Podcasts by The Weekly List
The Weekly List is a podcast hosted by Amy Siskind, author of The List. It supplements the popular Weekly List on our website, www.theweeklylist.org, which tracks the ever changing new normals of American politics. The podcast gives greater context to the "not normal" news items from the previous week, and will highlight a few stories and changing norms from the Trump regime that you may have missed.
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Democracy at Risk - Trump Reindicted from 2023-08-21T23:54:19
Host Amy Siskind discusses former US President Donald J. Trump's indictment in Georgia
ListenDemocracy at Risk - Trump's Indicment from 2023-04-14T04:44:06
Host Amy Siskind discusses former US President Donald J. Trump's March 30th indictment.
ListenDemocracy at Risk - We Did What We Had to Do from 2022-11-18T04:13:05
Host Amy Siskind discusses the aftermath of the 2022 US midterm elections
ListenDemocracy at Risk - Are We Sleepwalking into Autocracy? from 2022-10-20T04:12:30
Host Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks of US news and the upcoming midterm elections.
ListenDemocracy at Risk - FBI at Mar-a-Lago from 2022-08-24T01:26:47
Host Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks of US political news including primary updates and Donald Trump's legal troubles.
ListenDemocracy at Risk - Roe v. Wade Overturned from 2022-07-03T01:17:37
Host Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks of political news.
ListenDemocracy at Risk - Leaked Supreme Court Decision from 2022-05-24T05:45:34
Host Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks of political news.
ListenDemocracy at Risk - The Price of Authoritarianism from 2022-04-07T06:00
Host Amy Siskind discusses Russia's invasion of Ukraine (Recorded April 6th, 2022.)
ListenDemocracy at Risk - Russia Invades Ukraine: How Did We Get Here? from 2022-03-09T05:45:01
Host Amy Siskind discusses the factors at play in Russia's invasion of Ukraine (Recorded March 7th, 2022.)
ListenDemocracy at Risk - Nine Months Until the Midterms from 2022-02-13T19:34:11
Host Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks in American politics.
ListenDemocracy at Risk - One Year After the United States Capitol Attack from 2022-01-10T05:16:30
Host Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks in US politics.
ListenDemocracy at Risk - Looking to 2022 from 2021-12-27T04:49:02
Host Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks in US politics.
ListenDemocracy at Risk - Electoral Apathy from 2021-11-08T05:46:05
Host Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks in US politics.
ListenDemocracy at Risk - Handmaid's Tale from 2021-09-17T18:00
Host Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks in US politics.
ListenDemocracy at Risk - January 6th Commission from 2021-08-02T00:46:21
Host Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks in US politics.
ListenDemocracy at Risk - Six Months After the Insurrection from 2021-07-12T05:27:52
Host Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks in US politics.
ListenDemocracy at Risk - The Cult of the GOP from 2021-06-18T05:35:52
Host Amy Siskind discusses the last few weeks in US politics.
ListenDemocracy at Risk - Two Sides, One Truth from 2021-06-01T05:53:31
Host Amy Siskind talks about the progress of the Biden administration and the continuing attacks on democracy.
ListenReturning to Normalcy - Republicans in the Post-Trump Era from 2021-05-17T05:20:18
Host Amy Siskind discusses the political events of the last few weeks.
ListenReturning to Normalcy - Nearing 100 Days from 2021-04-19T03:45:10
Host Amy Siskind discusses the vaccine rollout, improving economy, and the latest instances of police brutality.
ListenReturning to Normalcy - Violence Against Asian Americans from 2021-03-22T05:29:47
Host Amy Siskind talks about the wave of attacks against Asian Americans during the last year and the Biden administration's work toward coronavirus relief.
ListenReturning to Normalcy - Insurrection Debrief from 2021-03-08T03:29:26
Host Amy Siskind discuss additional facts about the attack on the Capitol that have come to light in the last few weeks.
ListenRepairing Our Democracy - Impeachment from 2021-02-15T07:02:07
Host Amy Siskind talks about Donald Trump's second impeachment trial.
ListenRepairing Our Democracy - The First Days from 2021-02-02T06:54:44
Host Amy Siskind talks about the shift to "normalcy" after the end of the Trump administration.
ListenAfter - January from 2021-01-26T05:31:56
January 2021
I am grateful, with all your input, to have continued this project through inauguration. Since I started tracking Donald Trump in November 2016, I have posited that he cared ...
