Best The American Policy Roundtable Podcasts (2024)

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The Rachman Review: US foreign policy under Trump 2.0 24:38

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What would US foreign policy look like under a second Trump presidency? Gideon puts this question to former US state department official Jeremy Shapiro, who talks about the three camps hoping to shape the Republican nominee’s thinking on global affairs. Clip: Inquirer.net Free links to read more on this topic: The folly of the pro-Trump plutocrats …

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NPR News Now: NPR News: 06-26-2024 11PM EDT 5:00

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Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg: What do socialism and effective altruism have in common? (with Garrison Lovely) 1:10:31

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Read the full transcript here. What does effective altruism look like from a leftist / socialist perspective? Are the far left and EA the only groups that take radical egalitarianism seriously? What are some of the points of agreement and disagreement between EA & socialism? Socialists frequently critique the excesses, harms, and failures of capita…

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The Rest Is Money: 70.⁠ ⁠What’s Labour’s plan for growth? 53:41

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How do Labour plan to grow the economy? Would Shein be allowed to float on the London Stock Exchange? Will regulating AI boost productivity without costing jobs? Robert and Steph are joined by the Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Trade, Jonathan Reynolds to find out. Sign up to our newsletter to get more stories from the world of business…

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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts: Opinionpalooza: The Vanishing Emergency Abortion Decision (Preview) 7:33

27m ago7:33

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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court issued two important decisions in its traditional fashion: a box of printed copies for those journalists in the press room, and furious SCOTUS website refreshing for those who were not. Murthy v Missouri was one of the closely watched social media cases of the term, about “jawboning” or when and if the government can…

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The Gist: All The Editor's Mess 44:08

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Ben Smith and Nayeema Raza, co-hosts of the Semaphor podcast Mixed Signals, discuss the turmoil at the Washington Post. Plus Jamal Bowman's Israel pronouncements were an important part, but hardly the only factor, in his political demise. And NGOs and the media should be scrupulously accurate about the deprivation and hunger in Gaza. Produced by Jo…

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The Bulwark Podcast: Stuart Stevens: I think Joe Biden Has Been A Great President 43:46

37m ago43:46

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So many of the people who worked around POTUS 44 think no one will ever be as good as Obama, but Stuart Stevens argues that Democrats need to make the case that Joe Biden is a great president. Meanwhile, Dems on Tuesday showed they are the one party holding their crazy people to account. Plus, Vance is too smart to be Trump's VP pick, more Republic…

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Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning: Nikolai Yakovenko: the stillborn promise of the LLM age 1:16:49

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On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Nikolai Yakovenko, a returning guest to the podcast, about his new AI startup, DeepNewz, and the state of the LLM-driven AI landscape circa the summer of 2024, where we are in relation to earlier expectations and where we might be in the next decade. Yakovenko is an AI researcher who has worke…

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Letters from an American: June 25, 2024 12:42

24m ago12:42

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Get full access to Letters from an American at heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribeBy Heather Cox Richardson

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Volts: Heat pumps with thermal batteries 57:25

1h ago57:25

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In this episode: more heat pumps! Jane Melia, co-founder and CEO of Harvest, discusses the advantages of teaming a high-end eat pump with a large thermal battery, to coordinate the timing of electricity consumption. Shifting the heat pump load can help reduce both costs and emissions. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with oth…

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar: 6/26/24: Hillary Says 'Impossible' To Debate Trump, Bowman Trounced By AIPAC, Kenya On Fire As Troops Occupy Haiti, Ryan Exposes Pro-Israel Group Lies, MIT Nuke ... 1:37:04

9h ago1:37:04

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Ryan and Emily discuss Hillary warning Biden that debating Trump is impossible, Bowman crushed by AIPAC in New York election, Kenya parliament on fire as troops occupy Haiti, Ryan exposes pro-Israel group lying about campaign funding, MIT nuclear expert dire warning on Russia Ukraine war. To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen …

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Changelog Interviews: MAJOR.SEMVER.PATCH 1:32:08

8h ago1:32:08

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Predrag Gruevski and Chris Krycho joined the show to talk about SemVer. We explore the challenges and the advantages of semantic versioning (aka SemVer), the need for improving the tooling around SemVer, where semantic versioning really shines and where it’s needed, Types and SemVer, whether or not there’s a better way, and why it’s not as simple a…

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Dwarkesh Podcast: Tony Blair - Life of a PM, The Deep State, Lee Kuan Yew, & AI's 1914 Moment 52:52

