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Engaging smart thinkers on issues of the day. Subscribe for newsletter & show notes at chrisriback.com (podcast formerly "Political Wire Conversations")

Episode Date
Dan Perry: Israel, Hamas, and The Big Picture
Oct 08, 2023
Ben Rhodes: After the Fall
Jun 04, 2021
We're Back: New Season... and Some News
Jun 04, 2021
Jonathan Karl: Front Row at the Trump Show (Live Event)
May 04, 2020
Mayor Noam Bramson: From Patient Zero to New York as Epicenter
Mar 25, 2020
Rep. Steve Israel: Running for President in Time of Coronavirus
Mar 20, 2020
Rick Hasen: Can America Run a Fair Election?
Feb 28, 2020
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt: Revisiting “How Democracies Die”
Feb 17, 2020
Philip Rucker & Carol Leonnig: A Very Stable Genius
Feb 07, 2020
Rick Wilson: Running Against the Devil
Jan 17, 2020
Chief Justice John G. Roberts: 2019 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary
Jan 11, 2020
Matt Stoller: The American Battle Between Monopoly and Democracy
Jan 02, 2020
Peter Bergen: Trump and His Generals
Dec 20, 2019
Fintan O'Toole: Think It’s Crazy Here? Time to Look at Brexit
Nov 12, 2019
LTC Alexander S. Vindman: Opening Statement to US House Impeachment Investigators
Oct 31, 2019
Amb. William B. Taylor: Opening Statement to US House Impeachment Investigators
Oct 29, 2019
Julie Hirschfeld Davis & Michael D. Shear: Inside Trump's Assault on Immigration
Oct 18, 2019
Andrew McAfee: Why Capitalism & Technology Will Save the Planet
Oct 11, 2019
Isaac Stone Fish: Why China is America’s Biggest Threat
Oct 04, 2019
James Poniewozik: How the Trump Show Happened
Sep 27, 2019
Philip Mudd: Trump & the Attack on U.S. Intelligence
Aug 02, 2019
Tim Alberta: How Trump Filled the GOP Leadership Vacuum
Jul 26, 2019
Robert Tsai: Is Justice Possible? Your Supreme Court Questions Answered
Jul 19, 2019
Adam Liptak: How Far Did Trump Tip the Supreme Court Balance?
Jul 12, 2019
Angela Stent: Explaining Putin’s World
Jul 05, 2019
Jared Cohen: Accidental Presidents
Jun 28, 2019
Joseph Stiglitz: Saving Capitalism From Itself
Jun 21, 2019
We're Back: New Season, New Name
Jun 19, 2019
Sen. Maggie Hassan: 'No More Medical Surprises'
Dec 06, 2018
Live from Harvard's Kennedy School
Oct 29, 2018
Richard Clarke: Democracy Is On the Ballot
Oct 19, 2018
Michael Lewis: Who’s Actually Running Our Government?
Oct 12, 2018
Rebecca Traister: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger
Oct 02, 2018
Major Garrett: What’s It Like to Cover the Trump White House
Sep 25, 2018
Doris Kearns Goodwin: Trolling Trump on Leadership
Sep 18, 2018
David Kaplan: The Most Dangerous Branch of Government
Sep 07, 2018
Michael D’Antonio and Peter Eisner: Who Is Mike Pence?
Aug 30, 2018
Jason Kander: Lessons In Everyday Courage
Aug 20, 2018
Rick Wilson: A GOP Strategist on the 'Worst President Ever'
Aug 10, 2018
Catherine Rampell: What, Exactly, is Trumponomics?
Jul 28, 2018
Nicholas Burns: 'I Don’t Think He’s Fit for Office'
Jul 20, 2018
Brian Abrams: Understanding Obama
Jul 13, 2018
Dan Pfeiffer: What Comes Next for Democrats
Jun 29, 2018
Steven Brill: The Fifty-Year Fall of America
Jun 22, 2018
Scott Jennings: What's Happening to the Republican Party?
Jun 15, 2018
Harry Litman: Does President Trump Think He's a King?
Jun 12, 2018
Bill Browder: Vladimir Putin's Public Enemy No. 1
Jun 01, 2018
Gen. Michael Hayden: Trump's Assault on Intelligence
May 25, 2018
Amy Walter: Six Months Until Midterms… What Do We Know?
May 20, 2018
Mitch Landrieu: A White Southerner Confronts History
May 07, 2018
Ronan Farrow: Inside the War on Peace
May 04, 2018
Stuart Eizenstat: Taking Another Look at the Carter Years
Apr 27, 2018
Asha Rangappa: How Will the Mueller Investigation End?
Apr 13, 2018
Jennifer Palmieri: Who Will Be the First Woman President?
Apr 09, 2018
Rick Hasen: How Antonin Scalia was the Donald Trump of the Supreme Court
Mar 30, 2018
David Wasserman: The House Outlook for 2018
Mar 23, 2018
Michael Isikoff and David Corn: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America
Mar 15, 2018
Chris Whipple: How the Trump White House Is the Most Dysfunctional Ever
Mar 09, 2018
Steve Coll: Inside America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Feb 20, 2018
How Democracies Die
Feb 09, 2018
Peter Enns: Where Polls Live Forever
Jan 31, 2018
David Cay Johnston: Political Termites
Jan 23, 2018
McKay Coppins: What Is God's Plan for Mike Pence?
