The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Today’s podcast takes up the leak about a highly sensitive document found in the Mar-a-Lago search and the Washington Post’s characterization of it. Then we go after Arizona Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters with a rhetorical two-by-four. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's podcast looks at the politics of the judge's decision to appoint a special master to deal with the documents taken from Donald Trump's home and who will be helped or hurt by that. Plus, can it really be true that Democrats are viewed more favorably on COVID response than Republicans? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joe Biden’s speech outlining the threat to democracy posed by pro-Trump Republicans was bad. How bad? Let us count the ways. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Noah Rothman returns from vacation as we consider every piece of bad political news for Republicans and the indictment trap Donald Trump seems to be laying down for himself. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Hudson Institute’s Tod Lindberg joins us to discuss the question of what kind of world-historical figure Mikhail Gorbachev actually was—a purposeful change agent or fortune’s fool? Also, will Joe Biden suffer or gain from his harsh attacks on Republicans? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, we’re joined by the great Chris Stirewalt to discuss the media frenzy over the redacted Mar-a-Lago affidavit, the transformation of the news business, the birth of the news cycle, and how it all relates to Chris’s new book, “Broken News: Why the Media Rage Machine Divides America and How to Fight Back.” Take a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast features political-data sage Steve Kornacki as we try to make sense of the very clear change in the direction of the 2022 elections and why it might be happening. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, we take up the matter of Joe Biden’s executive order on student loans. How bad is the policy? How good is the stunt? How cynical can you get? And, anyway, will it actually happen? Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eliana Johnson joins the podcast today to talk about the verrrry interesting results in last night’s primaries and special elections and what they portend for November. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Continetti joins us today to talk about the $1.6 billion donation to a new conservative entity to push conservative ideas and how it still doesn’t come near the money liberals spend. We also go into today’s primaries…and the new Game of Thrones show. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s podcast takes up the question of what people mean when they refer to “threats to democracy,” Anthony Fauci’s resignation, and what the whole “I don’t want to work no more” movement is all about. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eli Lake joins us to talk Trump, FBI searches, attorneys general, stupid ideas about classification, and how the media aren’t dealing well with good news from Ukraine. Give a listen. Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's podcast takes up the stunning news that the Centers for Disease Control is going to undergo a complete overhaul. The question is: Is this the right overhaul, or are senior officials just covering themselves because they don't want to be held accountable? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's podcast was recorded last night—which led to ruminations on friendship, obnoxiousness, principle, conflict, and how these things might help explain the result in Wyoming that saw Liz Cheney lose her primary. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are early indications that Republican candidates and campaign committees are languishing in the fundraising department, which could put a damper on their prospects in November. But Donald Trump isn’t. Will he make up the difference and support the candidates he’s endorsed? Also, will we get a reckoning with what we did during the pandemic in 2023? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...

Today's podcast takes up the highly volatile political situation of the past week following the warrant search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago and the monstrous attack on Salman Rushdie. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What we know (and what we don’t know) about the warrant that justified the search of Mar-a-Lago. Is Donald Trump being targeted unjustly, or is there something there? Also, Mr. Science himself resurfaces to praise himself, the personification of empiricism and logic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's podcast asks whether the people who really decide elections—the ones in the middle—look at partisans and ideologues on both sides and ask whether their visions and descriptions of American life as it is lived day to day are accurate or bonkers. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Biden administration tries to convince you that inflation came in at “0%,” and Donald Trump’s persecution narrative sets the stage for his political comeback. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A fiery podcast today in which we take up the FBI search at Mar-A-Lago and the very real questions it raises about overreach and public distrust in our institutions. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark Halperin joins the podcast to talk about the Democratic triumph with its big spending and climate change bill and how it looks like Republican candidates for the Senate (and for gubernatorial mansions) may not be able to capitalize on big liberal spending initiatives and other aspects of the supposed progressive surge this month. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...

Matt Continetti joins the podcast today to discuss his piece, "The GOP Summer Swoon." Republican nominees for Senate are running behind, Kansas delivered a stunning blow to pro-lifers, and the Democrats are getting legislation through. Has everything changed? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is one for the ages. Meghan McCain joins us to talk about her home state of Arizona and its Republican primary results and then gives us the backstage skinny on why she left "The View," and it's a stunning story. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In John and Christine’s absence, Washington Free Beacon editor-in-chief Eliana Johnson and COMMENTARY contributing editor and “The Reeducation” podcast host Eli Lake join the show to talk about Tuesday's Republican primary elections and Kansas’s decisive rejection of a ballot initiative that would ban abortion. Also, we discuss the strangely apoplectic response to Nancy Pelosi’s stop in Taiwan, al...

The podcast celebrates the neutralization of al-Qaeda operative Ayman al-Zawahiri, and wonders where the right is on the global war on terrorism these days. Also, the MAGA movement on the march in today’s primaries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices