All Episodes

As Times Goes By: The Odyssey, Casablanca, Birth of a Nation, and Southern Horrors (with Joseph Kelly)

An Empire Problem: On the Ground in Southern Lebanon (with Courtney Bonneau)

The Economy of Secrets (with Brooke Harrington)

Golden Ticket: The Hidden Life of Roald Dahl

The Ultimate Transgression: Offshores, Kompromat Culture & the Competitive Depravity Olympics (with Brooke Harrington)

The German Spies at Pearl Harbor? Those Were My Grandparents (with Chris­tine Kuehn & Mark Schiponi)

American Contradiction: Revolution and Revenge (with Paul Starr)

United States of Florida: The Secret History of the Evil, Racist, Homophobic Johns Committee (with Robert W. Fieseler)

Ground Zero For Our Nation’s Pain (with Ronlyn Domingue)

The Horror, the Horror: Yevgeny “Putin’s Butcher” Prigozhin, the Mr. Kurtz of Russia (with Candace Rondeaux)

The Musicality of Learning & the Cacophony of State-Sponsored Ignorance (with former U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King, Jr.)

Roberto Calvi & the Briefcase of Secrets: The Vatican, the Mafia, the Italian Deep State, and the Mystery of the Dead Banker (with Nicolo Majnoni)

The Great Reshuffle: Land and Power (with Mike Albertus)

Has It Verve? A Discussion About “Severance” Season Two (with Stephanie St. John)

The Ocean Is Inside the Drop: Navigating the Overwhelm (with Claudia Black)

Money, Lies, God, and the Taxonomy of Reactionary Nihilism (with Katherine Stewart)

Mayor of the Night, President of Darkness (with Christopher Steele)

American Dream, Georgian Dream (with Alex Hall Hall) SEASON FINALE

The Fascism Episode / America the Stupidful

I-Need-An-Attorney General: The Matt Gaetz Episode (with Gal Suburban)

The Mourning After (with Jimmy Kennedy)

The Five 8: Election Wednesday Special

The 270+ Election Day Special: Our Democracy Has a Russia Problem (with Gal Suburban)

The Fourth Industrial Revolution Will Not be Televised, But It Will Be AI Generated (with Tom Kemp)

American Freakshow (with Nina Burleigh)

Opus Dei & Opus Knight (with Gareth Gore)

John Roberts Is Not Your Friend (with David Daley)

Anthony Comstock: The Man Who Hated Women (with Amy Sohn)

Punishing Putin (with Stephanie Baker)

We’re Not Going Back (with Rosanna Arquette)

Reprise | Active Learning Feedback Loop, or, Democracy Isn’t a Spectator Sport (with Robbie Harris) | April 12, 2024

Reprise: Reprise: Failures of the Reconstruction: The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic (with Manisha Sinha)

Reprise | From Cowboy State to Christofascist State: Kevin Roberts, Wyoming, Project 2025, and the Spectre of a Second Trump Term (with Rone Tempest)

The Writer and the Whistleblower (SEASON FINALE, with Francine Prose)

Piracy, Penitentials, Comstock, and Flatware (with Jessica Cale)

Triumph of the Yuppies (with Tom McGrath)

Wartime Kyiv (with Illia Ponomarenko)

Debate This! (with “Bad” Brad Berkwitt)

The Opposite of Chaos is Community (with Billy Ray)

Convictions: The Many Crimes of Donald Trump

Grozny Rules: The Global Disorder Endures (with Jason Pack)

Rough Beast: A New Book by Greg Olear

La Politica è Compromesso (with Alessandra, aka Alias Vaughn)

Fetal Personhoodwinked: Christian Right Observations (with Jenny Cohn)

Days of Our Lies (with Kimberley Johnson)

Candidates, Courts & Cartels (with Ethan Bearman)

Like Hell Matt Gaetz is Winning, and Other Tales of Danger Close (with Gal Suburban)

Active Learning Feedback Loop, or, Democracy Isn’t a Spectator Sport (with Robbie Harris)

Failures of the Reconstruction: The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic (with Manisha Sinha)

Robes Gallery: Clarence and Roberts and Brett, Oh My! (with Lisa Graves)

From Cowboy State to Christofascist State: Kevin Roberts, Wyoming, Project 2025, and the Spectre of a Second Trump Term (with Rone Tempest)

Around the World in 80 Minutes (with Alexandra Hall Hall)

Feelingsball: The Leonard Leo Industrial Complex, SCOTUS Nihilism, and the Doctrine of Sad (with Dahlia Lithwick)

Trickling Down: How the Anti-Tax Movement Hijacked America (with Michael Graetz)

All About Leonard Leo, the Reactionary Legal Activist, Radical Catholic Zealot & Dark Money Maestro Who Captured the Supreme Court (with Tom Carter)

Dispatches from the Road (with Diana Spechler)

Covert World War III, or, Operation Gemcrusher (with Aja Raden)

Cheerios or Death (with Brynn Tannehill)

