All Episodes
The Briefing with Michael Waldman — 103 episodes
Trump Ramps Up Election Meddling (with Larry Norden and Wendy Weiser)
Bringing Power Back to the People (with Maya Wiley)
Power Grab: Supreme Court Delivers for Trump (with Sam Breidbart and Eric Petry)
The Lost Founder (with Jesse Wegman)
FBI Raids Ohio Voting Registration Group
Voters Demand Solutions to End Corruption (with Dan Weiner and Marina Pino)
Trump’s Supreme Court Showdown — and Other Cases to Watch (with Tom Wolf and Wilfred Codrington)
The Intellectual Movement Behind MAGA (with Laura Field)
Hyperpartisanship and the Attack on Voting Rights (with Julian E. Zelizer)
Understanding the U.S. Constitution (with Melissa Murray)
How to Fix the Supreme Court (with Miriam Rosenbaum and Olatunde Johnson)
The Supreme Court Eviscerates the Voting Rights Act (with Wendy Weiser and Kareem Crayton)
The Age of New Media (with V Spehar)
Why Election Officials Are Alarmed (with Liz Howard)
The Conservatives Fighting for the Rule of Law (with Gregg Nunziata)
Speed Round (with Molly Jong-Fast)
How Equality Wins (with Kenji Yoshino)
How to Improve America’s Prisons (with L.B. Eisen and Randall Liberty)
Why Is Congress Stuck? (with Maya Kornberg)
A Fight for Voting Rights and a Showdown over AI Warfare (with Eliza Sweren-Becker & Amos Toh)
Executive Overreach in a Time of War
Can the Presidency Be Tamed? (with David Frum)
A Moment for Reform in Congress (with Rep. Joe Morelle)
How the Justice Department Came to Threaten Elections (with Eileen O'Connor and Chris Berger)
Why Nothing Works (with Marc Dunkelman)
Pam Bondi's “Ransom” Letter (with Wendy Weiser)
How We Can Fix America’s Corruption Problem (with Celinda Lake and Daniel Weiner)
An Emergency in Venezuela
2025: Year in Review
Bush v. Gore and the State of U.S. Elections
How Congress Must Respond to Trump's Boat Strikes (with Katherine Yon Ebright)
Does the Constitution Still Work?
Troops in American Cities
Keeping a Democracy (with Joyce Vance)
The Power of the Purse
Justice Weaponized
Paying for Power
Supreme Court Preview
The Campaign to Undermine the Midterms
The Next Phase of the Fight
The Past, Present, and Future of the Voting Rights Act
Outbreak Behind Bars
The Rise of the Imperial Presidency
The Trouble Between Trump and the States on Education Policy
The Constitutional Obligation to Justice
The Supreme Court Term In Review
The Guarantee of Birthright Citizenship
Presidential Power in the First 100 Days
The Risks of Government by AI
Presidents Don’t Control Our Elections
A Presidential Lawbreaking Spree
Do the Police Care About White Supremacist Violence?
Trump's Theory of Power
Insurrection Inc.
Analyzing Trump's Plan to Invoke the Alien Enemies Act
An Insider’s Guide to the Election Results
What's at Stake on State Ballots
Promoting Justice and Public Safety Since the Pandemic
Latinos and the Far Right
The Fight Against Originalism Continues
What to Expect From the Supreme Court Term
The Experts’ Guide to Free and Fair Elections
Solutions for a Threatened Democracy
The Data Behind Bail Reform
A Historic Moment for Supreme Court Reform
Fix The Insurrection Act
A Supreme Fact Check
Supreme Court: Ready for Reform?
A Politicized Supreme Court Is Remaking America
What Originalism Means for Women
Resisting Minority Rule
What Comes Next in the Trump Legal Saga?
The High Cost of Public Service
The Failed Experiment of Mass Incarceration
Misdemeanors by the Numbers
Decoding the Trump Indictments
Anne Applebaum on the Twilight of Democracy
Martin Garbus and the Cuban Five
Supreme Inequality
George Washington: You Never Forget Your First
Susan Rice on Things Worth Fighting For
Election Meltdown
When Should Law Forgive?
The Fight for Reproductive Rights
The Revolution in Prosecutors’ Offices
How Progressives Can Compete for Power
The Great Migration’s Complicated Legacy
How the Tumultuous ’70s Shaped Our Political Conflicts
Preet Bharara on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Race, the Law, and Politics
Lessons From Watergate
Van Jones, Darren Walker: How To End Mass Incarceration
Carol Anderson: One Person, No Vote
Voter Suppression 2018
Danielle Allen: Cuz – A Memoir of Mass Incarceration
Trumpocracy: A Conversation With David Frum
The 2020 Census: What's at Stake
Democracy's Problems and Prospects: A Book Talk with Douglas E. Schoen
What Went Wrong with the FISA Court?
The Black Vote & U.S. Democracy
What Caused the Crime Decline?
Scott Horton Book Talk: Lords of Secrecy
Kenneth P. Vogel and Walter Shapiro on 'Big Money' Book