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Michael A. Cohen is a columnist for MSNOW, a senior fellow at Tufts University’s Fletcher School, and co-director of its Afghanistan Assumptions Project. He also writes the Truth and Consequences newsletter. He is not the former fixer of Donald Trump.
-The correct Michael Cohen stops by
-Mamdani flexes in the primaries and three congress critters cometh
-DAC gets worse the more…
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-Ethnicity as performance
-Manhattan politics with the president of the Manhattan Institute
-Dan Goldman orders coffee, receives moral instruction
-The many political personalities of Brad Lander
-Taxpayer-funded activism and the Office of Mass Engagement
-Mamdani and the borg beneath the campaign
-AOC, cadres, and disciplined political parties
-Gaza as the om…
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-Kmele debuts his Sebastian Bach beach jeans
-The Iran deal is like the JCPOA, but a lot worse
-Lebanon sneaks into a U.S.-Iran deal
-Strait of Hormuz, 60-day promises, and negotiating with hostage-takers
-Why can’t the hawks ever learn?
-Ukraine brings the war home to Russia
-Drones, oil refineries, and the new cost of war
-Europe wakes up… sort of
-Meloni jabs her digits at Trump
-Polymarket checks the damage in Israeli politics
-as well as NY-13 and the rise of the DSA
-Hamilton Heights is Gaza now
-Mamdani’s little machine comes for Dan Goldman
-Gaza replaces BLM as the Democratic purity test
-The long-term problem with Mamdani economics
-Gavin Newsom vs. Trump’s DOJ
-The New York Times makes the Epstein suicide case
-Tucker, Trump, Loomer, and the inevitable reunion
-Baseball is gay in June
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Batya Ungar-Sargon, host of Batya! on NewsNation, returns!!! And with a new book, The Jews and the Left, about antisemitism, anti-Zionism, and why so much of the modern left has made Jews the enemy.
-JD Vance, Tucker, and the anti-Israel right
-The Iran deal, Rubio’s silence, and Trump’s trial balloon
-What Batya got wrong about the war
-Could Trump have sold the war better?
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-The Knicks give New York its greatest night in years and OG makes his MVP case
-Valid destruction or peaceful rioting?
-A brief detour through America’s dumbest college mascots
-Dave Chappelle and Shane Gillis give Moynihan a perfect Comedy Cellar night
-Kmele roots for the Spurs, but only to punish Knicks fans
-Spike Lee has been on the court long enough
-Which celebrity row courtsider gets booed?
-Mamdani gets into the affordable soccer jersey business
-The World Cup comes to New Jersey by boat
-Introducing Midterm Madness
-LA’s mayoral race and the Spencer Pratt stolen-election fantasy
-California’s governor’s race and the strange usefulness of market signals
-The race to watch
-Platner’s character problem is not going away
-Jodi Kantor explains when MeToo does and does not count
-Bill Pulte gets pulled, Jay Clayton gets nominated
-A fully fledged disgusting party on a federal level
-UFC 250 comes to the White House because this is who we are now
-Bullshit, postmodern Trumpism, and the infinite lies
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Throughout this entire interview, Ana remains furious that our office was stocked with whiskey, but only half a bottle of white wine and absolutely no pizza.
-The White House press corps just takes it
-Kristen Welker gets the Trump treatment (and would Trump have tried that with Tim Russert?)
-Ana Navarro is here, from one of them Mexican countries
-Charles…
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Noah’s new book is Blood and Progress… not to be confused with “Blood and Soil,” a phrase Moynihan has been muttering to himself around the office.
-A book squarely in the TFC wheelhouse
-The teens, the twenties, the sixties, the seventies, and now
-The forgotten history of left-wing violence
-Italian anarchists and “propaganda of the deed”
-Is Noah handwavi…
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-a dog is on set and Kmele should be wearing a helmet
-Bernie Sanders wants to collectivize AI
-The boys bask in the warmth of collectivism
-Never trust a politician giving something back to “the people”
-The centrist Democrat goes missing
-It’s still a Nazi tattoo, goddammit
-Character is out. Winning is in
-Andy the Ogre Ogles has thoughts on the gays and Ted Cruz answers the question and keeps walking
-A few more problems for the Oyster Man from Maine
-Welch was the victim of a French flag hate crime
-Speaking of Nazis, let’s talk about Bari Weiss
-Scott Pelley defends democracy from the new guy and privileged peacocking at CBS
-Ali Velshi feels weird about America’s birthday
-Defending America through the Bob Crane story
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Chris Murphy’s book, Crisis of the Common Good, is out now
-Murphy opens his book by dunking on his son’s NHL prospects
-Pitching the common good
-Trump is not the disease. He’s the symptom
-Buy more stuff, feel worse, repeat until democracy collapses
-Kids, phones and the algorithmic hell machine
-Congress wants to regulate tech. Congress may want to log on first
-Can In…
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Be sure to check out Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps, Australia’s greatest podcaster and interviewer, which apparently counts.
