The Scroll Podcast

For the latest episode of the Scroll podcast, Park MacDougald speaks with Andrew “Art” Arthur, the Resident Fellow in Law and Policy at the Center for Immigration Studies and a former immigration lawyer and immigration court judge. We discuss the nuts and bolts of U.S. immigration law, the roots of the current crisis at the southern border, and the Senate’s recent attempt to fix it, which Senate R...

In this episode, Scroll senior writer Park MacDougald speaks with Tablet staff writer Armin Rosen about his recent profile of Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. We discuss Gallant’s career, Ariel Sharon and the “dream world” of the Oslo peace process, the failures and illusions that led Israel to October 7th, and where Israel goes from here. Read Armin’s profile, “Israel’s Man in Black,” here:...

For the latest episode of The Scroll podcast, Scroll Senior Writer Park MacDougald speaks with Tablet News Editor and Levant Analyst Tony Badran about Lebanon. Questions addressed in this episode include: Is Lebanon a real country? Why should I care about it? And why do you people at Tablet keep talking about this 2022 maritime deal? And stick around to the end for a discussion on the Third Worldi...

Investigative reporter Joseph Simonson joins Park MacDougald to talk about his recent article in the Washington Free Beacon, “How the Biden Administration Put Race at the Center of Government Spending.” Park and Joe discuss the administration’s Justice40 initiative, how “climate” spending came to cover roads and bridges, why race is a climate issue in the first place, and the progressive nonprofit...

Scroll Editor Jacob Siegel speaks with Scroll author Park MacDougald about the course of Israel’s war in Gaza, including the big question: Is Israel losing the war? Despite its overwhelming battlefield superiority, the IDF has made limited progress in killing Hamas’ senior leaders or pressuring the terrorist group into surrendering or negotiating a further release of hostages. Meanwhile, the clock...

Scroll editor Jacob Siegel speaks with the Egyptian-American writer Hussein Aboubakr Mansour about the strange career of the strident anti-zionist turned senior US diplomat, Robert Malley. Once the lead US negotiator with Iran under both the Obama and Biden White Houses, Malley was suspended from his government post in June of this year shortly before a blockbuster investigation revealed his close...