Prevail with Greg Olear
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On PREVAIL, a weekly interview podcast, the author and columnist Greg Olear discusses politics, world news, history, national security, foreign affairs, organized crime, dirty money, global corruption, and the fight for democracy with authors, journalists, academics, diplomats, researchers, and other expert guests. Every Friday.
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The Ultimate Transgression: Offshores, Kompromat Culture & the Competitive Depravity Olympics (with Brooke Harrington)
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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The German Spies at Pearl Harbor? Those Were My Grandparents (with Christine Kuehn & Mark Schiponi)
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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American Contradiction: Revolution and Revenge (with Paul Starr)
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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United States of Florida: The Secret History of the Evil, Racist, Homophobic Johns Committee (with Robert W. Fieseler)
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Ground Zero For Our Nation’s Pain (with Ronlyn Domingue)
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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The Horror, the Horror: Yevgeny “Putin’s Butcher” Prigozhin, the Mr. Kurtz of Russia (with Candace Rondeaux)
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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The Musicality of Learning & the Cacophony of State-Sponsored Ignorance (with former U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King, Jr.)
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May 27, 2025 |
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Roberto Calvi & the Briefcase of Secrets: The Vatican, the Mafia, the Italian Deep State, and the Mystery of the Dead Banker (with Nicolo Majnoni)
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May 06, 2025 |
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The Great Reshuffle: Land and Power (with Mike Albertus)
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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Has It Verve? A Discussion About “Severance” Season Two (with Stephanie St. John)
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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The Ocean Is Inside the Drop: Navigating the Overwhelm (with Claudia Black)
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Money, Lies, God, and the Taxonomy of Reactionary Nihilism (with Katherine Stewart)
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Mayor of the Night, President of Darkness (with Christopher Steele)
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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American Dream, Georgian Dream (with Alex Hall Hall) SEASON FINALE
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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The Fascism Episode / America the Stupidful
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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I-Need-An-Attorney General: The Matt Gaetz Episode (with Gal Suburban)
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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The Mourning After (with Jimmy Kennedy)
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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The Five 8: Election Wednesday Special
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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The 270+ Election Day Special: Our Democracy Has a Russia Problem (with Gal Suburban)
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution Will Not be Televised, But It Will Be AI Generated (with Tom Kemp)
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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American Freakshow (with Nina Burleigh)
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Opus Dei & Opus Knight (with Gareth Gore)
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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John Roberts Is Not Your Friend (with David Daley)
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Anthony Comstock: The Man Who Hated Women (with Amy Sohn)
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Punishing Putin (with Stephanie Baker)
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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We’re Not Going Back (with Rosanna Arquette)
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Reprise | Active Learning Feedback Loop, or, Democracy Isn’t a Spectator Sport (with Robbie Harris) | April 12, 2024
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Reprise: Reprise: Failures of the Reconstruction: The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic (with Manisha Sinha)
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Reprise | From Cowboy State to Christofascist State: Kevin Roberts, Wyoming, Project 2025, and the Spectre of a Second Trump Term (with Rone Tempest)
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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The Writer and the Whistleblower (SEASON FINALE, with Francine Prose)
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Piracy, Penitentials, Comstock, and Flatware (with Jessica Cale)
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Triumph of the Yuppies (with Tom McGrath)
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Wartime Kyiv (with Illia Ponomarenko)
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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Debate This! (with “Bad” Brad Berkwitt)
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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The Opposite of Chaos is Community (with Billy Ray)
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Convictions: The Many Crimes of Donald Trump
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Grozny Rules: The Global Disorder Endures (with Jason Pack)
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May 31, 2024 |
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Rough Beast: A New Book by Greg Olear
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May 24, 2024 |
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La Politica è Compromesso (with Alessandra, aka Alias Vaughn)
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May 17, 2024 |
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Fetal Personhoodwinked: Christian Right Observations (with Jenny Cohn)
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May 10, 2024 |
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Days of Our Lies (with Kimberley Johnson)
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May 03, 2024 |
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Candidates, Courts & Cartels (with Ethan Bearman)