Dec 18, 2017
Chris Matthews: Looking at Today's Politics Through the Perspective of RFK
Dec 08, 2017
Charlie Cook: Is There a Democratic Wave Coming In 2018?
Nov 22, 2017
Preet Bharara: How to Flip a Witness
Nov 13, 2017
Rep. Jim Jordan: "Just Ask Me"
Oct 04, 2017
Jason Altmire: A Former Congressman Explains Our Divided Country
Oct 03, 2017
David Litt: My Hopey, Changey White House Years
Sep 20, 2017
Joshua Green: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
Jul 22, 2017
Graham Allison: Are the U.S. and China Headed for War?
Jul 21, 2017
Al Franken: "I freed up the funny"
Jun 08, 2017
Sidney Blumenthal: 'Wrestling with His Angel'
May 20, 2017
Tom Walker (a.k.a. Jonathan Pie): Political satire in the Trump era
Apr 11, 2017
Garry Kasparov: Why Trump Will Lose Playing Putin’s Dangerous Game
Mar 03, 2017
Norm Eisen: Is Donald Trump Above the Law?
Jan 19, 2017
Celinda Lake: It Was Still the Economy, Stupid
Dec 24, 2016
Neil Newhouse: The ‘Nose-Holder’ Election
Nov 04, 2016
David Wasserman: Can Democrats Put More House Seats In Play?
Oct 26, 2016
What's Going On with the Republican Party?
Oct 17, 2016
Dan Drezner: Foreign Policy for Campaigns is Like an Unexploded Landmine
Sep 28, 2016
Jim Messina: "It Was Always Going to be Close"
Sep 24, 2016
Maureen Dowd: "This is Pure Madness"
Sep 16, 2016
Robert Costa: Reporting on a 'Wild and Weird' Election
Sep 08, 2016
Stuart Stevens: A Neutron Bomb Has Gone Off in the Republican Party
Aug 27, 2016
Jim Lehrer: There's Never Been One Like This
Aug 03, 2016
Taegan Goddard: Is This Clinton's Election to Lose?
Jul 13, 2016
John Dickerson: Have We Really Never Seen a Presidential Election Like This One?
Jul 08, 2016
Van Jones: When the Temperature Gets Too Hot
Jun 02, 2016
Josh King: An Advance Man’s Look at the 2016 Campaign
May 11, 2016
Charlie Cook: This Has Been the Wildest Year
Apr 21, 2016
Taegan Goddard: The Outcomes Look Bleak for Republicans
Apr 12, 2016
Rick Shenkman: What Your Brain Really Thinks About Donald Trump
Apr 01, 2016
Mark Blumenthal: What Do Americans Really Think About Politics?
Mar 20, 2016
Taegan Goddard: The Party No Longer Decides
Mar 16, 2016
Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore
Nov 22, 2014
David King, Harvard Kennedy School
Nov 01, 2014
Larry Sabato, Center for Politics at the University of Virginia
Oct 24, 2014
Charlie Cook, The Cook Political Report
Oct 16, 2014
Stan Greenberg, Democratic pollster
Oct 09, 2014
Jules Witcover, author of "The American Vice Presidency: From Irrelevance to Power"
Oct 03, 2014
Sam Wang, Founder of Princeton Election Consortium
Sep 25, 2014
Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight
Sep 18, 2014
Chuck McCutcheon and David Mark, authors of "Dog Whistles, Walk-Backs and Washington Handshakes"
Sep 10, 2014
John Avlon, Editor in Chief of The Daily Beast, author of "Wingnuts"
Sep 05, 2014
John Dean, author of The Nixon Defense
Jul 28, 2014
Alex Lundry
Jul 22, 2014
Noam Bramson, Mayor of New Rochelle
Jul 18, 2014
Willy Jay on the Supreme Court term
Jul 03, 2014
Carroll Doherty, Pew Research Center
Jun 27, 2014
David Wasserman, Cook Political Report
Jun 25, 2014
Doug Schoen, Democratic pollster
Jun 20, 2014
Philip Howard, author of "The Rule of Nobody"
Jun 20, 2014
Ken Vogel, author of Big Money
Jun 13, 2014
Joe Lockhart, former White House Press Secretary
Jun 08, 2014
Nate Cohn, The Upshot/New York Times
Jun 06, 2014
Mike McCurry, former White House press secretary
Jun 03, 2014
Michael D. Shear, White House Correspondent at the New York Times
May 29, 2014
Jonathan Alter, executive producer of Alpha House
May 29, 2014
Jon Ralston, Ralston Reports
May 23, 2014
John Della Volpe, Harvard Institute of Politics
May 21, 2014
Susan Demas, Inside Michigan Politics
May 17, 2014
Wayne Slater, Dallas Morning News
May 14, 2014
Kay Henderson, Radio Iowa
May 09, 2014
Adam Smith, Tampa Bay Times
May 06, 2014