All Episodes

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

Bonus: Building a Fulfilling Career

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

Bonus: The Decline of Thoughtfulness

Trump Goes After Civil Rights Groups

Bonus: How Rebecca Weiner Found Her Way to Counterterrorism

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

Bonus: State Prisons & Reforming Rikers Island

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

Bonus: Press Controversy at DOD (with Jim Sciutto)

Bondi, Birthright & Conversion Therapy (with Dahlia Lithwick)

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

Trump’s Criminal Profit Motive

Bonus: The FCC Attempts to Censor Broadcasters

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

Bonus: Is David French Too Polite?

Court to Trump: Drop Fed

Bonus: Bullish On AI (with Lloyd Blankfein)

Kristi Noem, Law Firms & No-Knock Warrants

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

Clintons Testify About Epstein — Will Trump?

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

Trump Tariff Takedown (with Don Verrilli)

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

Oversight v. Overreach at DOJ

Bonus: After the Pendulum Swings (with Douglas Brinkley)

DOJ in Crisis

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

Political Retribution: From Minnesota to Georgia

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

ICE Out of Control

Bonus: Zohran Mamdani Up Against Vigilantism?

Breaking Down the Renee Good Shooting (with Vanita Gupta)

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

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

Bonus: Can Trump Rename the Kennedy Center?

Inside the Case Against Maduro

The Legal Battles That Defined 2025

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

Trump's Law of War

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

Trump v. The Press (with Erwin Chemerinsky)

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

From National Guard Tragedy to Immigration Battle

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

The Epstein Files Fight

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

Tariffs and Presidential Power

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

The Trump Doctrine of Retribution

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

Trump Admin Ramps Up Airstrikes (with Barb McQuade)

Bonus: Live Q&A (with Joyce Vance)

The Vindictiveness of Donald John Trump

Bonus: Military Tribunals and Deradicalization (with Dan Senor)

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

Vindictive Prosecution? Comey & Abrego Garcia

Bonus: Running the Process (with Antony Blinken)

Is the Comey Prosecution Fatally Flawed?

Bonus: Comedy Informs Common Knowledge Informs Comedy… (with Steven Pinker)

Trump Ramps Up Retribution

Bonus: When the Mob Tried to Kill Curtis Sliwa (with Elie Honig)

SCOTUS’ Game of Chicken with Trump (with Dahlia Lithwick)

Bonus: Refusing to Prosecute Gun Crimes in D.C. (with John Feinblatt and Adam Winkler)

Trump’s America: Do We All Need to Carry Papers Now?

Bonus: What People Get Wrong About the ‘AI Revolution’ (with Daron Acemoglu)

Can Trump Do Whatever He Wants?

Bonus: The Redistricting Frenzy (with Tom Nichols)

Law & Order, Hold the Law

Bonus: Should Judges Speak Out? (with Martha Minow)

Trump's DC Police Takeover

Bonus: Lessons from Northern Ireland (with Joe Kennedy III)

Is Being Undocumented a Crime?

Bonus: Could Congress Release the Epstein Files? (with Mimi Rocah, Elie Honig & Asha Rangappa)

The Epstein Files (with Ben Wittes)

Bonus: How Cynicism Erodes Our Politics (with Barry Diller)

Epstein Fallout

AI in Trump's America (with Nita Farahany)

Bonus: How Trump is Undermining Ukraine (with Anne Applebaum)

Fighting Trump’s Asylum Ban

Bonus: Was the U.S. Bombing of Iran Constitutional? (with Jack Goldsmith & Trevor Morrison)

SCOTUS to America: "You Deal With Him"

Bonus: Inside the Situation Room (with Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer)

Deportations at SCOTUS

Bonus: The Return of Political Violence (with Ed Luce)

Minnesota Killings, LA Protests, & ICE Raids

Bonus: Trump Goes After Harvard’s International Students (with Larry Summers)

Trump Deploys Troops to LA

Bonus: The Megawealth of the British Monarchy (with Evan Osnos)

Trump's Losing Streak

ACLU v. Trump’s Immigration Agenda (with Cecillia Wang)

Bonus: How Does a Corporation Transform into a Monopoly? (with Lina Khan)

SCOTUS to Trump: "Not So Fast"

Habeas Corpus in Jeopardy (with Rachel Barkow)

Bonus: Does SCOTUS Care About Public Opinion? (with Leah Litman)

Courts Put Trump in Check (with Trevor Morrison)

Bonus: Are you actually thoughtful? (with Michael Roth)

“So Now They’re Arresting Judges”

Bonus: The Lawyers Standing Up to Trump (with Dahlia Lithwick)

Deporting Due Process

Bonus: Can Trump Secure a Nuclear Deal with Iran? (with Ian Bremmer)

What the Abrego Garcia Case Means for You

Bonus: Friendships at SCOTUS (with Justice Stephen Breyer)

SCOTUS Hands Trump Deportation Win (with Barb McQuade & Ben Wittes)

No Trump Third Term

Bonus: Trump's War on the Free Press (with Ruth Marcus)

That Signal Chat, Alina Habba, Domestic Terror, and Deportations

Bonus: The Best and Worst Supreme Court Opinions (with Kate Shaw)

The Case of Mahmoud Khalil (with Erwin Chemerinsky)

Bonus: Trump’s Dangerous Approach to Russia-Ukraine

Martin’s Mischief & Trump’s Wrath

Bonus: Language in This New Trump Era (with Frank Bruni, Joanne Freeman, & Jonah Goldberg)

DOGE Legal Drama

Democracy in the Trump Era: Special Live Event

Bongino for FBI & DOGE Email

Bonus: Measuring Social Progress (with Michael Sandel)

Resignations Rock DOJ

Bonus: Does Charisma Change History? (with Francis Fukuyama)

Coup, There It Isn’t

Bonus: Will AI Ever Become Sentient?

Trump’s FBI Loyalty Test

Bonus: Is Atheism Sustainable? (with Niall Ferguson)

Gone With the Watchdogs

Bonus: How Will Joe Biden’s Presidency Be Remembered?

Pardon My Executive Orders

Bonus: Death of a Statesman (with Ian Bremmer)

What’s in Jack Smith’s Report?

Stay Tuned Bonus 1/9: Death Row Commutations

The Battle Over Jack Smith’s Report

DOGE 1.0 (with David Osborne)

Stay Tuned Bonus 12/19: Dr. Laurie Santos

Drone On

The Daniel Penny Trial (with Rikki Klieman)

Stay Tuned Bonus 12/12: George Packer

Preemptive Pardons, Mangione, & Trans Rights

Presidential Pardons & the Death Penalty (with Rachel Barkow)

Stay Tuned Bonus 12/5: Sam Harris

Kash Rules Everything Around Me

Cases Closed

Trump’s Puzzling Free Speech Proposals (with Lee Bollinger)

Stay Tuned Bonus 11/21: Garry Kasparov

Gaetz of Wrath

The OLC Memos & Presidential Immunity (with Trevor Morrison)

Stay Tuned Bonus 11/14: Astead Herndon

Trump Nominations & Recess Appointments

Will the Trump Prosecutions Go Away? (with Barb McQuade)

Covering Kamala Harris (with Marisa Lagos)

Stay Tuned Bonus 10/31: Donald Trump and the Logan Act

Some Trump 2.0 Worst Case Scenarios

What's the Deal with TikTok? (with Asha Rangappa)

Stay Tuned Bonus 10/24: Douglas Brinkley

Securing the Vote (with Marc Elias)

The Menendez Brothers (with Jesse Weber)

