Strange but true: Bernie's pragmatic turn
Bernie Sanders is behaving a lot like a pragmatist (just don’t say it to his face). As the Senate Budget chair and a member of Sen. Chuck Schumer’s leadership team, the 79-year-old progressive is one ...
30 Jul 202127min
Inside Biden’s slow-walk on Cuba
Cuba’s sweeping protests — and sweeping crackdown — are historic. But the situation is a political hot potato for Biden, whose sanction orders came nearly two weeks after the unrest began. His go-it-s...
23 Jul 202127min
Biden’s student debt promise comes due
$1.6 trillion — that's how much student loan debt there is in the United States. Progressives want to cancel student loan debt. Republicans say that's wildly unfair. And President Joe Biden is....wait...
16 Jul 202127min
How the 'burbs turned blue
Michigan’s Oakland County, once a Republican stronghold, is turning blue. Playbook's Eugene Daniels and Zack Stanton (also a Michigan native — he's from the "knuckle"), talk about whether shedding the...
9 Jul 202131min
Weed is popular. So what's the holdup in Congress?
Eight — that’s how many states have passed some form of cannabis legalization since November. And even though marijuana is gainingpopularity in conservative states, that's not breaking through with GO...
2 Jul 202131min
‘It’s a clusterf*ck’: The college kid who cracked the election industry
Matthew Caulfield was a college senior when he was given a seemingly simple assignment that took him more than five years and 3,000 emails to start to answer: How much did a voting machine cost? And h...
25 Jun 202130min
The drama-filled race for 'America's mayor'
It’s one of the top jobs in politics, period: mayor of the Big Apple. In a heavily left-leaning town, Tuesday’s crowded Democratic primary will essentially decide who will become the 110th mayor of Ne...
18 Jun 202134min
The Capitol rioter next door
Imagine learning that someone you've known for 18 years is alleged to have been responsible for some of the worst violence on Jan. 6. How do you square that? Playbook co-author Rachael Bade and journa...
11 Jun 202130min
