Best Patrick Ruffini Podcasts (2024)

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Republican Pollster Patrick Ruffini on the Increasingly Multi-Racial GOP Coalition 53:18

4h ago53:18

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[Initially Released 11/07/23] Patrick Ruffini, pollster at Echelon Strategies, returns to talk about his new book PARTY OF THE PEOPLE - on the transition of the Republican Party from being dominated by wealthy, suburban white voters to a more blue-collar and increasingly-multi-racial coalition. In this conversation, Patrick lays out the data behind…

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Patrick Ruffini: Why Did Trump Win? 1:10:25

2h ago1:10:25

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Why did Donald Trump win? Trump is back. Back again. He's secured the Electoral College majority needed to become America's 47th president and looks on track for a popular vote majority—the first Republican to pull that off in more than 20 years. A New York Times breakdown shows that across just about every type of county—urban, suburban, older pop…

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Patrick Ruffini: Why Did Trump Win? 1:10:24

1d ago1:10:24

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Why did Donald Trump win?Trump is back. Back again. He's secured the Electoral College majority needed to become America's 47th president and looks on track for a popular vote majority—the first Republican to pull that off in more than 20 years. A New York Times breakdown shows that across just about every type of county—urban, suburban, older popu…

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Live on Election Night! The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie 55:00

1d ago55:00

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Will history be made? Will it end? Joining Gillespie are The Fifth Column's Kmele Foster, Bloomberg economics columnist Allison Schrager, and many more special guests, who will break down the weirdest—and possibly the most consequential—election season in any of our lifetimes.Subscribe at YouTube: http://youtube.com/reasontvLike us on Facebook: htt…

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Election Day 2024 Preview with Amy Walter 1:09:46

2h ago1:09:46

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With just hours until polling places open for the November 5th presidential election, this week's guest is analyst Amy Walter to provide her insights and instincts heading into Election Day. The editor and publisher of The Cook Report with Amy Walter, Amy has been a constant presence writing and thinking about US elections for nearly three decades.…

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Live On Election Eve With The Reason Roundtable! 1:09:08

2d ago1:09:08

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Will Election 2024 result in an orderly transfer of power—or will the results unleash controversy and chaos that threatens the foundations of our democracy? Before America goes to the polls on November 5, you're invited to join the four hosts of The Reason Roundtable—Reason Magazine's own Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, and Ma…

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Dave Smith, David Stockman, and Jacob Grier: Who Is The Lesser Evil? 1:50:49

1h ago1:50:49

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Is this the most important election ever? And who should win? Just asking questions. Next week, America decides: elect the 78-year-old criminally indicted, twice-impeached ex-president who's pledged to impose a universal tariff of 20 percent and embark on the largest mass deportation in American history; or his opponent, the vice president, swapped…

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Dave Smith, David Stockman, and Jacob Grier: Who Is The Lesser Evil? 1:50:49

20h ago1:50:49

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Dave Smith is for Trump. Jacob Grier is for Harris. David Stockman says we're screwed either way.SubscribeYouTube: http://youtube.com/reasontvApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/just-asking-questions/id1719355507Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5SpySKAH3LuVyxXk0MF7tlText and links to sources available here: https://reason.com/podcast…

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Musa al-Gharbi: How Woke Elites Became Out of Touch 1:12:06

22h ago1:12:06

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Musa al-Gharbi is a sociologist at Stony Brook University and the author of the new book We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite. Al-Gharbi argues that academics, journalists, and other elite professionals that he calls "symbolic capitalists" are disconnected from the marginalized and disadvantaged communities they claim…

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2024 Election Panel: Andy Blunt, Jim Ellis, & Zac McCrary 42:33

1d ago42:33

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This is a different type of episode this week as I have borrowed the audio from a panel I was part of last Thursday (10/24/24) to discuss the upcoming 2024 elections. This panel is hosted by the government affairs firm Husch Blackwell Strategies, and the video link can be accessed here. Moderating the discussion is Husch Blackwell CEO Andy Blunt an…

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How Trump and Harris Meaningfully Differ 1:05:09

1d ago1:05:09

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman convene one week ahead of the election to highlight a few issues where the major-party presidential candidates have significant differences.01:53—The presidential candidates on tariffs, debt, foreign policy, and education35:01—Weekly l…

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Thierry Malleret: Is the Great Reset Underway? 1:02:07

6d ago1:02:07

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What's the agenda of the World Economic Forum? And what was The Great Reset? Just asking questions. Every year, there's a big gathering of global elites in Davos, Switzerland: world leaders, titans of industry, Hollywood celebrities. It all started in 1971, thanks to Klaus Schwab—a German economist and business professor who launched what was then …

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Thierry Malleret: Is the Great Reset Underway? 1:02:07

