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The Republican Party's Descent Into the Dark Ages from 2017-07-25T19:01:57
It’s hard to boil down all the ways the Trump campaign and presidency have reshaped American political norms into a single conceptual frame.
But in his new, best-selling book Devil’s Barga...
The Republicans' Obamacare 'Waterloo' Moment Has Arrived from 2017-07-18T22:30:41
Trumpcare is dead! At least for now. Senate Republicans lack sufficient support to repeal and replace Obamacare, or do anything to the health care system on a purely partisan basis.
So wh...
The Trump-Russia Conspiracy Is Real from 2017-07-12T01:32:57
The Trump campaign’s efforts to collude with the Russian government against Hillary Clinton have now been established. Donald Trump’s son, Don Jr, produced emails on Tuesday that corroborate a meet...
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Mitch McConnell's "Unconscionable" Health Care Bill from 2017-06-27T06:24:04
Former Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear discusses the health care policy successes in his state, the threat of the Senate's new health care bill, and a new path forward for Democrats with New Republ...
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Fighting the Secret Plan to End Obamacare from 2017-06-20T22:36:20
Democratic Strategist and CNN Political Analyst Hilary Rosen discusses Democratic strategies to resist AHCA.
Republicans are crafting a secret health care bill, and nobody has any idea how...
Comey Is Breaking Trump. Trump Is Breaking the Government. from 2017-06-09T19:58:01
Brian Beutler and Ron Klain discuss Klain's political history [1:30], his role in response to the Ebola outbreak [12:30], and James Comey's Senate Intelligence committee hearing [28:15].
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The Self-Incrimination of Donald Trump from 2017-05-23T20:30:05
A lot has changed in the two months since former chief Justice Department spokesman Matthew Miller joined New Republic Senior Editor Brian Beutler to discuss the FBI's investigation of the Trump ca...
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If Trump can get away with this, what can't he get away with? from 2017-05-15T22:33:01
Donald Trump’s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey in order to obstruct Comey’s Russia investigation has shocked the conscience of nearly everyone in politics. But because Trump’s party contr...
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Senator Chris Murphy's Battle Plan for the Trump Era from 2017-05-08T22:26:40
All eyes are on the Senate after House Republicans passed the American Health Care Act. Will Senate Republicans follow suit? What can Democrats do to stop them? And what would a repeal of the Affor...
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Does Glenn Greenwald owe Brian a Coke? from 2017-04-28T12:22:23
Glenn Greenwald returns to the podcast to discuss what lessons the media, Democrats, and progressives should draw from 2016 as they turn to the elections ahead.
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The Trump Backlash Builds from 2017-04-21T00:18:41
Massive Democratic over-performance in multiple special elections has captured the attention of both liberals and conservatives wondering whether the Trump backlash will stymie the Republican agend...
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When Your President’s a Fox News Addict from 2017-04-07T12:40:56
Despite being a notorious grifter, Donald Trump was an unintended mark for Fox News. That’s great news for them. For the rest of us? Alex Pareene and Brian Beutler discuss the collateral damage in ...
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Is This What a Death Spiral Looks LIke? from 2017-03-24T20:33:13
Former Principal Deputy Assistant General in the US Department of Justice Civli Rights Division Samuel Bagenstos comes on the show to talk to New Republic Senior Editor Brian Beutler about the mire...
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Russia-do about Nothing? from 2017-03-17T11:03:13
Matthew Miller draws on his experience as Director of Public Affairs at the Justice Department under Attorney General Eric Holder to chat with New Republic Editor Brian Beutler about James Comey's ...
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How Many iPhones Will YOU Have to Sell to Afford Trumpcare from 2017-03-10T10:59:10
Huffington Post Senior National Correspondent Jonathan Cohn and New Republic Senior Editor Brian Beutler unpack the Republicans new healthcare bill and compare its legislative process to other more...
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Making Sense of the Hot Mess on Capitol Hill from 2017-03-03T12:53:19
The turmoil and dysfunction in President Trump’s administration have persisted despite the White House’s (and the commentariat’s) fond hope that his first address to Congress would set the wind at ...
