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• The Supreme Court Is Backing Trump's Power Grab

  Trump was losing in the courts. He’s not anymore. In the early months of the administration, the courts were proving a powerful check on President Trump, blocking many of his boldest actions. But those were the lower courts. In the...

  2 sep 2025 3392 sec.

• Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force

  ICE now has the biggest budget of any law enforcement agency in America. “ICE and Customs and Border Protection have long been the most rogue, kind of renegade and certainly pro-Trump police agencies in the federal government,”...

  27 aug 2025 4095 sec.

• MAHA Is a Bad Answer to a Good Question

  “Make America Healthy Again” is a great idea — somebody should try it. A lot of the concerns animating the MAHA movement — chronic disease, the unhealthiness of the American diet, how profits warp our health care system — are serious...

  22 aug 2025 4946 sec.

• Your Questions (and Criticisms) of Our Recent Shows

  I do my best to respond to your critiques of some of our recent episodes. We got an overwhelming response to my interviews with the Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, the national conservativism theorist Yoram Hazony and the human...

  20 aug 2025 3587 sec.

• Trump vs. the U.S. Economy

  What is going on with the economy right now? There are a lot of mixed signals. President Trump slashed taxes, but he’s also bringing in a lot of money through tariffs. Inflation is creeping up, but the stock market keeps rising....

  16 aug 2025 5020 sec.

• When Is It Genocide?

  In December 2023, when South Africa accused Israel of genocide before the International Court of Justice, I thought it was wrong to do so. Israel had been attacked. Its defense was legitimate. The blood was on Hamas’s hands. But over...

  13 aug 2025 6164 sec.

• Mahmoud Khalil Tells His Story

  Mahmoud Khalil was a leader in Columbia University’s pro-Palestinian protests. In March, he was arrested by ICE agents and held for more than 100 days in a Louisiana detention facility. The Trump administration claims Khalil is...

  5 aug 2025 4948 sec.

• Behind Trump and Vance Is This Man’s Movement

  Vice President JD Vance gave a speech recently that deserved more attention than it got. Accepting an award at a right-wing think tank, he argued that there’s a fundamental brokenness in how we define who is an American. He explained...

  1 aug 2025 4731 sec.

• Best Of: Barbara Kingsolver on ‘Urban-Rural Antipathy’

  “It’s so insidious, people don’t realize it,” Barbara Kingsolver told me, describing the prejudice against “country people.” Kingsolver is one of those “country people,” as well as a literary legend in her own time, who set out to write...

  29 jul 2025 3677 sec.

• Is Decarbonization Dead?

  Biden passed the most ambitious climate legislation in American history. Trump just shredded it. What does that mean for the future of renewable energy in America? Where does the climate movement go from here? And is it too late for us...

  25 jul 2025 4621 sec.

• Why American Jews No Longer Understand One Another

  The consensus that held American Jewry together for generations is breaking down.  That consensus, roughly, was this: What is good for Israel is good for the Jews; anti-Zionism is a form of antisemitism; and there will someday soon be...

  23 jul 2025 1432 sec.

• Why Trump Can’t Shake Jeffrey Epstein

  MAGA has been infighting over the Jeffrey Epstein files. And that’s because the conspiracy theories around Epstein hit at the very core of MAGA’s whole worldview. Today’s episode looks closer at that worldview. Will Sommer has been...

  17 jul 2025 4176 sec.