All Episodes

Chris Van Hollen: Hypocrisy, Complicity & the Democratic Rupture Over Israel

Guy Cecil: Democratic Senate Math + Mamdanistan Goes National

Eddie Glaude: Storybooks, Fairy Tales & America 250

Tim Miller: Trump’s Surrender & J.D.’s Blitzkrieg

Maya Wiley: “Trump’s DOJ Ain’t the Knicks”

Pablo Torre: How the Knicks Saved Their Season (and Sports Itself) by Reversing the Trump Curse

Jonathan Weber: Booms, Bubbles, Busts & Doom Loops in the City by the Bay

Andrew Weissmann: Lies, Damned Lies & Lying Liars (Todd Blanche Edition)

Chris Murphy: Everything Is Broken

Jonathan Martin: Crooked Ken v. Tofu Talarico

James Traub: When the Bough Breaks

Josh Tyrangiel: AI, What is it Good For? Absolutely Something (Say It Again)

Robert Kagan: Only Bad Options in Iran & Nothingburgers in Beijing

Dan Pfeiffer: Why Trump’s “I Don’t Think About Americans” Gaffe is the Worst Gaffe Ever

Michael Froman: Love Taps in Iran, Summitry in Beijing, & Schizophrenia in Ukraine

RZA Pt. 2: Wu-Tang Clan (Still) Ain’t Nothing to F*ck With

RZA Pt. 1: One Spoon of Chocolate Changes the Whole Glass of Milk

Chrissy Houlahan: Hegseth Goes Full Bondi & King Charles Needles Trump

Zanny Minton Beddoes: Trump as Closet Socialist, Midterm Madness, & The Looming Oil Supply Shock

Tom Nichols: “Shoot Your Mouth Off & Carry a Pop Gun”

Sebastian Mallaby: The Ghost in the Machine

Peter Hamby: Swalwell’s Fall, POTUS v. Pontifex, & The VP’s Podcast Mouth

Does Kara Swisher Really Want to Live Forever? Should We?

George Conway’s Single-Issue Congressional Campaign: “Get the F*cker Out”

Melissa Murray: Bondi Booted & Blanche Belittled as SCOTUS Trips the Light Craptastic

Jacob Frey: “If You Come For One of Us, You’re Coming for All of Us”

Richard Blumenthal: Vanity & Vengeance in the Oval Office, Chaos & Confusion in Iran

John Ellis: The Escalation Trap & The TACO Temptation

Jason Zengerle: War & Peace & MAGA’s Future in the Time of Tucker

Bill Kristol: No Nukes, No Joy, No Easy Way Out in Iran

Ken Burns: Talkin’ Bout a Revolution

Wendy Sherman: Incursions, Excursions, & Dire Straits (of Hormuz, That Is)

Jake Sullivan: Death & Destruction All Day Long – And Then What?

Mark Kelly & Puck Superfriends: War Games & Texas Tea

Scott Galloway: Resist & Unsubscribe, Boys & Men, Sam Altman & Agent Smith

Amanda Carpenter: Trump’s Stale, Ceaseless, Clout-Chasing SOTU

Josh Steiner: The F*ckup Diaries

Al Sharpton: How Jesse Jackson Kept Hope Alive

Marc Elias: Start the Steal

Sally Jenkins: The Bad Bunny Bowl, Quad God Olympics, & WaPo Sports Section (R.I.P.)

Catherine Rampell: Trump is Making China Greater & America Dumber

Alex Wagner: Minneapolis Mayhem & Epstein Files Fallout

Laurence Tribe: Immunity, Impunity & Why the Constitution Ain’t Dead Yet

Claire McCaskill: Trump, Bovino, Noem, The Boss & The Streets of Minneapolis

Patrick Gaspard, Pt. 2: The Audacity of Mamdani

Patrick Gaspard, Pt. 1: The Mamdani Whisperer on Year One of Trump 2.0

Chuck Klosterman: Are You Ready for Some “Football”?!?!

Jason Furman: Jerome Powell, Resistance Hero

Michael McFaul Pt 2: Autocrats Versus Democrats in Russia, China & America

Michael McFaul Pt 1: The Donroe Doctrine = The Dumbroe Doctrine

Andrew Weissmann: The Year Just Passed & Year Ahead, Rule of Law Edition

Ezra Klein: The Year in Politics, Part II

Jon Favreau & Jon Lovett: The Year in Politics, Part I

Chris Anderson: Karoline Leavitt Isn’t Rosalia (and Other Inconvenient Truths)

Jordan Klepper: Reiners R.I.P. & The Year in Late Night Comedy

Rick Wilson: “Strip Club Glitter Never Comes Off”

Barry McCaffrey: Trump’s War Aims in Venezuela = Maduro Out & Chevron In

Steven Lepper: Murder Was the Case (Off the Coast of Venezuela)

Mark Hertling: War Criminal, Cosplay Commandant, or Both?

