Rick Perlstein

Here’s a recent favorite episode — the first part of a four-part series we did on the Church Committee hearings. We’ll b... Read more

Sean Hannity thinks that if you don't want to be poor you should be willing to work "70, 80, 90 hours a week," so Ben Bu... Read more

Rick Perlstein is the author of a series of books on the rise of the American right, sprawling works of narrative histor... Read more

We wrap up our four-part series on the 1975/76 Church Committee hearings with a look at the contentious, cozy, and murky... Read more

Our miniseries on the 1975/76 Church Committee findings on CIA and FBI operations continues. This episode, we look at wh... Read more

We’ve got a new miniseries for you, looking back at the 1975 Church Committee hearings and report, which disclosed a wid... Read more

In this episode we look a the coming 2022 midterm elections, Congressperson Liz Cheney's courage, the impending reversal... Read more

Democrats are headed toward passage of both the bipartisan infrastructure bill AND the reconciliation bill: Harold Meyer... Read more

Rick Perlstein is a historian and author of numerous best-selling books, the most recent of which is Reaganland, now ava... Read more

World War II seemed to mark the end of American conservatism, and a new liberal age. Then Reagan came along – and we’re ... Read more