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The Telos News Podcast with Ryan Lizza — 54 episodes

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What Tuesday’s Results Really Mean

2

Election Preview With Steve Schmidt

3

A Third Term for Trump?

4

What Comes After No Kings?

5

Talking Comey, No Kings, Moby Dick, Ulysses, Nazis, and Puppies with Miles Taylor

6

October Has Been a Terrible Month for American Democracy So Far

7

What's Really Behind Trump's Plan to Militarize American Cities

8

Reacting to Trump's Fascist 'Enemies Within' Speech With Steve Schmidt

9

Ben Meiselas and Ryan Lizza on Weaponizing Defamation Law and the Rise of the Red Caesarists

10

How the Tea Party Turned Into MAGA

11

The Coming Kirk Crackdown on the Left

12

Will the Supreme Court Ever Stand Up to Trump?

13

Miles Taylor on How Trump’s DHS Could Undermine the 2026 Election

14

Paul Krugman on Trump's Attempt to Take Over the Fed

15

The Frightening Escalation of Trump's Militarization of D.C.

16

Trump's Occupation of DC Begins

17

Is Gavin Newsom the 2028 Dem frontrunner? Steve Schmidt and I break down the emerging presidential field.

18

My Weekly Chat with Steve Schmidt (July 21)

19

The Surge in ICE Funding is a Five-Alarm Fire for our Democracy

20

Judge Michael Luttig on "The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom—and of Tyranny"

21

Judge Michael Luttig and Ryan Lizza talk to Anand Giridharadas

22

Judge Michael Luttig and Ryan Lizza stop by The Jim Acosta Show

23

Judge Michael Luttig and Ryan Lizza talk to Steve Schmidt

24

The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom—and of Tyranny

25

My Weekly Chat with Steve Schmidt (June 30)

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My Weekly Chat with Steve Schmidt (June 23)

27

Elliott Morris answers all of your polling questions!

28

My Weekly Chat with Steve Schmidt (June 16)

29

Trump Has Wanted to Use the Military in American Cities for Years

30

My Weekly Chat with Steve Schmidt (June 9)

31

My Weekly Chat with Steve Schmidt (June 2)

32

The week in politics with Sam Stein and Laura Bassett

33

FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez on how a weaponized government endangers free speech

34

Judge Michael Luttig on the GOP

35

Gabe Fleisher on SCOTUS, Reconciliation, Polling, and the Future of Journalism

36

Steven Levitsky on Trump and "Competitive Authoritarianism"

37

Telos Master Class: Paul Krugman on Trump’s Trade Wars (Part 2)

38

Telos Master Class: Paul Krugman on Trump’s Trade Wars (Part 1)

39

Telos Master Class: Liza Goitein on Donald Trump's Emergency Powers

40

Telos Master Class: Steve Vladeck on Habeas Corpus

41

Simon Rosenberg on Trump's decline and the expanding "circle of defiance"

42

Tom LoBianco on Profiles in Courage

43

James Fallows on whether you should worry about getting on an airline flight tomorrow

44

Steve Schmidt on why Washington Democrats aren't fighting hard enough against Trump

45

Judge Michael Luttig on Trump's lawlessness

46

Lauren Harper reveals the backstory about the secret memo that undercuts Trump’s deportation policy

47

Damon Linker on the "thinkers who set the stage for Trump the all-powerful”

48

Adam Klasfeld Discusses His New Project, All Rise News

49

Chris Cillizza and I discuss the independent journalism renaissance

50

Jennifer Rubin Discusses the Success of The Contrarian

51

Vicky Ward gets me to dish on some things I rarely discuss in public

52

Jim Acosta welcomes me to Substack on his enormously popular show

53

Don Lemon and Ryan Lizza catch up on everything!

54

Steve Schmidt welcomes Telos to Substack