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Washington Monthly — 77 episodes

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1

The Myth of the "Independent Creator" | Matt Robison

2

Real Men Teach - We Need More of Them | Curtis Valentine

3

Can capitalism be saved? | Nick Hanauer and Eric Beinhocker

4

Get ready for the AI crash | Asad Ramzanali

5

Trump’s Not-So-Great Health Care Plan | Edwin Park

6

The Republicans Who Could Save Democracy | Andrew Seligsohn and Sarah Bryner

7

How New Orleans Fixed Its Schools | David Osborne

8

Gen Z's Problem with "Fake" News | Chuck Salter

9

Why Democrats need to win back rural voters | Suzanne Mettler and Trevor Brown

10

A promising new strategy to end super PACs and dark money in politics | Lawrence Lessig

11

The case against billionaires | Chuck Collins

12

Government is, in fact, broken | Hannah Garden-Monheit

13

Tough Medicine for Democrats: “Too liberal” and “out of touch” | Simon Bazelon

14

How Democrats Won Virginia and New Jersey | Angela Kuefler

15

US-Canada relations have hit rock bottom | Hon. James Blanchard

16

Federal data are disappearing | Denice Ross

17

How the Supreme Court could further turbo-charge gerrymandering | Josh Douglas

18

Congress has bankrupted America's future | Eugene Steuerle

19

A One-Woman Stand Against Conspiracists | Natalie Wynn

20

How extreme geographic inequality could explain our polarized politics | Kenan Fikri

21

China through the eyes of its most famous dissident | Ian Johnson

22

The New Deal Treasures Potentially Slated for Demolition | Tim Noah

23

In defense of book reviews | Christoph Irmscher

24

Virginia Election Preview: Culture Wars Versus Kitchen Table | Pete Brodnitz

25

The Supreme Court greenlights racial profiling – for now | Peter Shane

26

SPONSORED: Montclair State - An engine of opportunity for first-generation students

27

Trump’s undemocratic effort to end vote by mail | Phil Keisling

28

BONUS: Fear and Loathing in Occupied DC | James Fallows

29

Borrowing for college is about to get really confusing | Sandy Baum

30

Berea: The Little College That Could | Cheryl Nixon

31

A century on the airwaves, but a precarious future ahead | Steven Bass

32

How Texas Became a Right-Wing California

33

Why Harvard might be forced to cave to Trump

34

The Future of Global Trade - Without America | William Reinsch

35

Why a recession is inevitable | Robert Shapiro

36

Weekly Politics Roundtable - The End (?) of the Trump-Putin Bromance - Special Guest: Tamar Jacoby

37

Supreme Court or Supreme Enablers? | Garrett Epps

38

Feeding the world but killing the planet | Michael Grunwald

39

Politics Livestream: We're Living in Trump's America Now

40

Politics LIVESTREAM: One Big Betrayal of Trump's Base

41

10 Years After Obergefell - The Precarious Future of Equality and LGBTQ Rights | Alison Gash

42

Politics LIVESTREAM: Trump Wages War | Special Guest - Jacob Heilbrunn

43

Politics LIVESTREAM: People versus the parade - No Kings protests upstage Trump's birthday party

44

Trump's war on international students | Robert Kelchen

45

Politics LIVESTREAM - Showdown in L.A.

46

What Kristi Noem got wrong on habeas corpus - A primer on the "Great Writ" | Lee Kovarsky

47

Politics LIVESTREAM - Trump's very busy weekend

48

Trump versus Maine: The Mouse that Roared | Luisa Deprez and Amy Fried

49

Politics LIVESTREAM - The ugly realities of Republicans' "big, beautiful" bill | Bill Scher

50

Trump's First 100 Days: FDR in Reverse | Jonathan Alter

51

Politics LIVESTREAM - Promises made; promises broken

52

The Decline and Fall of the U.S. Senate | Ira Shapiro

53

Politics LIVE - The "I" Word | Bill Scher and Matt Cooper

54

Why Big Law shouldn't cave to Trump | Garrett Epps and Anne Kim

55

Politics LIVE - Trump is TANKING | Matt Cooper and Bill Scher

56

Three things every citizen should know about freedom of the press | Garrett Epps and Anne Kim

57

Politics LIVESTREAM - Is Trump at a tipping point?

58

Why Guam could be the next Pearl Harbor | Christian Caryl

59

A citizens' guide to resisting Trump | Timothy Noah

60

Politics LIVESTREAM: The start of an "American Spring"? | Bill Scher and Matt Cooper

61

Can "economic affirmative action" replace DEI?

62

Politics LIVESTREAM: SignalGate and tariffs raise questions of Trump's competence | Matt Cooper and Bill Scher

63

America's abandonment of Ukraine | Tamar Jacoby and Mike Lofgren

64

Politics LIVE - Defiance, Revenge - and the Rise of AOC? | Matt Cooper, Bill Scher and Anne Kim

65

Why the hot new theory of "abundance liberalism" won't save progressivism | Paul Glastris and Nate Weisberg

66

Can colleges survive Trump? | Robert Kelchen

67

Trump's State of the Union: Rage and Revenge | Bill Scher and Paul Glastris

68

Trump takes a wrecking ball to the separation of powers | Garrett Epps and Anne Kim

69

Ukraine's survival on the brink | Tamar Jacoby

70

Protecting voting rights in the era of Trump | Josh Douglas

71

Trump's war on federal workers | Don Kettl

72

Is a Trump recession coming? | Rob Shapiro

73

Winning Working Class Americans - Part II | Paul Glastris

74

Winning Working Class Americans - Part I | Paul Glastris

75

Pete Hegseth and the Conservative Assault on Veterans' Healthcare | Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early

76

Born in America but not a Citizen? The Looming Threat to Birthright Citizenship | Garrett Epps and Anne Kim

77

Trump's dangerous plan for recess appointments | Peter Shane