Ezra Klein’s Big-Tent Vision of the Democratic Party
The author and podcaster Ezra Klein may be only forty-one years old, but he’s been part of the political-culture conversation for a long time. He was a blogger, then a Washington Post columnist and ed...
29 Sep 202553min
Jimmy Kimmel and the Power of Public Pressure
The Washington Roundtable discusses how, in the wake of the reinstatement of Jimmy Kimmel’s show, public resistance has a chance to turn the tide against autocratic impulses in today’s politics. They ...
27 Sep 202548min
How MAHA Is Sowing Vaccine Confusion
The New Yorker contributing writer Dhruv Khullar joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss how Donald Trump is transforming the nation’s approach to vaccines and immunization during his second term. They talk ab...
24 Sep 202542min
Is The 2026 Election Already in Danger?
“The Constitution gives the states the power to set the time, place, and manner of elections,” the election lawyer Marc Elias points out. “It gives the President no [such] power.” Yet, almost one year...
22 Sep 202540min
Hillary Clinton on the Psychology of Autocrats
The Washington Roundtable is joined by the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Keren Yarhi-Milo, the dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, to discuss...
19 Sep 202550min
How Bad Is It?: Political Violence in the U.S., and What We Can Learn from Brazil
The New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz joins Tyler Foggatt for the latest installment of “How Bad Is It?,” a monthly series on the health of American democracy. Their guest is the Brazilian filmma...
18 Sep 202551min
How the “Dangerous Gimmick” of the Two-State Solution Ended in Disaster
For decades, the United States backed efforts to achieve a two-state solution—in which Israel would exist side by side with the Palestinian state, with both states recognizing each other’s claim to co...
15 Sep 202541min
Charlie Kirk and the Long Shadow of Political Violence
The Washington Roundtable discusses the fatal shooting of the right-wing activist and Donald Trump ally Charlie Kirk, who was killed on Wednesday during a speech on a college campus. The panel conside...
13 Sep 202541min
