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Bonus: AI, The New Performance-Enhancing Drug (with Adam Grant)

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Intoxication & Consent in the Cornell Rape Investigation (with Mimi Rocah)

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Bonus: How DOGE Made Us More Susceptible to Fires (with Michael Lewis)

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A 10-Time SCOTUS Litigator on the Court’s Conservative Future

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Bonus: The Battle Over Jordan Neely’s Death (with Anand Giridharadas)

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The Press, the Polls & the Supreme Court

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Bonus: On Competitiveness (with Danny Meyer)

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Trump’s Press Ban & Kennedy Center Demolition Plan

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Bonus: Trump’s Sway on Elections & the Republican Who Could Win 2028 (with Jessica Tarlov)

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Trump’s Voting Loss, $5K Promise & a DOJ Resignation

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Bonus: How 9/11 Reshaped Government (with Lisa Monaco & Ken Wainstein)

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Trump’s Push to Reshape the 2026 Election (with Kate Shaw)

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Bonus: How 9/11 United Congress (with Ken Feinberg)

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2028's Ideal Democratic Candidate (with Ken Salazar)

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The Weaponization of the FCC (with Jessica Rosenworcel)

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Bonus: Liar, Bullshitter—or Both? (with Sam Harris)

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Luigi Mangione’s Guilty Plea—and What Comes Next

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Bonus: Defining Liberalism (with Daron Acemoglu)

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Fauci Pleads the Fifth

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Bonus: Nixon Would've Survived Watergate Today (with David Axelrod)

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Are the Midterms Safe? (with Ben Ginsberg)

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Bonus: Trump & Netanyahu Meet Again (with Ian Bremmer)

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Former Prosecutors Break Down New York Times Subpoenas (with Mimi Rocah)

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Bonus: Reading Hannah Arendt (with Rose Horowitch)

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This Lawsuit Could Force a Full Epstein Files Release (with Katie Phang)

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Bonus: Is Trump The Most Unthoughtful President? (with Mark Leibovich)

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Trump Sued Himself and… Lost?

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How the Supreme Court Is Reshaping American Government (with Leah Litman)

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Bonus: Trump Against Civic Education (with Danielle Allen & Mary Bilder)

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The Supreme Court’s Biggest Day of the Year (with Melissa Murray)

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Bonus: The Decision That Defined the Republic (with Joanne Freeman)

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SCOTUS is Making It Harder to Fight for Your Rights (with Steve Vladeck)

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Bonus: Career Prosecutors Are Over Trump (with Devlin Barrett)

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Trump Picks a New Director of National Intelligence

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Bonus: Healthcare’s Original Sin (with Atul Gawande)

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Iran, Bolton, Pulte & Blanche (with Ben Wittes)

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Bonus: How to Fix DOJ Damage (with Barb McQuade)

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Trump Blocked: Slush Fund & Kennedy Center

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Bonus: DOJ’s Worst Offense? (with Dan Goldman)

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Is SCOTUS Diluting Your Vote? (with Doug Jones)

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Bonus: Evan Osnos on the American Relationship with Wealth

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Trump's Revenge Fund

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Bonus: The Politics We Deserve (with George Packer)

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The Abortion Pill on SCOTUS’s Shadow Docket (with Mary Ziegler)

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Bonus: Building a Fulfilling Career

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Is the Voting Rights Act Dead? (with Janai Nelson)

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Bonus: The Decline of Thoughtfulness

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Trump Goes After Civil Rights Groups

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Bonus: How Rebecca Weiner Found Her Way to Counterterrorism

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Trump v. the Courts v. Congress. Who Will Win?

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Bonus: State Prisons & Reforming Rikers Island

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Swalwell, Blanche, Bondi & Presidential Records Act (with Mimi Rocah)

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Bonus: Press Controversy at DOD (with Jim Sciutto)

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Bondi, Birthright & Conversion Therapy (with Dahlia Lithwick)

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Bonus: Death, Taxes, and Consciousness (with Michael Pollan)

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Trump’s Criminal Profit Motive

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Bonus: The FCC Attempts to Censor Broadcasters

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Voting Rights & Wrongs, According to SCOTUS (with Steve Vladeck)

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Bonus: Is David French Too Polite?

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Court to Trump: Drop Fed

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Bonus: Bullish On AI (with Lloyd Blankfein)

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Kristi Noem, Law Firms & No-Knock Warrants

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Bonus: Iran’s Impact on the Elections (with Mark Leibovich)

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Clintons Testify About Epstein — Will Trump?

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Bonus: Is Trump Lying to Himself? (with Astead Herndon and Joanne Freeman)

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Trump Tariff Takedown (with Don Verrilli)

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Bonus: Can the Rule of Law Be Restored? (with Susan Rice)

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Oversight v. Overreach at DOJ

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Bonus: After the Pendulum Swings (with Douglas Brinkley)

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DOJ in Crisis

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Bonus: Ukraine, Greenland, and Venezuela (with Anne Applebaum)

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Political Retribution: From Minnesota to Georgia

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Bonus: Can the Trump Era Teach Us Anything? (with Ed Luce)

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ICE Out of Control

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Bonus: Zohran Mamdani Up Against Vigilantism?

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Breaking Down the Renee Good Shooting (with Vanita Gupta)

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Bonus: Education Reform… What Works? (with Rahm Emanuel)

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Will SCOTUS Let Trump Rewrite Birthright Citizenship? (with Michael Dreeben)

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Bonus: Can Trump Rename the Kennedy Center?

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Inside the Case Against Maduro

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The Legal Battles That Defined 2025

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What Gets in the Way of Happiness (with Dan Harris)

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Trump's Law of War

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Bonus: The No Kings Movement & Change (with Jill Lepore)

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Trump v. The Press (with Erwin Chemerinsky)

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Is Smiling the Key to Winning Elections? (with Anand Giridharadas)

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From National Guard Tragedy to Immigration Battle

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Bonus: What Trump Told MBS and What He Didn’t (with Jon Finer)

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The Epstein Files Fight

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The 1929 Stock Market Crash Movie (with Andrew Ross Sorkin)

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Tariffs and Presidential Power

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Bonus: Political Prosecutions at DOJ (with Carol Leonnig & Aaron Davis)

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The Trump Doctrine of Retribution

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Bonus: Does Age Matter in Politics? (with Astead Herndon)

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Trump Admin Ramps Up Airstrikes (with Barb McQuade)

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Bonus: Live Q&A (with Joyce Vance)

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The Vindictiveness of Donald John Trump

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Bonus: Military Tribunals and Deradicalization (with Dan Senor)

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Bonus: The Sacrifice That Shaped a Scholar (with Justin Driver)

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Vindictive Prosecution? Comey & Abrego Garcia

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