The New Abnormal

from The Politics Lab · host Philip Barker

This week, Bill and Phil ask how far America’s ethical lines have moved and whether political behavior that once generated outrage has simply become normalized. Then, they go global: from Germany and Brazil to India, what are elections around the world telling us about the state of democracy? And finally, they debut a new game inspired by a week in which reality once again seemed stranger than fiction: Real or Ridiculous?

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