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Tim Miller and guests discuss the latest political news for the flagship podcast of the Never Trump movement and the reality-based community. Every weekday we provide insightful analysis, political hot-takes, an unabashed defense of liberal democracy and long-form interviews that cut through the "both-sides" BS. Plus a few laughs to help you wash down the crazy.

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Tim Miller and guests discuss the latest political news for the flagship podcast of the Never Trump movement and the reality-based community. Every weekday we provide insightful analysis, political hot-takes, an unabashed defense of liberal democracy and long-form interviews that cut through the "both-sides" BS. Plus a few laughs to help you wash down the crazy.

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Published 2025-05-01

S2 Ep1033: Tom Nichols: The Hollow Opportunists

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Marco Rubio was supposed to be one of the only adults in the room, and now he's become a shell of himself executing Trump's unwinding of the US role in the world.
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Marco Rubio was supposed to be one of the only adults in the room, and now he's become a shell of himself executing Trump's unwinding of the US role in the world.
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Published 2025-04-30

S2 Ep1032: Tony Blinken: America Alone

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For 80 years, the United States built strong economic, military, and political alliances around the world. But in just 100 days, that trust has been dismantled, and our friends are now working without us to forge new relationships.
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For 80 years, the United States built strong economic, military, and political alliances around the world. But in just 100 days, that trust has been dismantled, and our friends are now working without us to forge new relationships.
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Published 2025-04-28

S2 Ep1030: Bill Kristol: Creepy and Wrong

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The Trump administration keeps showing it's sooo tough on immigration that it deported three U.S. citizen children, arrested the wife of a member of the Coast Guard because her visa expired, and perp-walked an allegedly immigrant-concealing Wisconsin judge in handcuffs—instead of showing her the kind of deference Trump received over the course of his four indictments.
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The Trump administration keeps showing it's sooo tough on immigration that it deported three U.S. citizen children, arrested the wife of a member of the Coast Guard because her visa expired, and perp-walked an allegedly immigrant-concealing Wisconsin judge in handcuffs—instead of showing her the kind of deference Trump received over the course of his four indictments.
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Published 2025-04-25

S2 Ep1029: Beto O'Rourke: Never Lose Hope

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Since this country's founding, we have been tested. And the Americans before us somehow stood up and fought the good fight.
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Since this country's founding, we have been tested. And the Americans before us somehow stood up and fought the good fight.
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Published 2025-04-24

S2 Ep1028: Cory Booker: A National Crisis and a Global Crisis

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Donald Trump is trying to foist the worst peace deal in the last 100 years on Ukraine, as he gets repeatedly played by foreign leaders on the world stage.
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Donald Trump is trying to foist the worst peace deal in the last 100 years on Ukraine, as he gets repeatedly played by foreign leaders on the world stage.
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Published 2025-04-23

S2 Ep1027: Jonathan Rauch: Focus On the Corruption

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Trump may be brilliant at assaulting us with his daily distractions, but Democrats need to relentlessly target his corruption because that may be his weak spot.
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Trump may be brilliant at assaulting us with his daily distractions, but Democrats need to relentlessly target his corruption because that may be his weak spot.
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Published 2025-04-21

S2 Ep1025: Bill Kristol: Hegseth Keeps Proving his Unfitness

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Republican senators could have insisted on someone who was even minimally competent to run our military, but because of their spinelessness, we've now got a SecDef who can't resist texting top secret war plans.
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Republican senators could have insisted on someone who was even minimally competent to run our military, but because of their spinelessness, we've now got a SecDef who can't resist texting top secret war plans.
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Published 2025-04-18

S2 Ep1024: Anne Applebaum: Everything Is a Game to Trump

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Sen. Van Hollen showed that Congress actually does have agency, and a federal judge finally scorched the administration in crystal-clear language about how it's violating the essence of our constitutional republic.
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Sen. Van Hollen showed that Congress actually does have agency, and a federal judge finally scorched the administration in crystal-clear language about how it's violating the essence of our constitutional republic.
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Published 2025-04-17

S2 Ep1023: Ben Wittes: Sorry, We Still Have Due Process

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The White House is doubling down on justifying its extra-judicial actions around Abrego Garcia by trying to incriminate him in the court of public opinion. But the government still can't take people off an American street and send them to a concentration camp without due process.
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The White House is doubling down on justifying its extra-judicial actions around Abrego Garcia by trying to incriminate him in the court of public opinion. But the government still can't take people off an American street and send them to a concentration camp without due process.
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Published 2025-04-16

S2 Ep1022: Stephanie Ruhle: Only Trump Is Happy

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Manufacturing orders are down, stocks are down, and mortgage rates are up. But Trump and his family are wealthier than they've ever been.
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Manufacturing orders are down, stocks are down, and mortgage rates are up. But Trump and his family are wealthier than they've ever been.
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Published 2025-04-15

