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1

Patrick Radden Keefe’s “London Falling” and Death in the Time of Oligarchs

2

Orange Slush (Special DOJ Episode)

3

How SCOTUS is Slanting the Midterms

4

Trump's "Systematic" Undermining of the Economy

5

Race to the Bottom

6

Redistricting Roulette

7

A Modern Reader's Guide to a Besieged Constitution

8

Democracy Demolition Derby

9

The Global Aftershocks of Trump’s Blunder in Iran

10

Molly Mashup: ‘Lots of Smoking Guns’

11

Kash Crash

12

Jersey’s New Governor Knows How to Take On a Don

13

Trump's "Absolute Fiasco"

14

The 'No Kings' Plan to Make Trump the Next Orbán

15

Carte Blanche and an Inside Strait

16

Bondi to Blanche and Bad to Worse

17

Bondi, Bombs, and Birthright

18

Will SCOTUS Blow Up Mail-In Voting?

19

Departure of Justice

20

How Trump Blew Up the World Order

21

Dire Strait

22

Josh Shapiro Wants the Ball

23

Hegseth: Unleashed and Unhinged

24

“Nobody Cancels Elections. They Just Rig Them."

25

A Man, No Plan, Iran

26

Stacey Abrams’s 10 Steps to Save Democracy—Or Lose It

27

Bombs and Bombast

28

Molly Mashup: The 411 on the Missing Epstein 302s

29

Tariffs Trumped

30

Josh Shapiro's Game Plan

31

Bad Bondi

32

Will the Supreme Court Betray the Constitution?

33

Live from Princeton: A Contrarian Quartet

34

Trump's Reign of Terror in the Civil Rights Division

35

Cracks in the ICE

36

The Legacy of the Subway Vigilante

37

"Are You F***ing Kidding Me?"

E
38

AG Keith Ellison on Justice for Renee Good, and Minnesota

39

Trauma and Terror in Minnesota

40

John Roberts: Umpire or Ultimate Decider?

41

Gasoline on the Fire

42

The Illegality of the Maduro Seizure Under Domestic and International Law

43

Inside City Hall

44

Corruption, Chaos, and a Crooked Peace Plan in Ukraine

45

Military Madness

46

Inside the White House Bubble

47

The [REDACTED] Files

48

Molly Mashup: "They're Not Doing 15 Dimensional Chess"

49

Dents in the Armor

50

Senator Mark Kelly: "It's a Complete S*** Show"

51

Indict, Strike, Repeat

52

Can a New Kind Of Liberalism Take Hold?

53

A Bad Dictator is Still a Dangerous One

54

Halligan, Bondi, and Other Turkeys

55

Lame but Lethal

56

Inside the DOJ’s Unravelling under Trump

57

The Dog That Hasn’t Barked

58

The Phrase that Could End Trump's National Guard Power Grab

59

Blue Blizzard

60

Presenting The Alabama Murders from Revisionist History

61

How Trump Demolished the DOJ

62

Democracy on ICE

63

A Legendary Congressman's Advice for Today's Democrats

64

The Costs of Chaos

65

Is No Kings a Turning Point? (Plus a baseball bonus on Ohtani!)

66

Bolton Shut

67

Getting Free Speech Right on College Campuses

68

Ceasefire and Crossfire

69

Return of the Wrecking-Ball Court

70

Shutdown Smackdown, Chi-Town Showdown

71

Trump's Prescription for Chaos and Poor Health

72

Comey Before the Storm

73

Molly Mashup: Trump, Tylenol, and Turmoil

74

Autocracy Live!

75

The Constitution Was Intended To Be Amended

76

A Darker Turn

77

Rep. Krishnamoorthi: “We Have To Stand Up”

78

Epstein Returns and the Courts Push Back

79

Senator Blumenthal Exposes the DOGE Boondoggle

80

Mob Boss in the White House

81

Pam Bondi’s DOJ: “Heartbreaking" and "Terrifying”

82

Bagging Bolton

83

J.B. Pritzker takes on the Bully-in-Chief

84

Checkpoint D.C.

85

E. Jean Carroll’s Knock-Out Punch

86

Department of Vengeance

87

2026 Election Interference Has Begun

88

Incriminating—Or Just Skeevy?

89

A Molly Mashup on the MAGA Mess

90

Justice Blanched

91

Justice Abandoned: Rachel Barkow on the Supreme Court’s Role in Mass Incarceration

92

Epstein, Emil, and Elmo’s Eventful Week

93

Fighting Trump’s Bills, Bombs, and Baloney

94

ICE Age

95

Happy Days Are Here Again

96

Supreme Court Roundup: Revenge of the Six

97

Iran’s Next Move

98

The Corrections

99

Cory Booker’s Long Stand

100

Trump at War

101

How Social Media Broke Democracy and Childhood

102

California Screamin'

103

Who Is Government, Really? with Michael Lewis

104

Caught in a Bad Bromance

E
105

Nine Years of Warning America: A Conversation with Rick Wilson

E
106

Taco Tuesday Every Day

107

Plane Hits House

E
108

"Fight Fiercely, Harvard!"

109

Donald Trump in the Crisis of Young Men

110

Art of the Self Deal

111

Will Abrego-Garcia Ever See the Light of Day Again: A Discussion with Sen. Chris Van Hollen

112

Third Term Threat

113

Bad Vibes at the High Court

114

Incursion Reversion

115

Winning Under the House Rules

116

Public Sentiment Is Everything

117

“Is Trump Strangling Democracy?” with Rep. Dan Goldman

118

CECOT Slingshot

119

Can Harvard Tough it Out?

120

The Madness of King Donald

121

Federal Health Oversight in the Age of RFK Jr

122

Fear & Loathing at DOJ

123

A New Abundance Agenda for the Democratic Party

124

Hegsethive Pride

125

Beware the Coming Republican Voting Rights Legislation

126

Capitulation Nation

127

Steven Pinker Knows Everything

128

ClusterChuck

129

The View From New Jersey… and Washington D.C.

130

A House Misguided

131

Trump’s Disastrous Assault on U.S Soft Power

132

"Anyone Unhappy With Elon?"

133

Jamie Raskin and the Constitutional Cavalry

134

Trump Breaks the World

135

What Will Happen to Consumers Under Trump?

136

The Politics of DOJ and the Law of DOGE

137

“Not Anything Any of Us Ever Expected To See in America”

138

THURSDAY NIGHT MASSACRE AT THE DOJ

139

Talking San Diego presents Chris Hayes With His #1 Bestselling Book, “The Sirens’ Call”

140

Jeff Toobin Talks Righteous and Corrupt Pardons

141

Too Many Musks on the Field

142

Signposts of Democratic Decline

143

DEFCONstitution

144

Executive Orders – What Can’t Trump Do?

145

Mayday at DOJ (Special Episode)

146

"F**k It: Release ‘em All"

147

“Friday Night Was the Danger Zone” with Fired Inspector General Mark Greenblatt

148

We Already Know a Lot About Volume Two of the Smith Report

149

A Cold Day in Hell

150

Trouble Ahead for Election Fight and Traditional Media

151

Convict in Chief

152

AI and Income Inequality

153

There’s No Vaccine Against Crazy (Special Episode on Healthcare)

154

A Blue Man in a Red State

155

Hold Steady States (Special Episode on State/Local Power)

156

Megalomania Mash

157

AlieNation (Special Episode on Immigration)

158

Pardons Here, There, and Everywhere

159

Tarrifying (Special Episode on Economics)

160

Rebutting the Insurrectionary Theory of the Second Amendment

161

Kash and Burn (Special Episode on National Security)

162

Freedom, Fascism, and Donald Trump

163

Kakistocracy (Look It Up)

164

The Real Reason Trump Won.

165

Why We Must Have A Detailed Report of the Trump Prosecutions

166

DOJ-Jacking (Special Episode on DOJ)

167

Sen. Chris Murphy on the Election and the End of Neoliberalism

168

Will the Supreme Court Stand Up to Trump?

169

The Gaetz of Hell

170

Rick Wilson Breaks It Down and Looks Ahead

171

Apocalypse: Now.

172

Legal, but Not Legitimate

173

Turning Never Trump

174

Margin of Fuhrer

175

The Speaker is In The House!

176

Margin of Terror

177

The Lawyer as Political Warrior (Talking Books with Bob Bauer)

178

Time to Panic?

179

Is Justice Ever Coming?

180

A Hurricane of Hate

181

A Second Look At The Jack Smith Brief

182

Liar Liar Pres for Hire

183

What Polls Get Wrong

184

Donald Declining

185

DOJ Insider with Preet Bharara

186

What’s that you say, Mr. Robinson?

187

“There Is No Republican Party” (recorded live with Judge Michael Luttig at the Texas Tribune Festival)

188

Talk about extreme!

189

Trailer: Introducing a New Series of 1-on-1 Conversations from Talking Feds

190

Kamala for the Prosecution (Live at the Texas Tribune Festival)

191

Next Question

192

300th Episode DNC Extravaganza!