ListenAfter - December from 2021-01-04T01:02:27
In December, Trump continued to push lies and conspiracy theories about the election, not only failing to concede, but pushing efforts to overthrow the election results. During this ...
ListenAfter - November from 2020-12-01T06:04
Summary of the continuing broken norms in the weeks after the election of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States.
ListenWeek 208 - Victory from 2020-11-09T03:00
This project could not have ended in a more perfect way (she writes while sipping champagne): Donald J. Trump was defeated shortly before noon on Saturday, the cutoff time each week,...
ListenWeek 207 - The Final Countdown from 2020-11-02T05:56:19
In the final full week heading into the election, the seeds of Trump’s bungled pandemic response came back to haunt him, with the twin challenges of record daily cases and hosp...
ListenWeek 206 - Record-Setting Week from 2020-10-26T05:26:20
This week, with Election Day nearing, the coronavirus raged out of control, with a record number of new daily cases on Thursday, and then again Friday, topping 83,000. Hospital...
ListenWeek 205 - Early Voting from 2020-10-19T05:14:23
This week, despite millions of Americans having voted already, Senate Republicans started the process of confirming Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court. With Republicans in control...
ListenWeek 204 - Altered State from 2020-10-12T04:51:57
This week the public was given little information about Trump’s health and recovery from the coronavirus, including basic questions like when he last tested negative or his medical s...
ListenWeek 203 - Super-Spreader from 2020-10-05T05:12:30
On Thursday of this week, around 5 p.m., I tweeted that this week was unusually quiet in terms of the chaos, and was on pace for the fewest broken norms in 2020. I wrote that I was n...
ListenWeek 202 - Peaceful Transition of Power from 2020-09-28T06:15:50
This week Trump said he would not accept a peaceful transition of power — a remarkable, unprecedented statement. While there was pushback in the form of the Senate voting for a  ...
ListenWeek 201 - May Her Memory Be a Blessing from 2020-09-21T05:26:17
It’s hard to express the sense of loss this year has brought to the our country: already we’ve endured three years of division, broken norms, lawlessness, kleptocracy, bigotry and ha...
ListenWeek 200 - West on Fire from 2020-09-14T05:03:26
Things are getting worse in America, week by week. This week, as the West Coast saw wildfires spread, with much of California, Oregon, and Washington covered in smoke so thick the su...
ListenWeek 199 - Vote Twice from 2020-09-07T05:40:23
This week, with no discernible post-convention bounce and the election two months away, Trump was frenzied. He started the week with a storm of tweets, and then embarked on espousing...
ListenWeek 198 - Republican Nepotism Convention from 2020-08-31T04:55:16
This week, the Republican Party held its convention — which was likened to a Trump convention — a four-day span of shattered norms, and possibly multiple violations of the law. Gone ...
ListenWeek 197 - Bannon Charged from 2020-08-24T05:30:54
This was the longest weekly list, and it was simply exhausting. The Democrats held a very successful first virtual Democratic National Convention, while Trump spent the week advancin...
ListenWeek 196 - Post Office Under Attack from 2020-08-17T05:26:23
This week, presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden chose his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, the first Black and Asian American vice presidential candidate. An oddly unprepared Tr...
ListenWeek 195 - Back to School from 2020-08-10T05:24:07
This week U.S. intelligence revealed Russia is actively interfering in the 2020 presidential election, with a goal of harming presumptive Democratic candidate Joe Biden. Democratic l...
ListenWeek 194 - Delay the Election? from 2020-08-03T05:30:32
This week, for the first time, Trump publicly floated the idea of delaying the November election, drawing swift condemnation from Democrats and a mild rebuke from Republican le...
ListenWeek 193 - Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV. from 2020-07-27T05:18:13
This week, as the coronavirus raged out of control, passing 4 million U.S. cases and 145,000 deaths, Trump resurrected his daily coronavirus briefings — by himself, with no health &n...
ListenWeek 192 - Secret Police from 2020-07-20T05:03:57
This week, as the coronavirus raged out of control in many states, Trump sought to discredit Dr. Anthony Fauci, with several members of the regime publicly attacking Fauci’s cr...
