Joe Rogan Is Mainstreaming Right-Wing Misinformation
The “Joe Rogan” experience is off the cuff, unedited, and very often entirely off the rails. Alex Patterson of Media Matters says the podcast is “a bastion of toxic masculinity… that leads listeners f...
14 Jan 20221h 3min
Bannon and the Right Have a Scary New Tactic to Take Over Politics
Co-hosts Andy Levy and Molly Jong-Fast parse out whether Jim Jordan is telling the truth about his Jan. 6 knowledge, Jared Holt, a fellow at AtlanticCouncil’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, explains t...
11 Jan 202257min
The Decision Trump Made That May Destroy NYC Someday
Canadian author Stephen Marche, whose new book The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future chronicles what he saw while reporting in far-right Ohio aka Oathkeepers’ Country, came on The Ne...
9 Jan 202217min
Can Somebody Please Check on Ron DeSantis? w/ John Heilemann
Watching Florida’s governor offer a long-awaited update on his state’s coronavirus response this week, Molly Jong-Fast noticed something disturbing. “He’s really struggling to breathe,” she says on th...
7 Jan 20221h 1min
The Likely Reason Trump Won’t Denounce the Vaccine
Co-hosts Molly Jong-Fast and Andy Levy discuss some new nicknames for the former first daughter, including Ivanka “I Tried” Trump, as well as the reason Trump won’t ever diss the vaccines. Plus, vacci...
4 Jan 20221h
Student Loans Were Created to Punish Poor People
The pause on federal student loans, which about 46 million Americans have, is set to lift on January 31, 2022 and, despite advocates best efforts, Sen. Chuck Schumer included, President Joe Biden does...
2 Jan 202214min
Will Liz Cheney or Mitch McConnell Save America from Russia?
Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic writer and author Twilight of Democracy makes the case for Liz Cheney or Mitch McConnell being the white knights of democracy, Siva Vaidhyanathan, host of the Democracy in...
31 Des 20211h 1min
Ron Johnson’s Opponent Wants Inside Traders Out of Congress
Is Ron Johnson the worst Senator? That’s what The New Abnormal co-host Molly Jong-Fast wants to know. Naturally, she asks Mandela Barnes, the Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin and Johnson’s opponent in...
28 Des 202149min
