S2 Ep1033: Tom Nichols: The Hollow Opportunists
Marco Rubio was supposed to be one of the only adults in the room, and now he's become a shell of himself executing Trump's unwinding of the US role in the world.
50m May 01, 2025
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S2 Ep1032: Tony Blinken: America Alone
For 80 years, the United States built strong economic, military, and political alliances around the world. But in just 100 days, that trust has been dismantled, and our friends are now working without us to forge new relationships.
59m Apr 30, 2025
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S2 Ep1031: Joe Weisenthal: Everything Screams Recession
The markets may be hanging in there but they also held strong in early 2020—right up until Covid hit New York.
51m Apr 29, 2025
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S2 Ep1030: Bill Kristol: Creepy and Wrong
The Trump administration keeps showing it's sooo tough on immigration that it deported three U.S. citizen children, arrested the wife of a member of the Coast Guard because her visa expired, and perp-walked an allegedly immigrant-concealing Wisconsin judge in handcuffs—instead of showing her the kind of deference Trump received over the course of his four indictments.
48m Apr 28, 2025
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S2 Ep1029: Beto O'Rourke: Never Lose Hope
Since this country's founding, we have been tested. And the Americans before us somehow stood up and fought the good fight.
58m Apr 25, 2025
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S2 Ep1028: Cory Booker: A National Crisis and a Global Crisis
Donald Trump is trying to foist the worst peace deal in the last 100 years on Ukraine, as he gets repeatedly played by foreign leaders on the world stage.
51m Apr 24, 2025
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S2 Ep1027: Jonathan Rauch: Focus On the Corruption
Trump may be brilliant at assaulting us with his daily distractions, but Democrats need to relentlessly target his corruption because that may be his weak spot.
57m Apr 23, 2025
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S2 Ep1026: Michael Steele: Your Voice Matters
Trump and the people around him are trying to weaken our constitutional protections like due process.
58m Apr 22, 2025
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S2 Ep1025: Bill Kristol: Hegseth Keeps Proving his Unfitness
Republican senators could have insisted on someone who was even minimally competent to run our military, but because of their spinelessness, we've now got a SecDef who can't resist texting top secret war plans.
50m Apr 21, 2025
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S2 Ep1024: Anne Applebaum: Everything Is a Game to Trump
Sen. Van Hollen showed that Congress actually does have agency, and a federal judge finally scorched the administration in crystal-clear language about how it's violating the essence of our constitutional republic.
49m Apr 18, 2025
49m
S2 Ep1023: Ben Wittes: Sorry, We Still Have Due Process
The White House is doubling down on justifying its extra-judicial actions around Abrego Garcia by trying to incriminate him in the court of public opinion. But the government still can't take people off an American street and send them to a concentration camp without due process.
55m Apr 17, 2025
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S2 Ep1022: Stephanie Ruhle: Only Trump Is Happy
Manufacturing orders are down, stocks are down, and mortgage rates are up. But Trump and his family are wealthier than they've ever been.
47m Apr 16, 2025
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S2 Ep1021: Josh Barro: Total Idiocy
Trump & company want to turn us into Taiwan circa 1985. But the brilliant minds behind the idea of intentionally weakening the dollar are prioritizing making America a good place to manufacture rather than a good place to live.
1hr 11m Apr 15, 2025
1hr 11m
S2 Ep1020: Bill Kristol: Staring Down the Barrel
We are here: Trump is openly defying the Supreme Court while sitting side-by-side with a Latin American strongman who openly mocked our judicial system from inside the Oval Office.
46m Apr 14, 2025
46m
S2 Ep1019: David Frum: It's Too Late to Stop the Pain
Trump has effectively imposed a trade embargo on China, which means that after the inventory runs out, American retail will soon dry up.
52m Apr 11, 2025
52m
S2 Ep1018: Andrew Weissmann and Patrick Gaspard: Naked Corruption
Just before he paused the tariffs on Wednesday, an unusual spike in activity on the S&P 500 prompted speculation that Trump was orchestrating an insider trading scheme.
1hr 19m Apr 10, 2025
1hr 19m
S2 Ep1017: Catherine Rampell: Trump's Tariffmageddon
The White House is pumping out a lot of happy talk about countries wanting to make deals over the tariffs, but the tumult Trump has created has spread to the bond market.
1hr 20m Apr 09, 2025
1hr 20m
S2 Ep1016: Jonathan Cohn and Mark Lilla: Lobotomizing America
When it comes to biomedical research, America is already great. We are the world's leader in the field.
1hr 7m Apr 08, 2025
1hr 7m
S2 Ep1015: Bill Kristol: The High Cost of Stupidity
Part of the reason for the market bloodbath is because the finance wizzes didn't factor in that Trump would actually do the truly moronic thing he kept saying he would.
54m Apr 07, 2025
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S2 Ep1014: Adam Kinzinger: Mortal Damage to the American Empire
It's been great to live in America since World War II, but Trump is in the process of blowing up that whole order.
53m Apr 04, 2025
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S2 Ep1013: Mallory McMorrow and Tracy Alloway: A Self-Inflicted Crisis
The market plunge is just pure Trump chaos, and perfectly matches his record as a businessman. From his numerous bankruptcies and many failures—including his airline, his casinos, his university, his water, and his steaks—he's been running one long con.
1hr 4m Apr 03, 2025
1hr 4m
S2 Ep1012: Sam Stein: Elon Is Toxic
Musk was so high on his own supply that he thought he and his money were magic—but Wisconsin voters turned out in droves to prove to him just how toxic his brand and DOGE are
55m Apr 02, 2025
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S2 Ep1011: Susan Rice: This Is Bloody Serious
The administration admits it mistakenly sent a Maryland father with protected status to the Salvadoran penal colony—but at the same time, it says the federal courts have no jurisdiction over him because he is now in a foreign country.
1hr 6m Apr 01, 2025
1hr 6m
S2 Ep1010: Bill Kristol: Stiffen Your Spines, Democrats
If Joe Rogan is the voice in the wilderness on the disappearing of migrants to El Salvador, then the Democratic leadership really needs to rethink its cautiousness.
47m Mar 31, 2025
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S2 Ep1009: Amanda Carpenter: Daddy? No, Manny Trump
Trump is siccing the thought police on the Smithsonian, he's got an FBI task force set up to protect Elon's car company, and he's turning random tattoos into gang insignia—unless they're on Pete Hegseth.
59m Mar 28, 2025
59m
S2 Ep1008: Jon Lovett: A Worst Case Scenario Comes Into View
Trump is creating a permission structure where we lock up people without due process in a foreign gulag—and where masked, plainclothes officers in unmarked cars can grab an international student off the street because of her speech.
1hr Mar 27, 2025
1hr
S2 Ep1008: Michael Weiss, Ben Smith, and Annie Karni: Radioactively Stupid
No matter how hard Republicans try to spin the sharing of top secret military attack plans on an insecure app, the colossal f***up of an administration that claimed it was rooting out incompetence is plain on its face.
59m Mar 26, 2025
59m
S2 Ep1007: Jeffrey Goldberg and Peter Wehner: What's Going on with Our National Security?
Members of Trump's Cabinet got caught sharing attack plans—down to details of who they were planning to kill, and with what kind of weapons—and now they'll say anything to get out of the jam they put themselves in.
59m Mar 25, 2025
59m
S2 Ep1006: Live from Phoenix
Bill Kristol joined Tim Saturday in Arizona to rip the behavior of our government—depriving even lawful Venezuelan migrants of due process, and shipping them off to a mega-prison in San Salvador where they may be being tortured.
40m Mar 24, 2025
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S2 Ep1005: Michael Lewis: Government Workers Aren't the Corrupt Ones
Trump loves to complain about the deep state while Elon claims he's rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse. But government workers are mainly mission-driven and they're not in it for the money.
1hr Mar 21, 2025
1hr
S2 Ep1004: Wes Moore: The System Doesn't Work for a Lot of People
Trump is a vessel for frustration over the status quo, but he is not a vehicle for a solution—since he has no idea about how to make things better for anyone besides himself.
49m Mar 20, 2025
49m
S2 Ep1003: Ben Wittes: Putin Makes A Fool of Trump, Again
The Art of the Deal guy gave a master class on how to get worked over by Putin: First, wait around for an hour like an obedient puppy only to have your ceasefire proposal summarily rejected.
56m Mar 19, 2025
56m
S2 Ep1002: Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov: The Cheap Whore at the White House
The fastest growing demographic class in America is billionaires—we've gone from 500 to 2,500 in the past 10 years. And they know the cheapest, easiest way to get richer: Give a million bucks to Mr. Pay-to-Play in the Oval Office.
