The Al Franken Podcast

1: Ari Berman on Trump’s Plans to Steal the Midterms

Molly Jong-Fast on Another Week in Trump’s America

Mark Leibovich on Trump’s Chaos!

Dahlia Lithwick on Defending Our Constitution

Norm Ornstein on ICE Terrorizing Minnesota

Wendell Potter on The Healthcare Crisis

Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan on ICE in Minnesota

David Frum on Trump’s Venezuela Venture

BEST OF: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on How Dark Money Captured SCOTUS

BEST OF: Jimmy Kimmel on His Career in Comedy!

David A. Graham on What Project 2025 Wrought

Franklin Foer & Anne Applebaum on The Globe in 2025!

Mark Leibovich on Hegseth, Trump, & More!

David Kirkpatrick on Trump’s Immense and Shameless Profiteering

Lawyer Liz Oyer on Trump’s Corrupt Pardons

Catherine Rampell on The End of The Shutdown

Molly Jong-Fast on The 2025 Elections!

Political Reporter David Weigel on The Shutdown

Harry Litman on Important Legal Stuff.

John Fugelsang on Jesus’s ACTUAL Politics

David Hogg on Electing Young Progressive Dems

Norm Ornstein on Another Chaotic Week in DC

Dr. Tom Frieden and Brandy Zadrozny on RFK Jr. and the CDC

BBC's The Global Story

Randi Weingarten on Defending Our Public Education

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott on Reducing Violent Crime

War Correspondent Tim Mak on the War in Ukraine

BEST OF: Bob Odenkirk on Comedy (and Drama)!

Barbara McQuade and Daniel Richman on Trump’s Politicization of the DOJ

Ari Berman on the GOP’s Gerrymandering Plot

Franklin Foer on the Famine in Gaza

Jonathan Alter on Trump’s Authoritarian Police State

Kevin Nealon on His Career in Comedy!

Catherine Rampell on Trump’s Economic Policies

Dahlia Lithwick on The Godawful SCOTUS Term

Marc Elias on Trump’s Authoritarian Second Term

CNN’s Kasie Hunt on Her Career & Trump II

Molly Jong-Fast on her Bestselling Memoir!

Heather McGhee on Trump’s Wars on DEI and Immigration

YouTube Sensation David Pakman on The Big, Beautiful Bill and More!

George Packer on Vice President JD Vance

225: BEST OF: Ed Shelleby on Being My Senate Communications Director

224: Michael Lewis on Amazing Government Workers

223: Dahlia Lithwick on the Courts vs. Trump

222: Mark Leibovich and Molly Jong-Fast on Trump’s 100 Days

221: Robert Reich on Fighting The Trump Autocracy

220: BEST OF: Tim Alberta on Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

219: Atul Gawande on Musk’s Destruction of USAID

218: Catherine Rampell on Trump’s Tariffs and DOGE

217: Jessica Yellin on Our Anxiety Producing News Cycle