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

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

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Wright Thompson: Why Emmett Till Still Matters

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

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

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

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

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Dan Pfeiffer: Mystery Drones, Corporate Lackeys & Resistance 2.0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Griffin Dunne: All in the Family

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

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

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

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Beschloss & Meacham: No One Should Be Surprised

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

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

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

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Trumpocalypse Now, Again: Puck Superfriends on 45 Becoming 47

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

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

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

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

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

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Anne Applebaum & Timothy Snyder: Love Letters to Adolph

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Presenting Gone South

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

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

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

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

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

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Susanne Craig: How Trump Became America’s Luckiest Loser

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Mark Cuban: Out Of One Shark Tank & Into Another

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Dan Pfeiffer: No Sleep Till … Thanksgiving?

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

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

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Sweet Home Chicago Pt. 2: Kamala In Command

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

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

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

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Cari Champion & Pablo Torre On The Snoop Dogg Summer Olympics

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Nicolle Wallace: To the Window, To the Walz

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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James Carville’s Case For Reshuffling The Democratic Deck

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

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Steven Brill on SCOTUS & Social Media As Truth-Destroyer

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

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Puck Superfriends Break Down Biden’s Debate Breakdown

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

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

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Reassessing the Kitchen Confidential Era & The Perils of Chef Stardom

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

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George to Media: Stop Normalizing Trump

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Trump's Retribution Tea Leaves

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Trump Sentencing Theories & Mueller Revisited

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Introducing: Impolitic with John Heilemann

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Cecile Richards

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Tom Nichols Part 2

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Tom Nichols Part 1

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Shannon Watts

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Kurt Andersen and Lawrence O’Donnell

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Fiona Hill

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Ken Burns

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Julia Ioffe and Michael McFaul

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Michael Bender, Part 2

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Michael Bender, Part 1

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Hasan Minhaj

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Kara Swisher

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Stevie Van Zandt, Part 2

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Stevie Van Zandt, Part 1

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Tenacious D

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Aaron Sorkin

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Killer Mike, Part 2

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Killer Mike, Part 1

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Adam Scott

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Jon Meacham

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Joe Scarborough

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Jordan Klepper

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David Axelrod

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Matthew Dowd and Jennifer Palmieri

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Maggie Haberman, Part 2

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