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Washington Monthly — 74 episodes

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1

Get ready for the AI crash | Asad Ramzanali

2

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

3

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

4

How New Orleans Fixed Its Schools | David Osborne

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

The case against billionaires | Chuck Collins

9

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

10

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

11

How Democrats Won Virginia and New Jersey | Angela Kuefler

12

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

13

Federal data are disappearing | Denice Ross

14

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

15

Congress has bankrupted America's future | Eugene Steuerle

16

A One-Woman Stand Against Conspiracists | Natalie Wynn

17

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

18

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

19

The New Deal Treasures Potentially Slated for Demolition | Tim Noah

20

In defense of book reviews | Christoph Irmscher

21

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

22

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

23

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

24

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

25

BONUS: Fear and Loathing in Occupied DC | James Fallows

26

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

27

Berea: The Little College That Could | Cheryl Nixon

28

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

29

How Texas Became a Right-Wing California

30

Why Harvard might be forced to cave to Trump

31

The Future of Global Trade - Without America | William Reinsch

32

Why a recession is inevitable | Robert Shapiro

33

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

34

Supreme Court or Supreme Enablers? | Garrett Epps

35

Feeding the world but killing the planet | Michael Grunwald

36

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

37

Politics LIVESTREAM: One Big Betrayal of Trump's Base

38

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

39

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

40

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

41

Trump's war on international students | Robert Kelchen

42

Politics LIVESTREAM - Showdown in L.A.

43

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

44

Politics LIVESTREAM - Trump's very busy weekend

45

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

46

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

47

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

48

Politics LIVESTREAM - Promises made; promises broken

49

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

50

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

51

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

52

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

53

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

54

Politics LIVESTREAM - Is Trump at a tipping point?

55

Why Guam could be the next Pearl Harbor | Christian Caryl

56

A citizens' guide to resisting Trump | Timothy Noah

57

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

58

Can "economic affirmative action" replace DEI?

59

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

60

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

61

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

62

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

63

Can colleges survive Trump? | Robert Kelchen

64

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

65

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

66

Ukraine's survival on the brink | Tamar Jacoby

67

Protecting voting rights in the era of Trump | Josh Douglas

68

Trump's war on federal workers | Don Kettl

69

Is a Trump recession coming? | Rob Shapiro

70

Winning Working Class Americans - Part II | Paul Glastris

71

Winning Working Class Americans - Part I | Paul Glastris

72

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

73

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

74

Trump's dangerous plan for recess appointments | Peter Shane