Making It in America (with Rachel Slade)

America/America, Lee Harvey Oswald, and the Presidential Suite at the Ritz-Carlton Moscow (with Steven Beschloss)

Red Caesar (with Will Bunch)

Lawyers, Guns, and Money (with Jack Bryan)

The War We Never Wanted (with Elisa Albert)

The Age of Disorder (with Jason Pack)

Chaos Crescendo (with Cheri Jacobus)

Reprise: The Trauma Vortex (with Claudia Black)

Competing Realities: 24/7 Politics & the Rise of Cable News (with Kathryn Cramer Brownell)

Russia Goes Scorched Earth in Kherson (with Zarina Zabrisky)

A Fabulous Failure (with Nelson Lichtenstein)

The World is Ruled by Wounded People Wounding Us (with Ronlyn Domingue)

The Rush Limbaugh of the Left (with Tony Michaels)

Crimean War and Peace (with Elina Beketova)

How to Wreck a Democracy (with Ruth Ben-Ghiat)

The Only Way to Tell the Future is After It Happens (with Denver Riggleman)

SEASON FINALE: Rhetorical Questions (with Jennifer Mercieca)

Too Big To Care: Containing Big Tech (with Tom Kemp)

What Is Corruption? (with Alex Aronson)

KHive & The Reelection Rundown (with Candidly Tiff)

Reprise: Dead Pimps & Tucker Carlson’s Long Slide (with Nia Molinari)

Notes on the Trump Indictment (with Gal Suburban)

The Trump Tower Meeting Was Seven Years Ago Today (with Cliff Schecter)

Making it in the USA, or, Building Back Better (with Rachel Slade)

Not All Doom (with Arthur Snell)

Reprise - Rapid Fire: The Pathway to Violence (with Shavaun Scott)

International Intrigue (with John Fowler)

Succession: The King & Comedy (with Will Sebag-Montefiore)

Keepin’ It Real (with Elwood Watson)

BONUS SPECIAL: The Five 8, “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly” (with Stephanie Koff)

"Jin, Jiyan, Azadî!" | Protests in Iran (with Samira Ghaderi)

Uh-Oh, Canada (with Max Fawcett)

Between the Shaman and the Microchip (with Mark Plotkin)

Nothing Lasts Forever (with Aja Raden)

Settling Scores: F*ck Giuliani (with Nia Molinari)

Biden Or Bust & What’s Up With Ohio (with Cliff Schecter)

The Jokerfication of Tucker Carlson (with Kat Abughazaleh)

Madoff Talk (with Jim Campbell)

SEASON PREMIERE: The Shifting Calculus of Covid-19 (with Katherine Eban)

Reprise: Strongmen: History Under Attack (with Ruth Ben-Ghiat)

Reprise - Four Villains: “Shame Cometh” and Other Stories

Reprise: The Democracy Game (with Brynn Tannehill)

SEASON FINALE: Charley Horses in DeSantistan (with Gal Suburban)

Savers of the Lost Art (with Ron Pollard)

There’s No Concert (with Moscow Never Sleeps)

The Money’s Gotta Be Someplace (with Debra LaPrevotte)

The Life & Lies of Vladimir Putin (with Andrew S. Weiss)

The Founding-Fatherization of Adam Smith (with Glory M. Liu)

CIA Debriefing (with Kristin Wood)

The Scarcity Myth & Other GOP Fairy Tales (with Vince Scafaria)

Bubble-Wrapped in Sanctimony (with Katherine Stewart)

Elon Remix: Diamond Droogs & Human Wallets (with Aja Raden)

Delawareness (with Hal Weitzman)

MAGA Apostate (with Melissa Jo Peltier)

How Britain Broke the World…and How Liz Truss Broke Britain (with Arthur Snell)

CPACing with the Enemy (with Amanda Moore)

Playing in the Gray (with Kimberly Kay Hoang)

Ukraine vs. the Evil Empire (with Victor Rud)

Existential Threat to Democracy (with Craig Unger)

Something Beyond “Liking” (Season Finale, with Pam Murtaugh)

Hear Me Roar (with Nina Burleigh)

NYC, Today & Tomorrow (with Jessica Lappin)

Digital Voter Suppression (with Shireen Mitchell)

Four Villains: “Shame Cometh” and Other Stories

Rapid Fire: The Pathway to Violence (with Shavaun Scott)

House of Unger, House of Olear (with Craig Unger) ICYMI

Team Justice vs. Team Peace (with Zarina Zabrisky)

The Big Lie & The Great Ignored (with Sandi Bachom)

Don’t Look Up the Answers (with Adam McKay)

13848 (with Gal Suburban)

SLAPP Shots & Single Malts (with Ethan Bearman)

Talking Cows & Sumerian Jokes (with Ryan Byrne)

The Democracy Game (with Brynn Tannehill)

Amorality Tales (with Jennifer Reitman of DAME Magazine)

Strongmen as Young Men (with Brandon Gauthier)

