August 20, 2026 - Michelle Berenfeldt | Dean Baker
Lesson From the Roman Republic of Emperor Augustus As Trump, With the Help of a Gutless Senate, Turns Our Republic Into a Tyranny | Our $40....
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20 of 581 episodesAugust 19, 2026 - Paul Waldman | Craig Aaron | Sean Freeder
Trump's "Binky: The Closest Person to Him Who Feeds Our President Far-Right Conspiratorial Fabrication | How Brendan Carr Wants Putin-Style...
August 18, 2026 - Rachel VanLandingham | Michael Fuchs | Tricia Cortez
As Trump and Hegseth Show Callous Indifference to the Morale of the Rank and File, Signs of Resistance Inside the Military Emerge | A Strate...
August 17, 2026 - Stephen Walt | Kent Harrington | Aziz Huq
The Current Iran War Tops the Record As We Keep Losing Wars | Trump's Latest Treasonous Outrage | How a Reactionary Oligarchy Is Capturing O...
August 16, 2026 - Asli Bali | Harry Litman | Olga Lautman
As Trump Squanders U.S. Power and Credibility, Former Allies Find Alternatives For Collective Security | Trump's Relentless Assault On the L...
August 13, 2026 - Garrett Epps | Ori Goldberg | Anders Aslund
Our Banana Republic Dictator Orders Blanche and Pirro to Punish Innocent Americans For Embarrassing the "Dear Leader" | Iran Plans to Drag O...
August 12, 2026 - Aaron Regunberg | Brian Concannon | Helaine Olen
The Call For Unity After David Crowley's Narrow Win in Wisconsin | Trump, Miller and Mullin's Sadistic Pleasure Has Haitians in Ohio Facing...
August 11, 2026 - Hussein Banai | Joan Williams | Eugene Gholz
After the Democrats Failed Twice to Stop Trump, In the End Will It Be Iran's Theocratic Fanatics Who Bring Him Down? | How To Build a Bridge...
August 10, 2026 - Nina Burleigh | Tyson Slocum | Henri Barkey
The Trump Family's Close Ties to the Tate Brothers Who Advocate Rape, Domination and Servility of Women and Girls | Trump Tries to Blame Big...
August 9, 2026 - Ryan Cooper | Mike Lofgren | Cory Doctorow
Will the Healing Between Progressive Democrats and Centrists Be Set Back By Tuesday's Primary in Wisconsin? | After Damaging Our Economy, Al...
August 6, 2026 - Lindsay Owens | Jacob Heilbrunn | Casey Michel
How Democrats Can Distance Themselves From Nutty Ideas Like Cancelling Thanksgiving and Why Third Way Should Not Waste Money Trashing Democr...
August 5, 2026 - Andy Levin | Eli Clifton & Ian Lustick | Warren Sakey
A Former Michigan Congressman Who Was Defeated by Congresswoman Stevens and AIPAC Money on Abdul El-Sayed's Victory | Has AIPAC's Power As W...
August 4, 2026 - Harrison Mann | William Cohan | Lisa Graves
Could the Ellisons Walk Away From Their $111 Billion Takeover of Warner Brothers? | Two Craven Republican Senators Accepted Worthless Assura...
August 3, 2026 - Mohsen Milani | Danny Postel | Nicholas Enrich
Trump Backs Down Then Iran Refutes His Claim He Did So Because They Want to Talk | Has the Fratricide Between the Democrats Running For the...
August 2, 2026 - Sebastiaan Faber | Abby Vesoulis | Robert Pape
Is Speaker Johnson Protecting an Accused Wife Beater and Child Abuser While Senator Bernie Moreno Attacks Dr. Fauci But Does Not Defend the...
July 30, 2026 - Juan Cole | Larry Tye | Clay Risen
Reviving Their War on Yemen, an Incensed Saudi Leadership Strikes Back at the Houthis | Yesterday's Unseemly Grilling of Fauci by Republican...
July 29, 2026 - Paul Pillar | Rich Logis | Thomas Bollyky
The Increasing Likelihood Trump Will Escalate His War on Iran | Where Refugees From the MAGA Movement Which Has Captured the GOP Can Find a...
July 28, 2026 - Adam Weinstein | Simon Rosenberg | Gota Chanturia
Trump's Meeting With Netanyahu and Hegseth's Shameful Cover Up of U.S. Casualties | How To Heal Divisions Between Centrists and Democratic S...
July 27, 2026 - Nader Hashemi | Sumit Ganguly | Hannah Lucinda Smith
Facing a Choice to Escalate or Capitulate, Will Netanyahu Talk Trump Into Resuming Their War or Will He Listen to the JCS Chair and VP Telli...
July 26, 2026 - Andrew Latham | Robert Kuttner | Coco Fusco
Trump's Latest Attack on Our Good Neighbor to the North | How to Survive Tyranny and Redeem America | The Release of a Cuban Dissident Artis...