S2 Ep1049: James Comey: Uncomfortably Numb
Public corruption used to be a congressman hiding $90,000 in his freezer. Now, we have a president taking "me time" to rake in $40 million from a Chinese crypto billionaire who was facing fraud charges under POTUS 46.
50m May 23, 2025
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S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is
Republicans moved at such lightning speed that even they don't know how many people would lose health insurance— or how much they'd be spiking the deficit with their highly risky and big, ugly turd of a bill.
1hr 2m May 22, 2025
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S2 Ep1047: Susan Glasser: American in Name Only
On deportations and on foreign policy, the Trump administration is swapping out American values and violating everything the U.S. has stood for in exchange for kleptocracy and transactionalism with the world's worst tyrants.
51m May 21, 2025
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S2 Ep1046: David French: Schizo-in-Chief
One day Trump sounds like Bernie promising the government will provide for everything.
1hr 8m May 20, 2025
1hr 8m
S2 Ep1045: Bill Kristol: A New Gilded Age
No, the Trump administration is not focused on the forgotten man or bringing industrial jobs back. Instead, the real estate developer is handing out threats left and right—fresh off his Middle East trip, where he scored numerous deals with Islamofascists for himself, his family, and his cronies.
51m May 19, 2025
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S2 Ep1044: Peter Hamby: All in Service of Kissing Trump's Ass
MAGA is having a performative tantrum calling for James Comey to be jailed over a seashell meme because the daily job of Trump's supporters and Cabinet members is to try to warm his heart—that includes Kristi Noem changing her face and Tulsi firing top intel officials because they told the White House the truth it doesn't want to hear.
1hr 26m May 16, 2025
1hr 26m
S2 Ep1043: Michael Weiss: All Bribes Accepted
American taxpayers may have flown Donald Trump to the Middle East, but he's not there to negotiate on behalf of our strategic or national interests—he's on the prowl for goodies, and happy to make policy changes in return.
48m May 15, 2025
48m
S2 Ep1042: Leah Litman and Andrew Egger: Grievance All the Way Down
The five men on the Supreme Court are so easily triggered and seem to be making law based on their emotional needs.
1hr 5m May 14, 2025
1hr 5m
S2 Ep1041: Justin Wolfers: Trump's Centrally Planned Economy
China sounds downright Reaganesque and is acting like a more stable, attractive trading partner than the country that launched a trade war.
54m May 13, 2025
54m
S2 Ep1040: Bill Kristol: A Golden 747 from Hamas's Sugar Daddy
Trump can't abide flying around in crusty, old Air Force One. Qatar—funder of both Hamas and the leading U.S. college Gaza protest group—just happens to have a spare, pimped-out 747 lying around, which they'd like to gift to Trump so he can use that instead.
51m May 12, 2025
51m
S2 Ep1039: Amanda Carpenter: MAGA's Bad Week
First, the Vatican chose a Bulwark pope, not an AR-15 loving, immigrant-hating pope. Then, in a major blow to Steve Bannon, Trump pulled his nominee for U.S. attorney in D.C.—forcing the avid TV watcher in the Oval Office to turn to Fox News for the 23rd time to help fill his administration—this time with Jeanine Pirro.
59m May 09, 2025
59m
S2 Ep1038: Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin: The Power of 'No'
Protest is the new brunch again. We're witnessing historic levels of pro-democracy grassroots engagement across a broad-based movement of everyday people.
49m May 08, 2025
49m
S2 Ep1037: Katie Phang and Greg Casar: Trump & Co Are the Real Flag Burners
The Supreme Court is working hard to tend to Mr. Presidential Immunity's wounds because he just can't abide lower federal court judges telling him he can't kick trans people out of the military, or that the 14th Amendment is a real thing.
56m May 07, 2025
56m
S2 Ep1036: Jonathan V. Last: An Economic Tsunami Is Coming
Because Donald Trump's stupid trade embargo has us reading shipping charts, we now know that 40% of containership traffic between Asia and the U.S. has been canceled.
1hr 8m May 06, 2025
1hr 8m
S2 Ep1035: Bill Kristol: A Reckless, Tin-Pot President
Trump 2.0 is showing so little concern for his political standing that even Fox made primetime room for Karl Rove to vent about how he's failing at the fundamentals.
49m May 05, 2025
49m
S2 Ep1034: Derek Thompson: Trump's War on Dolls
Just imagine Fox's histrionics if a President AOC had said that American kids have too many dolls and that she's raising the price on them. Now the supposedly pro-family administration is doubling down on 'just pay more’ for toys, while it waits for China to blink on tariffs.
1hr 5m May 02, 2025
1hr 5m
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
50m
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
59m
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
51m
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
48m
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
58m
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
51m
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
57m
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
58m
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
50m
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
55m
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
47m
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
54m
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
53m
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
55m
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
47m
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
40m
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
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