Lawfare Daily: The Jan. 6 Pardonee Crime Wave with Katherine Pompilio

In a new report for Lawfare, Associate Editor Katherine Pompilio finds that 97 of the more than 1,500 individuals granted clemency by President Trump for…

Lawfare Daily: Inside the Upheaval of the Second Trump Administration with Emily Bazelon

On today’s episode, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Emily Bazelon, a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine, the Truman Capote Fellow for…

Lawfare Daily: Pope Leo XIV Takes on Silicon Valley with Christopher Hale and Renée DiResta

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical treats AI as the defining social question of our time: not just a technical shift, but a moral fight over…

Lawfare Daily: Drone Wars in Ukraine

“Jackie” is the call signal of an American Army veteran who volunteered in 2022 with the Ukrainian military and has been fighting the Russians ever…

Pass the Torch! : A Conversation with Run for Something’s Amanda Litman

We can no longer wait to be saved. It’s time to step up and save ourselves because Democratic leadership isn’t going to do it –…

We’re Giving These Guys Money?! : A Conversation about the Presidential Slush Fund with Liz Oyer

Liz Oyer talks to us about the president’s outrageous corruption and the complete distain he and his allies have for the American people and the…

Can We Vote Our Way Out of This? : A Conversation with Authoritarian Expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Ruth Ben Ghiat reminds us that unless we want America to become a white, christian ethno-state, we need to be engaging now. Now is the…

I Don’t Understand What America is Doing! – A Conversation with Joanna Johnson

Why are we at war? Why are they trying to trick us into thinking the economy is good as if we don’t pay our own…

The Return of Jim Crow: A Conversation with the ACLU’s Sophia Lin Lakin

Don’t think for a moment that the dismantling of the 1965 Voting Rights Act stops with disenfranchising Black voters. Once Republicans are finished suppressing Black…

Ep 995: The Politics of Pronouns

Episode 995 of The Professional Left takes a deep dive into one of the most revealing tricks in modern political history — the quiet, deliberate…

Ep 996: The Maine Event

Episode 996 of The Professional Left takes a hard look at the media circus surrounding the Maine Democratic Senate primary, asking who is actually stirring…

Ep 997: What Do Democrats Want?

Episode 997 of The Professional Left uses the sudden, very public firing of Scott Pelley from 60 Minutes as a jumping-off point to ask a…

Ep 993: Fools In a Burning House

Episode 993 of The Professional Left finally arrives at the pivotal year of 2008 — the moment the Republican party began eating itself alive —…

Ep 994: An Epidemic of Recycled Lies

Episode 994 of The Professional Left takes a hard look at the war on memory — the long, grinding campaign to erase what actually happened…

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Let’s Mess With Texas

Today we recap another crazy week in which a US Senator was tear gassed by ICE agents, a corrupt craven criminal Trump sycophant is the…