Jim Comey’s memos are released. | Apr 20, 2018 | Listen |
Republicans are divided over trying to make the tax cuts permanent | Apr 19, 2018 | Listen |
A new progressive coalition aims to improve Democratic messaging against Trump | Apr 18, 2018 | Listen |
Trump fills the job of White House communications director – with himself | Apr 17, 2018 | Listen |
James Comey says President Trump may be susceptible to Russian blackmail | Apr 16, 2018 | Listen |
Trump’s plan to pardon ‘Scooter’ Libby sends a message to witnesses in the Mueller probe | Apr 13, 2018 | Listen |
Paul Ryan’s party is over. | Apr 12, 2018 | Listen |
Trump's fury after Cohen raids prods Hill Republicans to take sides on Mueller | Apr 11, 2018 | Listen |
Mark Zuckerberg will be on the hot seat today | Apr 10, 2018 | Listen |
Trump telegraphs military action against Syria | Apr 09, 2018 | Listen |
More trouble for Scott Pruitt | Apr 06, 2018 | Listen |
Trump is following through on his ‘America First’ campaign promises | Apr 05, 2018 | Listen |
Lordy, there may be reports | Apr 04, 2018 | Listen |
Remembering MLK’s final speech | Apr 03, 2018 | Listen |
Trump’s Easter tweetstorm speaks volumes about his presidency | Apr 02, 2018 | Listen |
Visuals, metaphors and ego motivate Trump to take a harder line on Putin | Mar 30, 2018 | Listen |
Loyalty to Trump has emerged as a top issue in GOP primary campaign commercials | Mar 29, 2018 | Listen |
How Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook is like Gutenberg’s printing press | Mar 28, 2018 | Listen |
A conservative think tank is trying to tackle climate change | Mar 27, 2018 | Listen |
How the marches for gun control are like the protests against Vietnam | Mar 26, 2018 | Listen |
Trump continues to shake up the White House | Mar 23, 2018 | Listen |
Congress reveals a spending deal that doesn't give Trump the money he wants for his wall | Mar 22, 2018 | Listen |
Illinois primary results show angry bases in both parties demanding more ideological purity | Mar 21, 2018 | Listen |
Trump is becoming more confrontational with Mueller | Mar 20, 2018 | Listen |
A slain 18-year-old's family reminds us to remember all the victims of gun violence | Mar 19, 2018 | Listen |
Trump may hire multiple cable news personalities as part of shake-up | Mar 16, 2018 | Listen |
A center-left think tank makes an opening bid in the 2020 'ideas primary' | Mar 15, 2018 | Listen |
Pennsylvania special election shows GOP still hasn’t found a winning midterms message | Mar 14, 2018 | Listen |
How Trump caved to the NRA | Mar 13, 2018 | Listen |
A Democratic senator is highlighting work with Trump in the first ad of his reelection campaign | Mar 12, 2018 | Listen |
A rescue mission to save a Republican seat in a Pennsylvania special election | Mar 09, 2018 | Listen |
Trump equivocation on tariffs highlights continuing chaos in the White House | Mar 08, 2018 | Listen |
Trump is supercharging the celebrification of politics | Mar 07, 2018 | Listen |
Trump's trade adviser is getting his 15 minutes of fame | Mar 06, 2018 | Listen |
Democratic committees are divided over playing in primaries | Mar 05, 2018 | Listen |
Trump triangulates on trade | Mar 02, 2018 | Listen |
Trump’s rejection of due process for gun owners points to his disdain for the rule of law | Mar 01, 2018 | Listen |
Hope Hicks's evasiveness highlights how far Trump is pushing the envelope on executive privilege | Feb 28, 2018 | Listen |
Trump gets a seminar on federalism as governors push back on arming teachers | Feb 27, 2018 | Listen |