-90 minutes of Kmele cleaning his glasses
-Josh is on drugs now
-RIP Jack Karlson, hero of democracy manifest
-we will be referring to limp penis throughout this show
-Erect until the end
-Kmele doesn’t really know the Beach Boys
-Who is the best Australian to ever …
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Check out Ben Rhodes new book: All We Say: The Battle for American Identity: A History in 15 Speeches
-Ben Rhodes, wounded ’90s Knicks fan
-Are we winning in Iran yet?
-what should the President do with Iran right now?
-Sanctions suck, mostly
-Cuba and the Obama opening
-Libya and the regime-change trap
-Kosovo worked-ish
-Responsibility to protect yourself from over-learning lessons
-Rhodes wants institutions, not impulse wars
-Is Ben Rhodes Tucker-adjacent?
-Soft power, hard questions
-Navalny didn’t want America’s money
-When Reagan said “Evil Empire”
-Reagan also change his mind
-Moynihan accuses Rhodes of America pessimism
-Ben says it’s because he loves America
-Private equity killed the vibes
-Nostalgia-nomics
-The left-populist temptation
-JD Vance talks pretty
-National identity without a monoculture
-Ben Franklin and the virtue of doubt
-Experts are annoying but sometimes useful
Read All We Say: The Battle for American Identity: A History in 15 Speeches
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The podcast is called Stay Tuned with Preet, and if you find yourself wanting more legal analysis from someone who knows the system from the inside and still has a sense of humor about it.
-Trump 2.0 & the frictionless DoJ
-The one thing Jeff Sessions did right
-Even Bill Barr had his limits
-Why do smart lawyers follow stupid instructions?
-You don’t have to win to scare people
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After 10 years of doing this podcast, this week we had our first ever DC show at the Miracle Theatre on Capitol Hill. We were joined onstage by Robby Soave of Reason, and Lulu Garcia-Navarro of The New York Times’ The Interview. Join us as we wax nostalgic about the city we love to hate, and so much more.
•The Curse of The Fifth
•Thomas Massie takes the L
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Matthew Yglesias is a liberal policy writer and longtime blogger. He co-founded Vox, now writes the Slow Boring newsletter, and is known for wonky-but-readable takes on housing, economics, Democratic politics, foreign policy, and the abundance agenda.
-Matty finally makes it through the firewall
-What type of gay is Kmele?
-Yglesias says Welch gave him his career
-Substack’s right-wi…
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We talk about broken housing markets, broken healthcare, broken Congress, Trump’s corruption, a broken Cuba, Epstein, UAPs, and the tragedy of being a drummer with no place to practice.
-Making music is for rich kids now
-From jazz drummer to Hillary field organizer
-Sandy Hook, March for Our Lives, and the road into politics
-Florida’s felon disenfranchisement fight
-Guns, swamps, Confederate flags, and talking to people who don’t like you
-Florida’s politics are red… its ballot issues are a lot messier.
-Gaining political power is easy. Keeping it is the hard part.
-The case for going big, whether Congress likes it or not
-Housing abundance, rent hikes, and the great pet-fee wars
-Donald Trump’s extremely lucrative career in public service
-Biden’s DOJ, Brazil’s crackdown, and the problem with accountability theater
-Political violence, Trump’s rhetoric, and blaming the victim
-UAPs, Epstein files, and the bipartisan hunt for weird stuff
-Cuba, war powers, and why Frost doesn’t want another Venezuela-style adventure
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- Steven Pinker on why “common knowledge” is much stranger than it sounds
-The social machinery behind weddings, money, and power
-How a norm starts to die once someone breaks it and gets rewarded
-Trump as the great destroyer of polite restraints
-The institutions that lost the authority to enforce trust
-How new taboos appear without anyone admitting who created them
-T…
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His next book, China Whisperers (out in November), looks at the diplomats, journalists, scholars, and China hands who shaped America’s understanding, and misunderstanding, of its chief geopolitical rival. But we pretty much cover the entire globe in this conversation.
-The experts had it coming
-Federalists, anti-federalists, and America’s oldest argument
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-Kmele gets glasses
-The return of Soho legs
-Matt’s movie-theater race science
-Trump sends a letter to Congress saying the war is over, Iran says, “wtf?”
-Little Marco, Fog of War correspondent
-A very leaky White House
-Strange new respect for the anti-war MAGA set
-Little Marco puts the best face on Iran
-Welch discovers gas prices
-The affordability caucus …
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We’re joined by Anthony Scaramucci, founder of SkyBridge Capital, former White House Communications Director, and one of the more memorable casualties of Trump 1.0
-The Mooch reads the stars
-The truth is out there, allegedly
-954,000 seconds in the White House
-The Ryan Lizza thing, briefly
-the reason God made Steve Bannon look like this
-Why Bannon scared …
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…and how raising a black daughter changed the way he sees America.
-David French returns to the Fifth Column
-SCOTUS drops of a few ruling
-Free speech wins 9-0 (First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Davenport)
-The Voting Rights Act gets another trim (Louisiana v. Callais)
-Racial gerrymanders vs. political gerrymanders
-Smart racists, dumb racists, and …
- Visa fler