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Don't Compare the Trump resistance to the Tea Party from 2017-02-24T06:29:11
There’s a strong temptation in politics to compare mass protests in support of Obamacare to the tea party protests of 2009, which nearly derailed health care reform before it passed. Jesse Ferguson...
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Who Should Run the Democratic Party? from 2017-02-16T11:17:01
New Republic Senior Editor Brian Beutler discusses the future of the Democratic parties with two candidates for the DNC chair.
[2:20] South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg
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How Donald Trump Could Both Revolutionize the Judiciary And Destroy It from 2017-02-10T12:16:26
The fact that Judge Neil Gorsuch had to criticize the man who nominated him to the Supreme Court perfectly encapsulates the horrifying tension between Donald Trump’s power to shape the judiciary an...
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Tom Perriello and the Triumph of Confident Progressivism from 2017-02-03T10:18:56
Tom Perriello represented the Virginia’s Fifth Congressional district during the height of Democrats’ Obama-era productivity. But unlike most Democrats from GOP-leaning territory, Perriello didn’t ...
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How to Stop Obamacare Sabotage from 2017-01-26T12:28:57
Andy Slavitt saved the Affordable Care Act; he tells New Republic Senior Editor Brian Beutler how he hopes to keep Donald Trump from destroying it.
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Will Donald Trump Kill Us All? from 2017-01-20T18:21:21
Arms Control Wonk Blog Founding Publisher and nuclear non-proliferation expert Jeffrey Lewis and Brian Beutler discuss the likelihood of us all dying in a nuclear apocalypse under a Trump presidency.
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Donald Trump's Impunity Presidency from 2017-01-13T00:42:06
Adam Serwer, Senior Editor for the Atlantic, and Brian Beutler, Senior Editor for New Republic discuss a week of confirmations, farewells, and leaks. Serwer shares his perspective on Jeff Sessions ...
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Evan McMullin on the Rules of Trump Resistance from 2017-01-05T11:26:21
Former Presidential Candidate and CIA Officer Evan McMullin joins New Republic Senior Editor Brian Beutler to talk about how liberals and conservatives can find common ground in resisting Trump's a...
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Words as Weapons of Authoritarian Control from 2016-11-30T21:15:58
When the public can not agree upon a shared reality—when confusion and distrust and propaganda reign—politics devolves into a pre-democratic struggle for power, which will disfavor resisters.
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Digging in for a Fight from 2016-11-18T01:14:25
Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan
Donald Trump is going to be president. When he reaches the Oval Office, he will be as hellbent on accumulating power, at the expense of li...
Into the Abyss from 2016-11-09T23:56:15
[0:00] Sean Trende, Senior Elections Analyst with Real Clear Politics was the first political analyst to posit the existence of a large enough latent population of disaffected whites to elect Repub...
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E.J. Dionne On How Wrong the Right Has Gone from 2016-11-03T11:05:12
Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne is the author of a timely book called Why the Right Went Wrong. New Republic Senior Editor Brian Beutler sat down with him at the Brookings Institution to fit ...
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After Trump, the Deluge from 2016-10-26T08:48:55
Norm Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, cowrote the book on Republican dysfunction. He joins New Republic Senior Editor Brian Beutler in studio to discuss what's hap...
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Republicans Will Try to Pretend Donald Trump Never Happened from 2016-10-20T23:51:59
The 2016 presidential debates are over, and Donald Trump lost all of them.
The question now, with Trump’s defeat looming, is how long our memories will be? Huffington Post writers Jason Li...
The Fallout of an Election Meltdown from 2016-10-11T01:53:12
[1:40] Liam Donovan
[39:30] Claire Landsbaum
The second presidential debate Sunday night at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, was the beginning of Donald Trump’s last stand...
How Tim Kaine Won By Losing from 2016-10-06T00:33:11
Deadspin Senior Editor Ashley Feinberg joins The New Republic's Brian Beutler to explore how the key to winning the VP debate was getting into Trump’s head one way or another. At the first vice pre...