6d ago1:02:07

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Klaus Schwab's co-author Thierry Malleret discusses stakeholder capitalism, libertarianism, and his new book satirizing the World Economic Forum.SubscribeYouTube: http://youtube.com/reasontvApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/just-asking-questions/id1719355507Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5SpySKAH3LuVyxXk0MF7tlText and links to so…

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Faisal Saeed Al Mutar: Peace In The Middle East Through Capitalism 1:03:16

7d ago1:03:16

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Today's guest is Faisal Saeed Al Mutar, the co-founder of Ideas Beyond Borders (IBB), a nonprofit that translates books and articles about limited government, freedom of thought, and market economics into Arabic and other languages, and distributes them for free in the Middle East and other parts of the world. (Full disclosure: Reason's Nick Gilles…

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Should We Trust the 2024 Election Polls? 1:04:14

8d ago1:04:14

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman welcome back special guest Stephanie Slade to chat about the latest in polling results and the shape of the electorate two weeks ahead of the presidential election.02:16—Latest in polling data two weeks out from the presidential election33:04—Weekly listene…

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Brian Trascher: Has FEMA failed North Carolina? 1:13:14

23d ago1:13:14

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What should the federal government do in a disaster? Two major hurricanes made landfall within two weeks, devastating the southeast. Hurricane Helene has killed more than 200 people, and more than 90 are still missing in North Carolina, where overflowing rivers and tributaries flooded the western part of the state. More than 9,000 remain without po…

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Brian Trascher: Has FEMA failed North Carolina? 1:13:13

13d ago1:13:13

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The Vice President of the United Cajun Navy, Brian Trascher, discusses effective disaster response and the problems with FEMA.SubscribeYouTube: http://youtube.com/reasontvApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/just-asking-questions/id1719355507Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5SpySKAH3LuVyxXk0MF7tlText and links to sources available her…

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Meghan McCain: 'Trump Didn’t Break My Brain. What’s Your Excuse?' 1:16:52

14d ago1:16:52

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Today's guest is Meghan McCain, political commentator, former co-host of ABC's The View, and host of the podcast Citizen McCain.Reason's Billy Binion talks with her about the changing GOP, bias in corporate media, the 2024 election, and what it's like to be a non-MAGA, nonpopulist member of today's Republican Party.Today's sponsors:St. John's Colle…

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Forrest Claypool & A Master Class in Chicago Politics 59:59

15d ago59:59

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Forrest Claypool has one of the most impressive and varied resumes in politics...early campaign and operative work with David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel, two-time Chief of Staff to the mayor of Chicago, opposing Barack Obama in mock debates in his 2004 Senate race, running the Chicago Park District, Chicago Transit Authority, and Chicago Board of Edu…

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Harris and Trump’s Terrible Tax Ideas 1:07:48

16d ago1:07:48

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman parse the presidential candidates' latest batch of confounding ideas on tax policy before lamenting their various cringe media appearances over the past week.05:21—Tax policy proposals31:44—Weekly listener question43:38—Candidate cring…

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Michael Brendan Dougherty: How Will Immigrants Reshape America? 1:30:27

20d ago1:30:27

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How do immigrants change American culture? Just asking questions.While the economy ranks as voters' top concern as of a Wednesday Gallup poll, immigration remains "extremely" or "very" important to 72 percent of registered U.S. voters. As with most issues, there's a large partisan divide, with 63 percent of Republicans responding that immigration i…

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Michael Brendan Dougherty: How Will Immigrants Reshape America? 1:30:28

20d ago1:30:28

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How do immigrants change American culture? Just asking questions. While the economy ranks as voters' top concern as of a Wednesday Gallup poll, immigration remains "extremely" or "very" important to 72 percent of registered U.S. voters. As with most issues, there's a large partisan divide, with 63 percent of Republicans responding that immigration …

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Will Trump or Harris Win the Working-Class Vote? 1:26:18

21d ago1:26:18

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Today's guests are Republican pollster Patrick Ruffini, author of Party of the People: Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP, and American Enterprise Institute fellow Ruy Teixeira, coauthor most recently of Where Have All the Democrats Gone? The Soul of the Party in the Age of Extremes.Reason's Nick Gillespie talks with them ab…

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Why Federal Disaster Relief Is a Disaster 1:05:21

24d ago1:05:21

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman reflect on last year's October 7 terrorist attack in Israel and the destruction left in the wake of Hurricane Helene across the southeastern United States.02:27—October 7, one year on20:07—Hurricane Helene aftermath35:41—Weekly listene…

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Billy Binion: Civil Liberties Don't Just Belong to the Rich 1:13:58

