The Political Scene Podcast

“What we’re seeing in Minneapolis is really like the ‘Black Mirror’ version of how federal forces have been used in the past, where the federal agents are coming to do the violence, not protect against violence,” Garrett Graff says.

Republicans have built local networks that outlast campaigns. Can Democrats turn protest energy into lasting power?

The New Yorker staff writer Clare Malone discusses her reporting on the new head of the news network, who made her name as a crusader against “woke” thinking.

The Washington Roundtable is joined by the former Prime Minister of Sweden Carl Bildt to discuss where President Trump’s turbulent week on the world stage leaves U.S. relations with Europe.

The anti-ICE protests—concentrated in Minneapolis—echo the mass mobilizations of 2020, and raise questions about what institutions and alliances make political dissent sustainable.

A left-wing, atheist reality-TV host from Oklahoma is one of the most popular liberal podcasters, channelling outrage with MAGA and with Democrats she views as complacent.

Can American democracy come back from the brink?

The Secretary of State is often described as the architect of U.S. policy toward Venezuela. How much control he actually exercises remains uncertain.

The historian Daniel Immerwahr says that Trump’s embrace of imperialist adventuring is not just about business interests—it’s an appeal to masculinity which “seems to sell.”

“What you’re seeing both abroad and at home are completely optional conflicts created by the character of the President,” Jane Mayer says.

The President says the United States will “run” Venezuela. What that entails—and how far Trump will go in the country and in the broader region—remains unclear.