Tim Miller: Trump Keeps Telling Us
Trump glorifies insurrectionist prisoners and Bannon-world is using Confederate code words. But too little of the media is covering the radicalizing language.
48m Nov 03, 2023
48m
McKay Coppins: The Last Temptation of Mitt Romney
Romney's journey from the party's standard-bearer to pariah is also a story of the transformation of the GOP.
40m Nov 02, 2023
40m
Insurrection and Its Consequences
A Colorado case will determine whether Trump should be kept off the ballot there because of that annoying little insurrection issue.
48m Nov 01, 2023
48m
Adam Kinzinger: Renegade
The former congressman says he wasn't always fighting the good fight, and that he feels some responsibility for the GOP's descent into dysfunction.
40m Oct 31, 2023
40m
Our Exhausted Politics
The biggest danger to democracy is simple exhaustion.
47m Oct 30, 2023
47m
Josh Kraushaar: The Pro-Hamas Left
Most Democrats support Israel, but a very loud, younger segment on the left is lending its support to the terrorist group Hamas.
39m Oct 27, 2023
39m
The Bulwark: Live from New Orleans
Sarah, Mona, and Sonny join Tim in The Big Easy to talk about new Speaker Mike Johnson, Biden, Israel, and left-wing antisemitism.
43m Oct 26, 2023
43m
Flipping Is in the Air
Jenna Ellis will not be the last flip in Georgia, ex-Trump water carrier Michael Cohen testifies about the fudged books, and the confusing case of Mark Meadows.
43m Oct 25, 2023
43m
Jonathan Martin: The Antibodies Resisting the Virus
Remnants of the pre-Trump party are hanging on to challenge MAGA and Jenna Ellis shows her loyalty to Trump.
39m Oct 24, 2023
39m
The GOP Is a Failed State
House Republicans don't have a platform, and in the absence of Trump, they can't pull together.
43m Oct 23, 2023
43m
John Avlon: Is the Center Finding Its Spine?
Republican threats and bullying have finally gone too far when it comes to Jim Jordan.
44m Oct 20, 2023
44m
A Bad Day for the Kraken
Sidney Powell pleaded guilty and agreed to testify for the state in Georgia—Trump's legal woes just took a turn for the worse.
48m Oct 19, 2023
48m
Ryan Reilly: The Sleuths Who Helped Nab Jan 6 Rioters
Ordinary Americans pored through reams of digital evidence to ID hundreds of Capitol rioters.
44m Oct 18, 2023
44m
Kara Swisher: Jim Jordan, Legislative Terrorist
Jim Jordan spent the weekend bullying moderates, but threatening shame on social media and Fox may not be enough.
39m Oct 17, 2023
39m
Will Saletan: Don't Forget Who Jim Jordan Is
Jordan was not just another Republican who voted against the election—he was in strategy meetings plotting how to keep the election's loser in power.
44m Oct 16, 2023
44m
Tom Nichols: Testing the System 'Til It Breaks
The Republicans elevated fringe players who have no interest in governing, and now they don't have enough members to get the House functioning again.
54m Oct 13, 2023
54m
An Undue Risk of Conviction
Jack Smith signaled he will be able to prove why Trump held onto the classified documents.
42m Oct 12, 2023
42m
Susan Glasser: A Superpower in Crisis
The U.S. is knee-deep in the war in Ukraine, and now another potentially enormous war in the Mideast may draw us in.
40m Oct 11, 2023
40m
Steve Inskeep: Kevin Is No Lincoln
Lincoln's political skills were a key part of his legacy, but the politics he practiced were not like today's base-oriented version.
43m Oct 10, 2023
43m
Will Saletan: Israel's 9/11
The attack by Hamas on Israel was barbaric, but the incursion—by land, sea, and air—was also sophisticated.
47m Oct 09, 2023
47m
The GOP’s Rubik’s Cube for Morons
The Republicans have been on a trajectory to get a Jim Jordan-style speaker for 11 years, and the Democrats couldn’t have stopped it.
49m Oct 06, 2023
49m
The Crazed Slavering Jackal Caucus
The Crazed Slavering Jackal Caucus is running the GOP. Plus, Giuliani's drinking may undermine Trump's defense in the Jan 6 case. It's The Trump Trials.
39m Oct 05, 2023
39m
Tim O'Brien: The Hollow Men
Kevin McCarthy aspired to the speakership for his resume, not because of legislative talents.
41m Oct 04, 2023
41m
Dana Milbank: The Chair Was Already Vacant
Kevin McCarthy hasn't been doing much of anything all year as speaker, except lurching from crisis to crisis and leading from behind.
38m Oct 03, 2023
38m
Will Saletan: Everybody Hates Matt Gaetz
The bipartisan loathing of Gaetz is almost a kumbaya moment.
52m Oct 02, 2023
52m
David Frum: The Kraken Is Never Coming
The first impeachment hearing was panned on both sides, while House Republicans keep promising a new unicorn.