S2 Ep1021: Josh Barro: Total Idiocy

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Trump & company want to turn us into Taiwan circa 1985. But the brilliant minds behind the idea of intentionally weakening the dollar are prioritizing making America a good place to manufacture rather than a good place to live.
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Trump & company want to turn us into Taiwan circa 1985. But the brilliant minds behind the idea of intentionally weakening the dollar are prioritizing making America a good place to manufacture rather than a good place to live.
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Published 2025-04-14

S2 Ep1020: Bill Kristol: Staring Down the Barrel

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We are here: Trump is openly defying the Supreme Court while sitting side-by-side with a Latin American strongman who openly mocked our judicial system from inside the Oval Office.
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We are here: Trump is openly defying the Supreme Court while sitting side-by-side with a Latin American strongman who openly mocked our judicial system from inside the Oval Office.
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Published 2025-04-11

S2 Ep1019: David Frum: It's Too Late to Stop the Pain

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Trump has effectively imposed a trade embargo on China, which means that after the inventory runs out, American retail will soon dry up.
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Trump has effectively imposed a trade embargo on China, which means that after the inventory runs out, American retail will soon dry up.
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Published 2025-04-10

S2 Ep1018: Andrew Weissmann and Patrick Gaspard: Naked Corruption

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Just before he paused the tariffs on Wednesday, an unusual spike in activity on the S&P 500 prompted speculation that Trump was orchestrating an insider trading scheme.
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Just before he paused the tariffs on Wednesday, an unusual spike in activity on the S&P 500 prompted speculation that Trump was orchestrating an insider trading scheme.
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Published 2025-04-09

S2 Ep1017: Catherine Rampell: Trump's Tariffmageddon

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The White House is pumping out a lot of happy talk about countries wanting to make deals over the tariffs, but the tumult Trump has created has spread to the bond market.
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The White House is pumping out a lot of happy talk about countries wanting to make deals over the tariffs, but the tumult Trump has created has spread to the bond market.
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Published 2025-04-07

S2 Ep1015: Bill Kristol: The High Cost of Stupidity

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Part of the reason for the market bloodbath is because the finance wizzes didn't factor in that Trump would actually do the truly moronic thing he kept saying he would.
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Part of the reason for the market bloodbath is because the finance wizzes didn't factor in that Trump would actually do the truly moronic thing he kept saying he would.
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Published 2025-04-03

S2 Ep1013: Mallory McMorrow and Tracy Alloway: A Self-Inflicted Crisis

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The market plunge is just pure Trump chaos, and perfectly matches his record as a businessman. From his numerous bankruptcies and many failures—including his airline, his casinos, his university, his water, and his steaks—he's been running one long con.
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The market plunge is just pure Trump chaos, and perfectly matches his record as a businessman. From his numerous bankruptcies and many failures—including his airline, his casinos, his university, his water, and his steaks—he's been running one long con.
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Published 2025-04-02

S2 Ep1012: Sam Stein: Elon Is Toxic

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Musk was so high on his own supply that he thought he and his money were magic—but Wisconsin voters turned out in droves to prove to him just how toxic his brand and DOGE are
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Musk was so high on his own supply that he thought he and his money were magic—but Wisconsin voters turned out in droves to prove to him just how toxic his brand and DOGE are
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Published 2025-04-01

S2 Ep1011: Susan Rice: This Is Bloody Serious

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The administration admits it mistakenly sent a Maryland father with protected status to the Salvadoran penal colony—but at the same time, it says the federal courts have no jurisdiction over him because he is now in a foreign country.
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The administration admits it mistakenly sent a Maryland father with protected status to the Salvadoran penal colony—but at the same time, it says the federal courts have no jurisdiction over him because he is now in a foreign country.
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Published 2025-03-31

S2 Ep1010: Bill Kristol: Stiffen Your Spines, Democrats

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If Joe Rogan is the voice in the wilderness on the disappearing of migrants to El Salvador, then the Democratic leadership really needs to rethink its cautiousness.
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If Joe Rogan is the voice in the wilderness on the disappearing of migrants to El Salvador, then the Democratic leadership really needs to rethink its cautiousness.
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Published 2025-03-28

S2 Ep1009: Amanda Carpenter: Daddy? No, Manny Trump

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Trump is siccing the thought police on the Smithsonian, he's got an FBI task force set up to protect Elon's car company, and he's turning random tattoos into gang insignia—unless they're on Pete Hegseth.
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Trump is siccing the thought police on the Smithsonian, he's got an FBI task force set up to protect Elon's car company, and he's turning random tattoos into gang insignia—unless they're on Pete Hegseth.
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Published 2025-03-27