ListenWeek 191 - Daily Records from 2020-07-13T05:04:52
This week, the pandemic continued to worsen, with many states seeing new highs and the death toll starting to rise. By week’s end, the U.S. registered an unthinkable nearly 70,000 ne...
ListenWeek 190 - Russian Bounties from 2020-07-06T05:32:37
This week the coronavirus spread further out of control, topping 50,000 daily cases for three consecutive days — more than 10,000 higher than the early peak in April. Trump continued...
ListenWeek 189 - Out of Control from 2020-06-29T14:40:18
This week started with a humiliating return to the campaign trail for Trump, as a mere 6,200 supporters showed up for his rally in Tulsa, after the campaign bragged more than one mil...
ListenWeek 188 - Tulsa from 2020-06-22T05:02:59
This week grave polling results revealed a downtrodden country feeling the impact of concurrent and intersecting crises, as national pride fell to its lowest level in two decades, wh...
ListenWeek 187 - Questionable from 2020-06-15T05:02:59
This week Trump seemed to fade into the background, unsure of how to respond to a triple set of crises that gripped the nation: continuing social unrest, a second wave of coron...
ListenWeek 186 - Coward-in-chief from 2020-06-08T05:35:38
This week, in a scene reminiscent of a crackdown in an authoritarian regime, U.S. troops stationed in our nation’s capital at Trump’s behest fired tear gas and rubber bullets on peac...
ListenWeek 185 - Kerosene on the Flames from 2020-06-01T05:17:23
This was one of the darkest weeks since I started the list. The week began with Trump spinning conspiracy theories to distract from the country reaching the grim milestone of losing ...
ListenWeek 184 - Transition to Greatness from 2020-05-25T04:53:34
This week, Trump fully transitioned from leader to salesman, leaving the states to fend for themselves, while he promoted a “transition to greatness.” After a week when two White Hou...
ListenWeek 183 - Obamagate from 2020-05-18T05:34:26
This week Trump tried out a new, more positive approach as the death toll passed 80,000 and more than 36 million Americans were unemployed, claiming, “We have met the moment and we h...
ListenWeeek 182 - Outbreak in the West Wing from 2020-05-11T05:20:26
This week, despite a White House model showing ending social distancing would result in a spike of 200,000 new cases a day and deaths of 3,000 a day, the majority of the country star...
ListenWeek 181 - Vietnam War from 2020-05-04T05:00
This week, with his approval dropping and Republicans alarmed about losing the Senate in 2020, Trump shifted away from holding daily task force briefings. Instead, he and his regime ...
ListenWeek 180 - Global Epicenter from 2020-04-27T05:55:14
This week opened and closed with Russia: opening with a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report reaffirming U.S. intelligence’s January 2017 conclusion that Russia interfered...
ListenWeek 179 - Absolute Authority from 2020-04-20T05:35:39
This week Trump threw a series of shiny coins to distract from the growing death toll and his mishandling of the coronavirus response. On Monday, he proclaimed he, not the governors,...
ListenWeek 178 - Most Deaths in the World from 2020-04-13T04:58:13
This week, nearly 12,000 Americans died of the coronavirus. The U.S. became not only the country with the most cases by a factor of three, but also the country with the most deaths i...
ListenWeek 177 - National Stockpile from 2020-04-06T05:09:46
This week coronavirus cases and deaths in the U.S. spiked, adding close to 200,000 reported cases, and by midweek, more than a thousand Americans were dying each day. Trump pivoted f...
ListenWeek 176 - Shelter in Place from 2020-03-30T05:38:37
This week the U.S. continued exponential growth of coronavirus cases, finding itself with the most cases in the world on Thursday — surpassing Italy and China. The number of deaths likewise cont...
ListenWeek 175 - Where Are the Tests? from 2020-03-23T04:23:56
This week the United States had the highest spread rate of the coronavirus of countries reporting, starting the week with roughly 2,500 cases, and ending the week fourth in the world with more t...
ListenWeek 174 - Global Pandemic from 2020-03-16T05:40:36
This week Trump finally was no longer able to sustain a narrative minimizing the severity of the coronavirus outbreak. The week started with 387 cases in 28 states, and ended with mo...
ListenWeek 173 - Coronavirus Spreading from 2020-03-09T04:24:02
This week the coronavirus spread in the U.S. from 15 to 387 cases in 28 states, with at least 19 people dead. The number of cases is likely well under-reported due to the lack of &nb...