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Like Hell Matt Gaetz is Winning, and Other Tales of Danger Close (with Gal Suburban)
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Active Learning Feedback Loop, or, Democracy Isn’t a Spectator Sport (with Robbie Harris)
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Failures of the Reconstruction: The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic (with Manisha Sinha)
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Robes Gallery: Clarence and Roberts and Brett, Oh My! (with Lisa Graves)
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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From Cowboy State to Christofascist State: Kevin Roberts, Wyoming, Project 2025, and the Spectre of a Second Trump Term (with Rone Tempest)
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Around the World in 80 Minutes (with Alexandra Hall Hall)
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Feelingsball: The Leonard Leo Industrial Complex, SCOTUS Nihilism, and the Doctrine of Sad (with Dahlia Lithwick)
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Trickling Down: How the Anti-Tax Movement Hijacked America (with Michael Graetz)
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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All About Leonard Leo, the Reactionary Legal Activist, Radical Catholic Zealot & Dark Money Maestro Who Captured the Supreme Court (with Tom Carter)
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Dispatches from the Road (with Diana Spechler)
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Covert World War III, or, Operation Gemcrusher (with Aja Raden)
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Cheerios or Death (with Brynn Tannehill)
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Making It in America (with Rachel Slade)
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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America/America, Lee Harvey Oswald, and the Presidential Suite at the Ritz-Carlton Moscow (with Steven Beschloss)
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Red Caesar (with Will Bunch)
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Lawyers, Guns, and Money (with Jack Bryan)
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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The War We Never Wanted (with Elisa Albert)
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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The Age of Disorder (with Jason Pack)
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Chaos Crescendo (with Cheri Jacobus)
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Reprise: The Trauma Vortex (with Claudia Black)
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Competing Realities: 24/7 Politics & the Rise of Cable News (with Kathryn Cramer Brownell)
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Russia Goes Scorched Earth in Kherson (with Zarina Zabrisky)
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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A Fabulous Failure (with Nelson Lichtenstein)
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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The World is Ruled by Wounded People Wounding Us (with Ronlyn Domingue)
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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The Rush Limbaugh of the Left (with Tony Michaels)
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Crimean War and Peace (with Elina Beketova)
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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How to Wreck a Democracy (with Ruth Ben-Ghiat)
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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The Only Way to Tell the Future is After It Happens (with Denver Riggleman)
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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SEASON FINALE: Rhetorical Questions (with Jennifer Mercieca)
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Too Big To Care: Containing Big Tech (with Tom Kemp)
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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What Is Corruption? (with Alex Aronson)
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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KHive & The Reelection Rundown (with Candidly Tiff)
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Reprise: Dead Pimps & Tucker Carlson’s Long Slide (with Nia Molinari)
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Notes on the Trump Indictment (with Gal Suburban)
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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The Trump Tower Meeting Was Seven Years Ago Today (with Cliff Schecter)
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Making it in the USA, or, Building Back Better (with Rachel Slade)
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Not All Doom (with Arthur Snell)
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May 26, 2023 |
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Reprise - Rapid Fire: The Pathway to Violence (with Shavaun Scott)
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May 19, 2023 |
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International Intrigue (with John Fowler)
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May 12, 2023 |
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Succession: The King & Comedy (with Will Sebag-Montefiore)
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May 05, 2023 |
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Keepin’ It Real (with Elwood Watson)
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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BONUS SPECIAL: The Five 8, “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly” (with Stephanie Koff)
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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"Jin, Jiyan, Azadî!" | Protests in Iran (with Samira Ghaderi)
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Uh-Oh, Canada (with Max Fawcett)
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Between the Shaman and the Microchip (with Mark Plotkin)
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Nothing Lasts Forever (with Aja Raden)
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Settling Scores: F*ck Giuliani (with Nia Molinari)
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Biden Or Bust & What’s Up With Ohio (with Cliff Schecter)
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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The Jokerfication of Tucker Carlson (with Kat Abughazaleh)
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Madoff Talk (with Jim Campbell)
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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SEASON PREMIERE: The Shifting Calculus of Covid-19 (with Katherine Eban)
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Reprise: Strongmen: History Under Attack (with Ruth Ben-Ghiat)