3h ago52:52

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I chatted with Tony Blair about: - What he learned from Lee Kuan Yew - Intelligence agencies track record on Iraq & Ukraine - What he tells the dozens of world leaders who come seek advice from him - How much of a PM’s time is actually spent governing - What will AI’s July 1914 moment look like from inside the Cabinet? Enjoy! Watch the video on You…

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Hillsdale College Podcast Network: The American Left: Origins of the Radical Left

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On this episode of The Hillsdale College Online Courses Podcast, Jeremiah and Juan discuss the New Left’s criticisms of American culture before introducing Hillsdale College politics professor Kevin Slack. American politics have drastically transformed over the last few decades as a ruling elite has emerged that, despite being from different partie…

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The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens: The Flip, the Formation, and the Fun: A Metamodern Framework for Human Futures with Jonathan Rowson 1:36:19

6h ago1:36:19

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(Conversation recorded on April 24th, 2024) Show Summary: Engaging with the human predicament requires new ways of understanding the world - novel perspectives that are rooted in a more holistic and interdependent mindset than those dominant in the industrialized society of the past few centuries. Today’s conversation with philosopher and social sc…

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Bankless: Is Crypto Still in a Bull Run? | RSA+DH 44:02

7h ago44:02

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Is the crypto bull market over? The crypto sentiment has suddenly flipped bearish. The skeptics are saying that the ETH ETF will amount to nothing. Gox will dump on you. There are no new crypto use cases. There’s too much token supply. The bearish list goes on. So what gives? Is this just summertime slowness or is the bull market over? ------ ✨ Min…

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Big Technology Podcast: Decoding The NVIDIA Trade — With Michael Batnick 41:20

7h ago41:20

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Michael Batnick is managing partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management and co-host of The Compound and Friends Podcast. Batnick joins Big Technology Podcast for a conversation that asks all the questions about NVIDIA's historic run. We cover the valuation, volatility, competition, chances to keep going, and AI fatigue. We also ask whether NVIDIA could g…

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School Choice and the Supreme Court 2:01

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What was our involvement with the case that brought the question of school choice before the United States Supreme Court? Tune in today to The Public Square® to join us in our search for truth. Topic: Education The Public Square® with hosts Dave Zanotti and Wayne Shepherd thepublicsquare.com Air Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2024…

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Twenty Thousand Hertz: Listener Stories 22:48

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For this special episode, we’ve passed the mic to our listeners to hear six unexpected stories about sound. Featuring auditory hallucinations, amplified heartbeats, long remembered voices, and whistles both strange and familiar. Sign up for Twenty Thousand Hertz+ to get our entire catalog ad-free. If you know what this week's mystery sound is, tell…

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The Daily: France’s Far Right at the Gates of Power 22:03

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The far right in France had a big win this month, crushing the party of President Emmanuel Macron in elections for the European Parliament. But the results did not affect France’s government at home — until Mr. Macron changed that. Roger Cohen, the Paris bureau chief for The Times, discusses the huge political gamble Mr. Macron has taken, which has…

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Otherppl with Brad Listi: How to Write from the Inside Out 1:38:09

9h ago1:38:09

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A new 'Craftwork' episode about writing deeply personal narratives. My guest is Rachel Krantz, author of the debut memoir Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy, now available in trade paperback from Harmony Books. Krantz is a journalist and one of the founding editors of Bustle, where she served as senior features editor …

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The Nation Podcasts: White Voters and Joe Biden; plus Harriet Tubman and History | Start Making Sense 44:57

10h ago44:57

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What should the Democrats do about white voters? Most of them have voted for Trump, twice. How much of that can be changed? Steve Phillips reports on new research that should reshape Democratic strategy. Also: Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery and returned again and again to lead others north to freedom. Now her story is being told in a wonderful…

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Pod Save the World: UK Election Preview with David Lammy 1:20:47

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Ben is joined by guest host David Lammy, British MP and Shadow Foreign Secretary. They discuss the upcoming election in the UK on July 4th and how historic a Labour win by Keir Starmer would be, how to read into popular support for Nigel Farage and his far-right party, an election betting scandal from people within Rishi Sunak’s inner circle, and t…

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Factually! with Adam Conover: How Contrapoints Reinvented Philosophy for YouTube with Natalie Wynn 1:22:37

10h ago1:22:37

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Since 2016, Natalie Wynn has been making wildly popular video essays on YouTube under the name ContraPoints. Her videos, which cover everything from politics, to gender, to society's obsession with the apocalypse, gracefully distill academia-level research into insightful and highly digestible packages. Despite winning a Peabody award and holding a…

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The MMT Podcast with Patricia Pino & Christian Reilly: #188 Election special with Dirk Ehnts 1:21:19

