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Anne Applebaum and Jacob Frey: Using Lies to Justify Violence
New Jan 09, 2026 1h 9m

Anne Applebaum and Jacob Frey: Using Lies to Justify Violence

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says ICE descended on his city with hopes of rounding up undocumented Somalis. When agents couldn't find any, they started driving around terrorizing people. And now w...

Ryan Grim: An Unconscionable Reaction to a Summary Execution
New Jan 08, 2026 1h 9m EXPLICIT

Ryan Grim: An Unconscionable Reaction to a Summary Execution

Most law enforcement departments train officers not to stand in front of vehicles—or shoot at moving ones—but masked ICE agents in Minneapolis did just that after descending on Renee Good's Honda ...

George Conway: Trump Is a Vampire
New Jan 07, 2026 52 min EXPLICIT

George Conway: Trump Is a Vampire

Biden and Merrick Garland thought Trump would just go away, but malignant narcissists must be made to leave. And with Congress not fulfilling its constitutional obligation to hold Trump accountabl...

Jonathan Blitzer: The Stars Aligned Against Venezuela
New Jan 06, 2026 1h 16m EXPLICIT

Jonathan Blitzer: The Stars Aligned Against Venezuela

Trump wanted to alpha male and take some oil, Hegseth wanted to bomb something, Rubio wanted Maduro gone, and aggrieved Stephen Miller wanted to bully the weak. The White House eventually settled ...

Bill Kristol: A Stupid and Insane Foreign Intervention
Jan 05, 2026 1h 3m

Bill Kristol: A Stupid and Insane Foreign Intervention

Toppling the leader of Venezuela looks to be about greed and Trump's vanity. It's not about national security, and is likely to produce bad outcomes—including more repression of ordinary Venezuelan...

John Heilemann: The Year Is Ending a Lot Better than It Started
Dec 31, 2025 1h 12m EXPLICIT

John Heilemann: The Year Is Ending a Lot Better than It Started

Only six months ago, the wheels felt like they were coming off of America, and our democracy experiment. But since the Epstein case broke wide open, the wheels started to come off Trump instead. An...

Julie K. Brown: Hiding the Truth in the Epstein Files
Dec 30, 2025 47 min

Julie K. Brown: Hiding the Truth in the Epstein Files

The DOJ is releasing random Epstein documents to distract the public, while also intentionally covering the faces of men in images. It's also pulling docs that reveal Trump's name. Epstein's victim...

Bill Kristol: Trump Has Lost the Plot
Dec 29, 2025 48 min

Bill Kristol: Trump Has Lost the Plot

After a campaign built on the promise that Trump was going to look out for his voters, he started his administration getting sidetracked by DOGE and Musk's phony ideas about saving money. After tha...

Kara Swisher: We're in an 'Eat the Rich' Moment
Dec 26, 2025 54 min EXPLICIT

Kara Swisher: We're in an 'Eat the Rich' Moment

The year started with America's tech overlords kissing the ring at Trump's inauguration, and it's ending with the public fed up with the ostentatiously rich—and more distrustful of Silicon Valley t...

Tom Nichols: The Buzz Has Worn Off
Dec 23, 2025 54 min EXPLICIT

Tom Nichols: The Buzz Has Worn Off

Six months ago, MAGA world was strutting around with their chests puffed out. But now, many of them are having a blue Christmas over the infighting, the economy, the DOJ's inability to deliver reve...

Bill Kristol: This Is Trump's Cover-Up
Dec 22, 2025 1h 2m EXPLICIT

Bill Kristol: This Is Trump's Cover-Up

On the Epstein matter, the current DOJ is not just putting its thumb on the scale for Trump. It's his defense team. Make no mistake: The top two officials at the Justice Department are executing Tr...

David Frum: Trump and Epstein Were Best Friends
Dec 19, 2025 52 min

David Frum: Trump and Epstein Were Best Friends

Of all the images of Trump, the only times he seemed to be authentically smiling in the presence of another person was when he was with Jeffrey Epstein. The two of them had the same interests, and ...

Patrick Gaspard: A White House Screamathon
Dec 18, 2025 1h 7m

Patrick Gaspard: A White House Screamathon

Trump's power of persuasion is failing him on the affordability issue. He even broke MAGA creed on live TV by calling on Americans to trust the word of foreign leaders—who supposedly claim the U.S....

Bill Kristol: A Weekend of Tragedy
Dec 15, 2025 55 min

Bill Kristol: A Weekend of Tragedy

From the shooting at Brown University, to the Oct. 7-style slaughter in Australia, and the shocking murder of Rob Reiner and his wife—it’s been one blow after another. But leave it to Trump to seiz...

Alyssa Farah: Trump's Big L in Indiana
Dec 12, 2025 54 min

Alyssa Farah: Trump's Big L in Indiana

Despite death threats and harassment, Republicans in Indiana delivered the biggest political setback to Trump since officials in Georgia wouldn’t help him find 11,780 votes in 2020. Turns out, some...

David French: MAGA Is Bleeding Numbers
Dec 11, 2025 1h 0m EXPLICIT

David French: MAGA Is Bleeding Numbers

Republican disunity is being obscured by affection for Trump, but just below the surface, MAGA is being pulled apart at the seams. At the same time, the administration is busy committing war crimes...

Neera Tanden: America's 'Daddy' Is in a Rut
Dec 10, 2025 51 min

Neera Tanden: America's 'Daddy' Is in a Rut

Big Boss Trump, who claims the power to run the whole government via executive order and pushes all our allies around, is a man suddenly with no agency when it comes to the economy. He says the hig...

Mark Hertling: Trump (Still) Hates Europe
Dec 09, 2025 50 min

Mark Hertling: Trump (Still) Hates Europe

Heaping scorn and disdain on Europe, Trump called its countries decaying and its leaders weak, but the U.S. likely needs Europe more than they need us. And while POTUS is whining that Zelensky won'...