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Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes — 305 episodes
We Don't Know How To Get Out Of Iran And It's Everyone's Problem
You've Paid $1,341 in Tariffs And Congress Just Left for Summer
Trump Is Entering His Escalation Era
How John Roberts Broke the Supreme Court This Term
Trump Is About to Lie to You About 2020. Here's What's Actually True.
Lindsey Graham Died. Trump Wants to Blow Up a Mountain.
The Feds Are Erasing History. America's Top Historian Has Receipts.
"I Have Bread That Lasted Longer Than Trump's Iran Ceasefire."
The Senate Is About to Explode. Here's Every Race That Could Make It Happen.
America Turns 250. Trump Is Hijacking It For Himself.
Trump Holds His Own Housing Bill Hostage To Throw Tantrum In The Senate
How Trump Turned a Botched Pool Job Into A National Scandal
The Constitution Is Still Working... But Just Barely. w/ NYU Professor Melissa Murray
Trump Signed Iran's "Deal" at Versailles And JD Vance Is Already the Fall Guy
After 40 Broken Promises, Trump Says the Iran War Is Over. Did The US Lose?
She Locked Up Detroit's Corrupt Mayor. She Says Trump Is Doing the Same Things. She Has a Fix.
Trump Announced a Ground Invasion of Iran. Then Called It Off, Six Hours Later.
Trump Got Debunked in California, Booed In New York, and Then Iran Shot Down a Helicopter
Trump Has Made $1.8 Billion From Crypto While President. A Corruption Researcher Explains How.
Trump Hadn't Been Seen in a Week And Then Showed Up Like This?
Trump's $1.8 Billion Slush Fund Is Collapsing. His Own Party Is Turning on Him.
A CIA Veteran Says Trump Is Using "National Security" the Way Dictators Do. He's Seen It Before.
Iran Violated The Ceasefire While Making A Deal, Troops Ready To Invade Cuba & Trump's Face On Money
Trump said the Iran deal was 'DONE.' Now we're back at war.
The DOJ Is Being Dismantled From the Inside, A Former Insider Explains What We're Losing
The DNC's 2024 Autopsy Is a Mess, Here's Everything Wrong With It
How Trump Just Shielded Himself from the IRS — And Made You Pay for It
Harvard Psychiatrist to Congress: Trump Is Too Dangerous to Have the Nuclear Codes
Your Money Is Worth Less Today Than It Was Last Month
The Democratic Party Is Lost. A Former Presidential Campaign Manager Explains Why
The Iran Peace Deal Is Just Obama's Deal (But Worse?)
Is the Iran War Actually Over? The White House Can't Get Its Story Straight
Forget Gerrymandering, The Supreme Court Legalized Gerrymaxxing w/ Dave Daley
The Supreme Court Just Killed the Voting Rights Act
The Shooting, The Ballroom, and The Fallout
They Can Take Your Citizenship Away — And the Trump Administration Is Trying
Trump Blinked Again and Gas Prices Won't Drop Until 2027
Trump Lied About Iran, The US Broke the Ceasefire & The FBI Director Is Allegedly Wasted
America Already Crossed the Line in Iran. What Happens Now? w/ Oona Hathaway
4 Scandals, 2 Resignations, 1 Week. Welcome Back, Congress
The Blockade Backfired and the Iran Crisis Is Worse Than Ever
We Made It Worse: How the US Handed Iran a Nuclear Argument w/ Eric Czuleger
Is This Even A Ceasefire?
Trump Threatens to Wipe Out Iran's Entire Civilization And The Nuclear Option on the Table?
The 1% Election: How Primaries Are Rigged Against Everyone ft. Chad Peace
Trump Said Nothing For 20 Minutes
The Shutdown Is Still Here, The War Has No Plan, And Lindsey Graham Is At Disney World
Congress Is Giving Away Your Power w/ Michael Thorning from Bipartisan Policy Center
Pam Bondi Wants To Save The Lawyers Judges Hate w/ Liz Dye from the Law and Chaos Podcast
Why Is The FBI Digging Through Arizona's Election Trash?
Trump Says The War In Iran Is "Complete," Is It?
How Big Spending Is Breaking Democracy w/ Tiffany Muller from End Citizens United
Kristi Noem Gets Fired, What's Next For Immigration?
The Whys And How The US And Israel Went To War With Iran
Should Democrats Make A Nuremberg Caucus? W/ Cory Doctorow
Trump Leaves ICE Out In The Cold During The State Of The Union
Could The State Of The Union Be Trump's Most Important Speech?
Are We Going To War With Iran? w/ The Under Report's Eric Czuleger (again!)
