Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force
ICE now has the biggest budget of any law enforcement agency in America.“ICE and Customs and Border Protection have long been the most rogue, kind of renegade and certainly pro-Trump police agencies i...
27 Aug 20251h 8min
MAHA Is a Bad Answer to a Good Question
“Make America Healthy Again” is a great idea — somebody should try it.A lot of the concerns animating the MAHA movement — chronic disease, the unhealthiness of the American diet, how profits warp our ...
22 Aug 20251h 22min
Your Questions (and Criticisms) of Our Recent Shows
I do my best to respond to your critiques of some of our recent episodes.We got an overwhelming response to my interviews with the Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, the national conservativism theo...
20 Aug 202559min
Trump vs. the U.S. Economy
What is going on with the economy right now?There are a lot of mixed signals. President Trump slashed taxes, but he’s also bringing in a lot of money through tariffs. Inflation is creeping up, but the...
16 Aug 20251h 23min
When Is It Genocide?
In December 2023, when South Africa accused Israel of genocide before the International Court of Justice, I thought it was wrong to do so. Israel had been attacked. Its defense was legitimate. The blo...
13 Aug 20251h 42min
Mahmoud Khalil Tells His Story
Mahmoud Khalil was a leader in Columbia University’s pro-Palestinian protests. In March, he was arrested by ICE agents and held for more than 100 days in a Louisiana detention facility. The Trump admi...
5 Aug 20251h 22min
Behind Trump and Vance Is This Man’s Movement
Vice President JD Vance gave a speech recently that deserved more attention than it got. Accepting an award at a right-wing think tank, he argued that there’s a fundamental brokenness in how we define...
1 Aug 20251h 18min
Best Of: Barbara Kingsolver on ‘Urban-Rural Antipathy’
“It’s so insidious, people don’t realize it,” Barbara Kingsolver told me, describing the prejudice against “country people.” Kingsolver is one of those “country people,” as well as a literary legend i...
29 Juli 20251h 1min
