Anne Applebaum: Outside the Rule of Law
If the Chinese hacked the U.S. government the way private citizen Elon has, it would be a major act of cyber warfare. And since Elon is a government contractor, he's now in a position to make policy c...
4 Feb 202556min
Will Saletan and Scott Lincicome: A Crime Boss Has Taken Over
The president of the United States is putting his Jan 6 accomplices in charge of the Justice Department and the FBI, and clearing out any officials who would be willing to investigate the administrati...
3 Feb 20251h 12min
Andrew Weissmann: A MAGAtocracy and a Babytocracy
While Republican senators worked to protect Kash Patel from answering some ver-wee hard questions at his confirmation hearing, not one of them had the audacity to suggest that he is the best person to...
31 Jan 202553min
Tommy Vietor: Deniability Is All That Matters
Republican senators don't care that Trump's nominees are lying—like Kash pretending he didn't know a Nazi-adjacent podcaster whose show he's been on eight times—because the confirmation process to the...
30 Jan 20251h 5min
Mona Charen: A Moment of Truth
Trump is trying to seize powers he doesn't have—like unilaterally rewriting laws and deciding on his own how he wants to spend money Congress appropriated for a particular purpose. Will the Supreme Co...
29 Jan 202540min
Chris Hayes and Alex Kantrowitz: Trying To Break the Whole Thing
The directives putting a pause on federal grants and the firing of career DOJ prosecutors is about trying to make the entirety of the federal government the tool of the man occupying the presidency. A...
28 Jan 20251h 9min
Bill Kristol: Trump Loves Fraud
Gullible Republicans have really been proving what they're made of recently, including Susan Collins, who claims Trump wants to root out corruption, even though his whole life has been a fraud—the wat...
27 Jan 202550min
David French: Vengeance and Rage
Trump launched his first week back in office signaling to loyal followers that they are free to break the law on his behalf, while telling political opponents—including John Bolton and Mike Pompeo—tha...
24 Jan 20251h 2min
