Georgia Election Case, Menendez Charges, Presidential Race, Biden and the Media
Mike and Jay discuss guilty pleas in the GA election case, Senator Robert Menendez, the presidential race, and Biden’s media strategy.
Israel and Hamas, House Speaker Fight
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…
Jay Talks with Rep. Jim Jordan (2017)
In the fall of 2017, only a few years after Jim Jordan co-founded the House Freedom Caucus, he had this conversation with Jay, who knew Jordan from their days in the Ohio House of Representatives (Jordan was a freshman legislator, Jay was a staffer). Jordan talks about why he helped create the Freedom Caucus, what…
The Constitution: The Bill of Rights
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Castbox | PocketCasts | Overcast Trey & Ken continue their dive into the U.S. Constitution by overviewing the origins, history, and importance of the Bill of Rights. This episode sets up the next arch of the Constitution episodes as Trey & Ken go through each portion of the first…
The Gaza Strip, House Speaker
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Castbox | PocketCasts | Overcast In this deep dive episode Trey & Ken take a longview look at the conflict in the Gaza Strip. This includes a history into the formation of both Israel and the Gaza Strip, along with the key moments that led to the terrorist activity…
Steve Inskeep on Lincoln’s Leadership in Turbulent Times
Mike talks with NPR’s Steve Inskeep about his new book, “Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America”
Unconstitutional Agencies, Credit Card Competition, In Praise of Idleness
Mike and Jay on a legal challenge to the CFPB’s financing, the Credit Card Competition Act, and Bertrand Russell’s argument for more idleness.
McCarthy Out, California’s New Senator, Supreme Court Back, Trump Civil Case
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Castbox | PocketCasts | Overcast Mike and Jay open the show with a discussion of the ousting of Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, with every Democrat joining eight Republicans in voting to remove McCarthy as Speaker. Mike asks Jay to explain what’s going on with his party, and…
Lainey Newman on Rust Belt Union Blues
Trey talks with Lainey Newman, co-author of Rust Belt Union Blues: Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic Party about how the changing nature of social networks has shifted Union voters from Democrats to Trump voters. Topics Trey and Lainey Discuss Include: – how Lainey and Theda Skocpol came to work on the…
The Constitution: Article VII
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Castbox | PocketCasts | Overcast Trey and Ken continue their deep dive into the U.S. Constitution with an examination of Article VII. The pair discuss the government bypassing nature of the ratification process, what the ratification process was, how the anti-federalists brought us the Bill of Rights from the…