Jonathan Karl: Vengeance Is Mine, Sayeth the President

Jonathan Freedland: The Traitor’s Circle (Live)

Stuart Stevens: Trumpism’s Pickett’s Charge & 2028’s Yawning Chasm

Tim Miller: Fissures, Fault Lines & The Great MAGA Crackup

Pat Ryan: Epstein Portents, Off-Year Omens & DJT’s Lame Duckification

Carol Leonnig: Disarray & Debauchery at the DOJ

Chris Matthews: What Dems Today Can Learn From RFK (Sr, not Jr!)

Presenting: Otherworld | Zaza

Democrats & Dodgers Doubleheader with Jonathan Lemire

2025 Election Preview with David Axelrod

J. Michael Luttig: Trump’s Plan to Be President for Life Is No Joke

Cameron Crowe, Pt 2: Backstage Passes & Lost Youth, Lester Bangs & Jeff Spicoli

Cameron Crowe, Pt 1: The Birth of The Uncool

Ro Khanna: Donald Trump’s Wrecking Ball & The Democrats' New Guard

Don Lemon: Living La Vida YouTube

Dennis Ross: Mideast Momentum & The Long Hard Road to Peace

Pablo Torre: Bad Bunny & Bad Ballmer

Michael Steele: First the Chainsaw, Now the Scythe

Dylan Byers: Bari's New Perch & Kimmel's Curtain Call

Jennifer Palmieri: Dems Are Winning the Shutdown Showdown (So Far)

Floyd Abrams: Comey, Kimmel, & Trump’s Limitless Enemies List

Rahm Emanuel: Jimmy Kimmel Shows Why Growing a Pair > Bending the Knee

Drew Nieporent: The Restaurateur Who Remade New York

Robert Draper & David Frum: Charlie Kirk Assassination Aftershocks

Michael Osterholm: Be Afraid – Very Afraid – of RFK Jr. & The Next Pandemic

Frank Figliuzzi: Charlie Kirk’s Killing & America’s Political Violence Crisis

Rob Reiner: The Spinal Tap Sequel, Like the Original, Goes to 11

Leigh Ann Caldwell: 12 Angry Women (& One Addled Man) Hit Capitol Hill

Jonathan Mahler: NYC’s 1980s Reinvention & The 40-Year Era it Spawned

Presenting: The C-Word

Chuck Klosterman: Oasismania Overcomes America

James Talarico: Flipping Seats & Flipping Tables in the Lone Star State

Michael McFaul: Trump’s Red Carpet & Putin’s Middle Finger

Dan Pfeiffer: Gavin’s Gamble, J.B.’s Jibes & Other Harbingers of 2028

Christine Brennan: Caitlin Clark’s Culture Wars & the WNBA’s Cluelessness

Robert Garcia: “Things Are Fucked Up”

Anne Applebaum: Nihilism in Sudan & Orbanism in the USA

Adam Pritzker & Daniel Squadron: Detoxifying the Democratic Brand

Remnick & Miliband: Moral Crises & Killing Fields in Israel & Gaza

Bob Shrum: Deep State Donald & The Democratic Messaging Imperative

Maggie Haberman: The Epstein Metastasis

Todd Purdum: How Desi Arnaz & “I Love Lucy” Created the TV Business

Lis Smith: MAGA & The Manosphere Turn On Trump

Will Leitch: Games People Play

Nicolle Wallace: Why MAGA Went Ballistic Over Epstein & The Bear Heals All Wounds

Andrew Sullivan: Trump as King, State Terror Tactics & The Anti-Trans Backlash

Ben Kweller: Love, Loss, Grief, Hope & The Healing Power of Music

Angus King & Jason Crow: Casus Belli & Caveat Emptor re Iran

Ron Chernow: Forever the Twain Shall Meet

Tim Miller: Why Iran is Making J.D. Squirm & MAGA Media Melt Down

Jeremy Bash: Point of No Return

Tom Nichols: L.A. Was a Dress Rehearsal

Jeh Johnson: On Trump, Newsom, Noem, Padilla, & America’s Homeland Insecurities

Karen Hao: Superintelligence & Supreme Hype on the A.I. Frontier

Miles Taylor: Anonymous No More

Robert Wolf: Elon’s Adios, Biden Agonistes & The TACO That Ate Trump

David Hogg: Hope I Die Before I Get Old

Mark Whitaker: Why Malcolm X Still Matters

Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson: Joe Biden's Sins & His Party's Penance

