Trump’s $10B War Against the Journal
Eriq Gardner joins guest host Julia Ioffe to unpack Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over a lewd birthday card he allegedly doodled for Jeffrey Epstein, and which...
23 Juli 202522min
Trump’s Anti-Woke A.I. Agenda
Ian Krietzberg joins guest host Julia Ioffe to unpack the class-action lawsuit against the A.I. company Anthropic, and how publishers are drawing a line in the sand when it comes to A.I. models traini...
22 Juli 202522min
Media Monday: Substack’s Wild Valuation & Bari Weiss’s Big Decision
Jon Kelly reunites with Peter to unpack Substack’s billion-dollar valuation and its pivot from newsletter darling to multimedia hype darling. Then they dig into the culture-war-infused intrigue surrou...
21 Juli 202521min
What’s Eating Angie Craig?
In this special episode of The Powers That Be, Leigh Ann Caldwell is joined by Rep. Angie Craig for a Puck Power Breakfast at Ned’s Club in D.C. Craig digs into the crypto-related conflicts dogging th...
19 Juli 202523min
Paging Marco Rubio!
Julia Ioffe joins guest host Leigh Ann Caldwell to unpack the implications of the sweeping layoffs at the State Department, which have left 1300 staffers out in the cold. Then they examine Marco Rubio...
18 Juli 202522min
Elon’s Third Party Fantasy & The G.O.P.’s Texas Tangle
Abby Livingston joins Leigh Ann Caldwell to cover the most pressing topics underpinning the political landscape: the latest drama with the redistricting efforts in Texas, the Dems’ and G.O.P.’s respec...
17 Juli 202520min
Vogue Succession Watch & The Bezos-Sánchez Whisper Network
Lauren Sherman joins guest host Julia Alexander to cut through the noise surrounding the Anna Wintour-Vogue succession story—and why the rumors of Jeff Bezos acquiring the storied fashion mag are more...
16 Juli 202526min
Ackman’s Unforced Errors & Saks’ Debt Spiral
Bill Cohan joins guest host extraordinaire Julia Alexander to dissect Bill Ackman’s latest headline-generating antics—this time at a tennis tournament—and the optics of his increasingly erratic behavi...
15 Juli 202523min