1hr 2m Mar 18, 2025
1hr 2m
S2 Ep1001: Bill Kristol: Give Back the Statue of Liberty
Trump is taking liberties with our country's role in the world as a land of hope and opportunity by summarily locking up and deporting law-abiding immigrants—including people with legitimate asylum claims, people here on proper visas, and people with minor errors in their paperwork.
52m Mar 17, 2025
52m
S2 Ep1000: David French: Trump Admits He's Violating the Constitution
Trump & company aren't even attempting to create a pretext for why they're punishing the free speech of political opponents.
1hr 6m Mar 14, 2025
1hr 6m
S2 Ep999: Sam Stein: How Do You Negotiate with Nihilists?
Democrats are stuck with two terrible options: Either facilitating a government shutdown or allowing Republicans to pass a spending bill that would defund D.C.'s police and schools.
1hr 9m Mar 13, 2025
1hr 9m
Mark Hertling: Aiding and Abetting a War Criminal
Putin has been named a war criminal because of the Russian way of war in Ukraine—bombing Kyiv and other cities, attacking civilians and first aid workers, and destroying infrastructure.
51m Mar 12, 2025
51m
Will Sommer: Across the MAGA-Verse
To find out what's really going on in Trumpistan, the AP is out and random lifestyle Instagrammers and MAGA conspiracy posters are in.
1hr 1m Mar 11, 2025
1hr 1m
S.E. Cupp: The Outrage Is the Point
This time around, Trump has dispensed with the ribbon-cutting side of being president—he's just not giving average Americans anything to feel good about.
55m Mar 10, 2025
55m
Tom Nichols: Covid Trump 2.0
They end up sounding ridiculous whenever they try—like the treasury secretary saying that access to cheap goods is not part of the American dream.
52m Mar 07, 2025
52m
Neera Tanden and John Fetterman: They're Playing With People's Lives
Donald Trump is hurting the American people. The DOGE cuts are not only waging war on jobs, they're also harming the American public and undermining the safety, health, and economic well-being of everyday Americans.
57m Mar 06, 2025
57m
Jim Acosta: Trump Can't Take the Heat
Once upon a time, presidents used to take tough questions from the press, but the current White House occupant can't handle any scrutiny from cantankerous reporters.
55m Mar 05, 2025
55m
James Carville and Michael Weiss: The Whole Country Could Go Under
Trump is anti-American and seems to hate this country: How else can his behavior be explained?
1hr 5m Mar 04, 2025
1hr 5m
Bill Kristol: Kleptocrats and Plutocrats
Trump is trying to chuck the post-WWII order and firmly pivot American foreign policy away from Europe and toward Putin—the poor guy who got dragged into totally-not-a-hoax Russia Russia Russia.
48m Mar 03, 2025
48m
BONUS EPISODE from Tim's New "FYPod"
Tim and his "FYPod" co-host Cameron Kasky discuss how Covid helped push Gen Z right. Then, Joshua Rush explains the activist tactics of Gen Z.
1hr 23m Mar 02, 2025
1hr 23m
David Frum: Both Pro-Jesus and Pro-Sex Trafficking
Forget the Epstein files hullabaloo. Members of the Trump administration, perhaps at the urging of Barron Trump, seem to have directly intervened to get the travel ban lifted on the Tate brothers, who are charged with rape and sex trafficking in Europe.
47m Feb 28, 2025
47m
Mike Murphy: The Chinese Own Elon
The not-so-shadow president's largest Tesla plant is in Shanghai, but the People's Republic of China has the pink slip and can take it back at any time.
1hr 6m Feb 27, 2025
1hr 6m
Ruben Gallego and Zerlina Maxwell: Make Them Own It
Republicans are aiming to gut Medicaid to pay for trillions in tax cuts for the richest of Americans, and they're trying to hide it.
56m Feb 26, 2025
56m
Ben Wittes: Who the F*** Are You?
Trump administration lawyers don't know or won't tell a federal judge who is running DOGE because Elon doesn't formally exist as part of the government he is trying to dismantle.
1hr 2m Feb 25, 2025
1hr 2m
Bill Kristol and Jared Polis: Send In the Clown
Trump keeps filling out his administration with the unqualified and the inexperienced, including the recent addition of borderline literate hack Dan Bongino at the FBI.
1hr 1m Feb 24, 2025
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