Ghost Guns & Election Day Terror Plot

Diddy’s Indictment & More Thoughts on Jack Smith

Stay Tuned Bonus 10/10: Gillian Tett

In Defense of Jack Smith

Stay Tuned Bonus 10/2: David Frum

Trump Hack, Assassination Attempt & Fraud Appeal

NYC Mayor Eric Adams Indicted (with Barb McQuade)

Stay Tuned Bonus 9/26: Aaron Zebley & Andrew Goldstein

CAFE Insider 9/24: Could SCOTUS Decide the Election? (with Dahlia Lithwick)

Stay Tuned Bonus 9/19: Listener Q&A

CAFE Insider 9/17: Trump Assassination Attempt & Terror Groups Charged (with Mimi Rocah)

Stay Tuned Bonus 9/11: Rick Wilson

CAFE Insider 9/10: Heroism & Trump’s Cowardice (with Jeffrey Goldberg)

Stay Tuned Bonus 9/5: Ruchir Sharma

CAFE Insider 9/3: Trump & Telegram

CAFE Insider 8/20: Justice for Matthew Perry (w/ Barb McQuade)

Stay Tuned Bonus 8/15: Karim Sadjadpour

CAFE Insider 8/13: Trump Timing & Homeless Encampments

Stay Tuned Bonus 8/8: Bob Bauer

CAFE Insider 8/6: Trump's Egypt Connection? (with Carol Leonnig & Joyce Vance)

Stay Tuned Bonus 8/1: Joanne Freeman

CAFE Insider 7/30: SCOTUS Reforms & Trump Legal Battles

Note from Elie 7/26: Let’s Knock Off the 25th Amendment Talk

Stay Tuned Bonus 7/25: Jonathan Karl

Note From Barb 7/24: The Mission of Justice

Stay Tuned Bonus 7/23: Joyce Vance

Note from Elie 7/19: The Secret Biden Tape That We Shouldn’t Hear

Stay Tuned Bonus 7/18: Ezra Klein

Note From Joyce 7/17: Don’t Stop Political Debates

Stay Tuned Bonus 7/16: Joyce Vance

Note from Elie 7/16: Judge Cannon’s Ruling: Probably Wrong, But Not Crazy

Note from Elie 7/12: After the Supreme Court’s Immunity Ruling, All Four Trump Cases are in Trouble

Stay Tuned Bonus 7/11: Ian Bremmer

Note from Asha 7/10: Is Political Neutrality on Social Media Impossible?

CAFE Insider 7/9: Immunity’s Consequences

Stay Tuned Bonus 7/2: Joyce Vance, Rachel Barkow & Elie Honig

Note from Rachel 7/2: The Imperial Court

Note from Elie 7/01: Immunity

Note from Elie 6/28: The Supreme Court and Jack Smith’s Impending January 6 Dilemma

Stay Tuned Bonus 6/27: Steve Vladeck

Note From Barb 6/26: Bringing Light To Dark Money

CAFE Insider 6/25: Open Season on Precedent

Note from Elie 6/21: How Trump’s SEAL Team Six Assassination Response Has Distorted the Presidential Immunity Argument

Stay Tuned Bonus 6/20: Melissa Murray

Note from Rachel 6/19: Unpardonable

CAFE Insider 6/18: Abortion, Guns & Asylum

Note from Elie 6/14: The Supreme Court’s Make-Or-Break Decision on Trump

Stay Tuned Bonus 6/13: George Packer

Note from Asha 6/12: Democracy — Use It or Lose It

CAFE Insider 6/11: Hunter Biden Convicted

Note from Elie 6/7: Hunter Biden is Almost Surely Guilty — But His Prosecution Makes Little Sense

Stay Tuned Bonus 6/6: Cyrus Vance

Note from Joyce 6/5: "Trump's Latest Myth"

CAFE Insider 6/4: After the Verdict

Note from Elie 5/31: The Manhattan DA’s Frankenstein Case is a Winner -- The Trump Jury Did Its Job, but Deep Problems Persist

Stay Tuned Bonus 5/30: Nicholas Kristof

Note from Barb 5/29: What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Verdict?

CAFE Insider 5/28: Trump Trial Closing Arguments

Note from Elie 5/24: Could the Trump Jury Hang?

Stay Tuned Bonus 5/23: Frank Bruni

Note from Rachel 5/22: Judicial Intemperance

CAFE Insider 5/21: Prosecution & Defense Rest in Trump Trial

Note from Elie 5/17: The Trump Trial — What if Everyone’s a Horrible Liar?

Note from Asha 05/15: Analysis Paralysis — Judge Cannon Stalls Again

CAFE Insider 5/14: Cohen in Court

Note from Elie 5/10: Will Donald Trump Take the Stand?

Stay Tuned Bonus 5/9: David Ignatius

Note from Joyce 5/8: But, Can We Trust the Jury?

CAFE Insider 5/7: Spotlight on Stormy

Note from Elie 5/3: The Tape that Will Roil the Trump Trial

Stay Tuned Bonus 5/2: David Sanger

CAFE Insider 4/30: Trump Fined & Weinstein Overturned

Note from Barb 04/29: Hiding in Plain Sight

Note from Elie 4/26: Donald Trump — Gagged But Hardly Silenced

Note from Rachel 4/24: The Line Between Protest and Criminal Obstruction

CAFE Insider 4/23: Trump Trial Opens

Note from Elie 4/19: Presidential Immunity: Not As Ridiculous As You’ve Heard

Stay Tuned Bonus 4/18: Rikki Klieman

Note from Asha 4/17: Section 702: Mischief Managed (For Now)

CAFE Insider 4/16: Picking Trump’s Jury

Note from Elie 4/12: Donald Trump’s Rorschach Trial

Stay Tuned Bonus 4/11: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Note From Joyce 4/10: Crystal Mason Made a Mistake

CAFE Insider 4/9: Trump’s Delay Desperation

Note from Elie 4/5: How on Earth Do You Pick a Jury For a Trump Trial?

Stay Tuned Bonus 4/4: Evan Osnos

Note From Barb 4/3: Judicial Bite to Meet the Bark

CAFE Insider 4/2: Trump Gagged Again

Note from Elie 3/29: The Texas Immigration Law is Doomed

Stay Tuned Bonus 3/28: Fareed Zakaria

Note from Rachel 3/27: Sam Bankman-Fried and the Absurdity of Federal Sentencing

CAFE Insider 3/26: Bond. Trump’s Bond.

Note from Elie 3/22: Will We See Any Trump Trials Before the Election?

Stay Tuned Bonus 3/21: Vinod Khosla

Note from Asha 3/20: The Clock is Tik-Tok-ing

CAFE Insider 3/19: Trump Delays, Willis Survives & Cannon’s Crazy Orders

Note from Elie 3/15: The Failure of DOJ’s Special Counsel System — From Robert Mueller to Robert Hur, It Simply Hasn’t Worked

Stay Tuned Bonus 3/14: Mark Leibovich

Note From Joyce 3/13: Trump’s Flirtation with Fascists

CAFE Insider 3/12: Trump’s Pretrial Games

Note from Elie 3/8: Joe Biden's Looming Nightmare Pardons

Stay Tuned Bonus 3/7: David Lat

Note From Barb 3/6: No, You’re Violating My First Amendment Rights!

