Blue State of Mind
John Heilemann joins Peter Hamby to assess how Democrats in blue states and cities are countering Trump’s false claims about violent crime, and his threats to deploy the National Guard in places like ...
29 Aug 202537min
Portnoy Gets Benched & Lee Corso’s Last Call
John Ourand joins Peter to discuss the booming business of college football as the season kicks off this weekend. They dig into the broadcast bonanza surrounding the legendary Lee Corso’s final Colleg...
28 Aug 202525min
When MAGA Meets Marvel
Eriq Gardner joins guest host Leigh Ann Caldwell to game out a bizarre but plausible future in which Trump insists on a cut of individual copyrights to assert control over intellectual property, parti...
27 Aug 202520min
Trump’s Putin-Zelensky Jenga
Julia Ioffe joins guest Leigh Ann Caldwell to dissect Donald Trump’s latest diplomatic maneuvers with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, and why his failure to deliver security guarantees or a tri...
26 Aug 202525min
Media Monday: MSNBC’s Divorce Settlement & Pitaro’s Multiverse
Jon Kelly and Peter Hamby are reunited for a rapturous dissection of MSNBC’s dreary new acronymic name and some learned hypotheses about ESPN’s new gaming-first-ish streamer and its multichannel unive...
25 Aug 202525min
Fashion Is Political
Designer, writer, and non-profit founder Aurora James returns to Fashion People to discuss Robin Givhan’s exit from The Washington Post, the tariff nonsense, the nostalgia trap, Travis Kelce’s GQ cove...
23 Aug 202533min
The ’26 Gerrymander Games & Newsom’s Troll Campaign
Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter to puzzle over the latest congressional maps, from Texas and California to Indiana, where Trump wants to lock Democrats out of power forever. Then they size up Gavin New...
22 Aug 202525min
Is the A.I. Bubble About to Deflate?
Bill Cohan joins Peter Hamby to break down why tech stocks have started to cool off, and whether A.I. is overhyped or underhyped as a long-term play for investors—all while “Big Tech” players like Sam...
21 Aug 202529min