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Reprise - Four Villains: “Shame Cometh” and Other Stories
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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Reprise: The Democracy Game (with Brynn Tannehill)
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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SEASON FINALE: Charley Horses in DeSantistan (with Gal Suburban)
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Savers of the Lost Art (with Ron Pollard)
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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There’s No Concert (with Moscow Never Sleeps)
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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The Money’s Gotta Be Someplace (with Debra LaPrevotte)
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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The Life & Lies of Vladimir Putin (with Andrew S. Weiss)
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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The Founding-Fatherization of Adam Smith (with Glory M. Liu)
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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CIA Debriefing (with Kristin Wood)
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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The Scarcity Myth & Other GOP Fairy Tales (with Vince Scafaria)
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Bubble-Wrapped in Sanctimony (with Katherine Stewart)
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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Elon Remix: Diamond Droogs & Human Wallets (with Aja Raden)
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Delawareness (with Hal Weitzman)
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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MAGA Apostate (with Melissa Jo Peltier)
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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How Britain Broke the World…and How Liz Truss Broke Britain (with Arthur Snell)
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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CPACing with the Enemy (with Amanda Moore)
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Playing in the Gray (with Kimberly Kay Hoang)
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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Ukraine vs. the Evil Empire (with Victor Rud)
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Existential Threat to Democracy (with Craig Unger)
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Something Beyond “Liking” (Season Finale, with Pam Murtaugh)
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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Hear Me Roar (with Nina Burleigh)
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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NYC, Today & Tomorrow (with Jessica Lappin)
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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Digital Voter Suppression (with Shireen Mitchell)
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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Four Villains: “Shame Cometh” and Other Stories
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Rapid Fire: The Pathway to Violence (with Shavaun Scott)
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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House of Unger, House of Olear (with Craig Unger) ICYMI
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Team Justice vs. Team Peace (with Zarina Zabrisky)
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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The Big Lie & The Great Ignored (with Sandi Bachom)
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Don’t Look Up the Answers (with Adam McKay)
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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13848 (with Gal Suburban)
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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SLAPP Shots & Single Malts (with Ethan Bearman)
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May 27, 2022 |
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Talking Cows & Sumerian Jokes (with Ryan Byrne)
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May 20, 2022 |
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The Democracy Game (with Brynn Tannehill)
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May 13, 2022 |
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Amorality Tales (with Jennifer Reitman of DAME Magazine)
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May 06, 2022 |
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Strongmen as Young Men (with Brandon Gauthier)
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Lynchpins of Plunder: Nazi Billionaires (with David de Jong)
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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MAGA Menace, Wolverine Watchmen, and Epstein’s Shadow (with Nina Burleigh) - replay -
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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All Things Syria (with Diana Darke)
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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The Trauma Vortex (with Claudia Black)
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Diamond Droogs & Human Wallets (with Aja Raden)
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Putin’s War (with Zarina Zabrisky and Moscow Never Sleeps)
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Reprise: My Head's in Mississippi (with Donna Ladd)
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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ICYMI: The Ukraine Fallacies (with Victor Rud, recorded May 2021)
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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The Absurdity of It All (Season Two Finale, with Noel Casler)
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Boredom as Camouflage: The Life of Mike Pence (with Tom LoBianco)
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Canadian Goose-Steppers (with Mark Bourrie)
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Putin in Ukraine (with Zarina Zabrisky)
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Good Coup, Bad Coup (with Amanda Carpenter)
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Matt Gaetz & Other Creatures of the Florida Swamp (with Gal Suburban)
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Strongmen: History Under Attack (with Ruth Ben-Ghiat)
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Insurrectionversary (with Hugo Lowell)
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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Auld Lang Sigh: the PREVAIL New Year’s Eve Special (with Lincoln’s Bible, Lou Neu, Cheri Jacobus, Kimberley Johnson, and Tom Joseph)
