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• 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.

• Why Does My Mind Keep Thinking That?

  I have had a meditation practice for about 15 years now. I started hoping it would calm me down, and it has. But it’s also made me more aware of the strangeness of my mind. Certain thoughts emerge seemingly out of nowhere. Many of them...

  11 jul 2025 4058 sec.

• How the Attention Economy Is Devouring Gen Z — and the Rest of Us

  Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani are both proof of how the ability to capture attention is power. And the attention economy isn’t reshaping just politics; it’s also reshaping the actual economy: the crypto market, A.I. venture capital,...

  8 jul 2025 3950 sec.

• The Disaster That Just Passed the Senate

  President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is a bad piece of legislation. It includes trillions of dollars in tax cuts that are very much tilted toward the rich, along with savage cuts to Medicaid, nutrition assistance and green...

  2 jul 2025 4282 sec.

• Mamdani, Trump and the End of the Old Politics

  Zohran Mamdani created a new anti-establishment playbook — in his use of social video, his focus on affordability and his position on Israel.    His assumed victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, trouncing the former...

  28 jun 2025 5055 sec.

• A New Middle East?

  For decades, Israel has wanted American support to bomb Iranian nuclear sites. But U.S. presidents, both Republican and Democrat, have resisted — until President Trump. So, what changed? And what are the likely consequences of that...

  25 jun 2025 2927 sec.

• Is This America’s Golden Age? A Debate.

  Kevin Roberts, Kellyanne Conway, Ben Rhodes and I battled it out a few weeks ago on a stage in Toronto.  This was for a Munk Debate on the motion: “Be it resolved, this is America’s Golden Age.” It might not surprise you that I was...

  20 jun 2025 6149 sec.

• Sarah McBride on Why the Left Lost on Trans Rights

  President Trump’s actions against transgender Americans have been stunningly wide-ranging. They’ve also been popular. Trump has sought new restrictions on trans people in sports, schools, the military, prisons and medical care, and in...

  17 jun 2025 5722 sec.

• Ehud Olmert on Israel's Catastrophic War in Gaza

  It is impossible to overstate how hellish life in Gaza has been for the past 20 months. The death count is above 50,000 people — more than 15,000 of whom are children — and at least 1.9 million of Gaza’s 2.1 million people have been...

  11 jun 2025 4433 sec.

• Best Of: Salman Rushdie Is Not Who You Think He Is

  This is one of my favorite episodes of the show in recent memory. It’s a conversation with the author Salman Rushdie about the experience of losing control of your identity in the world. This happened to Rushdie in the most extreme way....

  6 jun 2025 3624 sec.

• The Emergent Trump Doctrine

  Trump has been making some foreign policy moves I didn’t entirely expect. He seems determined to get a nuclear deal with Iran. He’s been public about his disagreements with Benjamin Netanyahu. He called Vladimir Putin “crazy.” And he...

  3 jun 2025 3858 sec.