ListenWeek 172 - Markets Crashing from 2020-03-02T06:04:02
This week the coronavirus consumed the country and the world, as it spread from continent to continent. Trump’s strategy in recent weeks of ignoring and minimizing the virus’ import ...
ListenWeek 171 - Russian Election Interference: 2020 Edition from 2020-02-24T06:06:12
This week the country strayed further from democracy, as Trump purged the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The firings started when Trump learned a senior official &n...
ListenWeek 170 - Tuesday Massacre from 2020-02-16T22:00
This week, unchecked by checks and balances, Trump continued his retaliation tour, unabashedly showcasing his will to control the Justice Department. After career prosecutors made &n...
ListenWeek 169 - Trump's Vendetta from 2020-02-10T05:52:09
This was one of the most frightening weeks, as Trump seized on his impeachment acquittal to retaliate against his perceived enemies. Within 48 hours, Trump’s Department of Homeland &...
ListenWeek 168 - No Witnesses from 2020-02-03T06:12:26
This week, despite explosive new allegations implicating Trump in leaked portions of the manuscript for John Bolton’s upcoming book, the Senate voted 51–49 on Friday not to call witn...
ListenWeek 167 - The Trial Begins from 2020-01-27T06:18:15
This week the Senate impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump began, even as evidence continued to trickle out. House Democrat impeachment managers made their case for the two articles o...
ListenWeek 166 - Articles of Impeachment from 2020-01-20T04:56:18
This week the articles of impeachment were transmitted to the Senate, and the impeachment trial formally began. Senators were sworn in, but it was unclear if they planned to follow t...
ListenWeek 165 - Unintended Consequences from 2020-01-13T06:33:01
This week as the country was on the brink of war with Iran, we stood alone, with the Trump regime having neglected to consult with our allies in Europe or the region. Reporting indic...
ListenWar With Iran? from 2020-01-07T05:17:22
Throughout my time keeping the list, I have been concerned that since Trump would do anything to stay in power, when he felt he was losing his grip, we risked him taking extraordinar...
ListenWeek 163 - Losing the Evangelicals? from 2019-12-30T06:58:11
This was the quietest week in months as Congress left Washington for a two-week holiday break. After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to transmit articles of impeachment to the Sen...
ListenWeek 162 - Third in History from 2019-12-23T06:45:10
In this historic week, Trump became the third president in U.S. history to be impeached. Unlike his recent predecessors who faced the process, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, Trump showed no rem...
ListenWeek 161 - Articles of Impeachment from 2019-12-16T06:18:33
This week, the House Judiciary Committee debated and voted to approve two articles of impeachment against Donald J. Trump, for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. After two f...
ListenWeek 160 - Laughingstock of the World from 2019-12-09T06:19:07
This week, Trump traveled to London for the NATO summit as impeachment hearings got underway in the House Judiciary Committee, and Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee issue...
ListenWeek 159 - Donald Balboa from 2019-12-02T06:34:42
This week, more conspiracy theories were debunked, as a draft of the Department of Justice Inspector General report found the FBI did not try to place spies in Trump’s 2016 cam...
ListenWeek 158 - Impeachment Hearings Continue from 2019-11-25T18:16:49
This was a remarkable week in impeachment hearings as nine witnesses testified. By week’s end, it was clear that there was a coordinated effort that included multiple senior Trump &n...
ListenWeek 157 - Impeachment Hearings Begin from 2019-11-18T05:58:40
This week public impeachment hearings started, with three career diplomats testifying before the House Intelligence Committee. Senate Republicans were notably quiet in their defense ...
ListenWeek 156 - Democratic Victories from 2019-11-11T06:18:54
This week, House Democrats released transcripts of eight depositions, and announced a schedule for public hearings next week. As support for impeachment plateaued, Democrats tentativ...
ListenWeek 155 - "Lock Him Up!" from 2019-11-04T05:51:42
This week, further testimony in the impeachment probe brought the fifth and sixth public confirmation of a quid pro quo between Trump and Ukraine, including so far William Taylor, Go...
ListenWeek 154 - Republican Sit-In from 2019-10-28T04:39:38
This week marked a major shift in the world order, as Trump finalized the evacuation of troops on Turkey-Syria border, and the void of leadership was instantaneously filled by Russia...