193

DNC TLC

194

Walzing Kamala

195

Revenge of the Childless Cat Ladies

196

The Kamala Cavalry

197

“You did it, Joe!”

198

Has Trump Evaded All Accountability?

199

Bedlam in Demland

200

Supreme S*#tStorm

201

D is for Disaster

202

Blueprint Blues

203

Trumping the Shark

204

Verdict Aversion

205

DOJ Insider: DOJ, DJT, TBD

206

A Man of Many Convictions

207

America Upside Down

208

Cohen the Destroyer? From Inside the Courtroom IV

209

Eye of the Storm: From Inside the Courtroom III

210

Hope & Chaos

211

Immunity Impunity

212

In the (Court)Room Where it Happens

213

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury...

214

Jury Selection, Abortion Rejection, Cannon Deflection

215

Court and Snark

216

Democracy saved! Trump in exile! (April 1 edition)

217

Trump Trials University

218

Once More With Feeling (Terrified)

219

A Country for Old Men

220

99 Problems But a Mitch Ain’t One

221

Alabama Goddam

222

Trump Change

223

A Tale of Two Cases

224

Accountability Era

225

Sore Winner, Big Loser

226

Live Bad and Profit

227

"Fraud on me!"

228

Rocky (Mountain) High Court

229

Lonelyville, USA

230

The Fentanyl Crisis Rages On

231

Investigation into an Inquiry into an Impeachment

232

Staring into the Abysses

233

No Immunity For Fraudsters!

234

DOJ insider: Trying Trump

235

Gag!

236

It's (Half) the Economy, Genius!

237

Leaning Tower of Trumps

238

From Russia with kompromat

239

Purging the Effects of Trumpism: Political Bipartisanship (Recorded Live at the Texas Tribune Festival)

240

Purging the Effects of Trumpism: Law Enforcement (Recorded Live at the Texas Tribune Festival)

241

Foreign Policy in the Age of Trump

242

Remembering Dianne Feinstein

243

Oyez, Oyez, Oy Vey

244

Purging the Effects of Trumpism: Journalism (Recorded Live at the Texas Tribune Festival)

245

Hunter Gatherers

246

Remove, Remand, Repeat

247

Meadows’ Lark

248

Can Ukraine Prevail?

249

(Trump’s) Trials & (Our) Tribulations

250

A Theory of Everything: A Deep Dive Into the Fulton County Indictment

251

An Ordinary Defendant And A Special Counsel

252

Defending Donald

253

A Deep Dive into the 1/6 Indictment

254

"Any Day Now"

255

DOJ Quarterly Review: On Target

256

Et tu, Jared?

257

Nauta Chance

258

Affirmative Retraction

259

Bedminster Gabby

260

It’s Arraigning Presidents

261

Signed, Unsealed, Delivered

262

Down to the Wire

263

Contempt of Court

264

Default, Defraud, DeSantis

265

Top Gun Trial Lawyers and Their Secrets

266

Loneliness in America

267

Et tu, Mike Pence?

268

DOJ Insider: Indictments, Agents, Friends with Benefits

269

It's the Economy, Genius!

270

Forecast Update: Stormy and Arraign-y

271

💥Boom💥

272

Crime Fraud Expected

273

Bragging Rights & Ukraine Slights

274

National Forecast: Stormy

275

MAGA, May I?

276

Zelensky Zugzwang

277

Jack Attack & Pence Defense

278

Joe Jitsu

279

Ne Plus Ultra: Rachel Maddow on American Fascism 1940s to Today

280

Under Cover of Law

281

Groundhog Day in Washington

282

DOJ Confidential

283

Special (Counsel) Effects

284

Speaker Squeaker

285

Special Year-End Episode: How Will We Go Down in History?

286

The Very Model of a Modern Mayor

287

Referral Madness

288

Supreme Contortions

289

Oath Keepers and House Speakers

290

Public Education in Crisis

291

And Now This Special (Counsel) Announcement

292

Red Herring

293

Red Alert

294

Halloween Edition: Margin of Terror

295

Fortnight Forecast

296

Hear! Hear!

297

A MAGA Midterm?

298

Nightmare on First Street: SCOTUS Returns (Live from the Texas Tribune Festival)

299

DOJ Under the Microscope (Live at the Texas Tribune Festival)

300

Utter (Can)nonsense

301

Judge Loose Cannon

302

Troll of the Nation

303

[REDACTED]

304

The Nation’s Hidden Killer

305

Garland Crosses The Rubicon

306

Deleted texts, DOJ inspects, Kansas rejects

307

Post-Roe America: Prosecutorial Discretion Advised

308

The Horror! The Horror!