CAFE Insider 3/5: A Predictable SCOTUS Ruling

Note from Elie 3/5: Crash and Burn — The Cost of the Doomed, Hubristic 14th Amendment Campaign

Note from Elie 2/29: The Supreme Court Doesn’t Give a Damn About Jack Smith’s Timeline (And It Shouldn’t)

Stay Tuned Bonus 2/29: Barb McQuade

Note from Rachel 2/28: The Birth of a New Era in Reproductive Regulation

CAFE Insider 2/27: Embryos & Gag Orders

Note from Elie 2/23: Michael Cohen’s Moment of Truth Has Arrived

Stay Tuned Bonus 2/22: Jake Tapper

Note from Asha 2/21: Smirnov on Ice

CAFE Insider 2/20: Trump’s NY State of Mind

Note from Elie 2/16: The Real Biden Documents Scandal (It’s Not the Old Man Stuff)

Stay Tuned Bonus 2/15

Note From Joyce 2/14: Prosecuting the Parents isn’t Enough

CAFE Insider 2/13: The Hur Report

Note from Elie 2/9: Donald Trump Has a Jury Problem

Stay Tuned Bonus 2/8: Jared Cohen

Note From Barb 2/7: Time to Put Anonymity in the Dog House

CAFE Insider 2/6: No Immunity for Citizen Trump

Note from Elie 2/2: Fani Willis Has Problems (Upon Problems)

Stay Tuned Bonus 2/1: Garrett Graff

Note from Rachel 1/31: The Most Immodest Court

CAFE Insider 1/30: Carroll’s Victory & Border Battles

Note from Elie 1/26: How Merrick Garland Saved E. Jean Carroll – and His Own Trump Prosecution

Note from Asha 1/24: The Seriousness of Swatting

CAFE Insider 1/23: Trump’s Ineffective Counsel

Note from Elie 1/19: The Word Jack Smith Will Never Say

Stay Tuned Bonus 1/18: Dexter Filkins

Note From Joyce 1/17: The New Birtherism

CAFE Insider 1/16: Dismissal & Disqualification

Note From Elie 1/12: The Supreme Court’s Silver Bullet Solution to the Fourteenth Amendment Problem

Stay Tuned Bonus 1/11: Ian Bremmer

Note From Barb 1/10: The 25 Percenters

CAFE Insider 1/9: Trump Immunity & Insurrection

Note from Elie 1/5: The Trail to 2024 Trump Trials

CAFE Insider 1/2: Do Agencies Have Agency? (with Rachel Barkow)

Note from Elie 12/29: 2023 Legal News Trivia

Note from Rachel 12/28: The Tragic Decline of Clemency

Note from Elie 12/22: The Danger of Weaponization – No Matter Who Does It

Stay Tuned Bonus 12/21: Jill Lepore

Note From Joyce 12/21: Are Women Second Class Citizens Now?

CAFE Insider 12/19: Obstruction at the Insurrection

Note from Elie 12/15: The Supreme Court Puts Jack Smith in a Bind

Stay Tuned Bonus 12/14: Morgan Housel

Note From Barb 12/14: The Search Warrant: A Prosecutor’s Best Friend

CAFE Insider 12/12: Mr. Smith Goes to SCOTUS

Note From Elie 12/8: The Joe Biden Impeachment Inquiry: Promise Everything, Deliver Nothing

Stay Tuned Bonus 12/7: Jonathan Karl

Note from Rachel 12/07: Trump’s Il Duce Plan

CAFE Insider 12/5: Trump’s Immunity Defenses

Note from Elie 12/1: My Carroll Hardy Moment

Note from Asha 11/30: A Post-Thanksgiving Social Media Round-Up

CAFE Insider 11/28: Another Rights Rollback

CAFE Insider 11/21: Gobble Gobble, Gag Order

Note from Elie 11/17: Take Donald Trump at His Word

Stay Tuned Bonus 11/16: Fareed Zakaria

Note From Barb 11/16: A Power Grab in Ohio

CAFE Insider 11/14: Supreme Conduct & Trump Trials

Note from Elie 11/10: What Do We Do With Congressional Scoundrels?

Stay Tuned Bonus 11/9: Sean Carroll

Note from Rachel 11/09: The Road to Rahimi

CAFE Insider 11/7: Trump Takes the Stand

Note from Elie 11/3: Why Halfway Cooperation Doesn’t Work

Stay Tuned Bonus 11/2: Adam Grant

Note from Asha 11/02: Seeing the Five Eyes

CAFE Insider 10/31: Trick or Trump

Note from Elie 10/27: Watergate, Trump, and How History Speaks to Us

Stay Tuned Bonus 10/26: Richard Haass

Note From Joyce 10/26: The Check

CAFE Insider 10/24: Pled

Note from Elie 10/20: My Name

Stay Tuned Bonus 10/19: Dan Senor and Adam Benforado

Note From Barb 10/19: A Line in the Sand

CAFE Insider 10/17: Super(seding) Tuesday

Note from Elie 10/13: The Known Unknowns of Trump’s Immunity Defense

Stay Tuned Bonus 10/12: Matthew Desmond

Note From Melissa 10/12: SCOTUS Takes On the Administrative State

CAFE Insider 10/10: Fraud & Bribery

Note from Elie 10/6: Why Trump Opted Not to Seek Removal to Federal Court

Stay Tuned Bonus 10/5: Dr. Vivek Murthy

Note from Asha 10/05: 99 Problems and Hunter Biden’s Laptop Lawsuit

CAFE Insider 10/3: A New SCOTUS Term (with Dahlia Lithwick)

Note From Elie 9/29: The Prosecution’s Worst Witness

Stay Tuned Bonus 9/28: Heather Cox Richardson

Note From Joyce 09/28: What I Learned From Being Called Out by Trump on Social Media

CAFE Insider 9/26: Trump’s To-Do Lists (with Elie Honig)

Note from Elie 9/22: The Importance of Who Decides, and Where

Stay Tuned Bonus 9/21: Ian Bremmer

Note From Barb 9/21: The Self-Sabotaging Shutdown

CAFE Insider 9/19: The President and His Son

Note From Elie 9/15: The Forgotten Special Counsel

Stay Tuned Bonus 9/14: Malcolm Gladwell

CAFE Insider 9/12: “Karma Is…”

Note from Elie 9/8: The End of Unprecedented

Stay Tuned Bonus 9/7: Ryan Burge

Note from Asha 9/07: NSFW: The Meadows Removal Hearing

Now & Then Backstage 9/6: Looking Ahead: A Viewers’ Guide to Presidential Debates

CAFE Insider 9/5: Musical Trials

Note from Elie 9/1: Speedy Trials and High Stakes in Trump Georgia Case

Note From Joyce 08/31: Donald Trump is Not a Serious Person

Now & Then Backstage 8/30: Looking Ahead to 2024: Conventions, Caucuses, and the Balance of Democracy

Note from Elie 8/25: The Purgatory of the Trump Co-Conspirators

Stay Tuned Bonus 8/24: Chuck Rosenberg

Note From Barb 8/24: Hitting Back on Hit Lists

Now & Then Backstage 8/23: Pardons: Politics & Power

CAFE Insider 8/22: Georgia on My Mind

Note from Elie 08/18: The Problem With Pardon-Proofing

Stay Tuned Bonus 8/17: Greg Ip

Note From Melissa 8/17: An Ohio August Surprise

Now & Then Backstage 8/16: The Women’s World Cup, Title IX, and Power

CAFE Insider 8/15: The 4th Indictment

Note from Elie 8/11: A Tale of Two Judges

Stay Tuned Bonus 8/10: Margaret Hoover

Note from Asha 8/10: The Indictment We’ve All Been Waiting For

Now & Then Backstage 8/9: Telling Tales of History: The Florida Problem

CAFE Insider 8/8: Protective Orders & Trump Defenses

Note from Elie 8/4: Trump’s 3rd Indictment Is Really Not About Jan. 6

Note From Joyce 08/03: Alabama’s Attorney General Wants to Control Your Access to Reproductive Medical Care

CAFE Insider Special 8/2: Trump’s Third Indictment

Now & Then Backstage 8/2: Unions, Strikes, and the Public: What Matters?