Pablo Torre: Influence + Audience = The Cultural Supremacy of Sports

David Jolly: On the Take in the Middle East

Davis Guggenheim: “Deaf President Now!” & The Power of Documentaries

Ashley Parker & Michael Scherer: It’s Good to Be the King

Anthony Scaramucci: Kissing Ass & Taking Names

Ben Smith: Trump's Gravity Bong & Silicon Valley's Samizdat

Peter Hamby: The First 100 Days (Almost) of Trump 2.0

Susan Morrison: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night (Live)

Conway & Stevens: Kilmar’s Fate, Harvard’s Fight & America's Last Best Hope

Maya Wiley: The Rule of Lawlessness

Steve Rattner: No Way to Run a Railroad (Let Alone the World Economy)

Chris Krebs: Cyberattacks, Cyberdefenses & Trump 2.0’s Cybersurrender

Marc Elias: Trump’s War on Big Law & Most Perilous Power Grab

Ron Fournier & Ben Wikler: Appetite for Destruction

Peter Baker & Susan Glasser: Moscow on the Potomac

Mark Warner & Rick Wilson: You Cannot Be Serious (But Signalgate Surely Is)

Leigh Ann Caldwell: Capitol Hill as Capitol Hell

Andrew Weissmann: Law & Disorder

Liev Schreiber: Slava Ukraini!

Jake Auchincloss: Acquiescing to Chaos & Corruption

M. Gessen: What Putin Wants (Beyond Making Trump His Bitch)

Robert Reich: Donald Trump’s Stagflation Nation & Why Dems Can’t Play Possum

Marty Baron: Why Bezos Is Debasing the Post & Bending Both Knees to Trump

Michael McFaul: Whose Side Are We On?

Joyce Vance: Eric Adams & The Quid Pro Quo That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Preet Bharara: Canaries, Coal Mines & Batshit Crazies

Robert Draper: Travels with Charlie

Adrian Wojnarowski: Luka's Lebron Love, Boosting the Bonnies, & Life Beyond Woj Bombs

Laurence Tribe: God Save This Dishonorable Court

Ezra Klein: Don’t Call It A Coup — Yet

Jonathan V. Last: Bullet Train to the Dark Place

Brian Schatz: Signal v. Noise in Trump 2.0

Jennifer Palmieri: Deja Vu All Over Again

Beschloss & Meacham: We Don't Have the Words for What We're Seeing

Joe Scarborough: A Tale of Two Speeches – and Two Trumps

Mike Schmidt: If Past Is Prologue, Buckle Up

Scott Galloway: Oligarchy Or Bust

Mallory McMorrow: Women Are (Still) Pissed — But Also Patient

Tim Miller: Staving Off Nihilism in the Face of Trump 2.0

James Fallows: The Jimmy Carter Conundrum

Jiore Craig: The Year Ahead Online (Everything is Broken)

Kara Swisher: The Year Ahead in Tech & Politics (Elon for President — of Mars)

Wright Thompson: Why Emmett Till Still Matters

Will Leitch & Pablo Torre: The Year In Sports (Shut Up & Dribble? Sure!)

Dylan Byers: The Year In Media (Falling Stars, Tolling Bells, & Self-Abasing Billionaires)

Rob Sheffield: The Year in Music (Taylor’s Version)

Chris Murphy: “It’s Happening Right in Front of Our Eyes”

Dan Pfeiffer: Mystery Drones, Corporate Lackeys & Resistance 2.0

Kurt Andersen & Michael Hirschorn: Reality Used to be a Friend of Mine

Alex Wagner: Trump Gets Triggered, Luigi Gets Caught & Guilfoyle Gets Exiled

Hakeem Jeffries on Trump, Johnson, McCarthy, Biggie & Wu Tang (Oh, My)

Pete Wehner: Hegseth’s Redemption Bromides, Trump’s Rampant Blasphemies & Fast Car’s Radiant Beatitude

Tina Brown: Trump’s Extended Middle Finger, Biden’s Shambolic Exit, & Martha’s Sad Denouement

Figliuzzi & Weissmann: Trump’s Rough Justice & The Looming Kash Clash

Griffin Dunne: All in the Family

David Remnick: Fear & Loathing Over Trump, Israel & the Dylan Biopic

Julian Castro & Paola Ramos: How Trump Turned “Si, se Puede” On Its Head

Tom Nichols: Incendiary Nominations, Global Conflagrations, & Presidential Pyromania

Beschloss & Meacham: No One Should Be Surprised

Seth Moulton & Ritchie Torres: What Dems Can (Must) Learn From 2024

Claire McCaskill: Trump Staffs Up, Dems Hunker Down, & Musk Runs Amok

Douglas Brinkley: Extreme Incaution, Enemies Lists, & The Age of Trump

Trumpocalypse Now, Again: Puck Superfriends on 45 Becoming 47

Nicolle Wallace: Happy Election Day — Everything’s Gonna Be Alright

Charlamagne tha God: Problematic Polling, Media Malpractice, & Trump Impunity

Costa & JMart: Road to the White House or Highway to Hell?

