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Should Biden Agree To Debate Trump?
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast - April 29, 2024 17:59 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsHow would a moderator handle a potential debate matchup between President Biden and former President Trump in order to make the most of the event for voters? On Today's Show: Susan Page, USA Today Washington bureau chief shares the latest national political news, including the White House Corre...
Episode 273 GEORGE H W BUSH The Sweep of History (Part 14) The United Nations Address
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - April 29, 2024 09:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis episode is a rare chance to listen in on a speech at the United Nations. The video, and therefore, the audio quality is not the best but the speech is rare and very important to the storyline. In it the President makes his case to the world of just how important it is to stop the Iraqi a...
Nicholas Kristof On Biden Blind Spots, Double Standards, Campus Protesters
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast - April 26, 2024 18:58 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsNicholas Kristof, opinion columnist for The New York Times and author of several books, including the forthcoming memoir Chasing Hope (Penguin Random House, 2024), shares his critique of how he says President Biden has mishandled the United States' role in Israel's war in Gaza, what he sees as B...
What Happens When Leaders Don’t Lead
Words Matter - April 26, 2024 15:52 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.8K ratingsAt the Supreme Court and college campuses, leaders aren’t leading. As the court weighs incredibly consequential decisions and colleges grapple with divisive protests, we need clear leadership more than ever. Norm and Kavita discuss this unique problem and where we go from here. Learn more about y...
Episode 139-Cannibals and Useful Idiots
Annette on America - April 26, 2024 14:58 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsUncle Bosie was eaten. College students show their narcissism and ignorance
Has The Supreme Court “Already Botched” Today’s Trump Immunity Case?
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast - April 25, 2024 15:22 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsMelissa Murray, NYU law professor, co-host of the "Strict Scrutiny" podcast and the co-author (with Andrew Weissmann) of The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents with Commentary (W. W. Norton & Company, 2024), previews the oral arguments the Supreme Court will hear on former Presid...
Where Trump Jurors Get Their News
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast - April 24, 2024 18:11 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsOne key part of the juror questionnaire in former President Donald Trump's "hush money" trial asked about the prospective jurors' media diets, which showed some interesting responses. On Today's Show: Erica Orden, Politico reporter, recaps what has happened so far at the juror selection and the...
WORK 6 - Emptying an Ocean
COMMONS - April 24, 2024 09:47 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 69 ratingsThe closure of the cod fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador was the most devastating mass layoff in Canadian history. And its impacts are still being felt to this day. The collapse of Newfoundland cod is a story of man-made environmental calamity that turned into economic devastation. It’s a st...
Landmark Union Vote Succeeds; Union Members For Biden and Trump
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast - April 23, 2024 19:52 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsJane McAlevey, labor organizer, columnist for The Nation and the author of several books, including (with Abby Lawlor)Rules to Win By: Power and Participation in Union Negotiations (Oxford University Press, 2023), reflects on her life's work in organizing and recent wins for labor, and what she ...
1912, Wilson vs. Taft v. Roosevelt: The Bull Moose
American Elections: Wicked Game - April 23, 2024 07:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsTeddy Roosevelt comes out of retirement and returns to the political fold to unseat his longtime political friend and ally, President William Howard Taft. As both parties struggle to hold their progressive and conservative factions together, Democrat Woodrow Wilson seeks to ride the wave of progr...
Of Protests and Passover: Noah Feldman on “To Be A Jew Today”
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast - April 22, 2024 21:43 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsAs Passover begins, Noah Feldman, Harvard law professor, founding director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law, and the author of To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People (Macmillan, 2024), talks about his new book, inspired by his conversations ...
Episode 272 GEORGE H W BUSH 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History (Part 13) Germany Reunified B
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - April 22, 2024 09:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this follow up episode on the reunification of Germany we arrive at the White House for German - American Day about three weeks after the reunification had occurred. At this White House Event, the President will celebrate the contributions to America made by the millions of Germans who immig...
Listen Now: The Price of Paradise
Bunga Bunga - April 21, 2024 23:00 - 6 minutesWhen ex-Bunny girl Jayne Gaskin spots the desert island of her dreams for sale online, she decides to risk it all. Trading in their English village home, Jayne and her family relocate to their own private paradise, just off the coast of Nicaragua. And a reality TV crew follows them to f...
Trumped Up Trial. Australia's Knife Problem
Annette on America - April 19, 2024 15:29 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAmericans are stressed out. Surprise, surprise! Trump's trumped-up trial. Australia's knife problem. (Hint: Take away guns, and people STILL find a way to kill each other.)
Accountability is Gone but Not Forgotten in the Senate
Words Matter - April 19, 2024 14:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.8K ratingsThe House is its own special kind of crazy, but the Senate is no slouch either. Tom Cotton’s recent comments calling for Americans to “take matters into their own hands” in response to protests reminds us that Senators can seemingly call for acts of violence and get away with it. Norm and Kavita ...
