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Ben Rhodes

Ben Rhodes: After the Fall

June 4, 2021 admin All Conversations, International Affairs, Politics, Public Policy

Ben Rhodes discusses his personal post-Obama journey that sought to answer a simple question: What happened to the world, America, and himself as the undertow of history pulled us into the currents of nationalism and authoritarianism – and what we should do about it?

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We’re Back: New Season, New Name

June 19, 2019 admin All Conversations

We’re back! I’ve been doing a lot of prep for this new podcast season. You also may have noticed the name change to Chris Riback’s Conversations.

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Taegan Goddard: Outcomes Look Bleak for Republicans

April 13, 2016 admin All Conversations, Politics

I talked with Taegan Goddard about how the Republican presidential nominating process might end. Subscribe via iTunes or RSS to get new episodes of Political Wire Conversations automatically downloaded to your phone.

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Charlie Cook: Editor & Publisher of The Cook Political Report

October 16, 2014 admin All Conversations, Uncategorized

Few follow the ins and outs of political campaigns more closely than Charlie Cook and his team of reporters and editors. And with less than

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Sam Wang: Founder, Princeton Election Consortium

September 28, 2014 admin All Conversations, Politics, Uncategorized

It remains impossible to talk about the 2014 Midterms without turning immediately to the big question – the only question –which party will take Senate

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Nate Silver: Founder and Editor-in-Chief, FiveThirtyEight.com

September 17, 2014 admin All Conversations, Politics, Uncategorized

As we make our way towards the first Tuesday in November, a highly-watched, always-debated component of American politics is ready to take it’s place center

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John Dean: Author, “The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It”

July 28, 2014 admin All Conversations, Public Policy, Uncategorized

In little more than a week, we’ll mark 40 years since one of the darkest days in American politics, government and culture – 40 years

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Nicco Mele: Author, “The End of Big;” Founder, EchoDitto

March 21, 2014 admin All Conversations, Public Policy, Technology, Uncategorized

We might have debated who invented the Internet, but there’s no debate over which candidate brought the Internet into political campaigns. In 2003 and 2004,

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Retro Report’s Josh Fisher: “Fly Wars: Battling the Medfly”

March 21, 2014 admin All Conversations, Science, Uncategorized

Remember the medfly? All bugs are pesky, of course, but the Mediterrean Fruit Fly might have been the peskiest. And a little bit scary. The

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Retro Report’s Barbara Dury: “McMartin Preschool: Anatomy of a Panic”

March 16, 2014 admin All Conversations, Culture, Uncategorized

Few stories were more disturbing. Systematic child molestation in our nation’s preschools. It started, of course, with the McMartin Preschool in Manhattan Beach, CA in

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Retro Report’s Drew Magratten: “When a Bridge Falls”

March 9, 2014 admin All Conversations, Public Policy, Uncategorized

Often the only positive to come out of a disaster is the promise that it won’t happen again. That certainly was the case in 2007,

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Jeffrey Toobin: New Yorker Staff Writer; CNN Senior Legal Analyst

February 6, 2014 admin All Conversations, Politics, Public Policy, Uncategorized

The next phase of Chris Christie’s bridge scandal has arrived, and it won’t end quickly. It’s the legal battle – subpoenas, documents, testimony and more.

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