Adam Shatz is joined by Jamelle Bouie and Deborah Friedell to pick through the results and implications of Trump’s victory. The US has a booming economy of high wages and nearly full employment, yet economic discontent, particularly around inflation, has been one of the more popular explanations for the election result. As well as considering the importance ... Show More
Nov 21
Aftershock: The War on Terror – Episode 1: With Us or Against Us
In the days after 9/11, George W. Bush declared a state of emergency and initiated what would become an unprecedented expansion of US power. Public debate narrowed: there were new limits on what was acceptable, and not acceptable, to say. The London Review of Books published a nu ... Show More
44m 54s
Nov 15
Introducing ‘Aftershock: The War on Terror’
After 9/11, George W. Bush launched a global War on Terror. What followed was an unprecedented expansion of American power, from Guantánamo Bay to drone strikes, mass surveillance to the weaponisation of the financial system. Asked when it would end, Vice-President Dick Cheney re ... Show More
3m 57s
Nov 2024
Trump returns, stronger than ever
<p><span class="x_xxxxcontentpasted0"><span data-olk-copy-source= "MessageBody">Guest: The Toronto Star's Richard Warnica, reporting from Washington, DC</span></span></p> <p class="x_xmsonormal"><span class="x_xxxxcontentpasted0">In this episode, This Matters returns from hiatus ... Show More
34m 17s
Sep 2024
The Daily Blast: Trump Rages at Female Voters in Epic Rants Amid Sudden New Poll Drop
In two bizarre rants over the weekend, Donald Trump openly fumed about female voters, lecturing them about why they should be supporting him and dismissing concerns about GOP abortion bans and all they’ve wrought. Meanwhile, a new NBC News poll shows Kamala Harris leading Trump b ... Show More
28m 12s
Nov 2024
Shattering the Spectacle: Trump, Kamala, and the 2024 Election
Alyson and Breht analyze the results of the recent presidential election and explore its various meanings. Together they discuss the grotesque hollowness of the Democratic Party, the identity crisis of the post-Trump Republican party, dealignment and realignment, the end of neoli ... Show More
1h 11m
Jul 2024
#376 — How Democracies Fail
<p dir="ltr">Sam Harris and Anne Applebaum discuss the nature of modern autocracies and how democracies fail. They discuss the power of ideas, why autocracies seek to undermine democracies, cooperation among dictators, how Western financial experts and investors have enabled auto ... Show More
1h 7m
Feb 2025
"SECRET Republican!" Lindy Li CALLED OUT + Trump War DebateWith Eric Bolling
Piers Morgan brings together YouTube and podcast host of 'Bolling!' Eric Bolling, Democratic Party strategist Julie Roginsky, lawyer, comedian, and journalist Dean Obeidallah and former Democratic campaign advisor Lindy Li for what was originally intended to be a debate on US pol ... Show More
1h 8m