Kevin Townsend
A Supreme Court Impeachment Fight That’s Already Under Way
A decade ago, West Virginia foreshadowed the influence that money and politics have come to have on state judiciaries. Now it may warn of a worrying new trend.
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Radio Atlantic: The Reelection Battle Begins
Donald Trump had never held public office before he became president. So how does the ultimate outsider candidate run for reelection? And who does he want to face?
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Radio Atlantic: Partisanship at the Supreme Court
As the justices consider the limits of partisanship in two major cases, will questions about the Court’s own politics be its undoing?
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Radio Atlantic: The Abortion Debate’s New Urgency
Could the abortion bans passing around the country topple Roe v. Wade?
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Radio Atlantic: Introducing Crazy/Genius Season 3
The staff writers Derek Thompson and Isaac Dovere preview the new season of Crazy/Genius, The Atlantic’s show about technology and culture. Subscribe to Crazy/Genius wherever you get your podcasts.
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Radio Atlantic: Trump’s Trade War
Why did a Republican president start a trade war between the world’s two largest economies?
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Radio Atlantic: Liberalism’s Last Stand
Viktor Orbán has worked to remove all impediments to his autocratic regime in Hungary. Next week, President Trump will welcome him to the White House.
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Radio Atlantic: Is Politics Funny Anymore?
Jordan Klepper discusses political comedy in the Trump era.
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Radio Atlantic: To Impeach or Not to Impeach?
Yoni Appelbaum and Ezra Klein debate whether Democrats should open an impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
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Radio Atlantic: The Trauma at the Border
A migrant advocate shares the harrowing stories of asylum seekers and describes what the Trump administration’s new border policies could mean for these families.
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Radio Atlantic: Can a Long-Shot Candidate Beat Donald Trump?
Edward-Isaac Dovere interviews Howard Dean, the last long-shot turned front-runner in a race to take down an incumbent Republican.
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Radio Atlantic: Sex, Gender, and the Democratic Party
Does the conversation about Joe Biden’s “handsiness” show how much Democrats have changed in the past two decades—or how little?
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Radio Atlantic: Politics After Mueller
What does the end of the special counsel’s investigation mean for 2020?
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Radio Atlantic: President Trump’s Post-Mueller Corruption Problem
Diamond snuffboxes, Moroccan lions, and a part of the Constitution that’s never been tested in the courts … until President Trump
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Radio Atlantic: Paul Manafort and the Problem of White-Collar Crime
Why do white-collar criminals so rarely face justice?
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Radio Atlantic: The Future of the Democratic Party
Dan Pfeiffer joins Alex Wagner to discuss how Democrats should approach 2020.
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Radio Atlantic: President Trump’s New Legal Nightmare
Michael Cohen’s testimony created a host of problems for Trump beyond the Russia investigation. Are these new legal woes the biggest threat to Trump’s presidency?
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Radio Atlantic: State of Emergency
Listen to the legal expert Liza Goitein explain the history (and shocking extent) of presidential emergency powers.
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Radio Atlantic: Pecker Pics and Tabloid Tricks
Jeffrey Toobin helps Alex Wagner make sense of the National Enquirer: its strange history, its devotion to Donald Trump, and why it’s at war with the world’s richest man.
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Radio Atlantic: Something Rotten in the State of Virginia
The staff writers Adam Serwer and Vann Newkirk join Alex Wagner to discuss the news that Virginia’s Democratic governor and attorney general both wore blackface.
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Radio Atlantic: Kamala Harris, Progressive Prosecutor?
In the era of criminal-justice reform and Black Lives Matter, can a former prosecutor win the Democratic nomination?
