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Israel’s election was a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu. So why has the opposition fallen short—and could Netanyahu emerge with another government after all? Dan joins Amit Segal to unpack the surprising results, the political promises that may soon be tested, and the choices facing Israel’s political leaders as they try to break the deadlock. The opposition was energized and organized - why didn...

Join Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway and Real Clear Investigations' Mark Hemingway as they preview the midterm elections, analyze President Barack Obama's poor taste, and dive deeper into Rep. Ilhan Omar's alleged immigration fraud scandal. Mollie and Mark also review Tuner , Chances Are , and revisit You Can See Everything. Order and review Mollie's book Alito: The Justice Who Reshape...

Trump wants TED CRUZ on the Supreme Court?! Marco Rubio and Mike Waltz are taking on Cuba, Kamala Harris is back in the political conversation, and Americans are being warned to prepare for potential cyberattacks. Y'all, we've got a LOT to unpack! Today on Chicks on the Right, Mock and Daisy dive into Trump's surprising comments about Ted Cruz as a potential Supreme Court pick, Mike Waltz's heated...

Join Jim and Greg for the Wednesday 3 Martini Lunch as they consider Jim's latest discoveries in the convoluted immigration story of Rep. Ilhan Omar, public GOP sniping in South Carolina and other states, Abdul El-Sayed finding the droning of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri "troubling," and Trump & others regularly talking about politicians' backsides. New episodes every weekday. 👉 Subscrib...

Every day, my wife takes our two young boys to their activities a few miles from our house in the family car. As she drives, she shares the road with gargantuan 40-ton trucks. We assume the people behind the wheel have been properly trained and can understand the signs. But I fear a day when our family experiences what Dalilah Coleman's family did. Dalilah was five years old when she was hit by an...

This week, on a Halloween edition of The Learning Curve , co-hosts Alisha Searcy of the Center for Strong Public Schools and Prof. Albert Cheng of The Ohio State University speak with Leslie Klinger , the definitive annotator of Bram Stoker’s Dracula . Klinger explains why Count Dracula remains an enduring figure and offers a portrait of Stoker, the Irish writer and theater manager whose imaginati...

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...