The Trump Administration Is Getting Expensive...
10 Things Democrats Hate About DHS
America's Abandonment Issues w/ The Under Report's Eric Czuleger
Congress's Voting Bills Aren't About Protecting Your Vote
The [REDACTED] Epstein Episode
Can Trump Break America's Elections? w/ Michael McNulty From Issue One
How To Break ICE To Fix Immigration w/ fmr. ICE AD Scott Shuchart
The Epstein Files Are Worse Than We Thought
The Spies And Diplomats Working To Save America w/ The Steady State's Steve Cash
Is Funding ICE The Democrats' Last Stand?
DHS Kills A Man Then Flees Minnesota, What Now?
What's Happening To Civil Rights Under ICE? w/ David Gans
Why Trump's Fight With The Fed Matters To You
Venezuela, Latino Voters and Avoiding Nuclear War w/ Mike Madrid
ICE Kills A US Citizen In Minnesota, What Now?
Trump's Old World Order Plan For Venezuela
Did The US Bomb Venezuela Or Not?
The MIMS Christmas Story Special!
The Epstein Files Redactions Are "Breaking The Law"
Do The Epstein Files Take Down MAGA? w/ Anthropologist Alex Hinton
Trump's Right Hand Woman: On The Record, Off The Rails
"Children Will Die" Because Of Dept. of Ed's New Policy w/ Zero Abuse Project CEO, Jeff Dion
Congress Shrugs And Lets Insurance Costs Spike
Who In Trump's Cabinet Is Getting Fired?
Is This Millennials' Political Moment? w/ Amanda Litman from Run For Something
Pete Hegseth's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
Did Pete Hegseth Commit A War Crime?
Why So Many Americans Are Afraid To Talk Politics w/ Junelle Cavero from My Code
Trump Signs Off On The Epstein Files And Chaos At The DOJ
Republicans Flip On The Files
An Out Of Control Week w/ Ryan Welton From Oklahoma Memo
Shady Shutdown Deals And New Epstein Emails
Did The Democrats Cave Or Play The Long Game?
What Is Going On With MAGA Fashion? w/ Lindsey Louise
What Can We REALLY Learn From This Week's Elections?
Trump's 60 Minutes Confessional
America's Revenge Politics w/ Paul Starr
How Bad Is The Government Shutdown Going To Get?
How Trump's Health And 3-Term Push Are Connected
The End Of The Voting Rights Act As We Know It w/ Dave Daley
Why Trump's White House Tear Down Is More Than A Renovation
How Big Of A Deal Was No Kings 2?
What's Going To Happen To Rural Hospitals Now? w/ Prof. Michael Shepherd
Is This Supreme Court Going To End Voting Rights?
Why Is The Government Still Shutdown?
Why Do So Many Of Us Believe Conspiracy Theories? w/ Prof. Joe Uscinski
The Insurrection Act: How Close Are We To Civil War?
Can Trump Just Send Troop...Anywhere?
The Hostile Takeover Of America's Health w/ Dr. Scott Greer
Why is Trump Making The Shutdown As Painful As Possible?
The Department of (Culture) War
How Can We Fix America's Schools? w/ Jorge Elorza
Does Congress Actually WANT A Government Shutdown?
Trump's New Pressure Push
Talking Ourselves Back From The Brink with Prof. Karrin Anderson
The Plan To Make Free Speech Illegal
The Supreme Court's Shadow Docket Crisis w/ Liz Dye
The Assassination of Charlie Kirk
The Birthday Book Bombshell
CROSSOVER EPISODE: Grant Gets Interviewed On Let's Pod This
Epstein Survivors Demand Action, Will Congress Listen?
Trump's Proof Of Life Press Conference
A Shooting in Minneapolis And An Attack On Mental Health
Dictator Week At The White House
Ratf*cking America w/ Author David Daley
Why Is The DOJ Going After Children's Doctors?
Whose Side Is Trump On In The War In Ukraine?
Safe to Speak? Whistleblowing In Today's America w/ Whistleblower Aid's David Kligerman
Why Is Trump Meeting Putin In Alaska?
Trump Moves To Make DC A Police State Capital
Adopted and Afraid w/ Adoptee Rights Law Center's Greg Luce
The President Who Cried Hoax
A Texas Sized Stand-Off Over The 2026 Election
Why Are Politicians Such... Weirdos? w/ Democratic Strategist Mike Nellis
Stocks, Locks and Two Angry Men
Trump's Deal Making Smoke and Mirrors
Dismantling Justice w/ Justice Connection's Stacey Young
Trump and The Epstein Files: Is It A Lie or A Cover Up?
