Cancel Culture Goes MAGA

MAGA's campaign of government censorship and repression is an assault on fundamental free speech values.

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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 of a world power going rogue, the lack of viable responses for countries like Venezuela and Denmark, and the costs to international trust when the US is so unreliable. Half

Return of the Silver Shirts

In ICE's invasion of Minneapolis, an echo of a dark past.

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.

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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 Venezuela. Does this reflect a considered strategy? Or multiple factions "working towards the sleepy Führer"? Can we make predictions about future American foreign policy, or is it all

Setting a Fire by the Powder Keg

Trump, Miller, and ICE are playing with fire and we cannot help them stick the blame elsewhere.

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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 of 2026. What are we doing in Venezuela, and why is corporate media being so weird about it? What are the ethics of publishing scoops that involve military actions? Why

The Spirit of the Laws

The Constitution is not in heaven. Without honorable and virtuous public officials, constitutional limits have no meaning.

Murder in Minneapolis

What this violent crime perpetrated by agents of the state means for the next three years.

We Need to Get Off the Defensive About Immigration

Free movement is a fantastic thing, and we should say it.

To My Students on the Anniversary of January 6

The political violence of the Trump era is all today's teenagers have ever known.

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We Are Going to Win (Neon Liberalism #58, with Adam Gurri)

Take a step back and recall where you were on election night 2024. Recall the way the future looked in January 2025 at Trump's inauguration. In this episode, Samantha and Adam Gurri, editor-in-chief of Liberal Currents, evaluate the long game against Trump—and argue that the Trump revolution