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Trump's Politically Toxic Brute Squad

The Master of Distraction Fails to Distract

Surely, You Are Not Surprised

The Epstein Files and MAGA with Charlie Sykes

Trump: Making International Thuggery Great Again

Anne Applebaum: "It Is What I Feared Would Happen"

Anne Applebaum: "It Is What I Feared Would Happen"

Trump’s Secret to Limiting Free Speech Without Outlawing It

Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein: Nothing To See, Amirite?

The Jim Acosta Show with Charlie Sykes

Live with Galen Druke

Justin Wolfers: Why Economics is Like Sex

What Comes Next with Charlie Sykes

A Blunt Look at the BBB Fails

A Flood of Trumpism

Rejecting Kings Since 1776

Judge J. Michael Luttig: Remembering America's Core Values

The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom—and of Tyranny

The Conscience of Lisa Murkowski

Elon Strikes Back - Miles Taylor & Charlie Sykes discuss news of the day

Trumpism Smells Like...

Nicholas Grossman: This Is Not Normal

Why MAGA's Congress is Voting Against MAGA's Interests

The BBB Claims Its First GOP Scalp

Tim O'Brien: Trump's Rolling Corruption

What Happened on Friday?

Trump's Offensive

The Wrong Man for the Job

Trump's Mission [Not] Accomplished

Paul Rieckhoff: The Dangerous New Normal

No, We Do Not Have to 'Go To War With the President We Have'

Is NYC About to Hand Trump a Massive Gift?

The Day After

One-on-one With Julian Zelizer

Why Trump Blinked

Olivia Troye: The Fear Is The Point

The Ugly Politics of Trump's War

Ten Years of Trump

"Have you absolutely no conscience? No decency?"

"Have you absolutely no conscience? No decency?"

Live w/ Charlie Sykes

Mike Lee and the Broken Brains of MAGA

American Horror

Tom Nichols: Radicalizing the Military

Tanks, Rallies, And A Nation On Edge

No Kings. No Emperors. No Thugs.

Will the Courts Let Trump Get Away With This?

"The Moment We Have Feared Is Here"

Radicalization, Desensitization, and Fear

Brian Klaas: Why Do We Have So Many Psychopaths in Politics?

"We Are Going to Have Troops Everywhere"

Angus King: We Are Already in a Constitutional Crisis

Trump-Musk: The Fallout

What We Need to Remember About D-Day

Trump-Musk: An Orgy of Karma

Kinzinger-Sykes: Rewriting the Rules of War

Abominations, Pettiness, and Your Daily Dose of Dystopia

Slava Ukraini

Extremely Powerful Men Who Can’t Be Arsed

Trump's Dumbing Down of America

Julian Zelizer: Trump's Discarded Allies

Tacos, Tariffs, Pardons, and a Weeping Bongino.

The Deeply Unshocking News About Elon

Ron Fournier: The End of Three Beautiful Friendships?

Trump's Terrible TACO Wednesday

The Biff Tannen Presidency

How many politicians are psychopaths?

Trump's Confession of Cluelessness

The Putinization of America

Defiance vs. Defeatism

"An Orgy of Corruption"

Can We Walk And Chew Gum At The Same Time?

Why Do We Do This?

The GOP Is About To Drop The Debt Bomb

Live with Julian Zelizer

Trump's Most Dangerous Bleat?

Trump's Addled Tariff Rant

What Just Happened Yesterday?

Our Bigots in Chief

Jim Acosta: Focus Like a Laser Beam on Trump's Corruption

What Took you So Long, Chuck Schumer?

Pushing It In Our Face

What Fresh Hell Is This?

The Arsonist Blinks

Will we allow ICE to behave as a secret police?

Trump's Fanciest Bribe

Trump v. Christianity (and the New Pope)

Government By The Unqualified And The Absurd

Then They Came for "Habeas Corpus"

Requiem for a Terrible Nominee

A Pope for This Moment

A Never Trump Pope?

Trump's Cartoon World; Dolls, Alcatraz, and Narcissism

Right To His Face

BREAKING: Newly Declassified Memo Undermines Trump Immigration Claims About Venezuela And TDA

Trump's Grift Machine

Where Did Trump Get the Idea for Alcatraz?

The Next American Caesar

Donald Trump: Our Neo-Marxist President

The State Department Makes an Enemies List

Military Parades, Doll Rationing, and What's Stephen Miller Really Like?

The Blogger Who Hates America

"Let's Kill All the Lawyers I Don't Like"

Live with Julian Zelizer

Trump's War on Barbie and the Loomering of Mike Waltz

Nicholas Grossman: Tariffs, Tyranny, and Tipping Points

No Extra Dolls For You, Little Girl

100 Days of Ressentiment

The Most Pathetic Surrender So Far

Ryan Lizza v. Politico

The Sum of All Trump

The Feds’ Overreach in Judge Dugan Case

What Would You Do?

Europe can’t keep crawling to Trump’s USA

The Choice: Fight, Flight, or Acquiesce

The Arrest Of A Milwaukee Judge: A Troubling Assault On The Judiciary

Slouching Toward 100 Days

Kinzinger-Sykes: Trump Arrests a Judge

The Numbing of America

A Memo to RFK, Jr.

Ron Johnson's Conspiracies

Paul Rieckhoff: Why Hegseth Has to Go

Give Up Your Arm, and Call It Peace

Profiles in Courage. Profiles in Un-courage.

A Cult of Personality Without a Personality

ICYMI: Ron Johnson's Broken Brain...

Ben Wittes: This Is the Fight That Matters

Donald J. Trump's Easter Greeting: A Reading.

Hegseth v. Head of Lettuce

Do It Anyway

The Only Consistent Thread of Trumpism

Tom Nichols: The Sum of All Fears — Easter Edition

American Legacy

The Supremes Stop Trump. For Now.