CAFE Insider 8/1: More Trump Classified Docs Charges

Note from Elie 7/28: Donald Trump and the “One More Thing” Defense

Stay Tuned Bonus 7/27: Adam Frank

Note From Barb 7/27: In Georgia, RICO Charges May Be Worth the Wait

Now & Then Backstage 7/26: Barbie, G.I. Joe, and the Gang: Dolls Are Us

CAFE Insider 7/25: Indictment Watch III

Note from Elie 7/21: Why Fani Willis Should Stand Down

Note From Melissa 7/20: Rookie of the Year

Now & Then Backstage 7/19: The Third Party Problem

CAFE Insider 7/18: Two Americas, One SCOTUS (with Michael Dreeben)

Note from Elie 7/14: The Supreme Court: Conservative Outcomes, Activist Means

Stay Tuned Bonus 7/13: Joshua Yaffa

Note from Asha 7/13: Making Sense of the Affirmative Action Decision

Now & Then Backstage 7/12: The Titan, the Sea, and What We See

CAFE Insider 7/11: Trump Delays & Social Media Disinfo

Note from Elie 7/7: Where’s Walt?

Stay Tuned Bonus 7/6: Kate Shaw

Note From Joyce 07/06: Protecting Guns, Not People

Note From Elie 6/30: Why DOJ’s Trump Trial Should Go First

Note From Barb 6/29: Trump's Trial Tactic — Playing Out the Clock

Stay Tuned Bonus 6/29: Suzanne Nossel

Now & Then Backstage 6/28: The American Nation and Indigenous Nations: Sovereignty & Struggle

CAFE Insider 6/27: “Lordy, There Are [Trump] Tapes”

Note from Elie 6/23: Skip the Outrage Over Hunter Biden

Stay Tuned Bonus 6/22: Sally Jenkins

Note From Melissa 6/22: Waiting for a Blow (from SCOTUS)

Now & Then Backstage 6/21: Presidential Lawyer Problems

CAFE Insider 6/20: Hunter’s Guilty Plea & Trump’s Admissions

Note from Elie 6/16: Why Trump Was Charged in Florida, Not DC

Note From Asha 6/15: The "Clinton Sock Drawer" — A Smart-Sounding Defense for Dumb People

Now & Then Backstage 6/14: There's Something in the Water

CAFE Insider 6/13: Legal Hurdles in the Mar-a-Lago Case

Note From Elie 6/9: Bright Lights Can Make for Ugly Temptation

Note From Joyce 06/08: The Silly Season

Stay Tuned Bonus 6/8: Niobe Way

Now & Then Backstage 6/7: Texas Tall-Tales, Ken Paxton…and Us

CAFE Insider 6/6: Indictment, Part Deux

Note from Elie 6/2: Trump’s Longshot Case for Federal Court

Stay Tuned Bonus 6/1: Henry Grabar

Note From Barb 6/1: Don’t Dunk on Your Opponent

CAFE Insider 5/30: AI & National Security (with John Carlin & Chris Inglis)

Note From Elie 5/26: George Santos and the Cold Reality of Consequences

Stay Tuned Bonus 5/25: David Autor

Now & Then Backstage 5/24: The American Wellness Continuum: Alternative Medicine

CAFE Insider 5/23: Mifepristone In Jeopardy & U.S. Attorney Resigns

Note from Elie 5/19: Durham Report - Four Years for This?

Stay Tuned Bonus 5/18: Tom Nichols

Note From Asha 5/18: Why the Durham Report Falls Short

Now & Then Backstage 5/17: The American Wellness Continuum: Traditional Medicine

CAFE Insider 5/16: Santos Scandals

Note from Elie 5/12: What John Roberts Really Meant to Say

Note From Joyce 5/11: The Supreme Court v. Federal Agencies

Now & Then Backstage 5/10: Veep: The Real Story

CAFE Insider 5/9: Trump, Tarrio & Thomas

Note from Elie 5/5: The Justice Department’s Hunter Biden Conundrum

Stay Tuned Bonus 5/4: Noah Feldman

Note From Barb 5/4: Words That Kill

Now & Then Backstage 5/3: Not a Joke: Humor as Politics

CAFE Insider 5/2: Trump’s Trial & Roberts’s Tribulations

Note from Elie 4/28: A Trump Trial Will Happen – But When?

Stay Tuned Bonus 4/27: Jen Psaki

Now & Then Backstage 4/26: Supreme Court Scandals: A Story of Justice

CAFE Insider 4/25: Mifepristone, Bragg, & Baldwin

Note from Elie: Decoding Dominion’s Settlement with Fox

Stay Tuned Bonus 4/20: Joan Biskupic

Note From Asha 4/20: Trump's Real Defense Team? House GOP

Now & Then Backstage 4/19: Expulsions and Ousters: The Threat in Tennessee

CAFE Insider 4/18: High Court Reckonings — Clarence Thomas & the Future of Mifepristone

Note from Elie: Judge Merchan Is Admirable - But He Should Recuse

Note From Joyce 4/13: What Year Is it?

Stay Tuned Bonus 4/13: Maggie Haberman

Up Against The Mob – Bonus Episode 07

Now & Then Backstage 4/12: Hostages as Messages

CAFE Insider 4/11: Bragg's Challenges, Abortion Pill Rulings & Thomas' Freebies

Note From Elie: In the Trump Case, We’re All Courtroom Watchers

Note From Barb 4/6: Equal Justice Under Law

Up Against The Mob – Bonus Episode 06

Now & Then Backstage 4/5: Canada and the One-Way Mirror

Note From Elie: Prosecutors, Turf Battles, and Trump

Note From Melissa 3/30: Telling Tales About Abortion

Stay Tuned Bonus 3/30: George Packer

Up Against The Mob – Bonus Episode 05

Now & Then Backstage 3/29: District Attorneys: Where the Rubber Meets the Road

CAFE Insider 3/28: Trump’s “Extortion" "Defense”

Disrupting Digital Threats

Note From Elie: What a Trump Indictment Could Mean for the Nation

Preview of an Indictment Part II (with Joyce Vance & Barb McQuade)

Note From Asha 3/23: It’s Going to Get Worse Before It Gets Better

Up Against The Mob – Bonus Episode 04

Now & Then Backstage 3/22: Why Americans Hate (and Love) Banks

CAFE Insider 3/21 Programming Note

Note From Elie: The Trump Hush Money Case: Bombshell or Dud?

Note From Joyce: What About Standing?

Up Against The Mob – Bonus Episode 03

Now & Then Backstage 3/15: Women Journalists and Their Fight to Be Heard

CAFE Insider 3/14: The 10th Justice (with Michael Dreeben)

Note From Elie: Nine Policymakers in Black Robes

Stay Tuned Bonus 3/9: Zanny Minton Beddoes

Note From Barb 3/9: The January 6 Choir is Not a Joke

Up Against The Mob – Bonus Episode 02

Now & Then Backstage 3/8: Trash and Pollution: Who Pays?