Trump is driving a surge in public support for stricter gun laws since Florida shooting | Feb 26, 2018 | Listen |
President Trump’s push to arm teachers gives the NRA what it wants | Feb 23, 2018 | Listen |
Trump tries to show empathy for gun violence victims, but don’t expect him to cry | Feb 22, 2018 | Listen |
Jury still out on Trump’s seriousness about banning bump stocks | Feb 21, 2018 | Listen |
The kids are alright. | Feb 20, 2018 | Listen |
Ideologues are ascendant in the Trump White House | Feb 16, 2018 | Listen |
Trump still hasn’t nominated a director for the Violence Against Women office | Feb 15, 2018 | Listen |
A pragmatic Bernie Sanders seeks out an immigration compromise to protect ‘dreamers’ | Feb 14, 2018 | Listen |
Trump budget highlights disconnect between populist rhetoric and plutocrat reality | Feb 13, 2018 | Listen |
A freewheeling immigration debate in the Senate will test the power of conservative outside groups | Feb 12, 2018 | Listen |
Republicans are all Keynesians now, but not Rand Paul | Feb 09, 2018 | Listen |
Improving poll numbers give Republicans hope that the midterms might not be so bad | Feb 08, 2018 | Listen |
Stopgap spending bills epitomize congressional dysfunction and hurt the military | Feb 07, 2018 | Listen |
Trump's accusation of "treason" against Democrats debases discourse | Feb 06, 2018 | Listen |
More memos are coming. Will they matter? | Feb 05, 2018 | Listen |
Is Mitt Romney the future or the past of the Republican Party? | Feb 02, 2018 | Listen |
Washington is consumed with the Nunes memo, which could come out today | Feb 01, 2018 | Listen |
The State of the Union underscored why Trump is his own worst enemy | Jan 31, 2018 | Listen |
The Koch network is getting very worried about 2018 | Jan 30, 2018 | Listen |
How the Koch network learned to thrive in the Trump era | Jan 29, 2018 | Listen |
Another data point for Mueller | Jan 27, 2018 | Listen |
Trump says he's "looking forward" to speaking with Mueller | Jan 25, 2018 | Listen |
Updates on the Russia investigation | Jan 24, 2018 | Listen |
This is the way the shutdown ends | Jan 23, 2018 | Listen |
This shutdown foreshadows a 2018 of inaction and gridlock | Jan 22, 2018 | Listen |
A blame game begins as a government shutdown looms | Jan 19, 2018 | Listen |
‘Truth decay’ infected politics before Trump | Jan 18, 2018 | Listen |
An unexpected defeat in a rural Wisconsin special election sets off alarm bells for Republicans | Jan 17, 2018 | Listen |
Denials of a profane Trump comment encapsulate why people distrust politicians so much | Jan 16, 2018 | Listen |
James will be back on Tuesday | Jan 15, 2018 | Listen |
Trump has failed to nominate anyone for hundreds of important jobs in the executive branch | Jan 12, 2018 | Listen |
Meet the Trump nominees who couldn’t get confirmed by the GOP Senate, but are still in government | Jan 11, 2018 | Listen |
It’s perilous to have a president who doesn’t know history | Jan 10, 2018 | Listen |
Trump is systematically alienating the Latino diaspora | Jan 09, 2018 | Listen |
Why Trump and Republicans are suddenly talking up bipartisanship | Jan 08, 2018 | Listen |
Trump's off-shore drilling and marijuana announcements anger Republicans | Jan 05, 2018 | Listen |
Trump’s break with Bannon shows the limits of loyalty | Jan 04, 2018 | Listen |
North Korea my-button-is-bigger brinkmanship again spotlights Trump’s fixation on size | Jan 03, 2018 | Listen |
