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Half the Answer — 99 episodes

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1

Midterm Madness: Political Ads from Michigan to Texas (with Jonathan M. Katz)

2

Was Cultural Marxism Responsible for the Beatles? (with A. J. A. Woods)

3

Lindsey Graham: "Corporal," Senator, Hypocrite (with Maya Rupert)

4

Ken Paxton and the Potential Boogaloo Congressman (with Steven Monacelli)

5

The Mancunian Candidate and the End of Keir Starmer (with Hunter CG)

6

Graham Platner: Walking Red Flag (with Marisa Kabas)

7

ICE Flights: Cattle Cars in the Sky (with Gillian Brockell)

8

America's 250th Birthday Party and The Green Reflecting Pool (with Amanda Moore)

9

Jared Kushner and Albania's Flamingo Revolution (with Hunter CG)

10

The Legalization of Sports Gambling in America (with Danny Funt)

11

SCOTUS, Callais, and What's Next for Voting Rights and Other Civil Rights (with Madiba Dennie)

12

Bari Weiss Is Supposed to Do the News Now (with Radley Balko)

13

The Two American Reconstructions: An Appraisal, Reflection (with Thomas Zimmer)

14

Eat Like a Politician? (with Bennett Rea of Cookin' with Congress)

15

Richard Dawkins Finds Love, Isolation as a Societal Norm, and Other AI News (with Hagen Blix)

16

To What Lengths Should Democrats Go to Save a Liberal Society? (with Jacob Levy)

17

Dystopian Prisons, Progressive Messaging, and the 2026 Midterms (with Whitney Curry Wimbish)

18

Understanding How Israeli Settlers Are Illegally Seizing New Regions of the West Bank (with Oren Ziv)

19

The Cancel Culture Panic: Understanding How an American Obsession Went Global (with Adrian Daub)

20

Understanding Israel, Palestine, Iran, and Lebanon (with Y. L. Al-Sheikh)

21

Orban Out!: Understanding Viktor Orban, Peter Magyar and the Hungarian Election (with RoteRote)

22

"No Quarter, No Mercy": Understanding Pete Hegseth

23

Liam Ramos, Kid Prisons, and ICE Flights

24

What the Hell Is Happening in Texas?! (with Gwen Howerton)

25

Sharia Socialism in NYC, Or Just Smarter Governance? (with Ryan Cooper)

26

DOGE Dunces, Depositions, DC Cops and Scoop Ethics (with Marisa Kabas)

27

Holding ICE and Border Patrol Accountable (with Joshua Erlich)

28

Political Polarization Across the U.S.A. and Europe (with Aurelien Mondon)

29

Making America Sick Again: How MAGA is Hurting Healthcare & Science (with Walker Bragman)

30

America and Iran: Another Forever War? (with The Logical Leftist)

31

The WaPo Defenestration and ICE Flight Brutality (with Gillian Brockell)

32

What’s the Deal with Concentration Camps? (with Andrea Pitzer)

33

The SAVE America Act’s Assault on Voting Rights (with Hunter CG)

34

CBP and ICE Report: New Orleans, Minneapolis, Greg Bovino & Apple Pie (with Amanda Moore)

35

Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show, Warehouse Prisons & the El Paso Laser Fiasco (with Jonathan Katz)

36

Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself? (with Matt McManus)

37

SCOTUS, the Fourth Amendment, and the Resistance (with Chris Geidner)

38

ICE Flights and Accountability in Journalism (with Gillian Brockell)

39

The Year We Lost Everything: Appraising 2025 and Fighting Back in 2026 (with Evan Urquhart)

40

2025's Word of the Year (with Savi Namboodiripad and Daniel Midgley)

41

Understanding Stephen Miller (with Greg Sargent)

42

The U.S. in Venezuela: The International Community and the Donroe Doctrine (with Mark Copelovitch)

43

The U.S. in Venezuela: Why Is Corporate Media Being So Weird? (with Marisa Kabas)

44

The Imaginary "War on Science"—and the Real One (with Nathan Oseroff-Spicer)

45

What Do Republicans Know? (with Matthew Sheffield)

46

Touring America with Border Patrol and ICE (with Amanda Moore)

47

Sick in America: Is Everyone Else Lying to You? (with Jonathan Howard)

48

Modern Gangsters of Capitalism and the Imperial Boomerang

49

National Delirium: NatSec in Post-9/11 America, from Dubya to Donny

50

Leaving Children Behind: Education Policy from Bush to Trump

51

What's It Really Like at the Portland ICE Facility? Part Deux

52

Prison Reform, Mass Incarceration, and the History of ICE

53

The Tucker Carlson–Nick Fuentes Interview Episode

54

SCOTUS, the Originalism Trap, and the Civil Rights Act

55

What Does History Tell Us About the Second Trump Term?

56

What's It Really Like at the Portland ICE Facility?

57

MAHA and the Climate Deniers: Who Are These People?!

58

America and Iran: Past, Present and Future

59

Andy Ngo and the Portland Mythology

60

Palestine in Context: The New Israel-Palestine Deal

61

What Is Antifa, and How Do You Catch a Fascist?

62

Mass Shootings, MedBeds, Media Mistakes and Misconceptions

63

Education Wars

64

Charlie Kirk and the Roots of the Far Right

65

Chaotic Neutrality in the Democratic Party

66

Ezra Klein, Charlie Kirk, Free Speech, and Whitewashing in the Media

67

What Are Groypers?

68

The Language of Democrats and Republicans

69

The Health of American Democracy

70

A Second American Midnight?

71

The American Anti-Vaxx Movement: Past, Present, and Future

72

Are We Liberated Yet?

73

AI as a Political Project

74

Chasing Opinion Polls or Shaping Opinions?

75

Still Talking About Epstein

76

Civil Rights Under Trump

77

Far-Right Perspectives on Israel

78

Being Weird About Zohran

79

Racist Pseudoscience in Academia and Beyond

80

Rage Against the ICE Machine

81

Authoritarian Overreach in Texas Libraries

82

Execution in America

83

Everything Is Cuck

84

Palestine in Context

85

Showing Their Buts

86

Anti-DEI or Just Segregationist?

87

Science vs. Propaganda: Trans Women in Sports

88

Why Did the Secret Police Visit Clay Jackson?

89

Why We Fear AI

90

Liberty, Rationality, and Trans Rights

91

Language, Identity, and Anti-Woke Academic Slander

92

What Is Personalism?

93

What Is Nationalism?

94

What Is "Heroic Masculinity?"

95

The Rationalists and Islamophobia

96

Youths and Technology

97

At the Library

98

Campus Misinformation

99

The Questions