CAFE Insider 3/7: Student Loans & Subpoenas

Note From Elie: Speech or Debate — Breaking New Constitutional Ground

Stay Tuned Bonus 3/2: Jia Tolentino

Note From Melissa 3/2: Will the Supreme Court Break the Internet?

Up Against The Mob - Bonus Episode 01

Now & Then Backstage 3/1: Women Change Makers: Three Legal Battles

CAFE Insider 2/28: Full Court Press

Note From Elie: The Fulton County Grand Juror and the Irresistible Pull of the Spotlight

Note From Asha 02/23: Don't Look Up

Stay Tuned Bonus 2/23: Bianna Golodryga

Now & Then Backstage 2/22: What UFOs Say About Us

CAFE Insider 2/21: Gaetz Outta Jail Free

Note From Elie: Mark Pomerantz, Self-Promoting Prosecutorial Turncoat

Note From Joyce 02/16: On Abortion Rights and Conservative Hypocrisy

Stay Tuned Bonus 2/16: Michael Morell

Now & Then Backstage 2/15: Congressional Committees...and Power

CAFE Insider 2/14: Subpoenas & Santos

Note from Elie: How to Get Rid of George Santos

Note From Barb 02/09: Investigating the Investigators

Stay Tuned Bonus 2/9: David Remnick

Now & Then Backstage 2/8: Asian American Identities: A National Story (with Mary Lui)

CAFE Insider 2/7: Imminent Charges & Involuntary Manslaughter

Note from Elie: How Powerful People Get Away with It

Note From Melissa 02/02: Leaky Blinders

Stay Tuned Bonus 2/2: Elie Honig

Now & Then Backstage 2/1: Advisors and Chiefs of Staff: The Powers of the President’s People

CAFE Insider 1/31: Tyre Nichols & Pence Documents

Note from Elie: Bad Faith in Pursuit of a White Whale

Note From Asha 01/26: Step Right Up, the GOP Circus is in Town

Stay Tuned Bonus 1/26: Frank Bruni

CAFE Insider 1/24: Biden, Baldwin & SCOTUS Breach

Note from Elie: DOJ & the Coming Constitutional Showdown

Note From Joyce 01/19: Trump in Civil Trouble

Stay Tuned Bonus 1/19: Tim Heaphy

Now & Then Backstage 1/18: Horses, Cats, and Chickens: Animal Power and Us

CAFE Insider 1/17: Second Special Counsel

Note From Elie: What Should We Make of the Biden Documents Matter

Note From Barb 01/12: Stopping the Spread of Insurrection

Stay Tuned Bonus 1/12: Ruth Marcus

Now & Then Backstage 1/11: Things Are Looking Up? A New Year’s Show

CAFE Insider 1/10: Biden Documents & Trump Investigations

Note From Elie: DOJ and The Cost of Getting There Second

Note From Melissa 01/05: “Lights, Camera, Classroom!”

Stay Tuned Bonus 1/5: Ian Bremmer

CAFE Insider 1/3: Unpacking the Jan 6 Report

Note From Elie: Legal Heroes of 2022

Note From Asha: "Let's Kill All the Lawyers"

Now & Then Backstage 12/21: Georgia (Voting Rights) On My Mind (with Carol Anderson)

CAFE Insider 12/20: Will the Jan 6 Referrals Matter?

Note from Elie: End Game for the January 6 Committee

Note from Joyce 12/15: Democracy for Christmas

Stay Tuned Bonus 12/15: Adam Liptak

Now & Then Backstage 12/14: Why "Terminating" the Constitution Matters

CAFE Insider 12/13: The War on Rats

Note from Elie: Loose Lips Sink Ships: Justice Alito and the Supreme Court’s Credibility Crisis

Note From Barb 12/7: What If?

Stay Tuned Bonus 12/8: Ezra Klein

Now & Then Backstage 12/7: FTX, Con Men, and the Power of Grift

CAFE Insider 12/6: Documents & Democracy

Note from Elie: An Indictment (or Two) Won't End Trump's 2024 White House Bid

Stay Tuned Bonus 12/1: Aswath Damodaran

CAFE Insider 11/29: Pence on the Fence

Note From Asha - Midterm Psychology

Stay Tuned Bonus 11/23: Maya Shankar

CAFE Insider 11/22: Special Counsel Surprise

Note From Elie — Trump Prosecutors: Focus on the People, Not the Label

Stay Tuned Bonus 11/17: Barton Gellman

Now & Then Backstage 11/16: The Power of the Youth Vote

CAFE Insider 11/15: Giuliani, Student Debt, & IRS

Note From Elie: On Antisemitism

CAFE Insider 11/9: "Mythical Republican Unicorn"

Backstage, Now & Then, 11/8

Note from Elie: Can a Republican Majority in Congress Derail the Justice Department?

Backstage, Now & Then, 11/2

CAFE Insider 11/1: Pelosi Attack & the New Trump Prosecutor

Note From Elie: Gaetz Skates — Prosecutorial Malpractice

Stay Tuned Bonus 10/27: Al Franken

Backstage, Now & Then, 10/26

CAFE Insider 10/25: To Testify or Not to Testify

Note From Elie: Donald Trump’s Shot at History

Stay Tuned Bonus 10/20: Michael Beschloss

Note from Joyce 10/20: Will There Be Anything Left of the Voting Rights Act?

Backstage, Now & Then, 10/19

CAFE Insider 10/18: Premeditated

Office Hours: The First Amendment Is Alive (with Stuart Brotman)

Note from Elie: Time for DOJ to Do its Job on Jan. 6

Note From Barb 10/13: Case Closed — The January 6th Committee Will Rest

Stay Tuned Bonus 10/13: Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Backstage, Now & Then, 10/12

CAFE Insider 10/11: The “Mine, Mine, Mine” Defense

Note from Elie: DOJ Subpoenas Mark Meadows (Sort Of)

Note From Melissa: Another YOLO Term for the Supreme Court

CAFE Insider 10/4: The Cannons

Backstage, Now & Then, 10/4

Note from Elie: Nobody Wins with the Special Master

Note From Asha: Trump’s Monkey’s Paw

Stay Tuned Bonus 9/29: Julia Ioffe

CAFE Insider 9/27: Art of the Steal (with Barb McQuade)

Backstage, Now & Then, 9/27

Note from Elie: Politics Mar Trump Lawsuit

Note From Joyce: No Cake For Trump

Stay Tuned Bonus 9/22: Nina Totenberg

CAFE Insider 9/20: "Damoclean Threat"

Backstage, Now & Then, 9/20

Note from Elie: Steve Bannon’s Joy Ride is Over

DOJ Has a Lot to Chew On

Stay Tuned Bonus 9/15: Astead Herndon

CAFE Insider 9/13: Subpoenas and Special Masters

Backstage, Now & Then, 9/13

Note from Elie: The Real World Cost of Prosecutorial Delay

Stay Tuned Bonus 9/8: Anne Neuberger

CAFE Insider 9/6: “Outrageous Order” (with Maya Wiley)

Backstage, Now & Then, 9/6

Note from Elie: All the Former President’s Lawyers

Stay Tuned Bonus 9/1: Mark Leibovich

Note From Asha: Barr-a-Lago: A New Memo Reveals Lies, Deceit, and Treachery

CAFE Insider 8/30: "Are We Off Base?"

Note From Elie: Merrick Garland Holds the Line

Note From Joyce: The Magistrate Judge Doesn’t Have The Final Say

CAFE Insider 8/23: Skeletons In the Closet

Backstage, Now & Then, 8/23

Note From Elie: In Defense of the Fifth

Note From Barb: 45 Shades of Graymail

CAFE Insider 8/16: What's in the Mar-a-Lago Search Warrant?

