Actually, with Emily and Kate

Emily and Kate are back from the holiday with thoughts on why the left is finally taking patriotism back — and why loving your country is easier at a small-town parade than on the internet. Then: Trump's increasingly royal behavior, from the $1.4 billion his family has reportedly made in crypto to the Qatari jet and an 850,000-firework taxpayer-funded show. Plus, Kate's sports corner cover...

Emily and Kate get into the issue that's dominating kitchen-table conversations across the Midwest: data centers. Kate breaks down her year-long rabbit hole - the secret NDA deals, the tax breaks for trillion-dollar companies, the "it's giving Foxconn" of it all - and why community organizing is actually beating Big Tech in Wisconsin. Plus: the tech money flooding into politics,...

Most of us are winging this whole adulthood thing, and lately it feels like the people running the show are too. But here's the thing Kate and Emily keep coming back to: a lot of the chaos isn't an accident. The confusion is the point. In this episode they get into how the stories we're told — about politics, about who we're supposed to be, about what's "normal" — are...

We're back with our weekly chat and zero solutions to anything. We get into the Graham Platner mess in Maine (the Blackwater past, the New York Times exposé, the ex-girlfriend allegations), make the case that AOC is quietly building something bigger than anyone realizes, and watch Trump completely lose it on Kristen Welker over the 2020 election. Plus: Hunter Biden's chaotic-good redemptio...

Kate and Emily get into the Graham Plattner scandal and what it means for the Maine Senate race, the Patagonia-vs-Pattigonia trademark lawsuit, and a growing list of "unlikely recession indicators" — from $9 annuals to $100 Korean spa scrubs. Plus: why nostalgia for a simpler summer is really about affordability, the looksmaxxing rabbit hole, and a full decoding of Gen Z and Gen Alpha sl...

Emily and Kate are finally recording the phone calls they were going to have anyway. In the inaugural episode: Emily's harrowing saga of getting her iPhone battery changed (spoiler: Apple broke the whole phone), the case for why your $1,200 device is designed to fall apart right on schedule, and a genuinely good conversation about why the Democratic Party keeps losing the narrative war — and why "...