To The Contrary with Charlie Sykes
By Charlie Sykes
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| Episode | Date |
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Trump's War Blunder
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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“The Military Has Been a Little Bit Confused”
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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It’s Time to Admit It: We Have a Psychotic Government
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Mar 28, 2026 |
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“There’s No National Interest With Trump, Just Personal”
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Is Trump TACOing on Iran?
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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The "Wing Nut" Rise to Power
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Mar 21, 2026 |
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“I Phoned Donald Trump. He Answered...”
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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Trumpology and the Iran Quagmire
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Iran War: It’s Not Just the Economy, Stupid
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Mar 14, 2026 |
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Trump’s Iran FUBAR
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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The "Crude" Economic Reality of War in Iran
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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All the Things That Didn’t Get Noem Fired (But Should Have)
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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The Government Can’t Keep Its War Story Straight
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Trump’s War of Choice
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Trump and the Death of Shame
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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Democrats Need a Winning Formula
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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"Trump Uses Racism to Weaken American Democracy"
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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What’s the Matter with Lindsey Graham?
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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Epstein Has Hijacked Trump’s Presidency
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Trump Just Did Something No President Has Tried Since 1798
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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David Frum: Why Trump is Failing
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Feb 14, 2026 |
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Jeff Bezos’ Murder of the Washington Post
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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When Viciousness Becomes a Virtue
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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What’s With Rich People These Days?
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Feb 07, 2026 |
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Why ICE Can’t Be "Fixed"
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Lincoln Warned Us About Trump
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Will Renee Good and Alex Pretti Ever Get Justice?
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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Why Trump's ICE Strategy Backfired
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Money, Lies, God, and State Sponsored Murder
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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The Violent Occupation of an American City
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Jan 24, 2026 |
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MAGA Jesus Versus the Real Jesus
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Revisiting the Nuremberg Trials
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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DHS to White Supremacists: We’ve Got Your Backs
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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Trump’s Authoritarian Playbook
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Blue Screen of Hypocrisy
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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Nobody Is Coming to Save Us
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Jan 10, 2026 |
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The Intellectuals of the MAGA movement
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Trump's America Becomes the Neighborhood Bully
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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2025 in Review: Tom Nichols
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Jan 03, 2026 |
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2025 in Review: Matt Lewis
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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2025 in Review: Susan Glasser
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Dec 27, 2025 |
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Trump's Coverup, Bari's Blunder
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Every Red State Is Going to Have a Trump Airport Soon
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Dec 20, 2025 |
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A Blockade Is Just a Fancy Word for an Act of War
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Trump’s Despicable New Low
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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We Are Not as Bloodthirsty as Stephen Miller Wants Us to Be
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Dec 13, 2025 |
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No, Trump Is Not Going to Fire Them
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Special Episode: Pam Bondi Might Be Coming After You
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Is Donald Trump the Real Speaker of the House?
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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The Fog of Spin
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Dec 06, 2025 |
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Ed Luce: Xenophobia, Murder on the High Seas, and Europe's Moment of Truth
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Paul Rieckhoff: Trump, War Crimes, and the Afghan Betrayal
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Tom Nichols: Black Friday Blues
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Michael Scherer: Inside RFK Jr.’s Rise
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Terry Moran: Patriotism, Power, and a Perilous Moment
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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Susan Glasser: Lame-Duck is Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Matt Bennett: Lessons Democrats Can’t Ignore
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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The Streisand Effect Cover-Up
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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Harry Litman: The Epstein Files Fallout
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Nicholas Grossman: No, The Dems Did Not Win The Shutdown
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Adam Kinzinger: The Last Republican
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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Jonathan Rauch: SCOTUS, the Blue Wave and the Future of Democracy
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Daniel Drezner: Baseball, Billionaires and the Breakdown of the GOP
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Simon Bazelon: Deciding to Win
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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Ben Wittes: Who Is The Administrator of DOGE?
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Anne Applebaum: Americans Are Not Angry Enough Yet
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Justin Wolfers: The Erosion of Democratic Institutions
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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Adam Kinzinger: Trump Tales a Wrecking Ball to the White House
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Jim Acosta: No Kings and Trump's AI Jet
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Tim O'Brien: Trump is a Chaos Agent in a Chaotic World
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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Tom Nichols: Free Press, JD Vance, and the MAGA Right
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Rob Hart: Chicago Under Siege
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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David French: Trump’s Expanding Power
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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Susan Glasser: TrumpSchmerz
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Edward Luce: Western Democracy Under Siege
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Harry Litman: The Comey Indictment and the Insurrection Act
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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Olivia Troye: The Enemy Within, Shutdowns, and Jane Goodall
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Paul Rieckhoff: Grievance, Guns, and Power
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Nicholas Grossman: UN Escalators, NATO, and Free Speech
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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David French: Free Speech, Cancel Culture, and the Kimmel Moment
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Julian Zelizer: Power and Punishment
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Daniel Drezner: Trump 2.0, Free Speech, and Foreign Policy Failures
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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Adam Kinzinger: Free Speech Under Siege
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Tom Nichols: Into Darkness
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Garry Kasparov: Putin, Poland, and the Peril of American Democracy
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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Jonathan Rauch: The Rise of the Woke Right
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Garrett Graff: America Tips Into Fascism
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Paula Kerger: PBS is Not Going Anywhere
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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Tara Palmeri: A Pivotal Week in the Epstein Cover-up
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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David Frum: Trump’s Costly Failures
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Ali Breland: Nick Fuentes and the Far Right’s Rising Influence
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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Sarah McLaughlin: Authoritarians in the Academy
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Zee Cohen-Sanchez: Beating Charlie Kirk at his Own Game
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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What Makes You Think They Won’t Come for You?
