Ask The Politics Guys: Fixing the Broken Primary System
This week’s Ask The Politics Guys question comes from Samantha, in Honolulu.
“Dear Politics Guys, How can we fix the broken primary system?”
This week’s Ask The Politics Guys question comes from Samantha, in Honolulu.
“Dear Politics Guys, How can we fix the broken primary system?”
Mike & Jay open with an extended discussion of the recent failure of three banks, focusing on the largest of the three, Silicon Valley Bank. They discuss why depositors were made whole, banking regulation, and the importance of risk in capitalism. After that they turn to the growing threat of a US ban of the…

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Castbox | PocketCasts | Overcast Mike and Jay open with the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Jay gives President Biden credit for his response but argues that Biden’s words of sympathy for Palestinian civilians were ill-timed. They consider the larger issues involved – whether Gazans are rightfully angry with…

Mike and Jay on Nippon Steel’s acquisition of US Steel, NYT suing OpenAI and Microsoft, Leuren Boebert switching districts, and John Roberts’ report on the state of the federal judiciary.

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Trey & Ken start the episode with Liz Truss and her 44 days as Prime Minster of the United Kingdom. They consider not only what led to this moment, but also what the probability is for her successor. This includes the possibility of Boris…

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Trey and Mike host this week’s show and start with the confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson. Topics include the importance of position taking over substantive conversations, the questions of sentencing in child pornography cases and judicial philosophy. Next the pair take on the…

Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS This week Trey is joined by Ken and they begin the show by exploring the Justice Department’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz’s, report into the potentiality of a political bias by the FBI. Next the pair turn to the House Judiciary Committee’s party-line vote to move…