The Presidency as a Consumer Experience (Part 2) | The 21st Century
This episode of Whistlestop travels to October 19, 2016 as Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio, the defeated GOP aspirant for the preside...
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In this podcast for fans of presidential history, John Dickerson of Slate’s Political Gabfest revisits a moment from the American carnival of politics. Hear about the grand speeches, emergen...
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The Presidency as a Consumer Experience (Part 1) | The 21st Century
This episode of Whistlestop travels to October 12, 2012 when Democratic candidate Barack Obama was declared the loser at the first President...
Avoiding A Great Re-Recession | The 21st Century
This episode of Whistlestop travels to March 12, 2008 as President George W. Bush goes over the text of his speech to address the financial...
Introducing Charged: A True Punishment Story
For two and a half years, Emily Bazelon has been following people through a special court in New York designed to be a speedy machine for th...
The Making of the American Presidency (Part 4) | The Presidency
This episode of Whistlestop travels to December 23, 1783 when the commander in chief of the Continental Army sat before the president of the...
The Making of the American Presidency (Part 3) | The Presidency
This episode of Whistlestop travels to March 4, 2019 when Senator Rand Paul quoted from Montesquieu on Twitter: “When the legislative and ex...
The Making of the American Presidency (Part 2) | The Presidency
This episode of Whistlestop travels to June 1st, 1787 when America’s founders faced a challenge: the nation couldn’t depend on the good will...
The Making of the American Presidency (Part 1) | The Presidency
This episode of Whistlestop travels to the spring of 1787 when fifty-five men of property and elite status argued in Philadelphia at the Con...
A ’90s-Style Government Shutdown (Part 2) | The Clinton Era
This episode of Whistlestop travels to November 7, 1995, when a long and uncomfortable plane ride helped fire up Speaker Gingrich to deliver...
A ‘90s Style Government Shutdown (Part 1) | The Clinton Era
This episode of Whistlestop travels to April 1995 as President Bill Clinton and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich battle to define American...
If a Wall Falls | The 20th Century
This episode of Whistlestop travels back to November 9, 1989, when East and West Berliners took sledgehammers to the Berlin Wall and Preside...
Tip and the Gip Part 2, Social Security | The Reagan Era
This episode of Whistlestop travels back to December 16, 1981 when President Ronald Reagan signs Executive Order 12335, creating the Nationa...
Tip and the Gip Part 1 | The Reagan Era
This episode of Whistlestop visits 1981 when Republican President Ronald Reagan, after surviving an assassination attempt, received a warm v...
Doing the Midterm Shuffle | The Presidency
This episode of Whistlestop visits 1982, 1986, 1994, 2006 and 2010 when former sitting U.S. Presidents all scrambled to respond to displeasi...
Taking Aim at the New Guy | The Presidency
This episode of Whistlestop travels back to October 18, 1938 when former President Hoover picked on the new President with gusto. Many U.S....
The Nomination of Judge Bork (Part 2) | The Reagan Era
This episode of Whistlestop travels back to September 15, 1987 and into the Senate Caucus Room where Associate Justice Designee Robert Bork...
Special Re-Air: John McCain's Surprise 2000 Primary Win in New Hampshire
With John McCain's passing, we are republishing this episode about John McCain's surprise win in the 2000 New Hampshire Republican primary....
The Bidding of Biden to Boo Bork | The Reagan Era
This episode of Whistlestop travels back to June 26, 1987, when President Reagan learned that the swing vote Justice on the Supreme Court, J...
Whistlestop Presents: Slow Burn
With John Dickerson out on vacation, we're here to bring you something special: Slow Burn. In each episode of this hit Slate podcast, host L...
Kennedy and Communism (Part 3) | The Kennedy Era
This episode of Whistlestop travels back to June 1961, in the aftermath of President John F. Kennedy’s meeting Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushc...