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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.gdpolitics.com The full episode and video are available to paid subscribers. Once you become a paid subscriber, you can connect your account to your preferred podcast player by following the directions here . The Nordic countries have come to play an outsized role in the American political imagination. Denmark, a country of six mill...

The video version of this podcast is available to paid subscribers here . There’s little doubt that America faces a health conundrum. We spent nearly 18 percent of GDP on health in 2023. The average per person was $13,400 dollars, roughly double the amount spent in comparable countries. Meanwhile, the results are lacking. American life expectancy at birth is 78 years , about 5 years shorter than t...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.gdpolitics.com The full episode and video are available to paid subscribers. Once you become a paid subscriber, you can connect your account to your preferred podcast player by following the directions here . What was the first election ever accurately predicted by a poll? And how far off the mark was that poll? Also, which election...

First and foremost, I want to say I’m thinking of everyone affected by the flash flooding in Texas. The details are heart wrenching and here’s to hoping that everyone stays safe as more flooding appears to be on its way. We start off today’s episode taking a look back at how Republicans managed to pass a tax and spending bill that so many of the party’s own caucus seemed to take issue with. We als...

I’ve been doing the podcast rounds this week, chatting with the folks at The Bulwark and Raging Moderates . If you heard me there and are new to this podcast, I want to say a big welcome! I’m glad you’re here! For regular listeners who want to hear me spout off, you can find some of that spouting in those feeds. I also talked to Gabe Fleisher of Waking Up To Politics in a live Substack chat on Wed...

The video version of this podcast is available to paid subscribers here . Even by the standards of Trump-era news cycles, the back half of June has been a doozy. Remember when the L.A. immigration raids and protests were leading the news? That was only two weeks ago. Since then, we’ve had a military parade, nationwide protests, Israel went to war with Iran, the U.S. bombed Iran’s nuclear facilitie...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.gdpolitics.com New York State Rep. Zohran Mamdani seriously outperformed expectations in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday, well positioning himself to win the general election this fall. The election had become a two-way race between Mamdani and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, with polls projecting the...

The video version of this podcast is available here . Last week I had the chance to speak with Republican Senator from Alaska Lisa Murkowski at length. She was candid about many things: Her openness to the idea of leaving the G.O.P, her aversion to bombing Iran, and the safety concerns involved in being a lawmaker during a period of increased political violence. She also discussed her feelings abo...

The video version of this podcast is available to paid subscribers here . I’m sure you’ve all seen the news about the United States’ attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities over the weekend. It’s a fast moving situation that we are going to talk about on future episodes of this podcast. It also happens that I wrote an op-ed about presidential politics that is in The New York Times today. I wanted to p...

The video version of this podcast is available to paid subscribers here . If you find the title of this episode confusing, the cold open should help clear things up. I believe it’s the longest cold open I’ve ever done for a podcast. Enjoy! On a more serious note, we’ve got an awful lot to talk about today. I had originally planned to open up the mailbag and answer listener questions (which we stil...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.gdpolitics.com Nate Silver and I went live on Substack Thursday afternoon to sort though some of the messy politics of the moment: There are the immigration raids in Los Angeles and the response from protesters and the Trump administration. There’s a competitive Democratic primary for mayor of New York City. Elon Musk seems to be ba...

The video version of this podcast is available to paid subscribers here . The contours of the 2026 midterms are taking shape in House districts across the country. Inside Elections just released their most up to date ratings, so today we spotlight five districts to watch, across Colorado, Maine, New York, Washington and Iowa. Democrats only need to flip three seats in order to gain control of the...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.gdpolitics.com The video version of this podcast is available to paid subscribers here . Prepare to get nerdy today. We dig into the most rigorous data available on how different parts of the electorate voted in 2024.

The video version of this podcast is available to paid subscribers here . What do Americans think about the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA)? And is the acronym pronounced “OH-bah” or “ABBA?” For our purposes I think we’ll go with “ABBA,” so, will this be a case of The Winner Takes It All? Or will this be Republicans’ Waterloo? (This one’s for you ABBA fans!) In any case, the House narrowly pass...

I hope everyone had a nice Memorial Day Weekend! If you’ve paid any attention to politics over the past decade you know that one of the most important ways America’s coalitions have changed is that Democrats have done increasingly well among voters with college degrees, while Republicans have done increasingly well among voters without them. In a country in which 63 percent of people don’t have a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.gdpolitics.com The video version of this podcast is available to paid subscribers here . The latest techniques in polling, why less engaged voters rate Trump's performance more highly, and a new game!

The video version of this podcast is available to paid subscribers here . Economic forecasting has often been as much of an art as a science, but since the pandemic it seems to have turned into a full on Jackson Pollock painting. Remember when Biden-era inflation was transitory? Or when a recession was a 100 percent certainty at the start of 2022? Or how about when President Trump’s election to a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.gdpolitics.com Today’s podcast is a little bit different. When I launched GD POLITICS, I said that I wanted to hear directly from you and speak directly to you, building a community as we go. I hope you already feel a part of that community, but to that end, I want to occasionally do podcasts where I update you, share thoughts, and...

America got its first pope! I was sitting next to one of about 30 Indiana University study abroad students on my flight back from Madrid on Saturday and my seat mate told me that her whole dorm was live streaming the smoke from the Sistine Chapel. As she recounted, everyone went crazy when “America won.” You love to see it! I’m not just interested in the pope as part of this podcast’s religious co...

In the U.S., Trump’s popularity hit a new low of net -10 percentage points right as he clocked 100 days in office. Abroad, the political impact of Trump’s first 100 days is perhaps more tangible. In both Canada and Australia, the center-Left parties, which looked destined for defeat just months ago, came roaring back in recent elections. A week ago, Canada’s Liberal Party won the most seats in par...

There’s rarely more attention paid to religion than when one pope passes and the College of Cardinals gathers to select another. Maybe it’s because the grandeur and secrecy of it all makes for a compelling news story, maybe it’s because 1.4 billion Catholics around the world really do care about the outcome, or maybe the weight of a millennia old tradition captures our imagination in a rapidly cha...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.gdpolitics.com Only paid subscribers have access to the full-length video and audio of the show, so make sure to subscribe! We discussed the search for a new pope, 100 days of Trump, played a game and answered questions from a sold out audience in New York City

The video version of this podcast is available to paid subscribers here . If the data tells a story, there’s one person you can count on to narrate it. Friend of the pod and chief data reporter at the Financial Times, John Burn-Murdoch , has for years been catching readers’ attention with charts that highlight just how society and politics are changing: social classes stratifying, innumeracy and i...

This is an audio preview of the full draft, which is available to paid subscribers here . On Wednesday afternoon, Nate Silver and I went live on Substack to host our first ever 2028 Democratic primary draft. We said it was “way-too-early,” but I’m not sure that’s right. The potential candidates themselves certainly don’t seem to think so. Look at just about any ambitious Democrat and it will be cl...

The video version of this podcast is available to paid subscribers here . Americans have had a lot to digest politically and economically over the past couple weeks. Trump’s volatile approach to tariffs began basically as soon as he took office, with Canada and Mexico being the first targets, but so-called “Liberation Day” marked the start of something akin to full blown chaos. It’s one of those t...