Backstage, Now & Then, 8/16

Note from Elie: Making Sense of Mar-a-Lago

Note from Preet: Pelosi’s Taiwan Trip, Explained (with Evan Osnos)

Stay Tuned Bonus 8/11: John Avlon

Note From Melissa: Authoritarianism and Democratic Deliberation

CAFE Insider 8/9: Mar-a-Lago Search

Backstage, Now & Then, 8/9

Note from Elie: A Chance at Redemption

Note From Preet: Understanding Monkeypox (with Dr. Kavita Patel)

Stay Tuned Bonus 8/4: Franita Tolson

Mystery Inc: The Case of the Missing Secret Service Text Messages

CAFE Insider 8/2: DOJ Targets Trump

Backstage, Now & Then, 8/2

Note from Elie: Steve Bannon’s Moment of Accountability

Note From Preet: What Does it Mean That DOJ is Investigating Trump? (with Carol Leonnig)

Stay Tuned Bonus 7/28: Joe Kennedy III

Note from Joyce: Razing the Kraken: The Importance of Witnesses

CAFE Insider 7/26: 187 Minutes

Note from Elie: What If They All Went Along With It?

Note From Barb: Where is Merrick Garland?

CAFE Insider 7/19: Court of Public Opinion (with Barb McQuade)

Backstage, Now & Then, 7/19

Note from Elie: Deciphering DOJ’s Jan. 6 Contempt Decisions

Note From Preet: What Does Boris Johnson's Ouster Mean for Us? (with Ed Luce)

Stay Tuned Bonus 7/14: Nita Farahany

Note From Melissa: The Least Dangerous Branch?

CAFE Insider 7/12: Bannon's Gambit (with Dan Goldman)

Backstage, Now & Then, 7/12

Note From Elie: DOJ Delay Hurts Its Own Cause

Note From Asha: How Could the Jan 6 Committee Impact DOJ?

CAFE Insider 7/5: Investigating Domestic Terrorism (with Jim Cavanaugh)

Backstage, Now & Then, 7/5

Note from Elie: The Supreme Court and the Rule of Five

Note From Preet: What is Substantive Due Process? (with Trevor Morrison)

Stay Tuned Bonus 6/30: Jeannie Suk Gersen

Note From Joyce: The Jury That Matters Most

CAFE Insider 6/28: Dobbs Deep Dive

CAFE Insider Special 6/24: The End of Roe

Note from Elie: What Does it Mean, Exactly, to Know?

Stay Tuned Bonus 6/23: Shannon Watts

Note From Barb: Donald Trump's Al Capone Moment?

CAFE Insider 6/21: "Clear and Present Danger"

Note from Elie: Committee Hearings and Criminal Prosecution: Different Ball Games

Note From Preet: Lawyers and Lackeys

Stay Tuned Bonus 6/16: Eric Holder

CAFE Insider 6/14: "Teetering Back"

Now & Then, Backstage, 6/14

Note from Elie: “Dereliction of Duty” Is Far Too Generous to Donald Trump

Note From Preet: Who Will Stay Tuned?

Stay Tuned Bonus 6/9: Soledad O’Brien

Note From Asha: Yes, The Durham Plotline Was As Dumb As It Looked

CAFE Insider 6/7: Navarro Charged, Sussmann Acquitted

Now & Then, Backstage, 6/7

Note from Elie: The 2nd Amendment, Justice Scalia, and Selective Textualism

Note From Preet: Is This Time Different?

Stay Tuned Bonus 6/2: Rep. Mondaire Jones

Note From Joyce: What to Expect from DOJ’s Review of Uvalde

CAFE Insider 5/31: Uvalde

Now & Then, Backstage, 5/31

Note from Elie: What is DOJ Doing on Matt Gaetz?

Note from Preet: The Kids

Stay Tuned Bonus 5/26: Min Jin Lee

Note From Barb: The Terrorism of the Spoken Word

CAFE Insider 5/24: Sour Grapes

Now & Then, Backstage, 5/24

Note from Elie: Latest Jan. 6 Subpoenas: Suboptimal but Sensible

Note From Preet: Someone Should Sit This One Out

Stay Tuned Bonus 5/19: Ian Bremmer

Note From Melissa: The Twilight of Constitutional Law

CAFE Insider 5/17: Racist Massacre

Now & Then, Backstage, 5/17

Note from Preet: 2014 Harvard Law School Class Day Address

Note from Elie: America’s Chaotic Post-Roe Future

Stay Tuned Bonus 5/12: Peter Kalmus

Note From Asha: What Elon Musk Gets Wrong About the Marketplace of Ideas

CAFE Insider 5/10: “Hellish Dystopian Nightmare”

Note from Elie: Merrick Garland is Running Out of Time

Note from Preet: Underestimate at Your Peril

Stay Tuned Bonus 5/5: Symone Sanders

Note From Joyce: The Virtue of Transparency

CAFE Insider 5/3: Reversing Roe

Now & Then, Backstage, 5/3

Note from Elie: Dishonest but Not Dumb

Note From Preet: Code Red

Note From Barb: Sunday Night Massacre

CAFE Insider 4/26: An Interview with Associate AG Vanita Gupta

Now & Then, Backstage, 4/26

Note from Elie: On Hunter Biden, Let DOJ Do its Job

Note From Preet: Of Musk & Monkeys

Stay Tuned Bonus 4/21: Bill Browder

Note From Melissa: The Art of the Judicial Long Game

CAFE Insider 4/19: “The Devil Made Me Do It”

Now & Then, Backstage, 4/19

Note from Elie: Criminal Referral: The Ultimate Sugar Rush

Stay Tuned Bonus 4/14: Daniel Yergin

Note from Asha: When the Right-Wing Eye of Sauron Landed on Me

CAFE Insider 4/12: Kidnapping & Contempt

Now & Then, Backstage, 4/12

Note From Preet: When Joy is on the Run

Note from Elie: A New Rule for Confirming Supreme Court Justices

Stay Tuned Bonus 4/7: David Frum

Note From Joyce: Don’t Leave Your Common Sense at the Door

CAFE Insider 4/5: DOJ Pressure & January 6th

Now & Then, Backstage, 4/5

Note From Elie: Refuse to Recuse – A Bad Look for Justice Thomas & The Court

Stay Tuned Bonus 3/31: Tim Urban

Note From Barb: The Patriotism of Public Defenders

CAFE Insider 3/29: Trump Trouble & Thomas Texts (with Dan Goldman)

Now & Then, Backstage, 3/29

Note from Elie: Defending the Defenders – Judge Jackson's Unique Perspective

Note from Preet: Reading the Room

Stay Tuned Bonus 3/24: Jeffrey Rosen

CAFE Insider 3/22: SCOTUS Hearings & Hunter's Laptop

Now & Then, Backstage, 3/22

Note from Elie: Lessons from Prosecuting the Nazis

Note from Preet: Distrust & Verify

Stay Tuned Bonus 3/17: Cori Bush

Note From Asha: I Want You to Do Me a Favor, Though

CAFE Insider 3/15: DOJ Report Card

Now & Then, Backstage, 3/15

Rap On Trial (with Andrea Dennis & Alex Spiro)

Note From Elie: Three Reasons for DOJ's Delay on Meadows

Note from Preet: A Date Which Will Live

Stay Tuned Bonus 3/10: Jonathan Karl

Note From Joyce: Trump in the Pincers of DOJ & the January 6th Committee

CAFE Insider 3/8: "Ticks & Turns"