40m Sep 29, 2023
40m
A.B. Stoddard: A Completely Pointless Debate
The kids' table debate was a cacophony of speed talking, interruptions, and yelling.
50m Sep 28, 2023
50m
Trump’s Empire of Fraud
The ex-POTUS has been put out of business in New York, after his fraud was found so overwhelming that no trial was needed.
46m Sep 27, 2023
46m
Will Saletan: The Politics of Atonement
Cassidy Hutchinson atones. Bob Menendez refuses. Plus: the government shutdown about nothing.
49m Sep 26, 2023
49m
Trump Ever After: Live from TribFest
Olivia Nuzzi, Bret Stephens, and Ben Terris joined Charlie Sykes on stage in Austin over the weekend.
1hr 2m Sep 25, 2023
1hr 2m
Yascha Mounk: The Identity Trap
Our democratic order is facing a two-front war. While the immediate crisis may be from the right, the left is presenting its own threats.
52m Sep 22, 2023
52m
A Raging Bull Elephant
Trump is trying to intimidate witnesses and jurors in the election case, and Chutkan's only remedy may be to move up the trial date.
50m Sep 21, 2023
50m
Manu Raju: The Hostage Crisis on Capitol Hill
House Republicans are bickering and calling each other names, while the Matt Gaetz caucus threatens to hold the country hostage with a government shutdown.
41m Sep 20, 2023
41m
Ruy Teixeira: Biden’s Working Class Blues
The system feels rigged for the millionaires and the billionaires, and the populist red lights are flashing for 2024.
44m Sep 19, 2023
44m
Will Saletan: In Defense of Kristen Welker
Trump threw the pro-life movement under the bus in his NBC interview, and essentially pleaded the Fifth on Jan 6.
48m Sep 18, 2023
48m
Anne Applebaum: Musk Buys Russia’s Lies
The billionaire was duped by Russian nuclear propaganda, but he's not the only one in the West who worries about provoking Russia by helping Ukraine.
42m Sep 15, 2023
42m
Did the FBI Get a Pass on Jan 6?
Romney's text message to Mitch McConnell renews questions about what law enforcement knew ahead of the attack on the Capitol.
50m Sep 14, 2023
50m
A.B. Stoddard: McCarthy's Month from Hell
The speaker is trying to sate the MAGA wing with a sham impeachment, and maybe a government shutdown, but it will never be satisfied.
51m Sep 13, 2023
51m
James Hohmann: Kevin in a Vise
McCarthy has caved on an impeachment inquiry so he can hold onto his gavel.
39m Sep 12, 2023
39m
Will Saletan: Lying Dog-Faced Pony Soldier
Biden giving a press conference while jet-lagged may not quell rising concerns about his age.
50m Sep 11, 2023
50m
Tim Miller: Down to Clown
Tucker is in some corner of Elon's basement testing to see what he can get away with, while Elon is cozying up with Putin.
52m Sep 08, 2023
52m
Trump Keeps Admitting His Crimes
Trump did himself no favors talking to Hugh Hewitt, the Proud Boys could've spared themselves a lot of prison time, the Fulton case may move quickly, E. Jean Carroll wins again, and when will the cascade of witness flipping start?
52m Sep 07, 2023
52m
Adam Kinzinger: Trump Ignited the Proud Boys
Never forget it was Donald Trump telling the Proud Boys to "stand back and stand by" which ultimately set Jan 6 in motion.
48m Sep 06, 2023
48m
Will Saletan: The Hammer Philosophy of Governing
Republican leaders in Wisconsin sound like they're planning an end-run around democracy, Musk is running with one of the oldest antisemitic tropes in the world, and even MAGA Republicans in Texas don't like Ken Paxton.
46m Sep 05, 2023
46m
Tim Miller: Heroes and Zeroes of the GOP
How different would things be if other Republicans had stood up to MAGA like the way Kemp did for Fani Willis?
49m Sep 01, 2023
49m
Justice for Ruby and Shaye
Giuliani is going to pay $$$$ for defaming Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss—and Trump may too, for his financial statements in New York.
48m Aug 31, 2023
48m
Mike Murphy: The Psychopath vs The Cynic
Does cynical Nikki Haley have the guts to run an edgier campaign? Plus, Vivek's Hermain Cain moment, Iowa's unpredictable caucus voters, and the denialism about Grandpa Joe. Mike Murphy joins Charlie Sykes today.
41m Aug 30, 2023
41m
2024 Will Be a Train Wreck
From Trump's court calendar to concerns about Biden's age, we may be underestimating how bad next year could be.
45m Aug 29, 2023
45m
Charlie and Will Monday: Vivek’s BS
The new hotness, Ramaswamy, is serving up a load of bull.
50m Aug 28, 2023
50m
Tim Miller: We Told You So
We were always going to get this first-of-its-kind presidential portrait. What else would you expect from a con man and a criminal?
51m Aug 25, 2023
51m