309

Blood and Gasoline

310

Patsy Baloney and Every Crime Imaginable

311

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (and Amy Coney Barrett)

312

This is (Trump’s) America

313

“Hang Mike Pence!”

314

A Republic, If We Can Keep It

315

At History’s Edge

316

Guns and Butter

317

Mapping Violence

318

DOJ: Here, There, and Everywhere

319

Alito’s Torpedo

320

Russia, Through A Glass Darkly

321

Ruthless Ambition Unmasked

322

Refer, Regulate, Restrict

323

Cooperation and Covert Operations

324

Current Events: Turning of the Tides?

325

Critical Republican Theory

326

Mr. Zelensky Goes to Washington

327

(Economic) Life During Wartime

328

Taking Civil Rights Seriously

329

Darkest Hour 2: Midnight in Kyiv

330

Rule of Law, Rule of Outlaws

331

Facts, Feints, and the Fifth

332

DOJ: Inside the Insurrection Investigation

333

A Tale of Two Tyrants

334

Exit, Stage Center-Left

335

Slidin’ Biden and Hobbled Donald

336

Talking Filibuster

337

Happy Anniversary. I want a divorce.

338

Democratic Party 2022: Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind

339

Republican Party 2022: Party Over?

340

A Very Variant Christmas

341

Economics 2021: Inflation Frustration

342

Supreme Court: Leaving Us No Choice

343

Making Ends Meat: Farmers Get Raw Deal

344

Pelosi Talks, Rittenhouse Walks, Meadows Balks

345

From the White House to the Big House to Rittenhouse

346

DOJ: Turning Up the Heat

347

Listener Q&A with Harry Litman

348

G20-20 Vision: Bringing the Good China to the Table

349

Utter Contempt: Breaking Bannon

350

Clark, Bannon and Trump: Lawsuit or Jumpsuit?

351

National Security: Beyond the Fringe

352

Courting Disaster

353

Build Back Better Bill: Biden on the Brink

354

Totalled Recall: Masks, Mandates and Manchin

355

9/11, Texas, Covid… And how was your week?

356

Texas Two Step (Backwards)

357

National Security Edition: “No Boots On the Ground to Booed On the Grounds”

358

Voting Rights: You Beto Your Life

359

Closing the Barn Door on the Stable Genius

360

DOJ: Garland Here for the Right Reasons?

361

I See Your Trillion and Raise You Climate Change

362

Bear Trap in the Bedroom: Select Committee, Infrastructure and Buried Tips

363

Foreign Affairs: Putin on the Blitz

364

S/Elect: Rights and Riots

365

The Supreme Court: Baby, Baby, Where Did Our Left Go?

366

Deal or No Deal

367

We Wish to Welcome You to Manchinland

368

Leak House

369

Oh, DeJoy! Gaetz of Hell!

370

White House Counsel: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous

371

Commission Impossible?

372

Cheney of Command Disrupted

373

Talking Counter-Terrorism: Knock and Talk

374

Talking DOJ: 100 Days of Solid’Tude

375

Chauvin Verdict: You Do the (After) Math

376

Foreign Policy: "This Year We No %$&* Suck"

377

Gun Safety: Giving it a Real Shot

378

Chauvin-ism and the National Schism

379

The New New Deal?

380

Filibuster or Bust

381

Life begins at 50 (Days)

382

Anatomy of a Prosecution

383

The FBI: The Weather(ed) Bureau

384

Republicans On The Fence

385

Base Instincts

386

Allies Allies All Come Free

387

Won’t Get Fooled Again

388

Transition, Transition!

389

Impeaches and Crime

390

News Edition; New Sedition

391

Burning Down the House

392

The Very Model of a Modern Solicitor General

393

Georgia on my Mind

394

T-30... and Counting

395

I Never Promised you a Rose Garden Pardon

396

Purple Reign

397

National Security: 50 Days of Gray

398

Goodbye Rudy Tuesday

399

Biden Our Time

400

Welcome Back, America

401

Scenarios

402

And Yet they Persisted

403

Rounding the Corner... to what?

404

Confirming Amy... Recuse, Refuse...We Lose

405

Talking Zeds: Social Media is Our Country

406

Treasonable Doubt

407

Talking Feds Now: Positive Uncertainty

408

Judging Amy

409

Honoring RBG: May her Memory be a Revolution

410

Before She was Notorious: Clerking for Ruth Bader Ginsburg

411

Homeland Insecurity: Flying Blind

412

The Vote is in the Mail: Election Protection (from the ground up)

413

Sisters in Law Special Voters Rights Edition: Use it or Lose it

414

Married to the Don

415

Conventional Wisdom: It Is What It Is

416

The Sisters in Law Special Edition: Nasty Women Vote

417

Kamala: Game On!