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Grading a Loser on a Curve: Presidential Debate Special with Matt Yglesias from 2016-09-28T00:01:14
Vox cofounder and senior correspondent Matthew Yglesias joins us to discuss the debate and how it has been covered so far.
Monday night, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump squared off in th...
Jamelle Bouie on How White Media Minimizes Racism from 2016-09-22T12:01:33
Slate's Chief Political Correspondent Jamelle Bouie describes how he sees journalists underestimate the real stakes and potential consequences of a Trump presidency on people of color.
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Who Will Win? from 2016-09-15T12:12:02
James Fallows, The Atlantic’s national correspondent, has undertaken a detailed pre-game analysis of presidential debates every four years going back to 2000. In 1996, he wrote a comprehensive crit...
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The Clinton Rules and Clinton's Rules from 2016-09-09T12:21:46
[2:32] Glenn Greenwald
[49:35] Rebecca Traister
What is the proper role for liberals in the media? What constitutes fair intervention and can liberals work the refs without falling int...
Can the GOP Avoid Another Trump? from 2016-08-25T02:09:58
Stuart Stevens, who was Mitt Romney's chief strategist in 2012, and Real Clear Politics' Senior Elections Analyst Sean Trende discuss the factors that allowed Trump to succeed and whether the Repub...
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Open Source Bernie from 2016-08-18T08:00:27
How will Bernie Sanders' campaign influence future insurgent campaigns? We spoke to Becky Bond, co-founder and former political director of CREDO, about how she advised a 74-year-old socialist's ca...
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How to Write a Speech When Democracy Is on the Line from 2016-08-11T14:44:39
As chief speechwriter for President Barack Obama from 2005-2013, Jon Favreau’s job was to help Obama show without telling. He’ll help us get a handle on the conundrum this poses to Obama, Clinton,...
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How Asymmetry Fries the Circuits of the Political Machine from 2016-08-04T12:03:29
Jay Rosen discusses whether the media and the Clinton campaign can rise to the Trump challenge without fundamentally changing themselves.
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What We Learned from the Craziest Two Weeks In 2016 Politics from 2016-07-29T02:49:21
Alex Wagner, senior editor at The Atlantic, has been on hand for both conventions. She has written most recently about the Democratic Party divide and calls in from the parking lot of the Wells Far...
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Paying Down the Hate Debt from 2016-07-19T15:14:37
Ezra Klein, Vox.com Editor-in-Chief and host of The Weeds and The Ezra Klein Show, is our guest this week. He joins us in studio to talk about the RNC, the long-awaited union of Trump and Pence, an...
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The Globalist vs. The Nativist from 2016-07-08T16:28:36
The Week's Michael Brendan Dougherty is our guest this week, and boy, is there news to discuss. FBI director Jim Comey lashed out at Hillary Clinton for her mishandling of classified information, w...
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The Codependent Futures of SCOTUS and the GOP from 2016-06-30T06:02:25
This week, the Supreme Court handed the abortion-rights movement a major victory in its Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt decision. Irin Carmon, MSNBC reporter and author of the bestseller “The N...
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Trump Steaks and Veepstakes from 2016-06-23T06:02:55
To call Donald Trump’s campaign a dumpster fire would be an insult to dumpster fires. This week, he fired campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, less than a month before the convention. So...why’d he ...
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Two Houses Divided from 2016-06-16T06:02:35
The horrific mass shooting at a gay club in Orlando this weekend left the nation grieving and in shock. Yet Donald Trump made it into a victory lap that was so outlandish, even Republicans who have...
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Donald Trump Judge-Bashes, Hillary Clinton Wins from 2016-06-09T06:02:06
Donald Trump's intimidation campaign against Judge Gonzalo Curiel sounds mighty familiar to Judge Vaughn Walker, our first guest. After presiding over same-sex marriage litigation in California, he...
