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Gen Z is increasingly questioning whether climbing the corporate ladder is worth sacrificing the opportunity to build a family along the way. As young women rethink the allure of the glittery corner office, traditional career expectations, and whether they can afford to start families, Daily Wire host and cultural commentator Isabel Brown joins Karin Lips to challenge the idea that professional su...

It might seem like a topic deep in the constitutional or legal weeds, but the president’s authority to fire federal officials has been controversial since the first Washington administration, and still matters today. Given the vast expansion of the scope and power of the Executive branch, a president’s power to fire officials in various agencies is a policy and enforcement tool - or a check on pre...

What keeps political power aimed at the good of those it governs? Melissa Lane, Class of 1943 Professor of Politics at Princeton, joins host Ryan Shinkel to discuss her book Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political (Princeton UP, 2026). She distinguishes rule, any hierarchical relationship of direction, from office, which is bound by term limits, eligibility requirements, limited powers,...

A proposed summit with Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and the United States is a calculated geopolitical maneuver by President Donald Trump to drive a wedge between Russia and China, end the war in Ukraine, and prevent Beijing from exploiting America's military commitments to invade Taiwan. Victor Davis Hanson contends that European leaders have forfeited their influence over American diplomacy by ref...

One week before Election Day, Erick breaks down Donald Trump's nonstop midterm campaign swing, why 13 visits to Kansas is a red flag for Roger Marshall, and how tariffs, diesel prices, fertilizer costs, and Canadian aluminum are hurting Iowa farmers and Republicans. He also digs into Georgia early voting numbers, the Anthropic Claude voter data controversy, the Los Angeles early ballot court fight...

Erick explains why the Senate candidates with their own brand, Susan Collins in Maine and Mike Rogers in Michigan, are beating the ones who are only known as Donald Trump's picks: from Mike Collins in Georgia and Michael Whatley in North Carolina to Ken Paxton in Texas. Then he turns to Florida, where Democratic socialist Angie Nixon's Cuba embargo answer and a criminal referral over $270,000 miss...

Erick unpacks Barack Obama's Cheesecake Factory joke from the Abdul El-Sayed rally in Michigan, why Donald Trump taking the bait four times hurts Republicans, and why the left's sneering at the middle class and small business owners is the real story. Then he reads the early vote one week before the midterms: Republicans leading in Nevada and Florida, the Texas Senate race between James Talarico a...

Joni Eareckson Tada joins the guys to talk about a lifetime of faith, suffering, service, and choosing to find joy. How do you build the habit of gratitude? How can we better welcome families living with disabilities? How can we be anti-fragile and compassionate? Why is it important to serve our neighbors even when we’re going through the thick of it ourselves? Plus, Ben and Chris are bad painters...

Join Jim and Greg for the Tuesday 3 Martini Lunch as they have plenty to say about a blatantly anti-Semitic PAC ad for Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rick Caruso inexpicably endorsing Mayor Karen Bass for re-election, new research showing paper straws are worse for the environment than plastic straws, and Florida Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Angie Nixon's less t...

Y'all, the news cycle is absolutely UNHINGED, and we've got a LOT to unpack today! 😂 James Comey is back in the headlines with more legal drama, a selfie video response, and some serious questions about the DOJ's handling of deadlines. Meanwhile, Elon Musk fires back at Senator Alex Padilla, Hillary Clinton joins Kara Swisher for a podcast conversation, and a Harlem bagel controversy has the inte...

On this edition of The Federalist Radio Hour , Election Integrity Network Founder and Chairwoman Cleta Mitchell joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to discuss how the Democratic Party undermines free and fair elections by disregarding election law for their advantage, and how they have weaponized the justice system against their political opponents. They also discuss how th...

Artificial Intelligence is here and everywhere. That includes the nonprofit and philanthropic worlds. In this episode, Chris Koopman of the Abundance Institute offers us a perspective on the problems with the pessimism that is seemingly everywhere, how AI is uprooting old ideas, whether AI is a new Renaissance or a new Industrial Revolution, why everyone hates data centers now, the many ways publi...

