All Episodes

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