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The Briefing with Michael Waldman — 93 episodes

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1

How to Fix the Supreme Court (with Miriam Rosenbaum and Olatunde Johnson)

2

The Supreme Court Eviscerates the Voting Rights Act (with Wendy Weiser and Kareem Crayton)

3

The Age of New Media (with V Spehar)

4

Why Election Officials Are Alarmed (with Liz Howard)

5

The Conservatives Fighting for the Rule of Law (with Gregg Nunziata)

6

Speed Round (with Molly Jong-Fast)

7

How Equality Wins (with Kenji Yoshino)

8

How to Improve America’s Prisons (with L.B. Eisen and Randall Liberty)

9

Why Is Congress Stuck? (with Maya Kornberg)

10

A Fight for Voting Rights and a Showdown over AI Warfare (with Eliza Sweren-Becker & Amos Toh)

11

Executive Overreach in a Time of War

12

Can the Presidency Be Tamed? (with David Frum)

13

A Moment for Reform in Congress (with Rep. Joe Morelle)

14

How the Justice Department Came to Threaten Elections (with Eileen O'Connor and Chris Berger)

15

Why Nothing Works (with Marc Dunkelman)

16

Pam Bondi's “Ransom” Letter (with Wendy Weiser)

17

How We Can Fix America’s Corruption Problem (with Celinda Lake and Daniel Weiner)

18

An Emergency in Venezuela

19

2025: Year in Review

20

Bush v. Gore and the State of U.S. Elections

21

How Congress Must Respond to Trump's Boat Strikes (with Katherine Yon Ebright)

22

Does the Constitution Still Work?

23

Troops in American Cities

24

Keeping a Democracy (with Joyce Vance)

25

The Power of the Purse

26

Justice Weaponized

27

Paying for Power

28

Supreme Court Preview

29

The Campaign to Undermine the Midterms

30

The Next Phase of the Fight

31

The Past, Present, and Future of the Voting Rights Act

32

Outbreak Behind Bars

33

The Rise of the Imperial Presidency

34

The Trouble Between Trump and the States on Education Policy

35

The Constitutional Obligation to Justice

36

The Supreme Court Term In Review

37

The Guarantee of Birthright Citizenship

38

Presidential Power in the First 100 Days

39

The Risks of Government by AI

40

Presidents Don’t Control Our Elections

41

A Presidential Lawbreaking Spree

42

Do the Police Care About White Supremacist Violence?

43

Trump's Theory of Power

44

Insurrection Inc.

45

Analyzing Trump's Plan to Invoke the Alien Enemies Act

46

An Insider’s Guide to the Election Results

47

What's at Stake on State Ballots

48

Promoting Justice and Public Safety Since the Pandemic

49

Latinos and the Far Right

50

The Fight Against Originalism Continues

51

What to Expect From the Supreme Court Term

52

The Experts’ Guide to Free and Fair Elections

53

Solutions for a Threatened Democracy

54

The Data Behind Bail Reform

55

A Historic Moment for Supreme Court Reform

56

Fix The Insurrection Act

57

A Supreme Fact Check

58

Supreme Court: Ready for Reform?

59

A Politicized Supreme Court Is Remaking America

60

What Originalism Means for Women

61

Resisting Minority Rule

62

What Comes Next in the Trump Legal Saga?

63

The High Cost of Public Service

64

The Failed Experiment of Mass Incarceration

65

Misdemeanors by the Numbers

66

Decoding the Trump Indictments

67

Anne Applebaum on the Twilight of Democracy

68

Martin Garbus and the Cuban Five

69

Supreme Inequality

70

George Washington: You Never Forget Your First

71

Susan Rice on Things Worth Fighting For

72

Election Meltdown

73

When Should Law Forgive?

74

The Fight for Reproductive Rights

75

The Revolution in Prosecutors’ Offices

76

How Progressives Can Compete for Power

77

The Great Migration’s Complicated Legacy

78

How the Tumultuous ’70s Shaped Our Political Conflicts

79

Preet Bharara on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law

80

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Race, the Law, and Politics

81

Lessons From Watergate

82

Van Jones, Darren Walker: How To End Mass Incarceration

83

Carol Anderson: One Person, No Vote

84

Voter Suppression 2018

85

Danielle Allen: Cuz – A Memoir of Mass Incarceration

86

Trumpocracy: A Conversation With David Frum

87

The 2020 Census: What's at Stake

88

Democracy's Problems and Prospects: A Book Talk with Douglas E. Schoen

89

What Went Wrong with the FISA Court?

90

The Black Vote & U.S. Democracy

91

What Caused the Crime Decline?

92

Scott Horton Book Talk: Lords of Secrecy

93

Kenneth P. Vogel and Walter Shapiro on 'Big Money' Book