16h ago1:21:19

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What every voter needs to know: Patricia and Christian talk to economist and author of “MMT: A Simple Guide to the Monetary System”, Dr Dirk Ehnts about the upcoming UK election and what’s missing from media coverage. Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodc…

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The Gist: Southlake 48:08

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Mike Hixenbaugh is a Senior Investigative Reporter for NBC News and the co-creator of Southlake, a podcast that won a Peabody for spotlighting the tensions in an affluent Dallas suburb where factions battled for control of the school board in a campaign that mirrored what was happening on a national stage. He's now out with a book, They Came for th…

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Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science: Apple Intelligence & Advanced RAG 45:08

1d ago45:08

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Daniel & Chris engage in an impromptu discussion of the state of AI in the enterprise. Then they dive into the recent Apple Intelligence announcement to explore its implications. Finally, Daniel leads a deep dive into a new topic - Advanced RAG - covering everything you need to know to be practical & productive. Leave us a comment Changelog++ membe…

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web3 with a16z crypto: On Finding Product Market Fit — and Meaning 1:05:51

21h ago1:05:51

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with @jasonrosenthal @benrbn Welcome to web3 with a16z, a show about building the next generation of the internet. Our featured guest today is serial entrepreneur Ben Rubin, who previously built the viral livestreaming app Meerkat, and then the group video chat app Houseparty — acquired by Epic Games in 2019 — and who is now CEO and cofounder of He…

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The Bulwark Podcast: Symone Sanders-Townsend: Don't Say We Didn't Warn You 44:14

23h ago44:14

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Project 2025 sounds mundane, but it would institutionalize Trumpism, eliminate the Department of Education, mass deport 11 million people, and turn the Department of Health and Human Services into the Department of "Life." Plus, more from the mailbag, and Biden finding the sweet spot between Uncle Joe and punching Trump in the face. Symone Sanders-…

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Columbia Energy Exchange: Chile’s Critical Minerals 1:01:31

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Demand for the critical minerals needed for batteries, solar panels, and other forms of clean energy will grow rapidly under the International Energy Agency's “net zero by 2050” scenario. And this gives mineral rich countries like Chile an outsized role in the energy transition. Chile currently holds more than a third of the world's lithium reserve…

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Changelog: Go Time 320: Gophers Say! GopherCon EU Berlin 2024

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Our award winning worthy survey game show is back, this time Mat Ryer hosts it live on stage at GopherCon EU Berlin 2024! Join in & play along as we see which team can better guess what these GopherCon gophers had to say! Leave us a comment Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors:…

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99% Invisible: Backfired: The Vaping Wars 52:55

1d ago52:55

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When two Stanford graduate students set out to create a new kind of cigarette that wouldn’t kill them, they didn’t foresee all the obstacles that lay ahead—or the powerful forces their invention would unleash. Nearly 10 years after the launch of the JUUL, Backfired: The Vaping Wars asks: Could e-cigarettes have been the solution to one of the world…

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar: 6/25/24: AIPAC Spends $15 Million To Oust Bowman, Media Lies About Synagogue Protests, War Scholar Says Hamas Has Won 38:53

1d ago38:53

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Krystal and Saagar discuss AIPAC spends $15 million to defeat Bowman, media lies about synagogue protest, war scholar says Hamas has won. To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show AD FREE, uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breakingpoints.com/ Merch Store: https://shop.breakingpoints.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener…

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar: 6/25/24: Assange Freed, CNN Cuts Trump Spox Live, Debate Predictions, Ukraine Bombs Civilians In Crimea, Macron Brutal Defeat, CNN Blocks BP From Streaming Debate ... 1:08:25

1d ago1:08:25

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Krystal and Saagar discuss Assange strikes deal for freedom, CNN cuts Trump spox live, presidential debate predictions, Ukraine uses US bombs on civilians, Macron faces brutal defeat, and CNN blocks BP from streaming debate. To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show AD FREE, uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breaki…

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Letters from an American: June 24, 2024 9:25

1d ago9:25

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Get full access to Letters from an American at heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribeBy Heather Cox Richardson

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War on the Rocks: The Actively Retired Polish General Building a Strategic Culture 35:39

1d ago35:39

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Last year, Rajmund Andrzejczak retired as Poland's chief of the general staff, but he has been busy since. During a recent visit to Washington, he spoke with Ryan about his career, European security, Polish defense, manpower, Ukraine, and what he's been up to, including his podcast "Ground Zero."