The Bulwark Fab Four: Garbage Jokes, Racist Tropes, & The Garden Party From Hell

Jason Bateman: Why SmartLess Soared & The Trump Show Jumped the Shark

Anne Applebaum & Timothy Snyder: Love Letters to Adolph

Presenting Gone South

Wes Moore: Trump Is No Friend Of The Military & Harris Isn't Biden

David Plouffe: “I’d (Still) Rather Be Us Than Them”

Debbie Dingell: Panic In Detroit, Dancing In Lansing, Stranded In Kalamazoo

Peter Baker & Susan Glasser: Where’s The Outrage?

James Carville: Inside The War Room 2.0 & The Harris-Trump Endgame

Susanne Craig: How Trump Became America’s Luckiest Loser

Mark Cuban: Out Of One Shark Tank & Into Another

Lawrence O’Donnell: Trump’s Jan 6 Reckoning, Kamala’s WH Destiny, & The Senate’s Post-McConnell Future

“Christ, Have Mercy”: Puck Superfriends Chop Up The VP Debate

Nate Silver: Harris v. Trump Is the Closest Election I’ve Ever Seen

Andrew Ross Sorkin: Rate Cuts, Tax Cuts, & Jamie Dimon Dish

Pete Buttigieg: Why Kamala Is Winning (It’s The Policies, Stupid)

Doug Emhoff: On Being 2nd Gentleman, Kamala’s Arm Candy & A Kurt Cobain/Eddie Vedder Feminist

Dan Harris: Meditation, Mental Health, Six-Peckered Goats & The 2024 Election

Slaughterhouse 45: Puck Superfriends Assess Kamala's Decimation of The Donald

Jordan Klepper: Equal Oppty B.S.-Calling & The Daily Show Renaissance

Dan Pfeiffer: No Sleep Till … Thanksgiving?

Nicholas Kristof: The DNC, Darfur Revisited, & The Pig-Dog Conundrum

Alex Edelman: On Comedy, Politics & The Emmys at The DNC

Sweet Home Chicago Pt. 2: Kamala In Command

Sweet Home Chicago Pt. 1: Obamalamentum & Biden’s Bon Voyage

Doug Sosnik: How Kamala Is Reframing the Race & Redrawing the Map

Ezra Klein: Trump’s Broken Brain, Pelosi’s Bluff-Calling & Harris’s Ideological Rebirth

Cari Champion & Pablo Torre On The Snoop Dogg Summer Olympics

Nicolle Wallace: To the Window, To the Walz

Michael Bennet & Errin Haines: Trump’s Losing Bet on Birtherism 2.0

Conway & Longwell Pt. 2: Donald’s Psyche, J.D.’s Weirdness, and Kamala’s No-Huddle Veepstakes

Conway & Longwell Pt. 1: Harris Stays Hot & Trump Melts Down

Maya Wiley & Tim Ryan on Kamala’s Craze & Trump’s Mania

Beschloss & Costa: Biden's Fall, Kamala's Rise & A Whole New Race

Meet The New Trump, Same As The Old Trump—Except On Benzos

Tim Miller & Stuart Stevens: Trump Can’t Change & Vance Won’t Fly

James Carville’s Case For Reshuffling The Democratic Deck

Labour’s Landslide, Macron’s Muddle, & Europe’s Biden Bedwetting

Steven Brill on SCOTUS & Social Media As Truth-Destroyer

Should He Stay or Should He Go (Joe Biden, That Is)?

