Rahm Emanuel’s Tough Love Intervention for the Democratic Party
After a three-year stint in Japan, Ambassador Rahm Emanuel is back in the States. And now that he's freed from diplomatic constraints, Rahm is bluntly telling fellow Democrats where they went wrong in...
20 Feb 20251h 5min
Oren Cass, Paul Krugman & Mariana Mazzucato on Trumponomics
Last week, President Trump signed a memorandum calling for reciprocal tariffs on countries that charge fees on US exports and called his 25% tariff order on all steel and aluminum imports “the beginni...
17 Feb 20251h
Unchecked and Unbalanced: Trump’s Executive Power Moves and the Rule of Law
In just a few weeks, President Trump has flooded the zone with executive orders, which have been met with dozens of lawsuits by state attorneys general, unions and non-profits and complaints by Democr...
13 Feb 20251h 2min
Wicked’s Cynthia Erivo on Defying Gravity, the Attack on Diversity and (Maybe) Getting an EGOT
Is it strange that Wicked, a film about a marginalized person discovering her magic and rising up to fight against government oppression, has been a box office success under Trump 2.0 – or does the mo...
10 Feb 202548min
Dissecting Elon Musk’s Hostile Takeover with Anne Applebaum, Eoin Higgins & Ryan Mac
Elon Musk and a band of young DOGE engineers are taking control of key government infrastructure. The scale and speed with which they’re hijacking control of the federal government is shocking, and ev...
6 Feb 202556min
Why Ben Stiller Made 'Severance' (and Doesn’t Care About What Elon Says About Him)
Ben Stiller knew he needed to make Severance the moment he read an early version of the show in a writing sample its creator, Dan Erickson, submitted to his production company. Now, years later, Sever...
3 Feb 202557min
Trump’s J6 Pardons, the Militia Movement, and the Border
President Trump’s executive action granting clemency to all of the January 6th insurrectionists – violent and non-violent alike – has been met with concern by legal experts and people who have been st...
30 Jan 202552min
Social Media’s Original Gatekeepers On Moderation’s Rise And Fall
Since the inception of social media, content moderation has been hotly debated by CEOs, politicians, and, of course, among the gatekeepers themselves: the trust and safety officers. And it’s been a ro...
27 Jan 20251h 6min
