With the president making even more outrageous remarks about his desire to impede voting by mail and the GOP mobilizing more efforts to spread disinformation, it is clear the weeks before the election will be contentious and American democracy is at risk. But who are you gonna call if the guys who are supposed to be protecting that democracy are the greatest ... Show More
Yesterday
DSR Daily January 15: Venezuela War Powers Resolution Fails
On the DSR Daily for Thursday, we discuss the failure of a war powers resolution in the Senate, Trump threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy military forces in Minnesota, reports of AI errors in ICE recruitment, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega ... Show More
16m 11s
Yesterday
The Daily Blast: Mike Johnson Goes Off Rails in Vile Gaslighting Display on Trump, ICE
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s response to growing ICE violence is really something to behold. In one long, rambling answer, he blamed shooting victim Renee Good in every which way, absurdly claiming she’d been “taunting” ICE officers and “impeded” them, while insisting they’d been ... Show More
24m 16s
Sep 2023
Workers Are Striking And Americans Are Into It
Welcome aboard the Acela, listeners. Today on the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, we are taking a break from the campaign trail and heading to Washington, D.C., where there’s quite a lot going on. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced last week that Republicans are opening an ... Show More
1h 10m
Mar 2023
What To Expect When You're Expecting An Indictment
On this week’s Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick talks with Andrew Weissmann, former lead prosecutor in Robert S. Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office and former Chief of the Fraud Section in the Department of Justice from 2015 - 2019.Together, they tackle the tangled web of investigations i ... Show More
44m 7s