The Al Franken Podcast

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

WaPo’s Catherine Rampell on how the Economy is Helping Harris (A Little)

Laura Bassett of The Cut and Sarah Zhang of The Atlantic

Frank Foer and David Rothkopf on Israel’s Wars in Gaza and Lebanon…and Nobel Climate Scientist Michael Mann on the Hurricanes

Tim Miller and Aaron Blake on the VP Debate and Jack Smith's Filing

Jamelle Bouie - Columnist for the New York Times

Dems Top Election Lawyer Marc Elias on the Legal Battles Ahead

NYT’s Jeremy Peters on Trump’s Bad Debate

Author and Journalist Joe Conason

Martin Short: A “BEST OF”

Molly Jong-Fast and Mark Leibovich on The Democratic Convention

YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen on his new book Shameless

Scott Galloway - Professor, Podcast Host, Author

Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Anne Applebaum on Autocracies and Comedian Trae Crowder on JD Vance

The Atlantic's Frank Foer and Elaina Plott Calabro on Harris and Biden

Molly Jong-Fast and Mark Leibovich on the RNC

Dahlia Lithwick on SCOTUS

Best Of: Heather Cox Richardson on Our Democracy

4th of July Special: Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence

Norm Ornstein on The Debate & SCOTUS

Never-Trumpers Sarah Longwell and Tim Miller on the Presidential Debate