Puck Superfriends Break Down Biden’s Debate Breakdown

Stevie Van Zandt’s Excellent Adventures On & Off E Street

Biden Campaign Chief to Dem Bedwetters: Stop Worrying & Get To Work

Reassessing the Kitchen Confidential Era & The Perils of Chef Stardom

Apple's A.I. Embrace & Elon's Tantrum

George to Media: Stop Normalizing Trump

Trump's Retribution Tea Leaves

Trump Sentencing Theories & Mueller Revisited

Introducing: Impolitic with John Heilemann

Cecile Richards

Tom Nichols Part 2

Tom Nichols Part 1

Shannon Watts

Kurt Andersen and Lawrence O’Donnell

Fiona Hill

Ken Burns

Julia Ioffe and Michael McFaul

Michael Bender, Part 2

Michael Bender, Part 1

Hasan Minhaj

Kara Swisher

Stevie Van Zandt, Part 2

Stevie Van Zandt, Part 1

Tenacious D

Aaron Sorkin

Killer Mike, Part 2

Killer Mike, Part 1

Adam Scott

Jon Meacham

Joe Scarborough

Jordan Klepper

David Axelrod

Matthew Dowd and Jennifer Palmieri

Maggie Haberman, Part 2

Maggie Haberman, Part 1

Jennifer Psaki

Stuart Stevens and Rick Wilson

Peter Baker and Susan Glasser

Amy Walter and David Wasserman

Allen Hughes, Part 2

Allen Hughes, Part 1

Jeremy Allen White and Christopher Storer

Dan Pfeiffer

George Conway and Asha Rangappa

Derrick "D-Nice" Jones

Mark Leibovich and Tim Miller, Part 2

Mark Leibovich and Tim Miller, Part 1

Jonathan Lemire

Lis Smith, Part Two

Lis Smith, Part One

Marie Brenner

Jason Kander

Dan Pfeiffer and Alyssa Mastromonaco

Liev Schreiber

Symone D. Sanders

Denver Riggleman, Part 2

Denver Riggleman, Part 1

Eric Holder and Sam Koppelman

Mallory McMorrow

Hasan Minhaj

Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin

Bob Crawford

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Mike Birbiglia and Alex Edelman

Michael Beschloss

Nicolle Wallace, Part 2

Nicolle Wallace, Part 1

Neal Katyal and Robin Lenhardt

Tom Nichols, Part 2

Tom Nichols, Part 1

Adam Scott

John Avlon

Julia Ioffe and Michael McFaul

W. Kamau Bell

Kara Swisher

Brian Cox

Mike Murphy

Andy Slavitt

Patrick Gaspard

Jeff Goldblum

Anne Applebaum and Brian Klaas

LZ Granderson and Will Leitch

David Axelrod

Cecile Richards

Rep. Karen Bass

Gary Ginsberg

Chris Krebs

Danny Strong

John Doerr

Introducing: The Long Game with LZ & Leitch

Paul Begala and James Carville

Fiona Hill

Maya Wiley

John Dickerson

Brian Koppelman, Part 2

Brian Koppelman, Part 1

Stevie Van Zandt, Part 2

Stevie Van Zandt, Part 1

Ken Burns

Frank Figliuzzi

George Packer

Derek DelGaudio

Dr. Michael Osterholm

Claire McCaskill

Chris Matthews, Part 2

Chris Matthews, Part 1

Roger Bennett and Jon Wertheim

Cey Adams and Shepard Fairey

Kurt Andersen

Michael Bender, Part 2

Michael Bender, Part 1

Introducing: The Recount Daily Pod

Best Of Hell & High Water: Entertainment Edition

SNEAK PREVIEW: Elie Mystal on “Battleground with Amanda Litman and Faiz Shakir"

Christopher Jackson

Rick Doblin

Will Leitch

Steven Johnson

News Items Podcast with John Ellis and Rebecca Darst

BONUS: Mika Brzezinski on "Just Something About Her" Podcast with Jennifer Palmieri

Don Lemon

Introducing: News Items Podcast with John Ellis

Dr. Vin Gupta and Dr. Leana Wen

The Lucas Brothers

Senator Cory Booker

Nicolle Wallace, Part 2

Nicolle Wallace, Part 1

Congresswoman Debbie Dingell

Franklin Leonard

Clint Watts

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Daveed Diggs, Ethan Hawke, and James McBride

Jaime Harrison

Joyce White Vance and Jill Wine-Banks

Sean Penn

Kurt Andersen and Lawrence O’Donnell

Robert Reich

The Lincoln Project, Part 2

The Lincoln Project, Part 1

Shannon Watts

Tenacious D

Aaron Sorkin

Rich Eisen

Joe Scarborough

Killer Mike, Part 2

Killer Mike, Part 1

Lawrence Lessig & Laurence Tribe

Laurie Garrett

Jon Meacham & Maya Wiley

The Recount's Election Bonus Episode

Nicolle Wallace

Axe, Plouffe, and Mastromonaco

Mike Murphy & Stuart Stevens

James Carville

Ashley Parker & Jennifer Palmieri

Neal Katyal

Jeff Daniels

Dave Chang

Marques Johnson

Introducing: Hell & High Water with John Heilemann