Trump’s true priorities revealed in holiday news dumps | Jan 02, 2018 | Listen |
Political questions for 2018 | Dec 30, 2017 | Listen |
Dec. 29 Headlines | Dec 29, 2017 | Listen |
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Dec. 27 Headlines | Dec 27, 2017 | Listen |
Dec. 26 Headlines | Dec 26, 2017 | Listen |
Will President Trump’s second year go better than his first? | Dec 22, 2017 | Listen |
Why Democrats are confident that the tax bill will be an albatross for Republicans | Dec 21, 2017 | Listen |
The tax bill is likely to become more popular after it passes, because expectations are so low | Dec 20, 2017 | Listen |
Why does a Louisiana GOP senator keeps bringing down Trump judicial nominees? | Dec 19, 2017 | Listen |
Trump risks losing the last remnant of his populist street cred with GOP tax bill | Dec 18, 2017 | Listen |
Democrats risk overplaying their hand by pushing for President Trump’s resignation | Dec 15, 2017 | Listen |
Revolt against Trump in the suburbs continued in Alabama | Dec 14, 2017 | Listen |
Jeff Sessions’s Senate seat will now be held by a Democrat | Dec 13, 2017 | Listen |
Washington Governor Jay Inslee on the 2018 governor's races | Dec 12, 2017 | Listen |
Alabama’s desire not to be embarrassed may be the best thing going for Democrats | Dec 11, 2017 | Listen |
Democrats are struggling to activate black voters in the Alabama Senate race | Dec 08, 2017 | Listen |
Women lawmakers in both parties are leading the push to address sexual harassment | Dec 07, 2017 | Listen |
Why many Alabama women are still supporting Roy Moore in the Senate race | Dec 06, 2017 | Listen |
The RNC’s return to Roy Moore shows that Trump has completed his takeover of the GOP | Dec 05, 2017 | Listen |
Botched damage control efforts keep making the Russia scandal worse for Trump | Dec 04, 2017 | Listen |
Trump’s GOP keeps violating more norms in pursuit of a tax bill | Dec 01, 2017 | Listen |
Political sphere lags the media in responding to sexual misconduct allegations | Nov 30, 2017 | Listen |
GOP leaders cut a deal with Bob Corker, and outside groups are furious | Nov 29, 2017 | Listen |
Trump keeps giving in-kind contributions to Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 campaign-in-waiting | Nov 28, 2017 | Listen |
Lawmakers have their hands full this December | Nov 27, 2017 | Listen |
2018 could be ‘The Year of the Woman’ on steroids | Nov 22, 2017 | Listen |
Why the DOJ lawsuit to stop AT&T from buying CNN is suspicious | Nov 21, 2017 | Listen |
Elephant trophy reversal shows what persuades Trump | Nov 20, 2017 | Listen |
How EPA chief Scott Pruitt wants to redefine ‘environmentalism’ | Nov 17, 2017 | Listen |
Trump voters have buyer’s remorse in North Carolina focus group | Nov 16, 2017 | Listen |
Inside Scott Walker’s comeback strategy | Nov 15, 2017 | Listen |
Republicans face a lose-lose situation in the Alabama Senate race | Nov 14, 2017 | Listen |
Trump’s Putin comments on Asia trip erode U.S. credibility | Nov 13, 2017 | Listen |
As Roy Moore declines to step aside, a tale of two Republican parties emerges | Nov 10, 2017 | Listen |
Fresh Democratic faces emerge from anti-Trump backlash | Nov 09, 2017 | Listen |
Anti-Trump backlash fueled a Democratic sweep in Virginia and elections nationwide | Nov 08, 2017 | Listen |
How the Virginia governor’s race might scare Republicans away from criminal justice reform | Nov 07, 2017 | Listen |
Democratic drama on eve of Virginia governor’s race | Nov 06, 2017 | Listen |
