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 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?
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Radio Atlantic: The Art of the Shutdown Deal
Maggie Haberman of the New York Times joins Alex Wagner to explain how President Trump’s business career shows he’s no master negotiator—and also predicted the current shutdown mess.
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Radio Atlantic: Is the President a Russian Asset?
The staff writer Franklin Foer joins Alex Wagner to make sense of new questions about President Trump’s relationship with Russia.
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Radio Atlantic: How to Fix Social Media
Alexis Madrigal joins Matt Thompson to solve the ills of the modern internet.
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Radio Atlantic: What Happened to the GOP?
George Packer argues that the Republican Party has chosen power over democracy, and that its corruption began decades ago.
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Radio Atlantic: Does the NRA Connect Trump to Russia?
Alex Wagner talks with the reporters Natasha Bertrand and Mike Spies about Maria Butina, the NRA, and whether Russia used the gun lobby to influence American politics.
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Radio Atlantic: The First Gene-Edited Babies
A scientist has claimed he used the revolutionary CRISPR gene technology on human embryos, igniting a global controversy.
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Radio Atlantic: What’s Happening With Mueller and Manafort?
Alex Wagner discusses new developments in the Mueller probe with reporter Natasha Bertrand and former White House aide Ron Klain.
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Radio Atlantic: Florida Flashbacks
With votes being retallied in the Sunshine State, Mark McKinnon and Jeremy Bash look back on their time in the 2000 Bush and Gore campaigns.
