The Absolute Dumbest Conservative Controversies of 2023
Media Matters’ Rapid Response Director Andrew Lawrence joins The New Abnormal to rank the most brain-dead right-wing “controversies” of the year. Then, filmmaker Anike Tourse stops by to discuss her l...
29 Dec 202342min
Trump’s ‘Aspirational Fascism’ Casts a Shadow Over 2024
In this week's episode host Danielle Moodie talks to Patrick Gaspard, the CEO of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, discusses the challenges and threats facing democracy, highlighting the r...
26 Dec 202341min
Nick Fuentes’ ‘Death Penalty’ Call Is Beyond Extreme
The New Abnormal team says comments by white supremacist Nick Fuentes that Jewish people need to be given the death penalty is another good reason to vote in the 2024 election. Plus! ! Rashad Robinson...
24 Dec 202328min
How ‘The Daily Show’ Host Search Became Such a Disaster
In this week’s crossover episode between The New Abnormal and The Last Laugh, we break down how Hasan Minhaj’s “emotional truths” upended The Daily Show’s seemingly eternal search for a new host (or h...
22 Dec 202341min
Moms for Liberty Wants to Usher in an American Caste System
Moms for Liberty may have lost a few battles, but they’re still winning the culture war, Tamara Gilkes Borr, a U.S. policy correspondent at The Economist, says on this week’s episode of The New Abnorm...
19 Dec 202357min
Trump Is Hawking This Season’s Most Petty Gift for Christmas
The former president claims to be ridiculously wealthy but The New Abnormal team says his move to sell parts of the suit he wore in his Georgia mugshot wreaks of desperation. Plus! Danielle Moodie als...
17 Dec 202331min
Has Social Media Brainwashed You to Think the Economy’s Bad?
John Burn-Murdoch, a columnist and the chief data reporter for the Financial Times, joins The New Abnormal this week to unpack why people feel so bad about what is an objectively strong economy. Then,...
15 Dec 202355min
Elon Musk Isn’t Coming Back From the Far-Right Fever Swamps
The hosts talk with Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) about his new bill, “End Hedge Fund Control of American Homes Act of 2023”—and why America needs a paradigm shift in the way it thinks about housing. Plus! A...
12 Dec 20231h