25d ago1:13:58

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Today's guest is Billy Binion, who joined Reason's staff in 2019 after stints at an opera company (!) and as a contractor for NATO (!!). He has written blockbuster stories about the abuse of power by cops and courts, and he just produced an incredible documentary about a citizen journalist in Laredo, Texas, who sued the city after they arrested her…

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Ford Fischer: What's the Untold Story Behind 'Stop the Steal'? 1:17:40

27d ago1:17:40

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Who's most to blame for the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021? How much does it matter for the election in November 2024? We all remember the events of January 6, which resulted in unforgettable images, an evacuation of the Capitol, several deaths, $2.7 billion in costs, more than 1,200 criminal charges, an impeachment, and decades in pris…

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Ford Fischer: What's the Untold Story Behind 'Stop the Steal'? 1:17:39

29d ago1:17:39

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Who's most to blame for the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021? How much does it matter for the election in November 2024? We all remember the events of January 6, which resulted in unforgettable images, an evacuation of the Capitol, several deaths, $2.7 billion in costs, more than 1,200 criminal charges, an impeachment, and decades in pris…

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Senator Mark Udall & A Life in Politics 59:04

29d ago59:04

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Mark Udall, former Democratic US Senator and House member from Colorado, comes from the famed Udall family of the Mountain West - including his father, Congressman Mo Udall, and uncle, former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall under both JFK & LBJ. But Mark Udall largely stayed away from politics until his mid 40s - having an entire career within the…

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Eric Adams and New York City's Corruption Problem 1:06:29

1M ago1:06:29

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman gawk at the amusing circumstances surrounding the federal indictment of New York City Mayor Eric Adams, before discussing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's recent in-person visits with both presidential candidates.02:25—New Yor…

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Richard Staropoli: What's Wrong With the Secret Service? 1:16:24

1M ago1:16:24

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How well-protected is Donald Trump? On July 13, Trump became the first U.S. president to be shot in more than 40 years, and the first to be shot during a campaign since 1912. Then, incredibly, the Secret Service stopped a second would-be assassin who was stationed with a rifle on the perimeter of Trump's golf course as the former president was one …

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Richard Staropoli: What’s Wrong With the Secret Service? 1:16:24

1M ago1:16:24

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How well-protected is Donald Trump?On July 13, Trump became the first U.S. president to be shot in more than 40 years, and the first to be shot during a campaign since 1912. Then, incredibly, the Secret Service stopped a second would-be assassin who was stationed with a rifle on the perimeter of Trump's golf course as the former president was one h…

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Jeremy Horpedahl: Are Millennials and Gen Z Actually Worse Off Than Their Parents? 1:12:36

1M ago1:12:36

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You've probably heard some variation of the notion that Millennials and Gen Z are going to be the first generations of Americans to have lower standards of living than their parents. It's too expensive to go to college, to buy a house, to have kids—you name it, goes this line of thinking. Today's guest has good news: Younger Americans are actually …

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Get Your Gross Sex Out of My Sick Politics! 1:09:53

1M ago1:09:53

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie, Peter Suderman, and special guest Elizabeth Nolan Brown unpack the charges and implications of the federal sex trafficking case against Sean "Diddy" Combs.01:45—Sean "Diddy" Combs faces federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges17:13—CNN unearths North Carolina gubernat…

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Are the Two Parties Any Different? 1:24:14

2M ago1:24:14

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Former budget director under Ronald Reagan, David Stockman, and Stephen Moore, Donald Trump's former senior economic advisor, debate the resolution, "In the current presidential election, both Democrats and Republicans consist of a UniParty that will lead us to the bottom of the national 'policy dumpster.'"Arguing for the affirmative is David Stock…

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Erika Sanzi: What Are Schools Really Teaching? 1:22:29

1M ago1:22:29

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What are the schools really teaching our kids? It's back-to-school season, which means the curriculum wars are back on the agenda. The right has accused activist infiltrators of "indoctrinating" the next generation with woke struggle sessions, confusing kids about their gender and sexuality, and turning K-12 campuses into war zones by replacing dis…

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Erika Sanzi: What Are Schools Really Teaching? 1:22:29

2M ago1:22:29

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What are the schools really teaching our kids?It's back-to-school season, which means the curriculum wars are back on the agenda. The right has accused activist infiltrators of "indoctrinating" the next generation with woke struggle sessions, confusing kids about their gender and sexuality, and turning K-12 campuses into war zones by replacing disc…

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Kat Timpf: An Unapologetic Libertarian at Fox News 45:59

2M ago45:59

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Today's guest is Kat Timpf, whose new book is I Used To Like You Until…:(How Binary Thinking Divides Us). In a totally insane election season, this just might be the most important book of the year. A sequel of sorts to 2023's You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We're All in This Together, it seeks to show how…

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Caleb Smith on Working for 3 GOP House Speakers 1:02:18