ListenWeek 153 - All Roads Lead to Putin from 2019-10-21T01:44:22
This week they just said it out loud: Trump’s acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney scolded reporters, saying Ukraine was a quid pro quo, and “Get over it!” This was yet another in a s...
ListenWeek 152 - Thirty-three Tweets from 2019-10-14T04:08:34
In addition to the number of not normal items surging since the start of the impeachment inquiry, Trump’s Twitter activity has proliferated — in one 25 minute span on Friday alone, <...
ListenWeek 151 - Soliciting Foreign Help...Again from 2019-10-07T05:02:45
With impeachment looming, Trump started this week by attacking the credibility of House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff and the whistleblower, both of whom he also endangere...
ListenWeek 150 - The Beginning of the End? from 2019-09-30T04:11:23
This week House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry of Trump. I’ve always had the sense that when we were finally on the road to the end of the Trump regime, ...
ListenWeek 148 - Taliban Invite from 2019-09-16T05:00:24
As Congress returned to session, House Democrats had conflicting messages on impeachment. The Trump regime’s Justice Department seized on the divergence, saying lawmakers were not en...
ListenWeek 147 - Hurricane Dorian from 2019-09-09T04:48:37
This week is not the longest list with Congress out on summer break for the sixth and final week, but it is perhaps the most alarming in terms of the irreverent authoritarian actions...
ListenWeek 146 - FEC Out of Commission from 2019-09-02T00:54:02
This week Trump’s strange behavior towards Russia drew renewed concern as he advocated for adding Russia back at the Group of Seven summit in France, then held up military aid to Ukraine. A vaca...
ListenWeek 145 - Greenland is Not for Sale from 2019-08-26T04:46
This week, renewed questions surfaced about Trump’s mental health, as he referred to himself as the “King of Israel,” the “chosen one,” and “hereby ordered” U.S. companies to change ...
ListenWeek 144 - Bracing for a Downturn from 2019-08-19T04:38:33
This week Trump’s beloved economy faltered under pressure from his trade war with China, a ballooning U.S. budget deficit, and other global factors. An anxious Trump, realizing a str...
ListenWeek 143 - Mainstream White Supremacy from 2019-08-12T03:53:40
This week has the most incidents of violence, attempted violence, and acts of hate inspired by Trump and his rhetoric since I started keeping track. The week started with two deadly ...
ListenWeek 142 - Moscow Mitch from 2019-08-05T00:45:24
This week started with Trump’s attacks on Black leader House Oversight Committee Chair Elijah Cummings, whose panel has several ongoing investigations targeting Trump and his family....
ListenWeek 141 - Robert Mueller Testifies from 2019-07-29T04:21:10
This week Robert Mueller testified before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees about his 448 page report. The testimony was the first glimpse many Americans had of its fin...
ListenWeek 140 - Trump Attacks the Squad from 2019-07-22T05:36:51
This week, in a shocking display of racism, Trump tweeted that four congresswomen of color should “go back” to the countries they came from. Amid Republican silence, rather than back...
ListenWeek 139 - Consolidation of Power from 2019-07-15T05:46:06
This is the longest week so far, and it felt that way. The chaos of our lives has obfuscated the damage and extremes under Trump, as each week blurs into the next week’s crises and &...
ListenWeek 138 - 2020 Census Citizenship Question from 2019-07-08T06:00
This week, two years after visiting France for Bastille Day and admiring its military display, Trump hosted a “Salute to America” on July Fourth, replete with an expansive array of m...
ListenWeek 137 - Detention Center Realities from 2019-07-01T04:48:36
This week as Trump backed off mass deportations, public outcry grew over conditions at detention centers for migrant children. Reminiscent of Theresienstadt Ghetto in the Nazi era, t...
ListenWeek 136 - An Almost War with Iran from 2019-06-24T19:58:37
This week Trump manufactured two major story lines: an almost war with Iran, and mass roundups and deportations of “millions” of immigrants. The two stories occupied much of the nati...
ListenWeek 135 - No Protection for the 2020 Election from 2019-06-17T05:04:46
This week in an interview with ABC News, Trump suggested he would take damaging information from foreign governments on political adversaries without reporting it to the FBI, setting...
