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle,” dives deep into Lincoln and the why behind the actions of America’s 16th presiden...
13 Jul 20231h 2min
The Axe Files presents The Assignment with Audie Cornish
This week The Axe Files team is sharing an episode of CNN’s The Assignment with Audie Cornish. One year after Roe v Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, we were wondering: what i...
6 Jul 202346min
Ep. 539 — Supervisor Bill Gates
Lifelong Republican Bill Gates was working as a lawyer and serving on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors in Arizona’s most populous county when the 2020 election upended his life. Maricopa Count...
29 Jun 20231h 1min
Best of the Axe Files: Vladimir Kara-Murza
This week, we’re revisiting a 2018 interview with Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian opposition activist who was sentenced to 25 years in prison in April 2023 after speaking out against the war in Ukraine...
22 Jun 20231h 9min
Ep. 538 — President Barack Obama
Since leaving office in 2016, former President Barack Obama has been a careful observer of the ebbs and flows of democracy around the globe, speaking out on the subject and building coalitions through...
15 Jun 202355min
Ep. 537 — Kaitlan Collins
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins arrived at college as a chemistry major, but the die-hard Crimson Tide fan soon realized life in a science lab was not her calling. After scouring the university’s course book, s...
8 Jun 20231h 3min
