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Slidin’ Biden and Hobbled Donald Jan 24, 2022

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The week marked a year in office for President Biden, and the pundit class pronounced him on the ropes. Meanwhile, the former President appeared imperiled from many directions; in particular, the Jan 6 committee pieced together new information tying him more directly to the insurrection. 3 of the country’s most prominent commentators–Molly Ball, George Conway, & Michael Schmidt–join Harry to assess Biden’s prospects to turn things around and analyze the various threats to Trump and his circle.

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Talking Filibuster Jan 17, 2022

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It was a week of multiple aftershocks from the January 6 attack, and a fantastic panel – Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, Professor Larry Tribe, & Jonathan Alter – joins Harry to break it all down. The committee reached out to Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who called them illegitimate and refused to cooperate. Biden made a strong push for voting rights reform, but was snubbed by Sens. Manchin and Sinema. And DOJ shook up the landscape with a wide-ranging seditious conspiracy indictment.

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Happy Anniversary. I want a divorce. Jan 10, 2022

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On the week marking the anniversary of the 1/6 attack on the Capital and record-breaking rates of viral spread, three stellar commentators join Harry to analyze the cataclysmic events and chart what comes next. David Fahrenthold, Juliette Kayyem, & Norm Ornstein reflect on the implications of the continued persistence of the Big Lie. They discuss if the break-glass point has arrived for filibuster reform. And they discern an important pivot point in the public approach to the virus.

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Democratic Party 2022: Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind Jan 03, 2022

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Our final offering of the year is another special episode this time on the prospects for the Democratic Party in 2022. A stellar panel of journalists and Democratic strategists–Stephanie Cutter, Joe Lockhart, and Josh Marshall–join Harry for a sober look at the party’s uphill battle to avoid losing one or more Houses of Congress in the midterms. The stakes are huge, given the Republicans’ apparent surrender to Trump control and the threat to constitutional norms a Republican victory presents.

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Republican Party 2022: Party Over? Dec 27, 2021

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In the first of our 2 end-of-year special episodes, we look at the 2022 landscape for the Republican Party. A terrific trio of Republican party stalwarts & former officials–Bill Kristol, Michael Steele, & Governor Christie Todd Whitman–give a candid analysis of the grave threat to the Party & the Republic of the ascendant Trump wing of the party. They consider what a principled Republican should do today and the possible path back to normalcy for a Party that is now captured by aberrant forces.

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A Very Variant Christmas Dec 20, 2021

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3 of the country’s most prominent journalists—David Frum, Jon Lemire, and Carol Leonnig—join Harry to break down a banner, and mainly glum, news week. They begin with the dramatic developments from the Jan. 6 committee, including the contempt referral for Mark Meadows. They then take up the medical and psychological challenges of the Omicron variant. Finally, they analyze the dimming prospects in Congress for the Administration’s Build Back Better package and major voting rights legislation.

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Economics 2021: Inflation Frustration Dec 13, 2021

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A special episode on the economic state of the union. On the day when the Consumer Price index recorded the highest rate of price inflation in nearly 40 years, a superb panel of economic experts–Atlantic writer Annie Lowrey, Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell, and former Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers–join Harry for a lively, sophisticated, and highly accessible discussion about what is driving the surge and the implications for our daily lives now and in the coming year.

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Supreme Court: Leaving Us No Choice Dec 06, 2021

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The Supreme Court argument in the Mississippi abortion case, already shaping up as the biggest of the Term, transformed during oral argument this week into the most important case of a generation, as it became clear that the new conservative majority was poised either to sharply restrict, or flatly overrule, the Court’s landmark abortion jurisprudence. Harry and a panel of top Supreme Court experts analyze the argument and gauge the immense impact on American women and the court’s own standing.

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Making Ends Meat: Farmers Get Raw Deal Nov 29, 2021

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In this special Thanksgiving episode, Harry is joined by a fantastic panel of experts – Senator Cory Booker, award-winning author Michael Pollan, and sustainable farming activist Leah Penniman – to discuss the country's deeply flawed farming and food production systems. The group breaks down the economic, health, and environmental harms of Big Agriculture; the legislative policies that have allowed them to persist; and the diverse movement working to improve the ways we produce and consume food.

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Pelosi Talks, Rittenhouse Walks, Meadows Balks Nov 22, 2021

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The week ended with a thunderous 1-2 stroke of the passage in the House of the Build Back Better Bill, arguably the most significant piece of legislation in a generation, followed by the announcement of the across-the-board acquittals in the Kyle Rittenhouse case. An all-star panel comprising CNN anchor Laura Jarrett and Congressmen Raja Krishnamoorthi and Jamie Raskin join Harry to break down both developments and place them in the broader context of the country’s continuing partisan divide.

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