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John welcomes Democratic communications wizard Lis Smith—whose clients have run the gamut from Pete Buttigieg and Mallory McMorrow to Andrew Cuomo and Eliot Spitzer—to discuss the unprecedented political crisis Donald Trump is facing among his supporters over his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case.
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Chris Murphy: Everything Is Broken
John welcomes back Democratic Senator Chris Murphy to discuss his new book “Crisis of the Common Good: The Fight for Meaning and Connection in a Broken America.” Murphy lays out his book’s argument that America is in the grip of a set of interlocking cults (the Cult of Profit, Cult of Everywhere, Cult of Technology, […]
Jonathan Martin: Crooked Ken v. Tofu Talarico
John welcomes back Politico’s Jonathan Martin to discuss the Texas Senate race: how scandal-soaked Attorney General Ken Paxton thrashed incumbent Senator John Cornyn in the GOP primary run-off; Democratic nominee James Talarico’s “race against time” to define himself before Paxton's effort to cast him as a weak, weird, ultra-woke vegan sinks in with voters; and […]
James Traub: When the Bough Breaks
John welcomes author James Traub to discuss his latest book, “The Cradle of Citizenship: How Schools Can Help Save Our Democracy.” Traub describes the year he spent reporting in K-12 classrooms across the country; the fierce culture wars after the Covid-19 pandemic in many school systems around race, gender, curricula, and library collections; the debate […]