S2 Ep1008: Jon Lovett: A Worst Case Scenario Comes Into View

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Trump is creating a permission structure where we lock up people without due process in a foreign gulag—and where masked, plainclothes officers in unmarked cars can grab an international student off the street because of her speech.
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Trump is creating a permission structure where we lock up people without due process in a foreign gulag—and where masked, plainclothes officers in unmarked cars can grab an international student off the street because of her speech.
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Published 2025-03-26

S2 Ep1008: Michael Weiss, Ben Smith, and Annie Karni: Radioactively Stupid

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No matter how hard Republicans try to spin the sharing of top secret military attack plans on an insecure app, the colossal f***up of an administration that claimed it was rooting out incompetence is plain on its face.
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No matter how hard Republicans try to spin the sharing of top secret military attack plans on an insecure app, the colossal f***up of an administration that claimed it was rooting out incompetence is plain on its face.
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Published 2025-03-25

S2 Ep1007: Jeffrey Goldberg and Peter Wehner: What's Going on with Our National Security?

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Members of Trump's Cabinet got caught sharing attack plans—down to details of who they were planning to kill, and with what kind of weapons—and now they'll say anything to get out of the jam they put themselves in.
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Members of Trump's Cabinet got caught sharing attack plans—down to details of who they were planning to kill, and with what kind of weapons—and now they'll say anything to get out of the jam they put themselves in.
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Published 2025-03-24

S2 Ep1006: Live from Phoenix

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Bill Kristol joined Tim Saturday in Arizona to rip the behavior of our government—depriving even lawful Venezuelan migrants of due process, and shipping them off to a mega-prison in San Salvador where they may be being tortured.
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Bill Kristol joined Tim Saturday in Arizona to rip the behavior of our government—depriving even lawful Venezuelan migrants of due process, and shipping them off to a mega-prison in San Salvador where they may be being tortured.
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Published 2025-03-21

S2 Ep1005: Michael Lewis: Government Workers Aren't the Corrupt Ones

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Trump loves to complain about the deep state while Elon claims he's rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse. But government workers are mainly mission-driven and they're not in it for the money.
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Trump loves to complain about the deep state while Elon claims he's rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse. But government workers are mainly mission-driven and they're not in it for the money.
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Published 2025-03-20

S2 Ep1004: Wes Moore: The System Doesn't Work for a Lot of People

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Trump is a vessel for frustration over the status quo, but he is not a vehicle for a solution—since he has no idea about how to make things better for anyone besides himself.
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Trump is a vessel for frustration over the status quo, but he is not a vehicle for a solution—since he has no idea about how to make things better for anyone besides himself.
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Published 2025-03-19

S2 Ep1003: Ben Wittes: Putin Makes A Fool of Trump, Again

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The Art of the Deal guy gave a master class on how to get worked over by Putin: First, wait around for an hour like an obedient puppy only to have your ceasefire proposal summarily rejected.
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The Art of the Deal guy gave a master class on how to get worked over by Putin: First, wait around for an hour like an obedient puppy only to have your ceasefire proposal summarily rejected.
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Published 2025-03-18

S2 Ep1002: Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov: The Cheap Whore at the White House

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The fastest growing demographic class in America is billionaires—we've gone from 500 to 2,500 in the past 10 years. And they know the cheapest, easiest way to get richer: Give a million bucks to Mr. Pay-to-Play in the Oval Office.
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The fastest growing demographic class in America is billionaires—we've gone from 500 to 2,500 in the past 10 years. And they know the cheapest, easiest way to get richer: Give a million bucks to Mr. Pay-to-Play in the Oval Office.
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Published 2025-03-17

S2 Ep1001: Bill Kristol: Give Back the Statue of Liberty

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Trump is taking liberties with our country's role in the world as a land of hope and opportunity by summarily locking up and deporting law-abiding immigrants—including people with legitimate asylum claims, people here on proper visas, and people with minor errors in their paperwork.
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Trump is taking liberties with our country's role in the world as a land of hope and opportunity by summarily locking up and deporting law-abiding immigrants—including people with legitimate asylum claims, people here on proper visas, and people with minor errors in their paperwork.
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Published 2025-03-13

S2 Ep999: Sam Stein: How Do You Negotiate with Nihilists?

