Have We Turned the Corner on Impeachment?
A week ago a substantial majority of Americans opposed even an impeachment inquiry. Today, a majority of all Americans support such an inquiry and fully half support impeaching Trump outright. That's ...
1 Okt 201944min
Making Sense of the Ukraine Whistleblower Revelations
It's not just you. We're all lying beneath the rubble of substantial portions of American democracy trying to figure out what hit us. Fortunately, you have us. So, climb on the treadmill or save this ...
27 Sep 201954min
What Tiny 16 Year-Old Towers Over America's President?
The answer of course to the question posed in the title of this podcast is Greta Thunberg, the extraordinary young Scandinavian leader who has delivered the message that the climate crisis is real and...
26 Sep 201942min
The Biggest National Security Threat We Face is President Trump: A Conversation with Secretary Leon Panetta
Few Americans in our history have had such wide-ranging and distinguished careers as Leon Panetta. A former Secretary of Defense, Director of Central Intelligence and White House Chief of Staff as wel...
25 Sep 201944min
Watershed or More Water Under the Bridge: Examining the Ukraine Whistleblower Case
Every few weeks Trump does something that leads everyone to exclaim, "Now he really has done it! This will be the end of him." And every few weeks after people can hardly remember what the last surefi...
24 Sep 201948min
Donald Trump is the MRSA of Presidents: A Grave Threat Our System Can't Fight Off
Our political system has built into it a kind of immune system to protect it from abuse and abusers. But just as how in life, bacteria develop that are resistant to drugs, so too in our system we have...
20 Sep 201952min
Anyone Have Any Ideas for What Dem Foreign Policy Should Be? Bueller? Bueller?
We're getting into the serious campaigning for president and so far it's fair to say foreign policy hasn't really been front and center. Or anywhere to speak of. Should it be? Does it matter? Would sa...
17 Sep 201958min
Stand by For An Avalanche of Sh*t: Trump Foreign Policy Post-Bolton & Pre-Election
John Bolton may not be National Security Advisor any more but it hardly matters because he wasn't actually ever really National Security Advisor to begin with. Trump never empowered him. Trump doesn't...
13 Sep 201943min
