Lawrence Wright: 25 Years Later, Remembering 9/11
John is joined by Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11,” to commemorate the 2...
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Hell & High Water with John Heilemann
A ravenous pandemic. A ruinous recession. Protests, riots, racial strife, police brutality. And, of course, Donald Trump. The turmoil and upheaval roiling America in 2020 is the subject of H...
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20 of 406 episodesSarah Longwell: Vox Populi, Vox Dei
John is joined by publisher of The Bulwark and apostate Republican strategist Sarah Longwell to discuss the midterm elections, 2028, and her...
Dave Regan: Will California Kick Its Billionaires in the Bollocks?
John is joined by combative California union boss Dave Regan to discuss Proposition 40, his state’s controversial ballot measure to levy a o...
Adam Hamilton & Denise Powell: Two Great Plains Midterm Upsets in the Making
John is joined by two first-time Democratic office-seekers — Adam Hamilton, the party’s Senate candidate in Kansas, and Denise Powell, its H...
Skye Perryman: The Cavalry Isn’t Coming – Saving Democracy Is Up To Us
John is joined by Democracy Forward CEO Skye Perryman to discuss Donald Trump, Todd Blanche, and the threats they pose to America’s election...
Kurt Andersen, Pt. 2: AI Intimacies, Sci-Fi with Soderbergh, & The (Fictional) Death of Trump
In the second installment of a two-part episode with best-selling author Kurt Andersen, John and Kurt continue their discussion of Andersen'...
Kurt Andersen, Pt. 1: Visions of America After a Second Civil War
John welcomes bestselling author, Spy magazine co-founder, and Peabody Award-winning radio host Kurt Andersen for the first installment of a...
Raul Torrez: The State AG Suing Todd Blanche’s DOJ after Spanking Meta in Court
John welcomes New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez to discuss his landmark litigation against Meta and his new crusade against the Justic...
David Remnick: The Woman Who Speaks for the DSA & the Man Who Could Beat Bibi
John welcomes David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, to discuss his recent viral podcast interview with DSA co-chair Megan Romer and his l...
Jim Windolf: Dylan & The Beatles — Minds in Dialogue that Changed the World
John welcomes author Jim Windolf to discuss his new book, “Where the Music Had to Go: How Bob Dylan and The Beatles Changed Each Other—and t...
Ben Wikler: It’s My Party and I’ll Cry If I Want To
John welcomes back former Wisconsin Democratic Party chairman Ben Wikler to discuss this week’s headline-making Senate primary in Michigan,...
“Raise Your Hopeful Voice” — Glen Hansard, R.I.P.
John welcomes Rolling Stone writer Jonathan Bernstein to discuss the life, music, and legacy of Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard, who di...
Lis Smith: Michigan as Microcosm of Democratic Mishegas
John welcomes back Democratic strategist Lis Smith to discuss the intra-party factional civil war playing out in the Michigan Senate primary...
Introducing: Money Moves with Jill Schlesinger
There’s a lot of dopey financial advice out there. Jill Schlesinger is here to call it out, answer your questions, break down the financial...
Jonathan Swan: “He’s Just Gonna Do What He Wants To Do”
John welcomes New York York Times White House reporter Jonathan Swan to discuss his runaway No. 1 bestseller, “Regime Change: Inside the Imp...
Adam Jentleson: Senate Campaign Sturm und Drang in Maine, Michigan & Beyond
John welcomes Senate savant and Searchlight Institute president Adam Jentleson to discuss the Democrats’ fraught path to retaking control of...
Peter Baker & Susan Glasser: Is Trump Trying to Tank the GOP?
John welcomes back the John and Yoko (Ike and Tina? Sonny and Cher?) of Beltway journalistic power couples, the New York Times’s Peter Baker...
Jeff Blattner: A Tale of Two Confirmation Hearings — and Two Top-Tier Trump Toadies
John welcomes former Senate Judiciary Committee senior staffer and deputy assistant attorney general Jeff Blattner to discuss the confirmati...
Alex Wagner & Will Leitch: Platner’s Implosion & Trump’s Red Card
John welcomes back two blue-chip friends of the pod—Alex Wagner, host of Crooked Media’s “Runaway Country” and MS Now senior political analy...
Maggie Haberman: The Hunter & The Hunted
John welcomes back New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman to discuss her runaway No. 1 bestseller, “Regime Change: Inside...