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Episode 49: Does the Manafort Ledger Exist?

June 20, 2019

Andy and Rich discuss the latest on Congress and Mueller, the Supreme Court’s ruling on Dual Sovereignty, and much more.

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Episode 48: Would You Tell the FBI?

June 14, 2019

Andy and Rich discuss Andy's House Intelligence Committee testimony, Trump's comments on foreign intelligence, and more investigation of the investigators.

Episode 47: Unsettling Statements

May 30, 2019

Andy and Rich discuss Mueller's perturbing Wednesday testimony.

Episode 46: The Dossier, Durham, and Disagreements

May 17, 2019

Andy and Rich discuss the appointment of in-house prosecutor John Durham, more dossier findings, and public disputes between James Comey and John Brennan.

Episode 45: Contempt and Contradiction

May 8, 2019

Andy and Rich discuss the possibility of Bill Barr being held in contempt, Robert Mueller’s reliance on the OLC guidance, and much more.

Episode 44: Après La Lettre

May 2, 2019

Charles Cooke and Andy discuss Bill Barr on Capitol Hill, the controversy over the Mueller letter, and much more.

Episode 43: Let the Fighting Commence

April 25, 2019

Andy and Rich discuss the fights breaking out over the Mueller report, Don McGahn’s continued role in the drama, and the upcoming Barr testimony.

Episode 42: Breaking Down the Mueller Report

April 19, 2019

Andy walks listeners through the Mueller report, explaining its scope, and detailing its impact on American politics.

Episode 41: Indictments, Testimonies, and Arrests

April 11, 2019

Andy and Rich discuss the Barr testimony, the upcoming Greg Craig indictment, and the arrest of Julian Assange.

Episode 40: Disclosure Debate

April 3, 2019

Andy and Rich discuss disclosure problems surrounding the Mueller report, the real border security, and much more.

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White House

Why Pelosi Continues to Deflect the Censure Gambit

By Andrew C. McCarthy

One-quarter of House Democrats publicly support impeaching President Trump. It is an oft-reported talking point in media-Democrat circles. Not much mentioned is the corollary: That means three-quarters would rather see the question go away. This is the challenge that Speaker Nancy Pelosi continues to navigate ... Read More

Politics & Policy

America’s First Third-World State

By Victor Davis Hanson

‘Third World” is now an anachronistic geographical term of the old Cold War. But after 1989, “Third World” was reinvented from a political noun into an adjective to mean more than just Asian, African, and Latin American nations nonaligned with either the West or the Soviet bloc. Rather, the current ... Read More

Video

Culture with Kat Timpf: 16-Year-Old Girl Shouldn’t Face Child-Porn Charges

Kat Timpf explains why a 16-year-old Maryland girl shouldn't be charged with child-porn distribution after making a video of herself. Read More

Politics & Policy

Making Sense of the Iran Chaos

By David French

One would prefer that correct decisions be made according to careful, deliberate plan. But a correct decision made impulsively, through a troubling process, is still nonetheless correct, and so it is with Donald Trump’s decision to refrain from military action against Iran. The proposed strike would represent a ... Read More

U.S.

In Defense of Coleman Hughes

By Sahil Handa

Picture the scene: A young man walks into a congressional hearing to offer witness testimony. His grandfather was barbarically brutalized by people who are now long dead. The nation in which he resides built its wealth of his grandfather’s brutalization. The question: Should his fellow citizens pay the young ... Read More

World

Whoever Wins Istanbul’s Mayoral Election, There’s Trouble Ahead for Erdogan

By Jason Epstein

Tomorrow, for the second time this year, residents of Istanbul will go to the polls to determine who will be the city’s mayor. Some observers see the vote as the latest test of whether Turkey will shed what remains of its more democratic recent past and move firmly into the orbit of Russia and/or China. But it ... Read More

Education

College Leaders Should Learn from Oberlin

By George Leef

Thanks to their social-justice warrior mindset, the leaders of Oberlin College have caused an Ohio jury to hit it with $44 million in compensatory and punitive damages in a case where the school couldn't resist the urge to side with its “woke” students against a local business. College leaders should learn ... Read More

Elections

Joe and the Segs

By Kevin D. Williamson

Joe Biden has stepped in it, good and deep. Biden, if he has any hope of ever being elected president, will be dependent on residual goodwill among African Americans from his time as Barack Obama’s loyal and deferential vice president — so deferential, in fact, that he stood aside for Herself in 2016 even ... Read More

Culture

The Media’s Double Standard on Culture-War Controversies

By Jonah Goldberg

When Vice President Mike Pence was the governor of Indiana, he got along well with the mayor of South Bend, Pete Buttigieg, despite the fact that Buttigieg is a gay, liberal Democrat and Pence is a straight, socially conservative Republican. Ironically, Pence is a straight man in both the sexual-orientation ... Read More

Film & TV

Toy Story 4: A National Anthem

By Armond White

The Toy Story franchise is the closest thing we have to an undisputed national anthem, a popular belief that celebrates what we think we all stand for — cooperation, ingenuity, and simple values, such as perpetual hope. This fact of our infantile, desensitized culture became apparent back in 2010 when I took a ... Read More