Now & Then, Backstage, 3/8

Note from Elie: Bill Barr's Revisionist BS

Note From Preet: An Unlikely Hero

Stay Tuned Bonus 3/3: Ira Glasser

Note From Melissa: The Sum of Her Parchments

Note From Barb: Ask the Experts

CAFE Insider 3/1: The Future of the Manhattan DA Trump Investigation

Now & Then, Backstage, 3/1

Note from Elie: Manhattan DA Bragg vs. the Trump Investigators

CAFE Insider 2/22: Documents, Depositions & Durham

Now & Then, Backstage, 2/22

Note From Elie: Where the Constitution is Silent

Reverberations of a Russian Invasion (with Ian Bremmer)

Note From Preet: You Keep Using That Word

Note from Asha: Trump's Shadow Army

CAFE Insider 2/15: “Better Than Therapy” (with Barb McQuade)

Now & Then, Backstage, 2/15

Note From Elie: Ivanka Trump Is Not A Child

Note from Preet: Don’t Ban Books, Ban This

Stay Tuned Bonus 2/10: Lee Bollinger

Note From Joyce: Ahmaud Arbery's Legacy

CAFE Insider 2/8: "Trump Is Wrong"

Now & Then, Backstage, 2/8

Note from Elie: Why Age Matters on the Supreme Court

Note From Preet: Touching the Face of God

Stay Tuned Bonus 2/3: Indra Nooyi

Note From Barb: It’s Only Racist If You Think So

CAFE Insider 2/1: Fake Electors & Plea Deals

Now & Then, Backstage, 2/1

Note from Elie: Rudy’s Downward Spiral

CAFE Insider Special 1/27: Breyer Retires

Stay Tuned Bonus 1/27: Laura Coates

Note From Melissa: The Supreme Court & The Second Amendment

CAFE Insider 1/25: "The Kraken's Kraken"

Now & Then, Backstage, 1/25

Office Hours: Rules of Lethal Strikes with Priyanka Motaparthy

Note From Elie: The Many Faces of Kevin McCarthy

Note from Preet: Dumb and Dumber

Stay Tuned Bonus 1/20: Masha Gessen

Note From Asha: Making Sense of Seditious Conspiracy

CAFE Insider 1/18: Seditious Conspiracy & Siddiqui

Now & Then, Backstage, 1/18

Note from Elie: Reform the Electoral Count Act Now

Note From Preet: Stock and Trade

Stay Tuned Bonus 1/13: Linda Dunikoski

Note From Joyce: Don't Forget to Bake Chocolate Chip Cookies

CAFE Insider 1/11: Garland, Hannity & Trump

Now & Then, Backstage, 1/11

Note From Elie: Jan. 6 Committee Must Play Hardball

Note from Preet: Garland's Gauntlet

Stay Tuned Bonus 1/6: Ian Bremmer

Note From Barb: Calling All Citizens

CAFE Insider 1/4: “It’s Not Squash”

Welcome to CAFE Insider

CAFE Insider 12/21: Should DOJ Charge Trump? (with Barb McQuade)

Note From Asha: The Case for Charging Trump with Obstruction — And Fast

Now & Then, Backstage, 12/21

Note From Elie: The Top Legal Heroes of 2021

Note From Preet: I Gotta Be Honest

Stay Tuned Bonus 12/16: Jonathan Capehart

CAFE Insider 12/14: PowerPoint Coup

Note From Joyce: DOJ Has a Play to Make on Jan 6

Backstage, Now & Then, 12/14

Note From Elie: Taking the Fifth: The Constitutional Cop-Out

Note From Preet: Time for a Rant

Stay Tuned Bonus 12/9: Pramila Jayapal

CAFE Insider 12/7: Stare Decisis Stench

Note From Barb: The Committee's Gambit

Backstage, Now & Then, 12/7

Note From Elie: The MAGA-for-lifers vs. The Prison-Averse

Note From Preet: The Stench

Stay Tuned Bonus 12/2: Scott Galloway

CAFE Insider 11/30: Spatchcocking

Stay Tuned Bonus 11/24: Adam Schiff

CAFE Insider 11/23: Vigilantes

Note From Asha: The Conservative Ploybook

Backstage, Now & Then, 11/23

Note From Elie: Judicial Malpractice

Stay Tuned Bonus 11/18: Tom Nichols

CAFE Insider 11/17: Facebook & Unheeded Advice (with Joyce Vance and Roger McNamee)

Note From Joyce: Hopefully Rittenhouse Won’t Be "Free as F**k" For Long

Backstage, Now & Then, 11/16

CAFE Insider 11/15: Bannon Indicted, Again

Note From Elie: Aural Closure in a Middle School Gym For All

Note From Preet: A Gateway Drug

CAFE Insider 11/9: Quiet Riot

Note From Barb: If You Stream It, They Will Come

Backstage, Now & Then, 11/9

Note From Elie: “The Importance of Preserving Executive Privilege”

Note From Preet: The Remarkable Op-Ed

CAFE Insider 11/2: "Some Geniuses"

Note From Melissa: The Supreme Court Wades Back In on SB 8

Backstage, Now & Then, 11/2

Note From Elie: Biden Right to Retract Statement on Jan 6 Prosecutions

Note From Preet: A Tale of Twins

Stay Tuned Bonus 10/28: Dr. Fiona Hill

CAFE Insider 10/26: What Will Happen to Steve Bannon?

Note From Asha: Attacks on Local Government are "Mini-Insurrections"

Backstage, Now & Then, 10/26

Note From Elie: A Taxonomy of Trumpworld Witnesses

Note From Preet: The Trump Curve

Stay Tuned Bonus 10/21: Steven Van Zandt

CAFE Insider 10/19: Trump v. January 6th Committee

Note From Joyce: Bannon's Gotta Go 2.0

Backstage, Now & Then, 10/19

Note From Elie: Trump Has Mastered The Art of Delay

Note From Preet: "Discourse" -- Your Thoughts

Stay Tuned Bonus 10/14: Darren Walker

Insider Bonus: The Real Goodfellas

CAFE Insider 10/12: Extraordinary Measures

Note From Barb: Hawley's Hollow Howls

Backstage, Now & Then, 10/12

Note From Melissa: The Supreme Court: Shadows and Light

Note From Elie: The Supreme Court Publicity Tour

Note From Preet: Discoarse

Stay Tuned Bonus 10/7: Chris Krebs

Insider Bonus: Mob Mentality

CAFE Insider 10/5: Irreparable Harm: Abortion, Insurrection, and the Kitchen Sink

Backstage, Now & Then, 10/5

Note From Elie: Contempt of Congress Prosecutions are Necessary but Fraught

Note From Preet: Hype

Stay Tuned Bonus 9/30: Gary Gensler

Insider Bonus: Babysitting Sammy the Bull

CAFE Insider 9/28: Fighting for Immigrants (with Joyce Vance & Lee Gelernt)

Note From Asha: Never Let Your Skill Exceed Your Virtue

Backstage, Now & Then, 9/28

Note From Elie: The Failure of John Durham’s Investigation

Note From Preet: Are You in a Quasi-Cult?

