How Does a Presidency End?
Josh King guest hosts a weekend edition of Trumpcast. He talks to Frank Rich of New York Magazine about his latest feature, “Nixon, Trump, and How a Presidency Ends.” Slate Plus members stay tuned after the show for a bonus segment with Trumpcast producer Jayson De Leon and Slate’s Video Editor, Aymann Ismail. The two discuss Aymann’s new video series running on Slate, “Who’s Afriad of Aymann Ismail?” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
1 Jul 201733min
The Health Care Fight is A Civil Rights Fight
Jamelle Bouie talks to The Atlantic's Vann Newkirk about how the repeal of Obamacare and the rolling back of Medicaid in the Senate health bill strikes a significant blow to racial equality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
29 Jun 201723min
All the President’s Lies
Jacob Weisberg talks to New York Times columnist David Leonhardt about his piece, Trump Lies, where he catalogued nearly every outright lie Trump has told since taking the oath of office. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
26 Jun 201726min
The Bill That Gets Worse and Worse
Jamelle Bouie talks to Slate's Jordan Weissmann about the latest version of the healthcare bill and how, in many ways, it's worse than the bill proposed last month by the House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
22 Jun 201722min
Senate Backrooms and a Defense for Mitch McConnell
Virginia Heffernan talks to Marc Ross, a Republican operative who worked for the McCain/Palin campaign, about Senate backrooms and why he thinks Mitch McConnell is playing his cards right with the healthcare bill. Plus, a special treat from Daniel Day-Lewis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
22 Jun 201724min
The Trump Brand and The Conversation Not Happening on the Left
Jacob Weisberg talks to the writer Naomi Klein about how the "Trump brand" is the driving force behind the presidency. Also, should the left be fighting fire with fire? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
19 Jun 201731min
Through the Lens with Doug Mills
Josh King guest hosts a weekend edition of Trumpcast. He talks to New York Times photographer Doug Mills about his last days covering the shooting in Arlington, the James Comey testimony, and the bizarre cabinet meeting from earlier this week. Slate Plus members, stick around at the end of today's show to listen to Trumpcast producer Jayson De Leon chat with Alex Ward, a staff writer at Vox, about the all star team Bob Mueller is assembling for the Russia investigation and the investigation into potential obstruction of justice by our President. Not a Slate Plus member yet? Go to slate.com/trumpcastplus for a 2 week free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
17 Jun 201723min
Too Close for Comfort
Jamelle Bouie talks to Carolyn Fiddler, Political Editor at Daily Kos, about the Virginia gubernatorial race and why things on the Republican side were too close for comfort (to say the least). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
16 Jun 201722min