"This should be shocking..."

“Give Us Barabbas”

Connecting the Authoritarian Dots

Julian Zelizer: The Rule of Law vs. the Trump Doctrine

White House Theater Hour

How Alarmed Should We Be?

The authoritarian takeover attempt is here

Tim O'Brien: When the Law No Longer Matters

UPDATED: We're (Way) Past the Tipping Point

We're Past the Tipping Point

Why I Think "The Pitt" is Outstanding

Denver Riggleman & Amy McGrath: Truth in the Barrel

"Trust in Trump"

Julian Zelizer and Charlie Sykes: A Live Conversation

Trump's Brutal Poll Numbers

Government by Pyromania

Economy by Whim

Allen and Parnes: Inside the Battle for the White House

This Administration's Mercurial Trade Policy Injures Our Economy and Our Democracy

Of Musk and Morons

Tim Haugh’s Firing Is a Red Alert for the Nation—and Your Privacy

Peter Wehner: Trump, Denial, and the Collapse of Civic Courage

Hands Off for Them. But Our Hands Still Hold Tight

Yes, They Were Warned

How to Undo Trump’s Growing Dictatorship and the Damage it Is Inflicting

David French: Tariffs, Sycophants, and Signal

Photo gallery: “Hands Off” protests

The Week Trump Crashed

Wall Street thinks Trump's tariffs will eat Main Street alive

Radical Arrogance

Trump Trashes the Economy

A Good Day to Google: "Smoot-Hawley"

Live with Tara Palmeri

WI To Elon: Womp Womp

A Very Personal Message to Elon

The Biggest Loser in Wisconsin

What to Watch for While You're Waiting for Wisconsin

David Jolly: Taking Trump's Third Term Seriously

Dear White House Reporters: WTF?

The Quislings and Cowards of Big Law

Trump Is Going After the Independence of the Entire Legal Profession, Not Just Big Law

Jim Acosta: Green Shoots in the Fight for America

The Imperialism Has no Clothes

Trump's Week: From FUBAR to Fiasco

The Signal Trump Is Sending

The Most Important Election in America is...

Let's be honest

Applebaum: Signalgate and the Authoritarian Playbook

Ukraine Was Just Knifed In The Back

Malice or Stupidity?

For JD Vance, Europe Really Is the Enemy

Trump's FUBAR. Hegseth's Dishonor.

A Breach for the Ages

The Great Grovel Gathers Momentum

The Legal System Under Siege

Tom Nichols: Why Are We Still Surprised?

Trump’s Latest Stunt: Revoking a Clearance I Don’t Even Have

A Deplorable Week in Review

Elon Comes for Wisconsin

Kinzinger and Sykes: How Putin Humiliates Trump

Idiots With Flamethrowers

Michael Roth: No Time for Appeasement

The Tantrum Tyrant Wants to Threaten Me?! Cool Bro, Bring It

Silencing the voice of America

'First, they came for Columbia'

David Frum: Trade Wars and Turmoil

"Penumbra of Fear"

Schumer Caves

Why Does Trump Have a Putin Fetish?

TDS Turns Out to Have Been Prophetic

Elon is Going Through Some Things

Trump's War Against Christianity

Are Trump and Musk Breaking Up?

Democratic Centrists Make Their Move?

"Washington Has Become the Court of Nero"

Karen Tumulty: Our Twilight Zone Politics

What Happened Last Night?

Susan Glasser: "Why Aren't We In The Streets?"

The Shining City Goes Dark

Kinzinger-Sykes, Part 2: Vindication?

Kinzinger-Sykes: Today's Oval Office Disgrace

"A Country That Has Forgotten How to Blush"

Kara Swisher on Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk: Our Toddler Oligarchs.

Blowback and Gaslighting

Paul Rieckhoff: Trump's Assault on the Military

What Trump Has Unleashed

Courage, Principle, and Second Guessing

Trump's "Honeymoon" Didn't Even Last a Month

Ben Wittes: The U.S. Just Switched Sides

Regrets? They Have a Few.

Brian Rosenwald: One Month of Trump 2.0

"He who saves his Country does not violate any Law”

Tim O'Brien: A Deep Dive Into Trump's Shallow Mind

"It Was Never Going To Be Me."

An Iconic Oval Office Moment

Olivia Troye: Standing Up to Kash Patel

Live with Jim Acosta

Making America Corrupt Again

Quick Video on Trump's Carnival of Corruption

Tom Nichols: Decadent America

What Happens if Trump Defies the Courts?

David French: A Constitutional Revolution

A Note to Subscribers

The Podcast... Returns

A Reminder: Trump's Chaos is Not 'Greatness'

This is What the Voters Wanted, Right?

The Gospel According to JD

Marco Rubio's In-House Bigot

None Dare Call It a Coup

All The President's Liars

The Tragic and the Vile

Trump 2.0: From "Shock and Awe" to Blunder and Farce

The Most Embarrassing Person in Washington is...

Trump's Day of Chaos

The Mice in Winter

Some Sunday Notes on Week One

MAGA's Cancel Culture Comes for a Meteorologist

Waiting for a Hero

Trump's J6 Jailbreak

Today's a Good Day to Think About Charlie Chaplin

"The Communism of Pelf"

Beware the Bubbles

Chris and Charlie: LIVE!!!

Defining Deviancy (Way) Down

Some (Brief) Thoughts on Civility in the Age of Trump

The Fire (Flood/Pandemic/Disaster) Next Time

Donald Trump, Convicted Felon

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Elon?

The Enduring Shame of January 6

Bowing the Knee. Again.

Sobered by Responsibility? Are You F'ing Kidding Me?