Do Democrats Even Want To Win Again?
Why Trump Can't Make The Epstein Files Go Away
The GOP's 9 Billion Dollar Take-Backsies
Will The Epstein Files Tear MAGA Apart?
Who Are The New Generation Of Leaders? with Amanda Litman
Trump's 90 Days Are Up... Where Are All The Deals?
Is Trump Building Detention Centers...Or Camps?
Why The Texas Floods Are Bad For All Of Us
Will Trump Have To Bail Out The Big Beautiful Bill?
The Senate Passes The Big Beautiful Bill...What Now?
BONUS: The Supreme Court's BIGGEST Ruling Yet?
How Trump Embraced Christian Nationalism and Bombed Iran (w/ Matt D. Taylor)
Trump Ends A War Abroad... To Start A Fake One At Home
A CeaseFire... For Now
The US Joins The War With Iran
Silencing The Voice Of America w/ VOA White House Bureau Chief Patsy Widakuswara
Are We At War With Iran?
No Kings, No Crowds, And Our New Cycle Of Violence
Troops in LA, A Senator In Handcuffs And A Nation On Edge w/ Mike Madrid
Marines In LA: Can Trump Do That?
Is L.A. Trump's Test Balloon For Dictatorship?
Disease and Death: Elon Musk's Real DOGE Legacy W/ Fmr. USAID Dep. Admin. Jim Kunder (Replay interview)
A MAGA Meltdown
The Other Offshoring: Why Jobs Went South, Not Abroad w/ Prof. Gary Winslett
The Kids Aren't Alright
Democrats FINALLY Get Their 2024 Report Card
Prescription For Failure: Why Trump’s Drug Plan Is Bad w/ Yale Economist Jason Abaluck
A Big Beautiful Breakdown
Un-Protected Status
Joe Biden Has Cancer
Devastation at the DOJ w/ Stacey Young from The Justice Connection
Don't Trust Your Lying Eyes
Drugs and Deals
What Is Habeas Corpus?
Oh, Canada
Make Corruption Great Again (W/ Public Citizen's Rick Claypool)
100 Days Down
A Democratic Decision (W/ Abdul El-Sayed)
"NO SCALPS"
Who Rules The Law Anyway? (W/ Andrew Torrez)
Are Americans Really That Special?
Your Life Will Never Be The Same
Tariff On, Tariff Off
The Great American Retreat (W/ Dr. Scott Greer)
Cory Booker's Moral Moment For America
It's Bigger Than Signal w/ Fmr. National Archives Lawyer Jason R Baron
No One Likes A Group Chat
Order In The Courts?
What Is Going On With The Ukrainian Peace Deal?
Are Democrats in Disarray? (plus: Dept of Ed talk w/ Prof. Kevin Welner)
Does Elon Musk Want A Shutdown?
The Ensh*tification of America? (w/ Cory Doctorow)
Trump's Just Bear With Me Address
MIMS MINI: Gambling with WW3
Town Hall Hell (w/ Rep. Debbie Dingell)
Republicans A Have Budget and Elon Musk Crashes The Cabinet
Long Live The King? (w/ Prof. Lucan Way)
Why Are Federal Employees Being Fired Like This?
Are We In A Constitutional Crisis? (with Dr. Erica Groshen)
Elon Musk's First Presidential Press Conference
Elon Musk Rages and Raids
Trump's In His Empire Era
Confirmation Nation (with Dr. Scott Greer from the University of Michigan)
Trump's Purges Begin
Trump 2.0 One Week In (with Liz Dye and Andrew Torrez from Law and Chaos)
The Sights And Sounds of Trump's Inauguration (with Deepti Doshi from New Public)
Jack Smith's Last Word/Hegseth In The Hotseat
Elon Musk Plays President
AOC, Pelosi and the Future of the Democrats
Trump On Defense
Trump Meets The Press
MIMS MINI: Trump's Border Bonanza
MAKE MORE SENSE: Talking Immigration with Presente's Matt Nelson
Pardons, Pete and Patel
Trump's Justice Department Shuffle (with Jonathan Bernstein)
All The King's Men (And Women)
Trump Takes America (with Matthew D. Taylor)
MIMS MINI 72: When Will We Know?
MIMS MINI 71: Everybody's A Joker
MIMS MINI 70: Liar, Liar
Who’s STILL Undecided/Climate Change and Our Votes with Mary Anna Mancuso
MIMS MINI 69: The Election Scaries
MIMS MINI 68: Harris Closes
MIMS MINI 67: We Need To Talk About Elon
MIMS MINI 66: Another Campaign Hack
MIMS MINI 65: Trump Plays The Garden
MIMS MINI 64: Harris, Abortion and Beyonce's America
We'll See You In Court with Liz Dye
MIMS MINI 63: Harris Says THE Thing
MIMS MINI 62: Trump Wishes For Hitler's Generals
MIMS MINI 61: Cracks In The Wall
MIMS MINI 60: You Want Fries With That?
