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Episode #313: What Iowa Has Taught Us

Posted January 30, 2020 • 00:58:18

Republicans who were hoping for a quick end of the Senate impeachment trial were stunned by the leak of the John Bolton manuscript. It seemed to confirm...

Episode #312: After 232 Years, It’s Time

Posted January 23, 2020 • 00:52:05

The skirmish over whether a woman can beat President Trump in November that we saw in last week’s Democratic debate has not abated. It’s an argument...

Episode #311: Debate, Division, Des Moines

Posted January 16, 2020 • 00:51:07

The final Democratic debate before next month’s Iowa caucuses highlighted an exchange between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren that essentially...

Episode #310: The Risk of Switching Parties

Posted January 9, 2020 • 01:01:02

Add the latest in the Middle East to the tensions over impeachment that senators are going to be dealing within 2020. Jessica Taylor of NPR and the...

Episode #309: Pleading the 22nd

Posted January 2, 2020 • 00:59:09

It may be 2020 but the dysfunction in Congress is nothing new. And that’s especially true within the two chambers themselves, as a huge pile of...