ListenWeek 134 - Trump's Trip to London from 2019-06-10T07:00:35
This week Trump traveled to the U.K., where he was met with mass protests which he denied existed, then to his property in Ireland en route to the 75th anniversary of D-Day ceremony ...
ListenWeek 133 - Robert Mueller's Resignation from 2019-06-03T05:44:06
This week, special counsel Robert Mueller addressed the nation for the first time since the start of his investigation. Notably, Mueller said, “If we had had confidence that the president clearl...
ListenWeek 132 - Support for Impeachment from 2019-05-28T04:51:43
This week the first Republican, Rep. Justin Amash, came out for impeaching Trump. While Trump allies sought to attack and punish Amash to avoid further defections, momentum grew amon...
ListenWeek 131 - Attacks on Abortion Rights from 2019-05-20T05:43:53
This week, in a letter, White House counsel Pat Cipollone issued a blanket refusal of records and testimony from Trump and dozens of current and former White House staff, saying Trum...
ListenWeek 130 - Constitutional Crisis from 2019-05-13T06:00:14
This week marked a subtle shift in House Democrats’ position on impeachment, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her committee chairs cited a “constitutional crisis,” and argued Trump ...
ListenEpisode 47 - Leaked Mueller Letter to Attorney General William Barr from 2019-05-06T05:58:42
This week a leaked letter sent from special counsel Robert Mueller to Attorney General William Barr days after Barr released his four-page “summary” indicated Mueller did not believe...
ListenWeek 128 - The Redacted Mueller Report from 2019-04-29T05:58:38
This week Trump’s White House refused all requests by House Democrats to interview current or former members of the regime, or to turn over records, including those requested by subp...
ListenWeek 127 - The Mueller Report from 2019-04-22T01:23:34
This week Attorney General William Barr publicly released a redacted version of the Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report, almost a month after he delivered it to Barr. The redacte...
ListenWeek 126 - Stephen Miller: Immigration Czar from 2019-04-15T05:40:40
This week, Trump’s frustration with migrants coming to the southern border boiled over, as he purged the Department of Homeland Security, and empowered immigrant hardliner Stephen Mi...
ListenWeek 125 - Waiting on the Mueller Report from 2019-04-08T05:44:15
This week, two weeks after Mueller had sent his final report to Attorney General William Barr, members of the special counsel anonymously broke their silence, indicating to the T...
ListenWeek 124 - William Barr's Letter on the Mueller Report from 2019-04-01T05:15:33
This week was dominated by news of the Mueller report, which was delivered to Attorney General William Barr last Friday, but has yet to be given to Congress or the American people. O...
ListenWeek 123 - Trump's Conspiracy Theory Tweets from 2019-03-25T05:27:49
This week started with maniacal tweeting by Trump: more than 50 tweets over the weekend on a variety of unrelated topics, including multiple retweets of conspiracy theorists. The wee...
ListenWeek 122 - Trump's National Emergency from 2019-03-18T05:30:23
Trump issued his first veto after the House and Senate voted to block his emergency declaration. The veto followed Trump’s declaration of a national emergency after Congress refused ...
ListenWeek 121 - Fox News: State TV? from 2019-03-11T03:51:49
This week a bombshell exposé by Jane Mayer on the ties between Trump and Fox News sparked questions of whether America had its first version of state TV. The piece had broad fallout, and sparked...
ListenWeek 120 - Michael Cohen's Testimony from 2019-03-04T06:38:52
This week the country was riveted by the public testimony of Michael Cohen, Trump’s long-time attorney and fixer, before the House Oversight Committee — the first public testimony in...
ListenWeek 119 - The Continuing Rise of White Nationalism from 2019-02-25T05:58:18
This week the FBI thwarted a major domestic terrorism plot by a white nationalist serving as a lieutenant in the U.S. Coast Guard, who had called for the establishment of a “white ho...
ListenWeek 118 - Paul Manafort's Mueller Probe Troubles from 2019-02-18T07:23:35
This was a jarring week as Trump declared a national emergency after Congress refused to fund his wall — perhaps his most brazen authoritarian act yet. Trump’s predilection not to go...
ListenWeek 117 - State of the Union from 2019-02-11T06:38:01
This week was filled with news of Congressional inquiries, subpoenas, and investigations, as House committee chairs took the first steps to hold Trump and his regime accountable. Lea...