MIMS MINI 59: Exhaustion and Discipline
MIMS MINI 58: Record Breaking Early Voting
Is Trump Really A Fascist? A Breakdown
MIMS MINI 57: Harris Breaks Up With Biden
MIMS MINI 56: Harris Takes To The Airwaves
MIMS MINI 55: Trump's PA Musical
Make More Sense: Latino Voters with Mike Madrid
MIMS MINI 54: The Presidential Physical Fitness Test
MIMS MIN 53: WTF Is JD Vance Talking About?
The Most Expensive Election Ever with Brian Boyle
MIMS MINI 52: No we can't control the weather...
MIMS MINI 51: Trump Trouble
MIMS MINI 50: A Hurricane Of Helene Lies
MIMS MINI 49: Kamala Calls A Media Blitz
MIMS MIN 48: As I Was Saying...
MIMS MINI 47: 30 Day Check In
The Plot(s) Against The 2024 Election with Tina Barton
MIMS MINI 46: Jack Smith Unsealed
MIMS MINI 45: Vance Code Switches As Walz Wobbles
MIMS MINI 44: Vance And Walz Prep For A Folksy Face-off
MIMS MIN 43: A Strike And An October Surprise
MIMS MINI 42: Congress Failed FEMA, Then Helene Hit
MIMS MINI 41: Harris’ Flips The Script On The Border
Trump and Harris in the Borderlands with Mike Madrid
MIMS MINI 40: Harris Reframes on the Economy
MIMS MINI 39: Biden U.N.wavering
MIMS MINI 38: Trump’s Best Numbers In Weeks
MIMS MINI 37: Congress Makes A Deal?
MIMS MINI 36 - Harris Trolls Trump
MIMS MINI 35: Changing The Count
The Company Candidates Keep with Brian Hughes
MIMS MINI 34: Johnson Runs The Play and Congress Runs Out The Clock
MIMS MINI 33: Harris On Her Own
MIMS MINI 32: Tone Deaf and Toning Down
MIMS MINI 31: Another Assassination Attempt
MIMS MINI 30: Misinformation Conversation
They're Eating The Cats And Dogs with Ryan Enos
MIMS MINI 29: Shutdown Showdown... Again
MIMS MINI 28: Harris Prevails, Trump Flails
MIMS MINI 27: Debate Day
MAKE MORE SENSE: Extended Interview with NANR's Andy Moore
MAKE MORE SENSE: Extended interview with Fair Vote's Deb Otis
HOT TO GO For Gen Z with Jessica Siles
MAKE MORE SENSE: Extended interview with New Politics' Gabe Ramos
MIMS MINI 26: The Tax Plan Cometh
MIMS MINI 25: Israel On The Edge
MIMS MINI: Are You...Union Curious?
MIMS MINI: Hallowed Ground
MIMS MINI 22: Trump's Abortion Turnaround
The Harris/Walz Interview: The Past Is Never Dead, It's Not Even Past with Andy Moore
MIMS MINI 21: Harris In The Hot Seat
MIMS MINI 20: Jack Smith's Last Chance
MIMS MINI 19 - Mind On The Money And Money On The Mind
MIMS MINI: Debating The Debate
MIMS MINI: Trump On The Trail
MIMS MINI 16: And Then There Were Two
Harris Makes History with Julia Azari
MIMS MINI: The DNC Gets Walz-pilled
MIMS MINI: Harris' Secret Weapon
MIMS MINI: Biden Takes A Bow
MIMS MINI: Why are Conventions?
MIMS MINI: What To Expect When You're Conventioning
MIMS MINI: Harris Lays Out Her Plan
Campaigning Everywhere and Nowhere with Chris Cillizza
MIMS MINI: Swing State Seesaw
MIMS MINI: Death, Taxes and the Economy
MIMS MINI: Trump x Musk
MIMS MINI: Biden's First Interview
MIMS MINI: The Trump Campaign Gets Hacked
MIMS MINI: Service Talks with Gabe Ramos
The Race Resets with Matthew Bartlett
MIMS MINI: Setting The Service Record Straight
MIMS MINI: Poll Position
MIMS MINI: From The Window To The Walz
Vice Presidential Hot Dish with Jeff Timmer
Biden Bows Out, Now What? with Kenneth Mayer
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