The Telos News Podcast with Ryan Lizza

In our conversation today, G. Elliott Morris takes us through his comprehensive analysis of Tuesday’s election results. Some key highlights: * So much for the Trump realignment. The 2025 results reflect a typical anti‑incumbent reaction to the party in power after it failed to deliver on promises to address inflation and affordability. As Morris puts it , “The 2024 Trump ‘realignment’ is already o...

Thank you Lev Parnas , Mark McInerney , Dianne Mize , Susan DRENNAN GABRIEL , Sandra Tuttle , and many others for tuning into my live video with Steve Schmidt ! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.telos.news/subscribe

Thank you Mark McInerney , Kelli Pryor , Leah Anderson , carolyn strawn , Stuart Cohen , and many others for tuning into my live video with Steve Schmidt ! You can join me and Steve on Substack Live every Monday at noon. Telos subscribers: Please use this link to get 20% off a paid subscription to The Warning with Steve Schmidt . This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other s...

In our weekly chat, Steve Schmidt and I discuss: * The growing pains in the coalition that has formed against Trump, including why clear-eyed Trump critics such as Andrew Sullivan refused to join the protests on Saturday * Gavin Newsom ’s wise decision to close a stretch of I-5 before the Marines, at the insistence of the Trump administration, fired live artillery over the highway, including one s...

This was a delightful conversation that went in many unexpected directions—everything from the wisdom to be gained from reading Moby Dick in 2025 to the pleasures of raising a puppy to wellness advice to the lessons learned from Ian Kershaw’s biography of Hitler. Miles and I are going to discuss the possibility of a regular Substack-based book club so please let us know if that might appeal to you...

Thank you Mark McInerney , Dianne Mize , An Mcgreevy , Sandra Tuttle , joe alter , Marina , and many others for tuning into my live video with Steve Schmidt ! You can join me and Steve on Substack Live every Monday at noon. Telos subscribers: Please use this link to get 20% off a paid subscription to The Warning with Steve Schmidt! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other...

Thank you Dianne Mize , Cat , Iulia Huiu , Leah Anderson , John H , and many others for tuning into my live video with Steve Schmidt ! You can join me and Steve on Substack Live every Monday at noon. Telos subscribers: Please use this link to get 20% off a paid subscription to The Warning with Steve Schmidt! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get acce...

Steve and I discuss the fascist—sorry, no other word—rhetoric from Trump at today’s address to military leaders in Quantico. I have more to say about the speech in my latest column here . Thank you Cat , Steve Lubetkin , Leah Anderson , Nancy McAllister , Pamela , and many others for tuning into my live video with Steve Schmidt . You can join me and Steve live every Monday at noon. Telos subscribe...

I really enjoyed this conversation with Ben, one of the breakout stars of independent media. I appreciate his optimism about the future that he expressed at the end—and I hope he’s right! Thanks to everyone who tuned in! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.telos.news/subscribe

Former Rep. Joe Walsh was a victorious Tea Party candidate in the Republican wave year of 2010 who later broke with the GOP over Trump. He has deep insights into something I wrote about recently : the tranformation of the libertarian Tea Party into the authoritarian MAGA movement. Joe was also a mentor to Charlie Kirk back in the slain activist’s formative years. We discussed all of this and much...

Thank you Iulia Huiu , John H , P. J. Schuster , Sandra Tuttle , Mike Harkreader , and many others for tuning into my weekly chat with Steve Schmidt ! We’ll be on a break next Monday, but back again in two weeks. If you value these weekly conversations with Steve—and all the work we do at Telos News—please consider becoming a paid subscriber. Supporting independent media has never been more import...

In our weekly chat, Steve Schmidt and I break down the latest federal court decisions on tariffs and the Posse Comitatus Act, discuss which Democrats are best positioned for 2028, pick over the latest absurdities out of Trump’s Oval Office comments, and talk about Steve’s budding interest in gardening and birding. Thanks to Mark McInerney , Dianne Mize , Iulia Huiu , J.J. Loughran , Julie , and ma...

