
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick: Trump’s Mass Deportation Regime
“The US government wants to arrest, detain, and deport one in every 24 people in the country—4% of the US population. That cannot be done without fundamentally transforming who we are as a people and ...
12 Feb 1h 20min

Francis Fukuyama on Trump’s Bullying and Europe’s Response
“The Europeans have been in this alliance [NATO] to protect themselves, largely from Russia and other aggressors. And now it has an aggressor within the gates, so to speak. And that’s quite an extraor...
22 Jan 1h 1min

Ron Brownstein on What’s Ahead in 2026—and in 2028
Where do things stand in American politics as we head into a midterm election year? To discuss these questions we are joined again by Ron Brownstein, a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and senior CNN poli...
30 Des 20251h 22min

Robert Kagan on Trump’s Foreign Policy and the New World Disorder
“We take for granted the degree of peace that we’ve enjoyed over the past eight plus decades. And we think that’s the norm. The norm is actually a lot more like what the world looked like before 1945....
4 Des 20251h 13min

Steve Hayes on the Life and Legacy of Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney (1941-2025) is widely regarded as one of the most consequential vice presidents in American history. To discus his life and legacy, we are joined by Steve Hayes, CEO and editor of The Disp...
20 Nov 20251h 18min

Jonathan Karl on Trump’s Retribution Presidency
How has the second Trump presidency differed from the first? How did Trump’s experiences during his time out of office and on the campaign trail in 2024—including his trial in New York and the assassi...
28 Okt 20251h 5min

Timothy Snyder on the Trump Administration at Home, and What’s at Stake in Ukraine
Where do things stand in the United States nine months into the second Trump administration? Where do things stand in Ukraine, and what are the implications of the war for the future of liberal democr...
17 Okt 202553min

James Carville on Politics Today, 2026, and 2028
“It’s hard for me to imagine a voter that votes in 2026 that doesn’t have Trump on their mind.”According to veteran Democratic strategist James Carville, Trump "keeps jacking the stakes up, every day”...
3 Okt 20251h



















