Recent conversations with thinkers
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! 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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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.
Read moreFew follow the ins and outs of political campaigns more closely than Charlie Cook and his team of reporters and editors. And with less than
Read moreIt remains impossible to talk about the 2014 Midterms without turning immediately to the big question – the only question –which party will take Senate
Read moreAs 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
Read moreIn little more than a week, we’ll mark 40 years since one of the darkest days in American politics, government and culture – 40 years
Read moreWe 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,
Read moreRemember the medfly? All bugs are pesky, of course, but the Mediterrean Fruit Fly might have been the peskiest. And a little bit scary. The
Read moreFew 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
Read moreOften 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,
Read moreThe 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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