Will 2026 Be the Year Voters Pull the Emergency Brake?
The midterms are coming, and President Trump is already sounding the alarm. For this week’s round table, the columnists David French and Jamelle Bouie and the Opinion national politics writer Michelle...
17 Jan 40min
A Venezuelan Economist on What Trump Gets Wrong About Venezuela
Nicolás Maduro may be out, but Venezuela’s Chavista regime still holds power. Meanwhile, the opposition leader and Nobel Prize winner María Corina Machado is fighting to remain relevant. She’s schedul...
14 Jan 21min
The Internet May Look Different After You Listen to This
A.I. slop is taking over the internet. As the line between human-made and machine-made art blurs — and real and fake images collapse into one another — how should we think about culture now? On “The O...
13 Jan 34min
From ICE to Foreign Quagmires: Escalation Everywhere
President Trump began 2026 by invading an autonomous nation and capturing its leader. The Opinion politics writer Michelle Cottle talks to the columnists David French and Carlos Lozada about the ICE s...
10 Jan 40min
From Kardashian Injectable Lips to Mar-a-Lago Face
In 2023, there were over 34.9 million cosmetic procedures performed globally, a 40 percent increase from four years ago. As these procedures have become more common, the taboos against talking about t...
8 Jan 27min
Is This MAGA Foreign Policy or Something Else Entirely?
President Trump’s operation to capture Nicolás Maduro, the ousted president of Venezuela, and his wife, seems to have been a military success. What is far less clear is what happens next. Stephen Stro...
5 Jan 42min
My Gay Son Changed My Understanding of Evangelical Christianity (Re-Air)
Changing your mind can be a difficult thing to do, especially when it also means reconsidering the foundation of your faith. That’s what happened for the evangelical pastor Bill White when his 15-year...
31 Dec 202519min
Is Trump’s Version of America’s History a Lie? (Re-Air)
President Trump’s attacks on the Smithsonian Museum for being too “woke” in its exhibits are part of a broader effort to control America’s story. Bryan Stevenson, a lawyer and the founder of the Equal...
24 Dec 202526min
