Ranked #1
ISIS and American Muslims; Republicans and American Guns
ISIS and American Muslims; Republicans and American Guns
Laila Lalami talks about what ISIS wants from American Muslims; Joan Walsh explains the real reason we don’t have gun co... Read more
9 Dec 2015
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45mins
Ranked #2
Trump Will Lose in 2020: Stan Greenberg, plus Naomi Klein on the Green New Deal and J. Hoberman on Reagan and the Movies
Trump Will Lose in 2020: Stan Greenberg, plus Naomi Klein on the Green New Deal and J. Hoberman on Reagan and the Movies
The 2020 election will liberate us from Donald Trump and Republican hegemony. A sweeping Democratic victory will make it... Read more
31 Dec 2019
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48mins
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Ranked #3
Naomi Klein: The Paris Climate Conference Protests Will Not Be Stopped
Naomi Klein: The Paris Climate Conference Protests Will Not Be Stopped
Naomi Klein on the Shock Doctrine and the Paris climate protests, Katha Pollitt on Europe’s refugee crisis, Eric Foner o... Read more
2 Dec 2015
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39mins
Ranked #4
Trump’s Tax Returns: Why We Will See Them, and What We Will Find: David Cay Johnston, plus Zoe Carpenter on plastics and Laurie Winer on Stephen Miller
Trump’s Tax Returns: Why We Will See Them, and What We Will Find: David Cay Johnston, plus Zoe Carpenter on plastics and Laurie Winer on Stephen Miller
The chair of the House Ways and Means Committee formally requested six years of Trump’s personal & business tax retu... Read more
17 Apr 2019
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39mins
Ranked #5
Socialism is on the Agenda for 2020: Katrina vanden Heuvel, plus Kathleen Belew on White Nationalism and Rick Perlstein on Impeachment
Socialism is on the Agenda for 2020: Katrina vanden Heuvel, plus Kathleen Belew on White Nationalism and Rick Perlstein on Impeachment
Capitalism is broken – that's why socialism is on the agenda for 2020. Katrina vanden Heuvel explains - she's publisher... Read more
24 Dec 2019
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48mins
Ranked #6
White Nationalists in Charlottesville & DC: Eric Foner; plus Bob Dreyfuss on Manafort and Robert Lipsyte on Trump and Golf
White Nationalists in Charlottesville & DC: Eric Foner; plus Bob Dreyfuss on Manafort and Robert Lipsyte on Trump and Golf
Plus Bob Dreyfuss on Paul Manafort, and Robert Lipsyte on Trump and golf Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/b... Read more
17 Aug 2017
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41mins
Ranked #7
Joe Biden’s Zombie Campaign: Jeet Heer on Moderate Dems, plus Elie Mystal on Senate Republicans and Amy Wilentz on Haiti
Joe Biden’s Zombie Campaign: Jeet Heer on Moderate Dems, plus Elie Mystal on Senate Republicans and Amy Wilentz on Haiti
Joe Biden may be the frontrunner, but he’s slipping, and it seems doubtful that he will get better at this. Big donors ... Read more
30 Oct 2019
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39mins
Ranked #8
How to Beat Trump in 2020: John Nichols on Strategy, Michael Kazin on Southern Democrats, and Katha Pollitt on Women
How to Beat Trump in 2020: John Nichols on Strategy, Michael Kazin on Southern Democrats, and Katha Pollitt on Women
The Democrats’ picking Milwaukee for their convention in 2020 indicates how that Wisconsin is a key battleground the par... Read more
13 Mar 2019
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40mins
Ranked #9
How TV Made Trump: Tom Carson, plus David Perry on Ilhan Omar and Pico Iyer on Japan
How TV Made Trump: Tom Carson, plus David Perry on Ilhan Omar and Pico Iyer on Japan
We all know Trump got famous on TV with The Apprentice – but how many of us ever watched The Apprentice? Reality TV was... Read more
23 Oct 2019
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40mins
Ranked #10
The Trump Reelection Scenario: Thomas Frank; plus Adam Hochschild on Guns and Gary Younge’s Return to Muncie
The Trump Reelection Scenario: Thomas Frank; plus Adam Hochschild on Guns and Gary Younge’s Return to Muncie
Trump is the most unpopular president in history—but could he be reelected in 2020? Thomas Frank says it wouldn’t be har... Read more
18 Apr 2018
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40mins
Ranked #11
Chris Hayes: Trump ‘Knew Literally—And I Mean Literally—Nothing About’ His Health-Care Bill
Chris Hayes: Trump ‘Knew Literally—And I Mean Literally—Nothing About’ His Health-Care Bill
