The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer

The midterm of 2022 is almost over, with only some counting and the Georgia run-off remaining. But it’s seismic impact will be felt for years to come. It was the first nation wide election since the S...

16 Nov 202225min

Elon Musk’s first few days as the head of Twitter have proved rocky, with advertisers leaving in droves after he spread a conspiracy theory about the attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, followed by a ro...

9 Nov 202235min

Joe Biden’s executive action on college student debt is both the culmination of a long political struggle and the possible start of a new era of debt relief not just for college students but for many ...

2 Nov 202233min

In the past week, a number of prominent MAGA leaders have made comments about Jews that range from insulting to outright antisemitism.Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, “No President has done more f...

18 Okt 202250min

The Star Wars franchise has long seemed to have exhausted itself with endless sequels and prequels offering variations of the same old stories. That's why the new Disney+ program, Andor has come as a ...

12 Okt 202236min

The power of centrism as a political force comes from the fact that it’s not so much an ideology as it is an ambient mood. It’s the shared common sense of the elite, a set of axioms about the goodness...

5 Okt 202238min

On September 12, Politico noted that Trump's appointed judges were "on a tear” and listed “a flurry of controversial decisions by Trump judges in recent months that have been criticized as out of step...

27 Sep 202232min

In the theater of American politics, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is auditioning for the role of Trump II. His pitch is that he’ll offer all the hard right policies the GOP base loves but with a more...

20 Sep 202232min