ListenWeek 116 - Trump Meets Putin from 2019-02-04T06:00:57
This week concerns about Trump’s foreign policy were front and center, as the regime rolled back sanctions against a Russian oligarch, and withdrew from the Cold War-era Intermediate...
ListenWeek 115 - The End of the Government Shutdown from 2019-01-28T06:23:43
This is the longest and perhaps most perilous week for Trump so far. Not only did House Speaker Nancy Pelosi outmaneuver him in the government shutdown, but by week’s end she was pub...
ListenWeek 114 - 29 Days (and Counting) Government Shutdown from 2019-01-21T06:57:51
This week marked 29 days of the government being shuttered, with no end in sight. Agencies continued to feel the effects, as thousands of furloughed employees were called back to wor...
ListenWeek 113 - Trump's Prime Time Oval Office Address from 2019-01-14T06:50:20
This week Trump struggled to create stagecraft and find narratives to justify funding for his border wall, while keeping the government shuttered. Trump delivered a prime-time Oval O...
ListenWeek 112 - Nancy Pelosi's Return as Speaker of the House from 2019-01-07T05:34:04
This week, for the first time since he took office, Trump faced a check on his power as the 116th Congress was sworn in. As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took back the gavel, she made c...
ListenWeek 111 - Trump's Isolation from 2018-12-31T05:46:13
Increasingly, Trump stands alone. The generals are gone, much of his experienced and competent senior staffers have resigned or been fired. This week, in a tantrum over his decision ...
ListenWeek 110 - Defense Secretary Jim Mattis' Resignation from 2018-12-24T04:07:06
This week Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, thought to be one of the sane and sober voices remaining in the regime, resigned in a public letter rebuking Trump’s treatment of allies and d...
ListenWeek 109 - The Mueller Probe Continues from 2018-12-17T07:11:51
As I’ve been listing, I’ve always suspected things would crescendo as we were moving towards the end of the Trump era. Week 109 is the longest list so far, with 181 not normal items. Up unti...
ListenWeek 108 - The Effects of Trump's Trade Tariffs Begin from 2018-12-10T06:53:07
This week featured the normalcy and tranquility of the funeral of George H.W. Bush, juxtaposed with bombshells of damning information on Trump coming from the Mueller probe and other investigations...
ListenWeek 107 - Jerome Corsi and Roger Stone from 2018-12-03T06:00
This week started with escalations, both between Russia and Ukraine, and at the U.S.-Mexico border. Heartbreaking images and video surfaced from Tijuana of migrants from Central America, including ...
ListenWeek 106 - Ivanka's Personal Email Account from 2018-11-26T06:14:06
There is no such thing as a slow holiday news week in the era of Trump! This week, in the chaos of news and not normal, reporting of Ivanka Trump’s use of a personal email account for White House b...
ListenWeek 105 - Trump Reels From the Midterms from 2018-11-19T04:44:28
We are back after a midterm hiatus. Reporting this week indicates Trump is reeling from the midterms, as additional House seats were called for Democrats, possibly leading to a 40 seat pick-up, as...
ListenWeek 102 - Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting from 2018-10-29T06:00:10
This was a heartbreaking week in America, after several domestic attacks left the country shaken, frightened, and on edge. On Monday, an explosive device mailed in a package to the home of G...
ListenWeek 101 - The Midterms are Coming from 2018-10-22T05:14:05
With midterms approaching, the country is electrified and on edge. This week Trump recycled themes from his 2016 campaign to help boost Republican messaging: stoking fear of “the others” (a ...
ListenWeek 100 - Stacking the Judiciary from 2018-10-15T04:51:49
This week as Republicans celebrated the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, polling told a different story: more Americans disapprove of the confirmation, are concerned about Kav...
ListenWeek 99 - #MeToo Culture Wars from 2018-10-08T05:23:49
This was all predictable. The descent to authoritarianism follows a predictable path in history. Masha Gessen, one of the “experts in authoritarianism” I read before starting the project of ...
ListenWeek 98 - The Sexual Assault Accusations Against Brett Kavanaugh from 2018-10-01T05:50:36
This week our country was riveted as new allegations of sexual assault surfaced against Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. On Thursday, 20 million Americans tuned in to the watch the K...
ListenWeek 97 - Dr. Christine Blasey Ford from 2018-09-24T06:19:55
This week the news was dominated by accusations of sexual assault against Trump’s nominee for Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, as the accuser, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford came forward. Trump restra...
