The Powers That Be: Daily

Bill Cohan joins Peter to discuss Paul Ryan’s fresh alarms about the national debt—and what else the former House Speaker told his private audience at a recent Wyoming retreat, including his take on T...

9 Sep 202531min

Jon Kelly joins Peter to debate whether Bari Weiss’s The Free Press is really worth the rumored $100 million price tag that David Ellison is ready to pony up—and the potential shockwaves that Weiss’s ...

8 Sep 202526min

Agriculture Committee chairman Glenn “G.T.” Thompson joins Abby Livingston for a candid conversation about the state of what he’s dubbed the “One Big, Beautiful Farm Bill,” the politics of SNAP, and t...

6 Sep 202530min

Marion Maneker joins Peter to sort through the reputational storm engulfing Sotheby’s and its reclusive billionaire owner, Patrick Drahi, stemming from a sprawling ‘New Yorker’ exposé that suggests em...

5 Sep 202521min

Bill Cohan joins Peter to dissect Trump’s hands-on meddling in the private sector from his White House perch—picking corporate winners and losers, carving out slices of deals, and steering federal dol...

4 Sep 202527min

Abby Livingston joins guest host Leigh Ann Caldwell to preview a frenetic month ahead in Washington, as Congress barrels toward a government funding deadline less than 30 days away. They also weigh ho...

3 Sep 202520min

Jon Kelly and Peter reunite for a second consecutive day to chew over a pair of relevant media industry topics as we head into the fall: the brutal carriage dispute between Fox and YouTube TV in addit...

2 Sep 202523min

Jon Kelly and Peter Hamby reunite for a spirited chat about some proprietary data regarding Gen Alpha’s movie theater fixation before offering their views on the Bill Belichick college sports (and med...

1 Sep 202524min