Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer accidentally started a culture war over Zyn. Semafor’s Dave Weigel explains. And Vox health reporter Keren Landman, MD, compares the nicotine pouch to cigarettes and vapes.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Kim Eggleston, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and ... Show More
Jul 18
Progressives take on the Rust Belt
First there was New York, then Colorado. But can a progressive candidate win in the Rust Belt? This show was edited by Kasia Broussalian, fact checked by Esther Gim, mixed by Shannon Mahoney, video edited by Christopher Snyder and Benjamin Stephen, and hosted by Astead Herndon. S ... Show More
31m 54s
Dec 2022
“Kevin’s Gavel In A Vice.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene says she would’ve organized a more successful coup, Kevin McCarthy still cant find 218 votes for speaker, and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema leaves the Democratic Party. Then, Sen. Brian Schatz stops by to talk about democracy, the debt ceiling, Twitter, and Hanukkah. ... Show More
52m 18s
Jan 2025
Influencers Fueled Zyn’s Rise. Could the Attention Backfire?
Zyn nicotine pouches hit the market as a run-of-the-mill tobacco-replacement product, but over the past few years, they’ve gone viral thanks to so-called “Zynfluencers”: content creators who post about Zyn. They’re not paid by Zyn’s parent company Philip Morris, and while the onl ... Show More
16m 54s
Nov 2020
Episode 10 - Dunkin’ on Everything
Dunkin' with Duncan subs for a worldly traveling Smug, Dems reelect Schumer and Pelosi to lead them, Warnock's extremism, McGrath's Super PAC scam, and Senator Brian Schatz gets stuffed in a locker.
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28m 21s
Oct 2022
Sen. Chuck Schumer & Ben Wikler
<p>Senate Majority Leader, Charles Schumer, stops by to tell his story of what went down on 1/6 for the first time in full detail. Then chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, Ben Wikler, tells us the details of one of the most crucial states in the midterms and why you sh ... Show More
52m 9s