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Socialists Go to Washington, Trump Goes to Hell (w/ Michael Powell) #583

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Jared of Arabia (w/ Matthew Cole) - Members Only #353

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The Morning After Midterm Madness (Ep. #582)

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One Hitter: Midterm Madness Pregame

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A Socialist Walks Into The Fifth Column (w/ Bhaskar Sunkara) #581

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The President Is No Longer Taking Calls (w/ Edward Luce) MO #352

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Donald Trump is Gay (Episode #580)

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The End of the Special Relationship? (w/ Jacob Siegel) Members Only #351

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Why the Midterms Are Turning Against Trump (w/ Nate Silver) Members Only #350

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Can the Democratic Center Hold? (#579)

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People Who Lie and People Who Die (w/ Sam Roberts) Members Only #349

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Europe Is Melting, Meritocracy Is Racist, and Everyone Gets Dignity (Episode #578)

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One Hitter: Why Oil Prices Could Get Much Worse (w/ Marshall Adkins) Members Only #348

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The Weave Within the Weave (#577)

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Sarah Hepola and the Life You Didn’t Choose (Members Only #347)

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The UN, Wokeness, and Other Failed Institutions (Members Only #346)

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The Algorithm Is the Editor-in-Chief (w/ David Pakman) Members Only #345

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The Loyal Republican w/ Scott Jennings (#576)

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Academically Unserious With Authoritarian Bureaucratic Aspirations (w/ Tyler Austin Harper) Members Only #344

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AI Might Kill Us. Here’s Why It Matters: w/ Jim VandeHei (#575)

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The Things We Thought After 9/11 (#574)

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The Department Formerly Known as Justice (w/ Devlin Barrett) MO 343

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Conspiracy Theories Never Die (w/ James B. Meigs) #573

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It Was All Just a Joke (Members Only #342)

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Canada Calls Trump’s Bluff (#572)

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Bad Writing, Good Journalism, and AI (w/ Ben Smith) MO #341

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Seize the Means of Conservatism (w/ Stephanie Slade) MO #340

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Clip Roulette w/ Dictators, Demons and Democracy (Episode #571)

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Terry Moran and the Network News Autopsy (Members Only #339)

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The Politics of Pretending (Episode #570)

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A Man of 1989 (w/ David Frum) #569

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Out of Whiskey and Reaching for the Rotgut (Members Only #338)

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The Admirably Irresponsible Journalist w/ John R. MacArthur (Members Only #337)

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The Fifth Gets a Substitute Teacher (w/ Jesse Singal) #568

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The Temple Is Rich. The Monks Are Poor (w/ Frank Dikötter) Members Only #336

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I Don’t Make Mistakes Anymore. They’re Just Lies (w/ Chris Cuomo) #567

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The Gold-Plated Imperial Presidency (w/ Maggie Haberman) Members Only #335

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The Denial of Reality Is a Powerful Drug (w/ Bret Stephens) - Members Only #334

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There Is No They - #566

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Failing "The God Test" (w/ Robert Wright) - Members Only #333

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Are We the Baddies? The Graham Platner Reckoning (w/ Kat Rosenfield) - #565

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The Revolution Will Be Staffed by PhDs (w/co-host Peter Meijer) - #564

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Adam Carolla Has Nowhere Else to Go (Members Only #332)

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One-Hitter: Sarah Isgur Explains the Supreme Court’s Big Finish (Members Only #331)

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The Cadres and the Cabal (#563)

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One Hitter: The DSA Takes NYC w/ Michael A. Cohen (Members Only #330)

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Genocide Juice and the Socialist Machine w/Reihan Salam (Members Only #329)

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The Iran Deal Is Bad and Everyone Is Stupid (#562)

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Batya Ungar-Sargon and the Status Revolution (Members Only #328)

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The Knicks, Oyster Man, and the Infinite Lies (#561)

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A Hamster Wheel of Shit w/Ana Navarro (Members Only #327)

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When Political Violence Has the Right Enemies w/ Noah Rothman (Members Only #326)

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Populism for Morons, Journalism for Martyrs (Episode #560)

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Senator Chris Murphy Wants You to Join a Cult (Members Only #325)

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A Great Nation in Decline Welcomes Australia’s Finest w/ Josh Szeps (Members Only #324)

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Ben Rhodes and the Evil Empire State of Mind (#559)

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Why'd You Gag Me, Preet Bharara! (Members Only #323)

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TFC LIVE in DC at w/ Lulu Garcia-Navarro & Robby Soave - Members Only #322

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Matt Yglesias on Cancellation, Mamdani, and the AI Panic (Members Only #321)

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The Youngest Guy in the Worst Room in America w/ Rep. Maxwell Frost (Episode #558)

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When Everyone Stops Pretending w/ Steven Pinker (Episode #557)

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Robert D. Kaplan on a World Getting Darker (Members Only #320)

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Masquerade of Morons (Episode #556)

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Premeditated Fingering w/ Anthony Scaramucci (Members Only #319)

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David French on the Supreme Court, Race, and the Miracle That Confirmed His Faith #555

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Crimes of Boredom (Members Only #318)

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Tucker, Totenkopf, and the Fascist Question w/ Michelle Goldberg #554

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Live From Village Underground: The 10th Anniversary Show w/Ryan Long (Members Only #317)

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Audience of One w/ Brian Kilmeade (Members Only #316)

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Nothing is Impossible w/ Mark Harmon (Members Only #315)

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A Blockade of the Blockade #553

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Supreme Court, Inferior Congress w/ Sarah Isgur (Members Only #314)

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The Ceasefire That Wasn’t #552 (w/ Abe Greenwald)

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Halfwits, Knuckle Draggers, and Droolers (Members Only #313)

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Ten Years of The Fifth Column (#551)

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Cuba, Race, and the American Category Problem w/Ted Henken (Members Only #312)

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The Limits of Sound and Fury w/ Rahm Emanuel (Members Only #311)

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Is Apple Still Apple? #550 (w/ David Pogue)

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The Hungarian Road to Havana (Members Only #310)

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There’s Always a New Monster to Destroy (w/ Noam Dworman) #549

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Cuba in the Dark (Members Only #309)

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Gov. Chris Christie Tells on Everyone #548

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A Brief Defense of the Vampires w/ Lloyd Blankfein (Members Only #308)

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Many Worlds, Bad Science, and the Strangeness of Being w/Sean Carroll (Members Only #307)

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Iran and the Fog of Regime Change (w/Hooman Majd) - #547

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Iran and the Dee Snider Doctrine (Members Only #306)

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One Hitter: War With Iran and Jewish Space Lasers w/ Nadav Eyal (Members Only #305)

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The Revolutionaries (w/ Ken Layne) -- #5

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State of the Union Post-Mortem with Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) - #546

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Locker Room Talk and the Pizzagate Reunion Tour (Members Only #304)

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A Big, Beautiful SCOTUS Decision (with Damon Root) MO #303

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Ambiguity in the Age of Outrage (w/ Jon Meacham) - #545

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Voodoo Socialism and the $3 Million Rainy Day Fund w/ William Neuman (Members Only #302)

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The Revolutionaries (w/ Robert Sullivan) - #4

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The Great American Mustache Ride (w/ John Bolton) - #544

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One Hitter- Senator Rand Paul is Lonely (Members Only #301)

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Who's Afraid of The Big Bad Bunny? (Members Only #300)

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Let's Rally Together and Unfuck America (w/ John Avlon) - #543

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Triumph of the Grift (Members Only #299)

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The Revolutionaries (w/ Bill Schulz) - #3