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The Briefing with Michael Waldman — 112 episodes · page 1 of 2

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How safe is your vote? (with Ben Ginsberg, Caitlin Durkovich, and Veronica Degraffenreid)

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The Dynamic Latino Vote (with Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes)

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The Midterms, Built by the Roberts Court

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Are the Midterms for Sale? (with Theodore Schleifer, Kareem Crayton & Dan Weiner)

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How to Save the Vote (with Kareem Crayton and Sean Morales-Doyle)

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The Battle for American Identity (with Ben Rhodes)

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Clearing the Confusion on the Supreme Court and Mail Voting

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Let’s Unstick Congress (with Maya Kornberg and Tom Malinowski)

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How will AI affect the midterms? (with Larry Norden and Abdi Ahmed)

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Trump Ramps Up Election Meddling (with Larry Norden and Wendy Weiser)

11

Bringing Power Back to the People (with Maya Wiley)

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Power Grab: Supreme Court Delivers for Trump (with Sam Breidbart and Eric Petry)

13

The Lost Founder (with Jesse Wegman)

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FBI Raids Ohio Voting Registration Group

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Voters Demand Solutions to End Corruption (with Dan Weiner and Marina Pino)

16

Trump’s Supreme Court Showdown — and Other Cases to Watch (with Tom Wolf and Wilfred Codrington)

17

The Intellectual Movement Behind MAGA (with Laura Field)

18

Hyperpartisanship and the Attack on Voting Rights (with Julian E. Zelizer)

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Understanding the U.S. Constitution (with Melissa Murray)

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

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

22

The Age of New Media (with V Spehar)

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Why Election Officials Are Alarmed (with Liz Howard)

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

25

Speed Round (with Molly Jong-Fast)

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How Equality Wins (with Kenji Yoshino)

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

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Why Is Congress Stuck? (with Maya Kornberg)

29

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

30

Executive Overreach in a Time of War

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Can the Presidency Be Tamed? (with David Frum)

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

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

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Why Nothing Works (with Marc Dunkelman)

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

36

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

37

An Emergency in Venezuela

38

2025: Year in Review

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

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

41

Does the Constitution Still Work?

42

Troops in American Cities

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Keeping a Democracy (with Joyce Vance)

44

The Power of the Purse

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Justice Weaponized

46

Paying for Power

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Supreme Court Preview

48

The Campaign to Undermine the Midterms

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The Next Phase of the Fight

50

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

51

Outbreak Behind Bars

52

The Rise of the Imperial Presidency

53

The Trouble Between Trump and the States on Education Policy

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The Constitutional Obligation to Justice

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The Supreme Court Term In Review

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The Guarantee of Birthright Citizenship

57

Presidential Power in the First 100 Days

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The Risks of Government by AI

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Presidents Don’t Control Our Elections

60

A Presidential Lawbreaking Spree

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Do the Police Care About White Supremacist Violence?

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Trump's Theory of Power

63

Insurrection Inc.

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Analyzing Trump's Plan to Invoke the Alien Enemies Act

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An Insider’s Guide to the Election Results

66

What's at Stake on State Ballots

67

Promoting Justice and Public Safety Since the Pandemic

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Latinos and the Far Right

69

The Fight Against Originalism Continues

70

What to Expect From the Supreme Court Term

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The Experts’ Guide to Free and Fair Elections

72

Solutions for a Threatened Democracy

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The Data Behind Bail Reform

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A Historic Moment for Supreme Court Reform

75

Fix The Insurrection Act

76

A Supreme Fact Check

77

Supreme Court: Ready for Reform?

78

A Politicized Supreme Court Is Remaking America

79

What Originalism Means for Women

80

Resisting Minority Rule

81

What Comes Next in the Trump Legal Saga?

82

The High Cost of Public Service

83

The Failed Experiment of Mass Incarceration

84

Misdemeanors by the Numbers

85

Decoding the Trump Indictments

86

Anne Applebaum on the Twilight of Democracy

87

Martin Garbus and the Cuban Five

88

Supreme Inequality

89

George Washington: You Never Forget Your First

90

Susan Rice on Things Worth Fighting For

91

Election Meltdown

92

When Should Law Forgive?

93

The Fight for Reproductive Rights

94

The Revolution in Prosecutors’ Offices

95

How Progressives Can Compete for Power

96

The Great Migration’s Complicated Legacy

97

How the Tumultuous ’70s Shaped Our Political Conflicts

98

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

99

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

100

Lessons From Watergate