Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Mike opens the show with some brief comments on Joe Biden choosing Kamala Harris, the USPS and the 2020 election, and the agreement between the UAE and Israel. After that is his interview with political scientists Jacob Hacker (Yale) and Paul Pierson (Berkeley) about…
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Mike and Jay discuss the impasse in the latest coronavirus legislation, President Trump’s promise to issue executive orders, the latest primary elections, and yet another state’s voters approving Medicaid expansion. Mike’s Weekly Recommendation The Bulwark’s Daily Newsletter Jay’s Weekly Recommendation No Property in Man….
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Trey and Ken discuss Stella Immanuel and the other frontline doctors and what it means to think critically, rationality, and scientifically. They also tackle the failures by House Democrats to hold Attorney General Barr accountable as well the House’s hearings with Apple, Facebook, Amazon…
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Mike and Kristin discuss the Portland unrest that seems to have escalated with the arrival of federal officers, as well as the separate issue of Operation Legend in cities across the country. They also take on the issue of President Trump’s executive order to…
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Ralph Waldo Emerson said that “Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.” Mike and Jay talk about masks, character, and who’s hiding what in the Georgia- Atlanta spat, CDC guidance, and Trump’s approach to…
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS This week, Mike & Jay discuss the commutation of Roger Stone’s sentence by President Trump, the Trump administration’s push to open up schools this fall, international student visas, and big Supreme Court rulings on the release of Donald Trump’s financial records and whether presidential…
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS On this week’s show, Mike and Kristin kick things off by discussing some of the recent developments in COVID-19 news and the differences in how governors and the President have handled mask-wearing. They also talk about allegations of Russian bounties on US troops as…
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Mike & Jay start off by discussing the House and Senate versions of legislation intended to address systemic problems with policing in the United States. They agree that neither side has much reason to compromise in the run-up to the 2020 elections, but they…
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS On today’s show, Trey and Ken discuss Bostock v. Clayton County and the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The discussion leads them to discuss the implications of various methods the court uses, or ought to use, in interpreting law. Trey and Ken also talk DACA…
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS On today’s show, Mike and Kristin begin by discussing several developments in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, including some of the legislation put forth or discussed by Republicans and Democrats recently, aimed at eliminating police violence. They also bring up the issue of…