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Miles Taylor is best known as the Trump administration official who, in 2018, wrote an anonymous op-ed in the New York Times criticizing the president. Taylor later revealed his identity and wrote a book warning about the dangers of a second Trump term. Top on his list of concerns: Trump deploying the military into American cities. Taylor told me that he saw up close how Trump was itching to do it...

My weekly chat with Steve Schmidt (June 9). In this episode, we break down Trump's escalation in L.A. Steve and I will be back together on 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.telos.news/subscribe

My weekly Monday chat with Steve Schmidt (June 2). We discuss Donald Trump, Elon Musk, the media, and 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

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FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez is a rare voice inside the Trump administration. For one, she’s actually speaking out against Trump’s abuses of power. Stranger still is that the Democratic appointee hasn’t been fired. (She explains why in our conversation.) From her perch at the Federal Communications Commission, she has seen up close how the agency is being used for political purposes to attack Trump...

In my recent conversation with Judge Luttig, we covered a great deal of legal news that’s worth flagging: * Luttig on the Supreme Court’s use of the so-called shadow docket: “The Supreme Court, in taking these cases that it has, is accommodating Donald Trump in a way that it would never accommodate any other person or litigant.” * Luttig on Trump’s attacks on Harvard: “When Harvard first refused t...

Gabe Fleisher and I discuss the Supreme Court, Reconciliation, Polling, the Future of Journalism, and more. More from Telos News: http://www.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.telos.news/subscribe

Steven Levitsky, co-author of How Democracies Die , assesses Trump's first four months in office and explains why America has tipped into "competitive authoritarianism." More from Telos News: http://www.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.telos.news/subscribe

Part 2 of our Telos master class with Paul Krugman. In our conversation, Krugman reviewed the last hundred years of tariff policy—crucial context for understanding the full absurdity of Trump’s recent recklessness—and warned that America’s trade wars, and their risks to the economy, are not close to being over despite last week’s partial climbdown on Chinese tariff rates. More from Telos News: htt...

Paul Krugman joined me for our latest Telos master class. In our conversation, Krugman reviewed the last hundred years of tariff policy—crucial context for understanding the full absurdity of Trump’s recent recklessness—and warned that America’s trade wars, and their risks to the economy, are not close to being over despite last week’s partial climbdown on Chinese tariff rates. More from Telos New...

Elizabeth “Liza” Goitein is the senior director of the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program, and she is an expert on the use of presidential emergency powers. Long before recent concerns arose about whether Trump might use an emergency for some authoritarian purpose, Goitein had been warning that the laws governing presidential powers during a declared emergency needed to be revi...

Georgetown law professor Steve Vladeck guides us through the history of habeas, explains how previous presidents, Congresses, and federal courts have interpreted the Suspension Clause, and outlines why we should all be deeply concerned if the Trump administration actually attempts to suspend habeas for certain categories of immigrants. For more from Vladeck, check out his excellent work on Substac...

Simon Rosenberg has long been one of the most interesting and original thinkers in the Democratic Party’s strategist class. I’ve been talking with him about politics on and off for over twenty years, and he is frequently ahead of the curve. During an hour-long conversation yesterday, we dicussed why he thinks Trump’s polling drop may be irreversible, the contagious effects of what he calls the “ci...

Longtime journalist Tom LoBianco and I discuss media coverage of Trump and delve into the details of my recent article about the "Laptop of MAGA Secrets." But don't miss Tom's story about what he did when a Republican member of Congress once called him "fake news." More from Telos News: https://www.telos.news/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get ac...

Veteran journalist—and pilot!—James Fallows tells us everything we need to know about what’s going on with aviation safety right now—and how much the Trump administration is to blame. He warns that "the Golden Age of phenomenally safe flying may be nearing its end." For more, check out Fallows’s new piece on the subject: “Pay Attention to What Happened in Newark.” More from Telos News: http://www....

Steve Schmidt and I kibitz about politics in the first of our now-weekly chats. More from Telos News: https://www.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.telos.news/subscribe

A very sobering conversation with Judge Luttig . More here, including an edited transcript. More from Telos News: https://www.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.telos.news/subscribe

Lauren Harper of the Freedom of the Press Foundation obtained an extraordinary memo through the Freedom of Information Act that undermines the administration's argument for using the Alien Enemies Act. Harper shares the weird backstory of how this secret document was declassified and turned over to her by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. We also discuss the more mysterious ques...

Author Damon Linker explains the influence of Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, the Claremont Institute, and Adrian Vermeule on Trump's conception of an all-powerful executive, one that was never contemplated by the U.S. Constitution. More from Telos News: https://www.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.telos...

Adam Klasfeld Discusses His New Project, All Rise News 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

My old friend Chris Cillizza and I discuss why all the excitement in political media these days is happening on Substack. More from Telos News: https://www.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.telos.news/subscribe

Jennifer Rubin Discusses the Success of The Contrarian More from Telos News: http://www.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.telos.news/subscribe