Republican committee chairmen are retiring in droves | Nov 03, 2017 | Listen |
Red state Democrats are proposing ideas to cut taxes and work with Trump | Nov 02, 2017 | Listen |
Negative ads are helping Ed Gillespie win Trump supporters in the Virginia governor’s race | Nov 01, 2017 | Listen |
Sam Clovis is about to be in the hot seat | Oct 31, 2017 | Listen |
Ohio Democrats say talking about Mueller’s probe is not the way to win in 2018 | Oct 30, 2017 | Listen |
Trump bowing to CIA on JFK files is a reminder of how the presidency changes people | Oct 27, 2017 | Listen |
The GOP civil war is bigger than Trump | Oct 26, 2017 | Listen |
Flake and Corker feel liberated to speak their minds. That should terrify Trump. | Oct 25, 2017 | Listen |
Don't spike the football after Raqqa | Oct 24, 2017 | Listen |
The corrosion of support for First Amendment principles started before Trump. He’s supercharged it. | Oct 23, 2017 | Listen |
Obama and Bush deliver calls to action against Trumpism | Oct 20, 2017 | Listen |
What Jeff Sessions wouldn’t say was more revealing than what he did | Oct 19, 2017 | Listen |
Ex-CIA officers are running for Congress as Democrats | Oct 18, 2017 | Listen |
Hawks worry about the lack of American resolve to confront North Korea | Oct 17, 2017 | Listen |
Trump’s attacks on Senate Republicans are paying political dividends | Oct 16, 2017 | Listen |
Trump now owns the broken health-care system | Oct 13, 2017 | Listen |
Stepped-up attacks on the press reflect Trump’s bunker mentality | Oct 12, 2017 | Listen |
Foreign intelligence agencies might be using your anti-virus software against you | Oct 11, 2017 | Listen |
Final Virginia governor’s debate spotlights Democratic problems in rural America | Oct 10, 2017 | Listen |
Trump's Bob Corker tirade encapsulates why Trump has failed at governing | Oct 09, 2017 | Listen |
Baseball is a salve for our national wounds | Oct 06, 2017 | Listen |
It's all about the base | Oct 05, 2017 | Listen |
Why a Republican strategist thinks we’re in a new Gilded Age | Oct 04, 2017 | Listen |
How politics may (or may not) change after the Las Vegas shooting | Oct 03, 2017 | Listen |
Trump’s tweets make matters worse in Puerto Rico and North Korea | Oct 02, 2017 | Listen |
Tom Price’s charter flights in perspective | Sep 29, 2017 | Listen |
Influx of Puerto Ricans after Hurricane Maria could tip Florida toward Democrats | Sep 28, 2017 | Listen |
A Senate that's coming apart | Sep 27, 2017 | Listen |
Trump’s plutocracy problem complicates push for tax cuts | Sep 26, 2017 | Listen |
Why the divider in chief embraces culture wars | Sep 25, 2017 | Listen |
In Alabama Senate debate, a noun, a verb and Donald Trump | Sep 22, 2017 | Listen |
Gillespie keeps the door open to campaigning with Trump | Sep 21, 2017 | Listen |
Why conservatives loved Trump’s U.N. speech | Sep 20, 2017 | Listen |
Mueller tightens the screws on Manafort | Sep 19, 2017 | Listen |
Reading helped Hillary Clinton cope | Sep 18, 2017 | Listen |
Trump’s DACA ‘deal’ is another humiliation for Jeff Sessions | Sep 15, 2017 | Listen |
Bipartisan initiative to thwart election hacking gains steam | Sep 14, 2017 | Listen |
McCain and Kerry outline lessons from Vietnam | Sep 13, 2017 | Listen |
Trumpism makes strange bedfellows | Sep 12, 2017 | Listen |
Hurricane Irma would have killed vastly more people in the past | Sep 11, 2017 | Listen |
The Daily 202 Live: Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross | Sep 09, 2017 | Listen |