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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Chris Cillizza: The Rubber Band Theory
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Ben Wittes: Five Alarm Fires
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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Conor Lamb: Democratic Messaging, Crime, and the Trump Threat
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Tony Gilroy: Yes, Andor Does Rhyme with Our Political Moment
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Harry Litman: The DOJ Turned Upside Down
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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Jessica Riedl: The Last Fiscal Conservative
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Tara Palmeri: Epstein, Maxwell, and the Survivors' Fight for Justice
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Tom Nichols: The Gilded Presidency
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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Adam Kinzinger: Epstein, Enemies Lists, and the Collapse of Courage
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Julian Zelizer: Where Is The Rest of the Resistance?
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Jim Acosta: Trump, Epstein, and the Politics of Distraction
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Marc Racicot: Restoring the Republican Legacy
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Garry Kasparov: Autocracy in America
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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David French: Superman, Sanctions, and the Fragile State of Trumpism
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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Terry Moran: Trump, Epstein, and the Giddy Cruelty of the Moment
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Anne Applebaum: The Authoritarian Slide
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Justin Wolfers: Tariffs, Trade, and the Price of Incoherence
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Judge Michael Luttig: The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Nicholas Grossman: This Is Not Normal
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Tim O'Brien: Trump's Day of Rage
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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Susan Glasser: Basic Trumpology
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Paul Rieckhoff: The Dangerous New Normal
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Olivia Troye: Fear as a Feature
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Ryan Lizza: Ten Years of Donald Trump
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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Tom Nichols: Radicalization of the Armed Forces
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Jun 14, 2025 |
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Harry Litman: Trump, the Troops, and the Threat to Democracy
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Brian Klaas: Why Are There So Many Psychopaths in Politics?
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Sen. Angus King: The Fragility of American Democracy
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Jun 08, 2025 |
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Adam Kinzinger: The Billionaire Breakup
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Justin Wolfers: Tacos, Tariffs, and the Taquito Economy
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Julian Zelizer: The End of the Bromance
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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Ron Fournier: The End of Big, Beautiful Friendships
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May 29, 2025 |
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Garry Kasparov: The Putinization of America
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May 25, 2025 |
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Chris Cillizza: Can we walk and chew gum at the same time?
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May 22, 2025 |
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Jessica Reidl: The GOP's Coming Debt Bomb
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May 20, 2025 |
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David Frum: The Grift, the Gaudiness, and the Guardrails
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May 17, 2025 |
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Jim Acosta: Focus Like a Laser Beam on Trump's Corruption
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May 15, 2025 |
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Chris Cillizza: Planes, Ploys, and Popes
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May 13, 2025 |
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Tom Nichols: The Anti-Expert Era
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May 11, 2025 |
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Katie Couric: Dolls, Alcatraz, and Narcissism
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May 08, 2025 |
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Susan Glasser: The Grift Presidency
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May 06, 2025 |
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Olivia Troye: Military Parades and Doll Rationing
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May 04, 2025 |
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Nicholas Grossman: Tariffs, Tyranny, and Tipping Points
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May 01, 2025 |
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Ryan Lizza: 100 Days of Trump 2.0
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Adam Kinzinger: Trump's Weakness Abroad, Corruption at Home
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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Kinzinger-Sykes: Trump Arrests a Judge
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Paul Rieckhoff: Rise of the Fake Tough Guys
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Ben Wittes: This is the Fight That Matters
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Tom Nichols: The Sum of All Fears — Easter Edition
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Apr 20, 2025 |
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Julian Zelizer: The Rule of Law Meets the Trump Doctrine
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Tim O’Brien: When the Law No Longer Matters
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Amy McGarth & Denver Riggleman: Tariffs, Tyranny and Truth in the Barrel
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Apr 13, 2025 |
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Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes: "Fight" and the Price of Gaslighting
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Peter Wehner: Trump, Denial, and the Collapse of Civic Courage
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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David French: Tariffs, Sycophants and Signal
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Apr 06, 2025 |
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Josh Kraushaar: Elon’s Flameout & the GOP Fallout
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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David Jolly: Taking Trump's Third Term Seriously
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Jim Acosta: Greenshoots in the Fight for America
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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Anne Applebaum: Signal and the Authoritarian Playbook
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Olivia Troye Has Entered the Chat
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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Tom Nichols: Why Are We Still Surprised?
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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Kinzinger and Sykes: How Putin Humiliates Trump
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Michael Roth: It's Time for Universities to Stand Up to Trump
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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David Frum: Trade Wars and Turmoil
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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Nicholas Grossman: Why does Trump have a Putin fetish?
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Reed Galen: The Disconnect Between Voters and the Establishment
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Jonathan Martin: Are Trump and Musk Breaking Up?
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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Karen Tumulty: Trump's Delusions Run Into Reality
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Susan Glasser: Why Aren’t We in The Streets?
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Kinzinger-Sykes, Part II: Vindication
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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Trump, Vance, and Zelenskyy: A national Disgrace (with Adam Kinzinger)
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Kara Swisher: Bezos throws a tantrum; Musk thinks he’s Jesus
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Paul Rieckhoff: Trump’s Assault on the Military
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Ben Wittes: The US Switches Sides in Ukraine
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Brian Rosenwald: One Month of Trump 2.0
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Tim O'Brien: Trump only cares about two things
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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Olivia Troye: Standing up to Kash Patel
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Tom Nichols: Decadent America
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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David French: A Constitutional Revolution
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Feb 09, 2025 |
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To The Contrary with Charlie Sykes
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Feb 06, 2025 |