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Bankless: The Case for Authoritarianism | Vitalik Buterin & Noah Smith 1:28:43

1d ago1:28:43

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What if the information anarchy of the internet spells the downfall of liberalism? Economist Noah Smith and Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin join us for a fascinating discussion on why Authoritarianism might be the answer to the current information warfare. Yes, you heard that right. We start the episode by defining liberalism, how it has brought e…

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Bell Curve: Harnessing the Untapped Potential of Bitcoin Staking | S8 E5 | David Tse 1:20:16

1d ago1:20:16

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In this episode, David Tse, Co-founder of BabylonChain, joins us to explore the latest developments in the Bitcoin ecosystem. We dive into the transformative impact of Bitcoin staking, the innovative role of Babylon, and the broader technological and cultural shifts in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Finally, David provides insight into the Bitcoin staking …

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GROW Podcast: Feeding One Million Pigs a Year | GROW Podcast 14:06

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In the very near future, the trackability of your grain will become ever more important to the end consumer. The partnership between AMVC and Landus started organically three years ago and has resulted in a reliable product that farmers can contribute to and be rewarded for. In this episode of the GROW Podcast, Landus VP of External Affairs, Elizab…

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Putting the Welfare of Children First 2:01

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Is it possible for people in your community to bring national change to the educational system from the ground up? Tune in today to The Public Square® to join us in our search for truth. Topic: Education The Public Square® with hosts Dave Zanotti and Wayne Shepherd thepublicsquare.com Air Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2024…

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The Daily: The Plan to Defeat Critics of Israel in Congress 30:56

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A powerful group supporting Israel is trying to defeat sitting members of Congress who have criticized the country’s deadly war against Hamas. Nicholas Fandos, who covers New York politics for The Times, explains why it appears that strategy may work in today’s Democratic primary in New York. Guest: Nicholas Fandos, who covers New York politics and…

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"Econ 102" with Noah Smith and Erik Torenberg: Trump/Biden, Chomsky/Foreign Policy, & Romantic Relationships 1:07:10

1d ago1:07:10

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In today’s episode, Noah Smith and Erik Torenberg answer listener questions on intriguing topics from politics to personal relationships. They analyze Donald Trump, discuss Chomsky's influence on foreign policy, explore the economics of dating markets, and discuss Noah's theory 'why sex leads to love'. 🔥 Apply to join over 400 founders and Execs in…

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Matter of Opinion: Can a MAGA Warrior Go Normie? Michelle Cottle Goes to a Biker Bar to Find Out. 8:10

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We’re getting ready for this week’s presidential debate. In the meantime, we wanted to share an audio essay from Michelle Cottle on a make-or-break vote for the MAGA warrior Lauren Boebert. The controversial lawmaker is facing a primary in Colorado that will determine her political future. Michelle visited a biker bar in Douglas County, Colo., to u…

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Otherppl with Brad Listi: Big Asses, Plane Crashes, & Donald Sutherland's Ashes 1:26:07

1d ago1:26:07

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Volume 5 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...juice cleansing....RIP Donald Sutherland...J-Lo's Photogenic Ass....Bill Belichick's Geriatric Gen Z Romance...J-Law's New Movie...Kanye Insanity...Rap Beefs...Boeing Nosedives...and more... Brad & Mira For the Culture is a series about popular culture and generational divides. Brad is inept when it comes t…

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5-4: Garland v. Cargill 45:09

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Citing Urban Dictionary and wikiHow*, Clarence Thomas argues that a gun that can kill hundreds of people with a single trigger pull is not a machine gun. *Not actually true but those are the vibes. If you're not a 5-4 Premium member, you're not hearing every episode! To get first dibs on live show tickets, dig into our Premium episode catalog, memb…

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The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish: #197 Michaeleen Doucleff: TEAM Parenting 1:12:23

1d ago1:12:23

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It's surprising how often we give our kids orders: "Do this!" "Don't do that!" But if we want to raise resilient and independent kids, is this the right approach? Michaeleen Doucleff argues there's a better way, and in this conversation, she explains why and shares practical strategies for solving the parenting "crisis" in the modern world. In this…

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The Nation Podcasts: The Ever-Evolving Espionage Act w/ Sam Lebovic | American Prestige 50:25

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On this episode of American Prestige, Sam Lebovic, professor of history at George Mason University, joins Danny and Derek for a look at the Espionage Act of 1917 and its use over the years. In this first part of the discussion, they explore the dominant ideologies at the time of its inception, its implementation in cases from Eugene Debs to Herbert…

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Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast: WTH is Project 2025? with Thomas Zimmer 1:01:05

1d ago1:01:05

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Project 2025, also known as the Presidential Transition Project, is a collection of policy proposals from The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. The group’s 920-page “Mandate for Leadership” is an extremely granular playbook that includes sweeping policy changes aimed at reshaping and dismantling American government. It’s pretty alarmi…

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