Chris Hayes assesses the damage to Trump and to the Republicans caused by the failure of their effort to end Obamacare—a... Read more
29 Mar 2017
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41mins
Ranked #12
James Comey’s Self-Justification Is Just ‘Not Good Enough’—Jonathan Freedland, plus Lawrence Wright on Trump and Texas and Margaret Atwood on ‘The Handmaid’s Tale'
James Comey’s Self-Justification Is Just ‘Not Good Enough’—Jonathan Freedland, plus Lawrence Wright on Trump and Texas and Margaret Atwood on ‘The Handmaid’s Tale'
James Comey’s monster best-seller, A Higher Loyalty, is “a plea for exculpation,” says Jonathan Friedland, but its self-... Read more
25 Apr 2018
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42mins
Ranked #13
Naomi Klein: To Fight Climate Change, We Have to Radically Rethink What Is Possible; plus Dahlia Lithwick on Trump’s ‘Emergency’ and Manuel Pastor on Calif. vs. Trump
Naomi Klein: To Fight Climate Change, We Have to Radically Rethink What Is Possible; plus Dahlia Lithwick on Trump’s ‘Emergency’ and Manuel Pastor on Calif. vs. Trump
Naomi Klein says the Green New Deal needs to follow the example of the New Deal of the 1930s, when nothing would have ha... Read more
20 Feb 2019
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40mins
Ranked #14
Republicans and Impeachment: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly--Joan Walsh, plus Andrew Bacevich on Afghanistan and Azadeh Moaveni on ISIS Women
Republicans and Impeachment: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly--Joan Walsh, plus Andrew Bacevich on Afghanistan and Azadeh Moaveni on ISIS Women
The big question about impeachment is not the House -- there now seem to be enough votes there to pass at least one arti... Read more
2 Oct 2019
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41mins
Ranked #15
Is Trumpism Fascism? Katha Pollitt; plus Mike Lux on Political Strategy and Harold Meyerson on Jonathan Gold
Is Trumpism Fascism? Katha Pollitt; plus Mike Lux on Political Strategy and Harold Meyerson on Jonathan Gold
Katha Pollitt is not happy with leftists calling Trump a “fascist” – maybe there’s a better term for his attacks on demo... Read more
1 Aug 2018
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36mins
Ranked #16
Sherrod Brown: How to Beat Trump; plus D.D. Guttenplan on Joe Biden and Thom Hartmann on the Supreme Court
Sherrod Brown: How to Beat Trump; plus D.D. Guttenplan on Joe Biden and Thom Hartmann on the Supreme Court
Sherrod Brown, the senior senator from Ohio, was re-elected in 2018. He won by 7 points—in a state Hillary Clinton had l... Read more
13 Nov 2019
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42mins
Ranked #17
“Whiteness Is All They’ve Got”: Gary Younge on Trump’s Working Class Supporters; Plus D.D. Guttenplan on Jackson, Miss., and Amy Wilentz on Ivana
“Whiteness Is All They’ve Got”: Gary Younge on Trump’s Working Class Supporters; Plus D.D. Guttenplan on Jackson, Miss., and Amy Wilentz on Ivana
Gary Younge interviews Trump’s white working class supporters; D. D. Guttenplan spends a week reporting on Jackson, Miss... Read more
20 Dec 2017
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36mins
Ranked #18
How the Dems Can Win in 2020: Lessons of the Virginia Victories--Joan Walsh, plus Jeet Heer on Trump and War Crimes and Bryce Covert on Strikes
How the Dems Can Win in 2020: Lessons of the Virginia Victories--Joan Walsh, plus Jeet Heer on Trump and War Crimes and Bryce Covert on Strikes
Democrats need to learn the lessons of their historic victory last month, when Virginia became the first Southern state ... Read more
4 Dec 2019
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35mins
Ranked #19
Frank Rich: How Hillary Could Lose to Trump
Frank Rich: How Hillary Could Lose to Trump
A Clinton vs. Trump campaign in the fall would be a battle of the negatives, Frank Rich says--and Hillary’s are dangerou... Read more
20 Apr 2016
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40mins
Ranked #20
‘It Can’t All Be Bernie’: The Candidate with John Nichols, plus Adam Hochschild on deportation and John Powers on “The Irishman”
‘It Can’t All Be Bernie’: The Candidate with John Nichols, plus Adam Hochschild on deportation and John Powers on “The Irishman”
Bernie Sanders says it will take a movement to change America: “It can’t all be Bernie.” John Nichols comments on his i... Read more
27 Nov 2019
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39mins