Rep. Charlie Dent announces retirement with a parting shot at the GOP | Sep 08, 2017 | Listen |
Trump’s triangulation shows what might have been | Sep 07, 2017 | Listen |
Immigration has become a litmus test for Democrats | Sep 06, 2017 | Listen |
By their fruits you will know them | Sep 05, 2017 | Listen |
Headlines for Sept. 4 | Sep 04, 2017 | Listen |
Headlines for Sept. 1 | Sep 01, 2017 | Listen |
Headlines for Aug. 31 | Aug 31, 2017 | Listen |
Headlines for Aug. 30 | Aug 30, 2017 | Listen |
Headlines for Aug. 29 | Aug 29, 2017 | Listen |
Headlines for Aug. 28 | Aug 28, 2017 | Listen |
Hurricane Harvey will be Trump’s first major natural disaster test | Aug 25, 2017 | Listen |
Trump’s border wall brinkmanship may leave Republicans in Congress holding the bag | Aug 24, 2017 | Listen |
Trump acknowledges changing his mind as he unveils new Afghanistan strategy | Aug 22, 2017 | Listen |
The elites strike back | Aug 21, 2017 | Listen |
James will be back on Monday | Aug 18, 2017 | Listen |
Trump’s embrace of Confederate statues as a wedge issue underscores Bannon’s enduring influence | Aug 18, 2017 | Listen |
False moral equivalency is not a bug of Trumpism. It’s a feature. | Aug 16, 2017 | Listen |
Trump acts like the president of the Red States of America | Aug 15, 2017 | Listen |
Evidence of climate change abounds amid extreme weather in the Pacific Northwest | Aug 14, 2017 | Listen |
Headlines for Aug. 11 | Aug 11, 2017 | Listen |
Headlines for Aug. 10 | Aug 10, 2017 | Listen |
Headlines for Aug. 9 | Aug 09, 2017 | Listen |
Headlines for Aug. 8 | Aug 08, 2017 | Listen |
Headlines for Aug. 7 | Aug 07, 2017 | Listen |
Mueller impaneling a grand jury makes it more politically difficult for Trump to fire him | Aug 04, 2017 | Listen |
Trump stumbles are undercutting executive power, which may be healthy for America long-term | Aug 03, 2017 | Listen |
Jeff Flake delivers the most courageous conservative rebuttal of Trumpism yet | Aug 02, 2017 | Listen |
John Kelly foreshadows how he might be as White House chief of staff | Aug 01, 2017 | Listen |
Trump’s warped view of loyalty | Jul 31, 2017 | Listen |
Trump’s hardball tactics backfire as ‘skinny repeal’ goes down | Jul 28, 2017 | Listen |
Growing GOP backlash to transgender troop ban underscores Trump’s political miscalculation | Jul 27, 2017 | Listen |
Senate Republicans still face narrow path to pass health-care bill after procedural victory | Jul 26, 2017 | Listen |
Trump’s pick to run DOJ criminal division worked for Russia bank | Jul 25, 2017 | Listen |
Trump marginalizes experts, debases expertise | Jul 24, 2017 | Listen |
Asking about a pardon for himself is a quintessentially Trumpian move | Jul 21, 2017 | Listen |
Trump shows disdain for rule of law | Jul 20, 2017 | Listen |
Teflon Trump gets less blame for Obamacare fail than Senate GOP | Jul 19, 2017 | Listen |
Republicans don’t have the votes to repeal Obamacare after Senate bill falls apart | Jul 18, 2017 | Listen |
Only 1 in 4 Americans strongly support Trump | Jul 17, 2017 | Listen |
Trump’s children become bigger liabilities for the White House | Jul 14, 2017 | Listen |
Trump is the disrupter-in-chief in an age of disruption | Jul 13, 2017 | Listen |
Dysfunction followed the Trumps from the campaign to the White House | Jul 12, 2017 | Listen |
Email to Donald Trump Jr. could be a smoking gun | Jul 11, 2017 | Listen |
Perils of speaking for a president who constantly changes his story | Jul 10, 2017 | Listen |
Introducing 'The Daily 202's Big Idea' | Jul 07, 2017 | Listen |