Lynchpins of Plunder: Nazi Billionaires (with David de Jong)

MAGA Menace, Wolverine Watchmen, and Epstein’s Shadow (with Nina Burleigh) - replay -

All Things Syria (with Diana Darke)

The Trauma Vortex (with Claudia Black)

Diamond Droogs & Human Wallets (with Aja Raden)

Putin’s War (with Zarina Zabrisky and Moscow Never Sleeps)

Reprise: My Head's in Mississippi (with Donna Ladd)

ICYMI: The Ukraine Fallacies (with Victor Rud, recorded May 2021)

The Absurdity of It All (Season Two Finale, with Noel Casler)

Boredom as Camouflage: The Life of Mike Pence (with Tom LoBianco)

Canadian Goose-Steppers (with Mark Bourrie)

Putin in Ukraine (with Zarina Zabrisky)

Good Coup, Bad Coup (with Amanda Carpenter)

Matt Gaetz & Other Creatures of the Florida Swamp (with Gal Suburban)

Strongmen: History Under Attack (with Ruth Ben-Ghiat)

Insurrectionversary (with Hugo Lowell)

Auld Lang Sigh: the PREVAIL New Year’s Eve Special (with Lincoln’s Bible, Lou Neu, Cheri Jacobus, Kimberley Johnson, and Tom Joseph)

Making the Bad Guys Pay—Literally (with Katherine Mulhern of Restitution)

MAGA Menace, Wolverine Watchmen, and Epstein’s Shadow (with Nina Burleigh) FULL EPISODE

MAGA Menace, Wolverine Watchmen, and Epstein’s Shadow (with Nina Burleigh)

She’s Right Here: Kamala Counteroffensive (with Reecie Colbert of Black Women Views Media)

Thanksgiving Leftovers (with Jamison Firestone and Moscow Never Sleeps)

Everything is Connected (with Arthur Snell)

Dead Pimps & Tucker Carlson’s Long Slide (with Nia Molinari)

Merrick Garland and the Soup of Despair (with Jennifer Taub)

Captured: An Interview with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

Witness to the Insurrection (with Sandi Bachom)

House of Unger, House of Olear (with Craig Unger)

Spilling the Beans: The Allison Gill Interview

My Head's in Mississippi (with Donna Ladd)

Combat Propaganda (with Zarina Zabrisky)

Tuesday’s Gone: Remembering September 11, 20 Years Later (with Noel Casler)

Calling All Visigoths: The Dark Side of Big Tech (with Bret Pettichord)

Lost in Fantasyland (Season Two Premiere, with Kurt Andersen)

In Case You Missed It - Bad News: How the Media Failed in the Age of Trump (with Eric Boehlert of PRESS RUN)

Replay - Blue State Genocide: Jared Kushner's Greatest Crime (with Vanity Fair’s Katherine Eban)

Enjoy Your King (Season One Finale, with Duke Haney)

Doomsday Devices & Distressed Assets: Trump as Weapon, Tom Barrack as Matchmaker (with Lou Neu)

Ships, Hoodies & Ghislaine’s Beau (with Rachel Slade)

House of Maxwell (with Kirby Sommers)

Mobsters & Spies & Pilates (with Lincoln’s Bible)

Pelted with WTFs (Virus & Vaccine, with Nina Burleigh)

Around the World with Arthur Snell

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria Butina? (with “Spy Affair” host Celia Aniskovich)

The Truth About Lies (with Aja Raden)

The Journalist, the Jerseymen, and the Trillion-Dollar Island (with Leah McGrath Goodman)

Everything You Never Knew About Ukraine (with Victor Rud)

The Magnitsky Act (with Jamison Firestone and Moscow Never Sleeps)

The Biden/Harris 100 Days Extravaganza (Double Episode, with Candidly Tiff & Joanie Vee and DAME Magazine’s Jennifer Reitman)

Big Dirty Money: White Collar Criming (with Jennifer Taub)

Justice Prevails, with Democracy Pledge Co-Founders Glenn Kirschner and Jon Cohen

United States of Canada: Around the World with Diane Francis

This is What Collusion Looks Like: Volume 5 of the Senate Intelligence Report (with Alison Greene & Aaron Harris)

Jersey (Off) Shore: The Situation on the Trillion Dollar Island (with Stuart Syvret)

Who Knew?: Woody Allen, Alan Dershowitz, and the “Three Dudes” Who Gave Us Trump (with Lincoln’s Bible & Lou Neu)

Blue State Genocide: Jared Kushner's Greatest Crime (with Vanity Fair’s Katherine Eban)

Offramp: Anthony Scaramucci on Economics, Politics, & White House Intrigue

Bad News: How the Media Failed in the Age of Trump (with Eric Boehlert of PRESS RUN)

Alternative Math: Brett Kavanaugh's Financials (with Moscow Never Sleeps)

Pilot (with Lincoln's Bible)

Introducing: Prevail with Greg Olear