I always learn something when I talk to Miles, and today was no different. His inside knowledge of how Trump wanted to abuse DHS in his first term continues to be enormously relevant to understanding Trump this time around. Thanks to everyone who tuned in, including Sue Gordon , eric , MissGuided Kris , Janet Carter , Ms. H , and many others! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this...

Paul Krugman on Trump's Attempt to Take Over the Fed Thanks to the nearly four thousand of you who joined Paul Krugman and me for this excellent conversation, including G. Elliott Morris , Cat , Wesley Neff , H. Pike Oliver , Leah Anderson , and many more. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.telos.news/subscribe

Thank you Stephanie G Wilson, PhD , Bernadette Beach , Arnaud Mittempergher , John H , P. J. Schuster , and many others for tuning into my weekly Substack Live with Steve Schmidt ! We had a huge audience this week, and this one is well worth watching if you missed it. Steve and I plowed through a lot of material, including the truly ridiculous spectacle at the White House today. Please note I some...

In our weekly chat from August 11, Steve Schmidt and I discuss the beginning of Trump's occupation of D.C. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.telos.news/subscribe

In our weekly chat Steve and I discuss wjether Gavin Newsom is the 2028 Dem frontrunner and break down the 2028 field. Also: the pitfalls of constitutional hardball, gerrymandering and the midterms, and whether Democrats should commit to impeaching Emil Bove and purging the federal government of MAGA operatives. Join Steve and me on Substack Live every Monday at noon! This is a public episode. If...

Thank you Iulia Huiu , Sandra Tuttle , J.J. Loughran , Meidas_hj , Jason Dyer , and many others for tuning into my live video with Steve Schmidt ! Join Steve and me on Substack Live every Monday at noon! Telos subscribers: Please use this link to get 20% off a paid subscription to The Warning with Steve Schmidt! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get...

Steve and I break down the dangers of an unrestrained Trump controlling a super-funded ICE. Thank you Iulia Huiu , John H , eric , bruce beckman , Sandra Tuttle , and many others for tuning into my live video with Steve Schmidt ! Steve and I will be back next Monday at noon. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.te...

I sat down yesterday with Judge Luttig to discuss the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Paine, King George, Donald Trump, and what the 1770s have in common with the 2020s, all of which are addressed in his new piece for Telos News marking the July Fourth holiday. You can read Judge Luttig’s piece, “The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom—and of Tyranny,” here . You can listen to an audio version of J...

Thank you Dianne Mize , Cathy R. Payne , Nick P , Leah Anderson , Susan McGraw-Keber , and many others for tuning into the live video with Anand Giridharadas and Judge J. Michael Luttig ! Read “The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom—and of Tyranny,” J. Michael Luttig here at Telos News. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visi...

Thank you Waking Up Energy , Cathy R. Payne , Theresa Lease , Leah Anderson , CO , and many others for tuning into this live video with Judge J. Michael Luttig and Jim Acosta ! This was a great conversation with my old friend Jim Acosta. Highly recommended! Read “The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom—and of Tyranny,” J. Michael Luttig here at Telos News. This is a public episode. If you'd like to dis...

Thank you Marc C. Johnson , Iulia Huiu , Leah Anderson , John H , P. J. Schuster , and many others for tuning into my live video with Judge J. Michael Luttig and Steve Schmidt ! Read “The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom—and of Tyranny,” J. Michael Luttig here at Telos News. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.telo...

Happy Fourth of July! We have something special for you today, on this 249th anniversary of America's birth: an audio version of the remarkable piece that my friend Judge J. Michael Luttig wrote for Telos News this week: “The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom—and of Tyranny.” The response to Judge Luttig’s piece has been incredible, and I asked him to record it in his own voice so that it could be sh...

Thank you Dean Blundell , Jeanne Elbe , Sandra Tuttle , Meidas_hj , Jason Dyer , and many others for tuning into my live video with Steve Schmidt ! Join Steve and me on Substack Live every Monday at noon! Telos subscribers: Please use this link to get 20% off a paid subscription to The Warning with Steve Schmidt! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get...