Stay Tuned Bonus 9/23: Bina Venkataraman

Insider Bonus: Deep Cover

CAFE Insider 9/21: Durham, Theranos & Abortion

Note From Joyce: The Evil Genius of the Texas Anti-Abortion Law

Backstage, Now & Then, 9/21

Note From Elie: The January 6 Committee is On the Clock

Stay Tuned Bonus 9/16: Ken Burns

Insider Bonus: Liberty’s Last Champion

CAFE Insider 9/14: State (Malef)actors

Note From Barb: Dangerous Rhetoric Fuels Domestic Terrorism

Backstage, Now & Then, 9/14

Note From Elie: A Personal Reflection on 9/11

Note From Preet: Lessons From 9/11

Insider Bonus: The Cooperator

CAFE Insider 9/7: The Bounty on Roe

Note From Melissa: Form and Function in Texas SB8

Backstage, Now & Then, 9/7

Note From Elie: Bill Barr’s Cringeworthy Text Messages

Note From Preet: The Courtoom

Stay Tuned Bonus 9/2: Ian Bremmer

CAFE Insider 8/31: Courts & Kraken

Note From Asha: Big Tech is the New Big Tobacco

Backstage, Now & Then, 8/31

Note From Elie: A Bridge Too Far on the Eviction Moratorium

Stay Tuned Bonus 8/26: Rebecca Kelly Slaughter

CAFE Insider 8/24: Covid Court

Note From Joyce: Protecting the Right to Vote

Backstage, Now & Then, 8/24

Note From Elie: Cuomo Unlikely to Face Charges

Note From Preet: Good Faith

Stay Tuned Bonus 8/19: Catherine Rampell

CAFE Insider 8/17: On the Ground in Kabul (with Richard Engel)

Note From Barb: Combating Police Suicide

Backstage, Now & Then, 8/17

Note From Elie: The Coming Congressional Battle Over Jan 6

Note from Preet: L’Affaire Big Lie v. L’Affaire Ukraine

Stay Tuned Bonus 8/12: Edward-Isaac Dovere

CAFE Insider 8/10: Cuomo Quits

Note From Melissa: Dirty Dancing with Dobbs

Note From Elie: Why Jeffrey Clark Matters

Note From Preet: Danny and Bob

Stay Tuned Bonus 8/5: Daniel Kahneman

CAFE Insider 8/3: “Just Say the Election Was Corrupt”

Note From Asha: Oops, He Did it Again

Backstage, Now & Then, 8/3

Note From Elie: The Case Against Tom Barrack

Note From Preet: To Engage or to Ignore?

CAFE Insider 7/27: Will SCOTUS Overturn Roe?

Note From Joyce: Lessons from the First January 6th Sentencing

Backstage, Now & Then, 7/27

Note From Elie: The Uncertainty of Andrew Cuomo’s Political Fate

Note From Preet: Trimming the Mean

Stay Tuned Bonus 7/22: Kurt Andersen

CAFE Insider 7/20: Protecting the Press

Note From Barb: Free Press is Not a Suicide Pact

Backstage, Now & Then, 7/20

Note From Elie: Kevin McCarthy and the Truth About Jan. 6th

Note From Preet: Abogado Toast

Stay Tuned Bonus 7/15: Rep. Ritchie Torres

CAFE Insider 7/13: Trump Goes to Court

Note From Melissa: What Just Happened at the Supreme Court?

Backstage, Now & Then, 7/13

Note From Elie: Hatchet Man

Note from Preet: A Trump Taxonomy

Stay Tuned Bonus 7/8: Elie Honig

CAFE Insider 7/6: To Flip or Not to Flip

Note from Asha: The Cosby Case and Jan. 6th

Backstage, Now & Then, 7/06

Note From Elie: Trump Won't Go to Jail

Stay Tuned Bonus 7/1: Derek DelGaudio

CAFE Insider 6/29: Trump, Giuliani & Barr

Note From Joyce: Turning Covid Guilt Into Compassion

Backstage, Now & Then, 6/29

Note From Elie: DOJ Stood Its Ground

Note From Preet: The Abnormal Return to Normalcy

Stay Tuned Bonus 6/24: Yamiche Alcindor

CAFE Insider 6/22: ACA Survives

Note From Barb: Cape Up Against Domestic Terrorism

Backstage, Now & Then, 6/22

Note From Elie: Too Little, Too Late For Don McGahn

Note From Preet: On Change and the Status Quo

Stay Tuned Bonus 6/17: Bill Bratton

CAFE Insider 6/15: DOJ's Subpoena Situation

Note from Melissa: Pandemics and Privatization

Backstage, Now & Then, 6/15

Note From Elie: DOJ Should Bring Sedition Charges

Note From Preet: A Ripple of Hope

Stay Tuned Bonus 6/10: Sebastian Junger

CAFE Insider 6/8: Why is DOJ Defending Trump?

Note from Asha: The Big Lie is a Terrorist Ideology

Backstage, Now & Then, 6/8

Note From Elie: Will Trump Be Indicted?

Note from Preet: On Mental Health & Tennis

Stay Tuned Bonus 6/3: Heather Cox Richardson & Joanne Freeman

CAFE Insider 6/1: Defendant Trump?

Note From Joyce: On Prison Reform

Backstage, Now & Then 6/1

Note From Elie: How Much Is Too Much?

Note From Preet: Remembering Tulsa

Stay Tuned Bonus 5/27: Matt Levine

CAFE Insider 5/25: Investigating Trump

Note From Barb: We Owe It To History

Note from Elie: Ain’t No Sin to Be Glad to Be Alive

Limerick from Preet: A Moment of Zen

Stay Tuned Bonus 5/20: Amy Klobuchar

CAFE Insider 5/18: Fast Times & Gaetz Got High

Note From Melissa: SCOTUS Wind-down!

Note from Elie: Reprehensible or Illegal?

Note from Preet: Folly, Fritos, and Forward Progress

Stay Tuned Bonus 5/13: Ian Millhiser

CAFE Insider 5/11: DOJ Turns It Up

Note From Asha: The Law That Could Bring Down Rudy

Note from Elie: DOJ vs. Giuliani and Gaetz

Note from Preet: If They Can Do This to Me

CAFE Insider 5/4: "Rule of Law is Back, Baby"

Note from Joyce: Will Chauvin Get The Sentence He Deserves?

Note from Elie: The Other Three Officers Charged In George Floyd’s Killing

Third Degree: Policing & Systemic Change

Stay Tuned Bonus 4/29: Clarissa Ward

CAFE Insider 4/27: Chauvin, DOJ & 2nd Amendment

Note from Barb: First, Do No Escalation

Note from Elie: Collective Trauma & Justice

Third Degree: After the Chauvin Verdict

Note From Preet: Pride Over Policing

Stay Tuned Bonus 4/22: Andrew Ross Sorkin

CAFE Insider 4/20: A Just Verdict

Note From Melissa: Race-ing Roe

Note From Elie: Who Are The Chauvin Jurors?

Third Degree: The Chauvin Defense Rests

Note From Preet: Reflections on CAFE

CAFE Insider 4/13: The DEA, Chauvin & Gaetz (with Dan Goldman)

Note From Elie: Enduring the Emotions of Trial

Third Degree: Reflections on the Chauvin Trial

Note From Preet: On Bullying

Stay Tuned Bonus 4/8: Viet Thanh Nguyen and Janelle Wong

CAFE Insider 4/6: The Chauvin Trial Continues

Note From Joyce - Why We Should Witness

Third Degree - Chauvin Trial: The Arguments

Note From Elie: Low-Key Lawyering in Chauvin Trial

Note From Preet: On Bystanders

Stay Tuned Bonus 4/1: Dahlia Lithwick

CAFE Insider 3/30: Minnesota v. Derek Chauvin