418

A Tale of Two Cities: Paris, Texas and Paris, France

419

Person Woman Man Economy Virus

420

A Man a Van No Plan: Portland

421

Toxic Mask-ulinity

422

Pardon Our Obstruction!

423

5-4 Roberts Plays the Long Game

424

Talking Feds 1-on-1: A Conversation with Stacey Abrams

425

The Sisters in Law Special Edition: Lowering the Barr

426

Pride and Prejudice and the Room Where It Happened

427

Talking Feds Now: The Barr-Berman Standoff

428

Trumpocalypse Nu?

429

Pouring Tear Gas on the Fire

430

Minnesota Burning

431

Memorial Day or Groundhog Day?

432

(Whistle) Blowin' in the Wind

433

Talking Feds 1-on-1: A Conversation with Governor Gretchen Whitmer

434

In Like Flynn

435

Return to the Double Agent Bar and Grill: Intelligence, National Security, and the Coronavirus

436

A Few Choice Words: Abortion Returns to the Supreme Court

437

Law in the Time of Corona: Trump’s efforts to foil law enforcement oversight

438

Talking Feds 1-on-1: A Conversation with Val Demings

439

COVID-19 & the November Election: A National Crisis in the Making

440

Tequila & Quaaludes: Trump’s mismanagement of the Coronavirus

441

Focus on American Universities: Fighting for DACA Dreamers and Coping With COVID-19

442

Governments’ Responses to COVID-19: The Good, The Bad, and The Ridiculous

443

Corona Cataclysm: a national emergency and a political wild card

444

Corona Clusterf**k

445

Was the Killing of Qasem Soleimani Legal?

446

Ignorance is Strength: Trump’s War on Fact

447

Stone Cold Disaster at DOJ

448

Has the Presidency Grown Too Powerful for the Constitution?

449

Partial Acquittal

450

Can I Get A Witness?

451

We're Lost

452

Will All Senators Now Stand

453

The Big Picture in Homeland Security: 2020 and Beyond

454

From Russia with Blood

455

Demagoguing the Border: The Trump Administration’s Treatment of Migrant Families

456

Trump Impeached: An Act of Constitutional Fidelity

457

"The Articles Are Agreed To"

458

What Will The Trial in the Senate Look Like?

459

Impeachment Academy

460

The Impeachment Week That Was: If an avalanche of evidence falls in the Congress, can Republicans hear it?

461

Sondland Testifies: The Answer is Yes

462

The Impeachment Hearings Begin

463

Deja Vu: The Trump Impeachment Through the Prism of Past Impeachments

464

The Troubled State of Voting Rights Heading into the 2020 Election

465

“Is the Dam Breaking?” Part 2-- LIVE from Politicon in Nashville, Tennessee

466

“Is the Dam Breaking?” Part 1--LIVE from Politicon in Nashville, Tennessee

467

The Federal Death Penalty

468

Get over it!

469

Bill Barr’s Justice

470

The Whistleblowers’ Moment

471

Are we f***ed?

472

Trump Agonistes

473

The Whistle is Blowing

474

McCastrophe

475

SDNY (2); still in the house

476

La Cosa SDNY: An Insider’s Guide to the Most Renowned United States Attorney’s Office

477

Left of Boom: Violent Extremism and the Law

478

The Republican Opposition

479

The Pardon Power

480

Who Fights for The People When the Government Won't?

481

The Witness Has Left The Room

482

Mooting Mueller

483

Congress's Last Stand: Mueller's Testimony

484

Trump’s Interference with the DOJ

485

“Public sentiment is everything”

486

Mueller Report Myths and Gerrymandered Maps

487

No Hope

488

Ted Talks

489

A House Divided

490

High Crimes and Misdemeanors (feat. Professor Laurence Tribe, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, and Congressman Jamie Raskin)

491

The Day Bob Mueller Spoke

492

Do Overs and Cover Ups

493

Game of Trump: A Song of Vice and Ire

494

The Counterintelligence Investigation: What it is, why it matters

495

Barr on the Rocks

496

Mueller in the House

497

A Deep Dive Into Murky Waters

498

The Mueller Report: And Now What?

499

Redaction Reaction

500

Report Summary: [REDACTED]

501

The Mueller We Know

502

Mueller Punts, Barr Intercepts

503

Breaking News: The Report Is In

504

Pardon Me

505

Mueller Done, Manafort Undone?

506

An Introduction