Amanda Carpenter: Fake Emergencies
Trump keeps creating all these phony crises—an 'invasion' at the border, immigrants in the interior, crime in D.C.—so he can put on a show of force for his white base. He's also declaring fake emergen...
12 Aug 202555min
Bill Kristol: The Lawless Administration
Crime is down in D.C., but Trump is using the pretext of an attempted carjacking of "Big Balls," the former 19-year-old DOGE employee, to take over the city's police department and deploy the National...
11 Aug 202545min
Anne Applebaum: What USAID's Absence Looks Like on the Ground
The United States, through USAID, not only supplied a big chunk of the world's humanitarian aid, it also provided almost all of the logistical support for other aid organizations to deliver relief as ...
7 Aug 202548min
Zerlina Maxwell and Josh Barro: We Are in a Bad Place
Gerrymandering has always been partisan, but what's happening in Texas is straight-up racial politics. Republicans are targeting and trying to disenfranchise black voters while betting that Latino vot...
6 Aug 20251h 10min
Chuck Todd: Is the Economy the Biggest Political Threat to Trump?
Voters in the seven swing states that elected Trump in 2024 thought he'd make the economy better. His perceived strength on the economy is the cornerstone Jenga piece of the whole Trump Tower. And he ...
5 Aug 202554min
Bill Kristol: This Is So Third World
The boss only wants to hear good news: that's the takeaway from Trump's high-profile firing over the weak job numbers. So if a government worker has something bad to report, they now know they'll have...
4 Aug 202556min
Dan Osborn: Connecting with Working People
Osborn, the populist independent who ran a surprisingly close campaign for a Senate seat in Nebraska last year, is back for another run in the 2026 midterms. A steamfitter and union member, he says he...
1 Aug 202554min
