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?”
This week’s episode starts with a look at the annual meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference, headlined by President Trump himself. Mike and Jay take a look at the president’s stridently anti-media rhetoric as well as discuss someone who wasn’t there: conservative provocateur and former Breitbart senior editor Milo Yiannopoulos, who was disinvited after…
Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS The show starts off with Mike and Jay discussing the list of questions Special Counsel Robert Mueller has for President Trump, and whether or not the president will end up answering them. They both agree that it would be extremely unwise for Trump to sit down for an extended interview, even if that…

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Castbox | PocketCasts | Overcast Trey and Ken start the show with Biden’s immigration order. President Biden has announced a sweeping executive action on immigration, authorizing U.S. immigration officials to deport large numbers of migrants without processing their asylum claims. This new policy, seen as one of the most…

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…

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS On this week’s show, Trey and Mike discuss the last presidential debate, focusing on substance over who ‘won’ or ‘lost’. They also discuss the White House footage from the 60 Minutes interview. Additionally the pair talk about the Supreme Court’s ruling on absentee ballots…
Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Mike talks to Dr. Danielle McDonald, a criminal justice professor at Northern Kentucky University about her book Race, Gender, Class, and Criminal Justice: Examining Barriers to Justice. Mike and Danielle discuss racial profiling, the militarization of law enforcement, problems with public defenders, racial sentencing disparities, and capital punishment. Listener support helps make The…