2025's Word of the Year (Half the Answer #60, with Savi Namboodiripad and Daniel Midgley)
Caitlin and Trent chat with linguistics scholars Savi Namboodiripad and Daniel Midgley on what word most exemplifies 2025. Was it
Minneapolis Under Siege (Neon Liberalism #60, with Will Stancil)
Samantha and guest Will Stancil talk the murder of Renée Good and the Trump administration's larger assault on
Understanding Stephen Miller (Half the Answer #59, with Greg Sargent)
Trent and Caitlin catch up with Greg Sargent from The New Republic about his recent piece exploring the family history
The New Epstein Island Is Right in Your Pocket: It’s Time to Abandon Elon Musk’s Paradise of Abuse
It has long been time to leave X. Now, it’s essential.
So, How’s the Occupation Going for You?
What’s it like to live in America with a domestic military occupation? Minnesota has the answer.
Cancel Culture Goes MAGA
MAGA's campaign of government censorship and repression is an assault on fundamental free speech values.
The U.S. in Venezuela: The International Community and the Donroe Doctrine (Half the Answer #58, with Mark Copelovitch)
Caitlin and Trent speak with Mark Copelovitch, a political science professor from University of Wisconsin–Madison. They discuss the problem
Remigration, Recolonization, Rechristianization, Restoration: How Some of America’s Most Extreme Christian Nationalists See the New (Old) World Order
On the right's masculine, white nationalist, and theocratic framework.
Venezuela and the State of American Strategy (Neon Liberalism #59, with Giselle Donnelly)
Join Samantha and Giselle Donnelly, foreign policy analyst and American Enterprise Institute alumna, as they discuss the recent attack on
Setting a Fire by the Powder Keg
Trump, Miller, and ICE are playing with fire and we cannot help them stick the blame elsewhere.
The U.S. in Venezuela: Why Is Corporate Media Being So Weird? (Half the Answer #57, with Marisa Kabas)
Trent and Caitlin check in with The Handbasket’s Marisa Kabas about the year that has been the first week