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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Making the Bad Guys Pay—Literally (with Katherine Mulhern of Restitution)
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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MAGA Menace, Wolverine Watchmen, and Epstein’s Shadow (with Nina Burleigh) FULL EPISODE
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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MAGA Menace, Wolverine Watchmen, and Epstein’s Shadow (with Nina Burleigh)
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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She’s Right Here: Kamala Counteroffensive (with Reecie Colbert of Black Women Views Media)
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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Thanksgiving Leftovers (with Jamison Firestone and Moscow Never Sleeps)
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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Everything is Connected (with Arthur Snell)
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Dead Pimps & Tucker Carlson’s Long Slide (with Nia Molinari)
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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Merrick Garland and the Soup of Despair (with Jennifer Taub)
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Captured: An Interview with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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Witness to the Insurrection (with Sandi Bachom)
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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House of Unger, House of Olear (with Craig Unger)
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Spilling the Beans: The Allison Gill Interview
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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My Head's in Mississippi (with Donna Ladd)
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Combat Propaganda (with Zarina Zabrisky)
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Tuesday’s Gone: Remembering September 11, 20 Years Later (with Noel Casler)
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Calling All Visigoths: The Dark Side of Big Tech (with Bret Pettichord)
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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Lost in Fantasyland (Season Two Premiere, with Kurt Andersen)
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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In Case You Missed It - Bad News: How the Media Failed in the Age of Trump (with Eric Boehlert of PRESS RUN)
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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Replay - Blue State Genocide: Jared Kushner's Greatest Crime (with Vanity Fair’s Katherine Eban)
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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Enjoy Your King (Season One Finale, with Duke Haney)
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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Doomsday Devices & Distressed Assets: Trump as Weapon, Tom Barrack as Matchmaker (with Lou Neu)
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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Ships, Hoodies & Ghislaine’s Beau (with Rachel Slade)
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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House of Maxwell (with Kirby Sommers)
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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Mobsters & Spies & Pilates (with Lincoln’s Bible)
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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Pelted with WTFs (Virus & Vaccine, with Nina Burleigh)
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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Around the World with Arthur Snell
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria Butina? (with “Spy Affair” host Celia Aniskovich)
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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The Truth About Lies (with Aja Raden)
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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The Journalist, the Jerseymen, and the Trillion-Dollar Island (with Leah McGrath Goodman)
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May 28, 2021 |
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Everything You Never Knew About Ukraine (with Victor Rud)
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May 21, 2021 |
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The Magnitsky Act (with Jamison Firestone and Moscow Never Sleeps)
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May 14, 2021 |
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The Biden/Harris 100 Days Extravaganza (Double Episode, with Candidly Tiff & Joanie Vee and DAME Magazine’s Jennifer Reitman)
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May 07, 2021 |
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Big Dirty Money: White Collar Criming (with Jennifer Taub)
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Justice Prevails, with Democracy Pledge Co-Founders Glenn Kirschner and Jon Cohen
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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United States of Canada: Around the World with Diane Francis
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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This is What Collusion Looks Like: Volume 5 of the Senate Intelligence Report (with Alison Greene & Aaron Harris)
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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Jersey (Off) Shore: The Situation on the Trillion Dollar Island (with Stuart Syvret)
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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Who Knew?: Woody Allen, Alan Dershowitz, and the “Three Dudes” Who Gave Us Trump (with Lincoln’s Bible & Lou Neu)
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Blue State Genocide: Jared Kushner's Greatest Crime (with Vanity Fair’s Katherine Eban)
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Offramp: Anthony Scaramucci on Economics, Politics, & White House Intrigue
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Bad News: How the Media Failed in the Age of Trump (with Eric Boehlert of PRESS RUN)
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Alternative Math: Brett Kavanaugh's Financials (with Moscow Never Sleeps)
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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Pilot (with Lincoln's Bible)
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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Introducing: Prevail with Greg Olear
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Feb 10, 2021 |