The Al Franken Podcast

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

Norm Ornstein on Another Terrible Week in D.C.

BEST OF: Trae Crowder on Comedy and The Liberal Redneck

Mark Leibovich on the Week in Washington

War Correspondent Tim Mak on Russia and Ukraine

Sarah Longwell on Voter Reactions to Trump's First Month

SPECIAL: Al on SNL's 50th

Molly O’Toole on Immigration

Peter Beinart on Israel and Gaza

Molly Jong-Fast on Trump’s First Week

Ian Bassin on Saving Our Democracy

Dana Milbank on The Nutcase Republican House

BEST OF: Scott Galloway

BEST OF: SNL's Jim Downey

The Atlantic's George Packer on the End of Democratic Delusions

Anne Applebaum & Frank Foer on Syria, The Middle East, and Ukraine

WaPo's Aaron Blake on The Transition

BEST OF: Anne Applebaum on her book Autocracy, Inc.

David Axelrod on The Trump Transition

David Weigel - Political Writer for Semafor

Norm Ornstein on the Coming Hellscape

ELECTION PREVIEW with Molly Jong-Fast, Mark Leibovich, Jessica Taylor, & Jeremy Peters