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Democrats are stuck with two terrible options: Either facilitating a government shutdown or allowing Republicans to pass a spending bill that would defund D.C.'s police and schools.
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Democrats are stuck with two terrible options: Either facilitating a government shutdown or allowing Republicans to pass a spending bill that would defund D.C.'s police and schools.
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Published 2025-03-12

Mark Hertling: Aiding and Abetting a War Criminal

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Putin has been named a war criminal because of the Russian way of war in Ukraine—bombing Kyiv and other cities, attacking civilians and first aid workers, and destroying infrastructure.
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Putin has been named a war criminal because of the Russian way of war in Ukraine—bombing Kyiv and other cities, attacking civilians and first aid workers, and destroying infrastructure.
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Published 2025-03-11

Will Sommer: Across the MAGA-Verse

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To find out what's really going on in Trumpistan, the AP is out and random lifestyle Instagrammers and MAGA conspiracy posters are in.
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To find out what's really going on in Trumpistan, the AP is out and random lifestyle Instagrammers and MAGA conspiracy posters are in.
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Published 2025-03-10

S.E. Cupp: The Outrage Is the Point

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This time around, Trump has dispensed with the ribbon-cutting side of being president—he's just not giving average Americans anything to feel good about.
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This time around, Trump has dispensed with the ribbon-cutting side of being president—he's just not giving average Americans anything to feel good about.
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Published 2025-03-07

Tom Nichols: Covid Trump 2.0

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They end up sounding ridiculous whenever they try—like the treasury secretary saying that access to cheap goods is not part of the American dream.
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They end up sounding ridiculous whenever they try—like the treasury secretary saying that access to cheap goods is not part of the American dream.
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Published 2025-03-06

Neera Tanden and John Fetterman: They're Playing With People's Lives

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Donald Trump is hurting the American people. The DOGE cuts are not only waging war on jobs, they're also harming the American public and undermining the safety, health, and economic well-being of everyday Americans.
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Donald Trump is hurting the American people. The DOGE cuts are not only waging war on jobs, they're also harming the American public and undermining the safety, health, and economic well-being of everyday Americans.
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Published 2025-03-05

Jim Acosta: Trump Can't Take the Heat

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Once upon a time, presidents used to take tough questions from the press, but the current White House occupant can't handle any scrutiny from cantankerous reporters.
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Once upon a time, presidents used to take tough questions from the press, but the current White House occupant can't handle any scrutiny from cantankerous reporters.
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Published 2025-03-03

Bill Kristol: Kleptocrats and Plutocrats

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Trump is trying to chuck the post-WWII order and firmly pivot American foreign policy away from Europe and toward Putin—the poor guy who got dragged into totally-not-a-hoax Russia Russia Russia.
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Trump is trying to chuck the post-WWII order and firmly pivot American foreign policy away from Europe and toward Putin—the poor guy who got dragged into totally-not-a-hoax Russia Russia Russia.
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Published 2025-03-02

BONUS EPISODE from Tim's New "FYPod"

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Tim and his "FYPod" co-host Cameron Kasky discuss how Covid helped push Gen Z right. Then, Joshua Rush explains the activist tactics of Gen Z.
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Tim and his "FYPod" co-host Cameron Kasky discuss how Covid helped push Gen Z right. Then, Joshua Rush explains the activist tactics of Gen Z.
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Published 2025-02-28

David Frum: Both Pro-Jesus and Pro-Sex Trafficking

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Forget the Epstein files hullabaloo. Members of the Trump administration, perhaps at the urging of Barron Trump, seem to have directly intervened to get the travel ban lifted on the Tate brothers, who are charged with rape and sex trafficking in Europe.
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Forget the Epstein files hullabaloo. Members of the Trump administration, perhaps at the urging of Barron Trump, seem to have directly intervened to get the travel ban lifted on the Tate brothers, who are charged with rape and sex trafficking in Europe.
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Published 2025-02-27

Mike Murphy: The Chinese Own Elon

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The not-so-shadow president's largest Tesla plant is in Shanghai, but the People's Republic of China has the pink slip and can take it back at any time.
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The not-so-shadow president's largest Tesla plant is in Shanghai, but the People's Republic of China has the pink slip and can take it back at any time.
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Published 2025-02-26

Ruben Gallego and Zerlina Maxwell: Make Them Own It

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Republicans are aiming to gut Medicaid to pay for trillions in tax cuts for the richest of Americans, and they're trying to hide it.
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Republicans are aiming to gut Medicaid to pay for trillions in tax cuts for the richest of Americans, and they're trying to hide it.
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Published 2025-02-25

Ben Wittes: Who the F*** Are You?

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Trump administration lawyers don't know or won't tell a federal judge who is running DOGE because Elon doesn't formally exist as part of the government he is trying to dismantle.
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Trump administration lawyers don't know or won't tell a federal judge who is running DOGE because Elon doesn't formally exist as part of the government he is trying to dismantle.
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Published 2025-02-24

Bill Kristol and Jared Polis: Send In the Clown

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Trump keeps filling out his administration with the unqualified and the inexperienced, including the recent addition of borderline literate hack Dan Bongino at the FBI.
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Trump keeps filling out his administration with the unqualified and the inexperienced, including the recent addition of borderline literate hack Dan Bongino at the FBI.
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