All Episodes

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