ListenWeek 96 - Paul Manafort Fully Cooperates with Mueller Probe from 2018-09-17T05:02:45
Increasingly, Trump stands alone. Reporting indicates his sense of betrayal from current and former officials speaking out in Bob Woodward’s book and in the anonymous Times op-ed has left Trump ...
ListenWeek 95 - Brett Kavanaugh Hearings from 2018-09-10T06:53:27
This week, the country watched the contentious Senate hearings for Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. Senator Patrick Leahy called it the “most incomplete, most partisan, least transpa...
ListenWeek 94 - Farewell to John McCain from 2018-09-03T06:04:13
This week the death of Senator John McCain loomed large. McCain’s military and public service, and his statesmanship stood in sharp contrast to Trump, who acted like a petulant child, refusing to i...
ListenWeek 93 - Michael Cohen Pleads Guilty from 2018-08-27T06:03:23
This was an ominous week for Trump, as three longtime allies turned on him. If you’ve come to one of my book events, I’ve said one of the three paths to ending Trump’s time in office was through...
ListenWeek 92 - CIA Director John Brennan's Security Clearance Revoked from 2018-08-20T05:38:51
This week Trump met his match in former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman, who launched a new book and publicly shared her stories and perspectives on Trump and his regime members. Their fe...
ListenWeek 91 - Republican Fundraiser Leaked Audio from 2018-08-13T05:06:16
This was a week of widespread and outrageous corruption in the Trump orbit — from Congressman Chris Collins and insider trading, to Secretary Wilbur Ross and grifting, to Secretary of State Kris...
ListenWeek 90 - Trump's Attacks on the News Media from 2018-08-06T14:50:35
This week Trump’s battle with the media escalated as he ramped up his “enemy of the state” rhetoric, and his staffers and supporters followed his lead. The United Nations Human Rights office issued...
ListenWeek 89 - Trump's Alt-truths from 2018-07-30T04:50:31
This week there were dramatic developments in several areas which could be perilous for Trump: a federal judge ruled an emoluments clauses lawsuit can proceed; Michael Cohen asserted Trump knew abo...
ListenWeek 88 - Trump in Helsinki from 2018-07-23T06:17:15
This week it was hard to believe what was happening right before our eyes: Trump stood on stage in Helsinki, after a two hour, private meeting with Putin, and sided with our former foreign adversar...
ListenWeek 87 - NATO Summit from 2018-07-16T06:46:24
This week Trump continued his ramped up level of lying and unhinged behavior as he once again made a spectacle of himself on the world stage at the NATO Summit in Brussels. Trump continued his patt...
ListenWeek 86 - The GOP's July 4th in Moscow from 2018-07-09T05:59:43
This week Russia was front and center as a delegation of seven Republican Senators traveled to Moscow, without any Democrats or U.S. media along, for what was described as “conciliatory” meetings w...
ListenWeek 85 - Capital Gazette from 2018-07-02T05:34:12
This was a devastating week for our country. People — especially women, people of color, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ people —are legitimately scared. Much is at stake as our country shows i...
ListenWeek 84 - Atrocities at Our Southern Border from 2018-06-25T05:15:03
This week the world looked on in horror as the atrocity of separating families at our southern border was finally exposed by widespread media coverage. That coverage was limited as the press and ev...
ListenWeek 83 - The Border Crisis from 2018-06-18T05:38:17
This week the atrocities at our southern border finally garnered widespread attention, as stories on the scope and the devastating impact of the Trump regime’s zero-tolerance policy were reported. ...
ListenWeek 82 - Trump's Pardon Talk from 2018-06-11T07:30:20
This week started with Trump pushing yet another norm, saying he could pardon himself. This comes after a string of recent pardons, and Trump bragging to reporters that he is considering 3,000 more...
ListenWeek 81 - Ally Trade Wars from 2018-06-04T04:34:11
The news stories for this week speak to critical degradations of the fabric of our country — the inhumane treatment of immigrants at our border and calamity unfolding in Puerto Rico — got drowned o...
ListenThe Weekly List Podcast Preview from 2018-05-31T19:43:25
Welcome to The Weekly List podcast, hosted by Amy Siskind, author of the book The List. Every week the podcast will give greater context to the news items of that week's Weekly List and highlight a...
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