1M ago1:02:18

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Caleb Smith may be the only political operative who's worked for three consecutive US House Speakers. During over a decade on Capitol Hill, he worked with Speakers Boehner, Ryan, and McCarthy. In this conversation, Caleb talks his path to politics from managing a legislative race in small-town Kentucky to working in some of the most prime real esta…

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Why Do They Keep Shooting at Donald Trump? 1:06:59

2M ago1:06:59

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman puzzle over the second assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump, and the recent nonsensical claims that Haitians are eating cats in Ohio.03:15—Second assassination attempt on Trump13:30—Claims of Haitians eating cats in O…

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Glenn Greenwald: Why Did Brazil Ban X? 1:05:42

2M ago1:05:42

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Why is the Brazilian government afraid of X? Judge Alexandre de Moraes has blocked the site formerly known as Twitter in Brazil, where an estimated 40 million people access the site each month. Circumventing the ban on X with a VPN could get you fined about $9,000 a day, around the average per capita income in Brazil. It happened after Musk reinsta…

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Glenn Greenwald: Why Did Brazil Ban X? 1:05:42

2M ago1:05:42

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Why is the Brazilian government afraid of X?Judge Alexandre de Moraes has blocked the site formerly known as Twitter in Brazil, where an estimated 40 million people access the site each month. Circumventing the ban on X with a VPN could get you fined about $9,000 a day, around the average per capita income in Brazil. It happened after Musk reinstat…

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Mike Pesca: How NPR Lost Its Way 1:07:42

2M ago1:07:42

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Today's guest is Mike Pesca, who publishes The Gist podcast every weekday. The Gist, which launched in 2014, is a tight 30 minutes of news, interviews, and opinions on the biggest issues of the day. Pesca is a veteran of NPR and Slate—experiences that have made him an outspoken critic of legacy media, especially its willingness to overthrow longsta…

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What Libertarians Would Ask Trump and Harris at the Debate 1:00:33

2M ago1:00:33

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman discuss the Justice Department's press release on Russian "government-directed foreign malign influence campaigns" and reveal which questions they would ask Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in tomorrow's presidential debate.02:34—Russian…

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Bob Murphy: How Bad Is the National Debt? 1:14:31

2M ago1:14:31

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How bad is the national debt? Just asking questions. Our national debt—measured as federal debt held by the public—is over $27 trillion. That's approaching 100 percent of annual gross domestic product, which is higher than it's been since the end of World War II. So, are we screwed? Or are those of us who worry about numbers like this totally misun…

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Bob Murphy: How Bad Is the National Debt? 1:14:30

2M ago1:14:30

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How bad is the national debt? Just asking questions.Our national debt—measured as federal debt held by the public—is over $27 trillion. That's approaching 100 percent of annual gross domestic product, which is higher than it's been since the end of World War II. So, are we screwed? Or are those of us who worry about numbers like this totally misund…

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Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Can Mark Cuban Make Prescriptions Affordable Again? 35:45

2M ago35:45

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Why are prescription drugs so expensive in the United States?"Drug prices in this country are so high because there is zero transparency in the system, and when there's zero transparency in a market, there is no way for it to be efficient," says Mark Cuban, the serial entrepreneur, investor on Shark Tank, and guest on the first episode of the secon…

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Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Can Mark Cuban Make Prescriptions Affordable Again? 53:58

2M ago53:58

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Today's guest is Reason's Eric Boehm, a reporter and the host of the podcast Why We Can't Have Nice Things. The first season of the podcast exposed how little-understood trade policies and regulations screwed with the pricing and availability of everything from baby formula to women's underwear to frozen chicken.The new season focuses on laws and p…

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How Should the U.S. Respond to Hamas Executing Americans? 1:09:59

2M ago1:09:59

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie welcome special guest Charles C.W. Cooke to the show. The group discusses the six Israeli hostages, including American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who were found murdered in Gaza over the weekend, before dissecting Kamala Harris' first major interview since…

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2024 Digital Trends & Best Practices with Mark Jablonowski, President & CTO of DSPolitical 47:47

2M ago47:47

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Mark Jablonowski is the President and Chief Tech Officer of DS Political - one of the leading digital ad firms for Democratic campaigns and progressive causes. Mark's roots in campaign tech go back to 2004 and he was deeply involved in the Obama 2008 primary and general election digital innovations. In this conversation, Mark talks his own path to …

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Kyla Scanlon: What's Actually Wrong With the Economy? 1:15:29

2M ago1:15:29

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How's the economy actually doing?In 2022, economists forecasted that we'd be in a recession by now. Did it ever actually happen, though? Prices got higher, interest rates ticked up, but mass layoffs never really happened and gross domestic product growth chugged on. People mostly weathered the turbulence.Joining us today to talk about all that and …

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