Seemingly out of nowhere, the motivating energy on America’s political left switched from traditional social-democratic economics—think socialized health care—or from the usual libertine sexual drives that have motivated left-of-center activists to the question of Palestinian nationalism as part of a broader anti-Westernism, an ideology often called “Third Worldism.” While much of the motivation i...

Guest: Miles Smith IV Host Scot Bertram talks with Miles Smith IV, associate professor of history at Hillsdale College, about the lost American idea of the Christian soldier, the questions raised by faith and warfare, and his new book, Valiant & Pious: The Idea of the Christian Soldier in America, 1776–1918 . To learn more about Hillsdale College, visit www.hillsdale.edu.

As the 2026 midterm elections approach, the political landscape is more complicated than the polls suggest. Democrats are counting on President Donald Trump’s approval ratings to deliver a major victory, but historical trends, economic uncertainty, voter turnout and the changing makeup of their party could all shape the outcome. Will Democrats get the decisive win they expect, or could November br...

This week: The 2026 International Churchill Society conference, the rise of democratic socialism, and the 2026 Midterms. Dr. Larry P. Arnn, president of Hillsdale College, joins Hugh Hewitt on the Hillsdale Dialogues.

Bill Maher is back in the Trump spotlight, Karoline Leavitt makes waves on Real Time, and President Trump's comments about Nicki Minaj have everyone talking! Y'all, there is a LOT to unpack. The Chicks dive into Maher's latest White House dinner, his exchange with Karoline Leavitt, and Trump's lengthy response. Plus, Nicki Minaj takes the stage at a Trump rally, protests spread across Europe, and...

Join Federalist Executive Editor Joy Pullmann for a special audio series that investigates the dramatically increasing strategic use of government to sideline elections in achieving a political outcome. From Arctic Frost to the political prosecution of Donald Trump and his supporters, these instances of lawfare reflect a constitutional crisis that must be addressed in order to save our Republic. I...

Join Jim and Greg for the Monday 3 Martini Lunch as they talk about Barack Obama downplaying Abdul El-Sayed's radical affiliations as him just wanting everyone to have health care. El-Sayed's Democratic primary rival sounding less than enthused about him in the general election, lefties calling for the government to nationalize Elon Musk's companies, and the new jingle trying to explain Alaska's i...

Join Dan Senor live on Israel’s election night. On Tuesday, October 27th, at 4 p.m. ET, just as the polls close in Israel and the exit polls come out, Dan and experts from Israel and the U.S. will break down the results as they come in. The conversation takes place in The Fold, Ark Media’s private online community where listeners of Call Me Back and our other shows meet, ask questions, and go deep...

This week's delayed episode is a throwback to the old days, with just Steve and Lucretia in attendance because travel schedules disrupted all three of the 3WHH bartenders. So the original dynamic duo just kick around some news highlights of the week and offer a couple book recommendations. Is "not to my knowledge" Ilhan Omar's version of Bill Clinton's "I did not have sexual relations with that wo...

Welcome to Last Call , a look at the biggest stories Jim and Greg covered over the past week on the 3 Martini Lunch. This week, they discuss Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar's answer to whether she married her brother, the radical left in France continuing to burn down the nation's history and culture, another fake polling firm getting exposed, and a special anniversary for our podcast. First, they react...

Are noncitizens getting registered to vote in America’s elections? J. Christian Adams, president and general counsel of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, joins Rob Bluey on “Midterm Report” to examine noncitizens on voter rolls, weaknesses in state election systems, and what election officials can do before the 2026 midterms. Adams discusses cases in California involving noncitizens who were r...

You'd be forgiven if you'd never heard of the US International Development Finance Corporation. Even by Washington standards, DFC sounds like an agency specifically designed to make your eyes glaze over, but push past your initial misapprehension at the label, and DFC is actually one of the most essential agencies in the District of Columbia and a key player in our fight against the Chinese Commun...

The great Douglas Murray, bestselling author of The Strange Death of Europe and On Democracies and Death Cults, joins James and Steve to discuss the mass immigration problem he's been sounding the alarm on for over a decade. As ever, Murray is unflinching in defense of civilization against the barbarous rioters and the myopic elites enabling them. Plus, James and Steve raise an eyebrow each at Ilh...