Plus, your Friday news quiz.
Yesterday
Concerns Grow Over Conditions on Aircraft Carrier, and Trump Pushes New Hacking Effort
Plus, your Friday news quiz. Here’s what we’re covering: Concerns Grow Over Conditions on Navy Carrier, by John Ismay, Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt Trump Gives Green Light to U.S. Companies to Aim Hacks at Cybercriminals, by Dustin Volz Kalshi Ordered to Cease Most Operations i ... Show More
16m 25s
Aug 13
ICE’s Plan to Give Officers Electric Stun Gloves, and a Siege on Palestinian Homes
Plus, health candy? Here’s what we’re covering: Homeland Security Paid $464 Million for Airplanes. Then It Parked Them., by David A. Fahrenthold, Andrea Fuller, Julie Tate, Nicholas Nehamas and Hamed Aleaziz ICE Plans to Give Officers Gloves That Can Deliver Electric Shocks, by M ... Show More
9m 25s
Aug 12
Key Takeaways From This Week’s Primaries, and the Deportees Stuck in ‘No Man’s Land’
Here’s what we’re covering: Election Live Updates: Moderate Democrat Wins Tight Wisconsin Primary for Governor, by The New York Times He Was Deported to a Country He’d Never Heard of. He May Never Go Free., by Nicholas Casey They Spoke English, Wore U.S. Flags and Attacked Fisher ... Show More
9m 31s
Feb 2021
February 21, 2021: How fact-checking is changing in a post-Trump world; why hysterical headlines hurt the Covid vaccine rollout; will countries link arms and make Facebook pay for news?
Plus... Power and water disasters in Texas are shining a light on local news; out-of-context headlines are clouding Covid-19 vaccine news; how Ted Cruz's trip to Cancun was exposed by Twitter sleuths; and more. Emily Ramshaw, Bill Carter, Carol Leonnig, Daniel Dale, Angie Drobnic ... Show More
41m 45s
Nov 2021
November 21, 2021: David French critiques Rittenhouse coverage; Nikole Hannah-Jones reacts to '1619' curriculum bans; how would the press handle a Trump 2024 campaign?
Plus... David Zurawik discusses Rupert Murdoch's jab at Donald Trump; Brian Stelter describes "news whiplash;" Katelyn Polantz explains what we're not seeing during the Jan. 6 prosecutions in federal court; and more. Jon Karl, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Rachel Stockman, David French, K ... Show More
40m 24s
May 2025
5/9/25: Woke Marxist Pope? Trump CAVES on China, Loomer RAGES at Casey Means
Krystal, Ryan, Emily and Kyle break down the Friday news with a new American Pope, Trump caving to China, Laura Loomer outraged at Casey Means pick for Surgeon General, and more! Damian Mark Thompson: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/holy-smoke/id1163175265 James Li: https:/ ... Show More
58 m
Feb 2021
February 14, 2021: The future of MAGA media after Trump's acquittal; Rep. Sara Jacobs on extremism, 'conflict entrepreneurs' and the need for a 'truth commission'
Plus... Politico's editor reacts to White House aide's resignation; BBC World Service boss reacts to China's ban of the BBC; what went wrong with The New York Times' Caliphate podcast; and more. Carrie Budoff Brown, Rep. Sara Jacobs, Tina Nguyen, Erik Wemple, Lorraine Ali, Noah S ... Show More
41m 9s
Feb 2025
Even More News: It's Constitutional Crisis Time, Baby!
Hi. Katy, Cody, and Jonathan are here to break down the showdown between the Trump administration's wildly illegal actions and the federal judges telling them to please stop it. Plus, they analyze Elon Musk's bizarre appearance in the Oval Office. And the measles guy just got con ... Show More
54m 55s
Oct 2024
Trump’s Strange Playlist, Kamala on Fox, and Elon’s Robot Fail
Kara and Scott discuss the latest from the campaign trail: VP Kamala Harris’s potential Joe Rogan appearance, former President Trump’s musical rally, and Elon Musk’s $75 million donation to his pro-Trump Super PAC. Plus, Elon’s big Cybercab reveal, Big Tech's nuclear energy buy-i ... Show More
1h 6m
Mar 2021
March 7, 2021: All roads lead to the Murdochs; royal correspondent defends negative Meghan Markle coverage; Iowa reporter faces trial after covering BLM protest
Plus... How the GOP takes its "cancel culture" cues from Fox; NYT columnist criticized for conflict of interest; the ups and downs of broadcasting from home during the pandemic. Diane Falzone, Sarah Ellison, Oliver Darcy, Maribel Perez Wadsworth, Richard Palmer and Kristin Meinze ... Show More
40m 39s