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Hillary Clinton's Two-Front War from 2016-05-26T04:57:41
Hillary Clinton is taking fire from all sides. On her left, Bernie Sanders is demanding a high price for unifying the party. On her right, Donald Trump is playing all the dirty tricks. Josh Marshal...
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Two Republicans Duke It Out Over Trump from 2016-05-19T06:02:47
Republican strategists John Feehery and Rory Cooper fundamentally disagree over Donald Trump: Feehery supports him, and Cooper definitely does not. They meet in the studio to talk (and occasionally...
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The Destruction of the Parties Is Nigh from 2016-05-12T06:02:56
Former Jeb Bush comms director and #NeverTrump operative Tim Miller explains what distinguishes Republicans who support Trump from those who never will. Then, New York Magazine's Jonathan Chait dis...
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Andrew Sullivan Says Trump Will Ruin Us. Is He Right? from 2016-05-05T06:53:45
After Tuesday's Indiana primary and the end of the Cruz and Kasich campaigns, the Trump-Clinton race is on. Can our democracy survive it? Andrew Sullivan of New York Magazine (and formerly TNR) wor...
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The After-Bern Effect from 2016-04-28T06:02:01
Brian Beutler explores the week's East Coast primaries—PA, CT, MD, RI, and DE—with a focus on what it all means for Bernie Sanders. MSNBC’s Chris Hayes discusses Sanders's next move and the long-te...
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New York Votes, Trump Towers from 2016-04-21T06:20:24
In this week's New York primaries, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both left their opponents in the dust. The Atlantic’s Molly Ball helps us sift through the big question now/still facing the GOP:...
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Divide and Flounder from 2016-04-14T14:30:07
Howard Dean—former Vermont governor, 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, and DNC chairman— offers his insights into what life looks like after a populist insurgency. Then, New Republic senior e...
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R@tfucking, How Does It Work? from 2016-03-31T06:02:01
Nature abhors a vacuum, and so does the Trump campaign. The Huffington Post's Sam Stein joins to talk about the assault charges leveled at Trump's campaign manager, and the allegations that Ted Cru...
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The Democracy of Blame from 2016-03-24T05:03:47
What will the Trump candidacy mean for the Black Lives Matter movement? The New Yorker’s Jelani Cobb examines the “reptilian reflex level of contempt" that we’re seeing from Trump supporters. Then,...
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Super Twosday, Supreme Wednesday from 2016-03-18T05:41:52
A look at the aftermath of the week's primaries with Greg Sargent of the Washington Post's The Plum Line blog, and a special discussion of President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, ...
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Conservatism’s Crossroads from 2016-03-10T06:02:08
As Donald Trump’s winning streak continues, The Atlantic’s David Frum says the conservative movement is transforming before our eyes. The New Republic’s Jeet Heer also joins from Toronto to talk ab...
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Super Tuesday: Trump the Triumphant from 2016-03-03T06:03:25
New Republic editors Elspeth Reeve and Alex Shephard join Brian Beutler to talk through the Super Tuesday results, and whether or not Trump reminds them of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu (we b...
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Dr. Strangetrump from 2016-02-25T07:06:19
Whether the GOP establishment likes it or not, Donald Trump keeps on winning. Conservative commentator and Trump supporter A.J. Delgado and The Week correspondent Michael Brendan Dougherty debate t...
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Hillarybots vs. Berniebros, and Remembering Scalia from 2016-02-19T06:02:15
A Hillary supporter (Slate’s Michelle Goldberg) and a Bernie fan (The Washington Spectator’s Rick Perlstein) debate the Democratic primary field with host Brian Beutler. Then, libertarian legal thi...
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The New Hampshire Primary from 2016-02-11T16:32:36
The Washington Post's David Weigel joins to talk about Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders’s landslide victories, Marco Rubio's future, and if Hillary Clinton’s “firewall” of support from black and Lat...
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New Republic's Primary Concerns Promo from 2016-02-10T15:13:20
Coming soon: a podcast following the 2016 primaries and what their results mean for the presidential elections in November.
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