The Cold War Is Over. Welcome To The “New Cold Wars”
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast - April 18, 2024 18:55 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsRecent history has shown how two global superpowers engage on the world stage. What changes when a third nation joins the mix? On Today's Show: David Sanger, White House and national security correspondent for The New York Times, talks about what he calls the new 'Cold Wars'—emphasis on the 's'...
Divided SCOTUS Might Let Hundreds of January 6th Rioters Off The Hook
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast - April 18, 2024 14:27 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsThe Supreme Court heard oral arguments concerning the law used to charge defendants for their actions on January 6th. On Today's Show: Kate Shaw, professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, co-host of the Supreme Court podcast Strict Scrutiny, a contributor with ABC News and a...
Yuki Tatsumi on the US-Japan Summit; Iran's strike on Israel, Ecuador's Embassy Raid, and Turkish Municipal Elections
Diplomatic Immunity - April 18, 2024 10:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratings10:40 - Interview with Yuki Tatsumi. This week, Kelly and Freddie talk through Iran's Strike on Israel, Ecudaro's raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito, and the losses for President Erdogan's party in recent Turkish municipal elections. Kelly then talks with the Stimson Center's Yuki Tatsumi ab...
Episode 271 GEORGE H W BUSH 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History (Part 12) The Reunification of Germany A
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - April 18, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHere is one of the great stories of the Bush Administration and of World History. After 4 decades of separation the people of Germany would be one country again. Though the Berlin Wall had come crashing down just 11 months before, this was the big moment for the German People, but it did not c...
WORK 5 - The Westray Disaster
COMMONS - April 17, 2024 10:52 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 69 ratingsThis episode was originally published on November 24, 2021. Twenty-six men were working underground when an explosion tore through the Westray Mine in Nova Scotia. Their friends and colleagues went into the wreckage to try to save them. The story of Westray is one of managerial malice and the...
Why Sen. Gillibrand Has A Child Care Bill Specifically For Police
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast - April 16, 2024 19:24 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsWhat is on Congress's radar after Iran's strike on Israel? On Today's Show: U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) talks about her work in Washington, including the war in Gaza, her bill for child care for police officers and more.
All too Human: Niko's Struggle with Alcoholism
Revolutionary Left Radio - April 16, 2024 14:52 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 3K ratingsShoeless in South Dakota: In this third edition of our All Too Human interview series, Breht and Dave welcome Niko into the Shoeless Shed to have an honest conversation about his struggles with alcoholism. With these All Too Human interviews, we aim to highlight and destigmatize the mental h...
1908, Taft vs. Bryan: A Significant Loser
American Elections: Wicked Game - April 16, 2024 07:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsTeddy Roosevelt’s hand-picked successor, Republican William Howard Taft, faces off against Democrat William Jennings Bryan. In his third and final presidential campaign, Bryan preaches the gospel of populism. In the end, his progressive ideas are no match for Roosevelt’s legacy, but Bryan’s faile...
Doris Kearns Goodwin On The 1960s and Today
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast - April 15, 2024 19:12 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsHow are the politics and society of today similar to those of the 1960s? On Today's Show: Doris Kearns Goodwin, presidential historian, author of many books, including Team of Rivals and her latest, An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s (Simon & Schuster, 2024), writes about...
Episode 270 George H W Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History (Part 11) Coming Together, Coming Apart
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History - April 15, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, we look back at the coming together of the Military coalition on the ground and the man who would command it, General Norman Schwarzkopf. It would be a coalition made up of 42 countries, and troops from around the world. They would all come together on the ground in Saudi Arabi...
Episode 137-Abortion a big issue again and Trump and Biden duke it out over the Deep State,
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Republicans are Reaching New Levels of Ineptitude
Words Matter - April 12, 2024 16:33 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.8K ratingsHouse Republicans are fighting or floundering, Mike Johnson is traveling to Mar-a-Lago to pray at the altar of Trump, and Arizona lawmakers grapple with an archaic abortion law. All in a week’s work for this Republican Party. Norm and Kavita discuss the farce that is the contemporary Republican a...
Inflation, Bidenomics, And The 2024 Election
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast - April 12, 2024 16:19 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsThis election year, the politics of inflation will be a key issue for voters. On Today's Show: John Cassidy, staff writer at The New Yorker, talks about the latest inflation report and how both parties are responding.
Minicast G2: Dundee United
Mass for Shut-ins: The Gin and Tacos Podcast - April 12, 2024 03:45 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 292 ratingsIn 1972 a middling team from the Scottish Premier League played four exhibition matches in Nigeria and distinguished itself so profoundly with its pitiful play (and boorish attitude) that its name became a synonym for stupidity. Grousing about how much your host country sucks while losing 4-1 to...
Speaker Mike Johnson's Balancing Act Between the Right and the Far Right
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast - April 11, 2024 17:59 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 455 ratingsWith Congress facing a number of key issues, we explore the Rep. Mike Johnson's stewardship of the nation's business before the House of Representatives. On Today's Show: Luke Broadwater, congressional correspondent for The New York Times, talks about the latest congressional news, including t...
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