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The president’s brain is broken
Mark Jacob and I covered a lot of ground, but the through line was clear: we are living through a constitutional, media, and civic emergency—and too many institutions are still treating it as a series of disconnected incidents rather than t...
Fixing the U.S. Supreme Court should be job 1 for Democrats
Elie Mystal is the Justice correspondent at The Nation, an author, and an attorney who focuses on the Supreme Court. He came to our conversation ready to make the case that America’s political and legal problems are deeply connected, and th...
Can a democracy protect itself against political lies?
This week and I agreed that Senate hearing into Jack Smith laid bare what today’s GOP is. We talked about the next few weeks of the midterms, and about what faces the next Congress.
Highlights here (yes, courtesy of AI):
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Nothing’s the matter with Kansas
Kansans seem to have turned from Republican policies, even if they aren’t in the habit of voting from Democrats. I find that curious, so I reached out to Clay Wirestone, an opinion writer at the Kansas Reflector.
Clay called it “the fundam...
No Mr. Trump, these are not your decisions to make
Donald Trump addresses the 2026 United Nations General Assembly in New York on 9/22/26
“I have a big decision to make,” our President said at the United Nations. “Will a deal be made with Iran… or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic?”
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Edwin hosts "It's The Democracy Stupid" on Lincoln Square & a weekly radio show on WCPT820AM. Edwin is the former CEO of the Chicago Sun-Times, a former Chicago Alderman, HUD Regional Administrator and teacher in Chicago's public schools.
A former Tea Party Congressman and right-wing radio host, I torched my career to challenge Donald Trump & the MAGA GOP head on. Director of The Social Contract. Co-Founder of PAXIS. Founder of HopeNotFearProject.org. Conservative Democrat.
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