The TPM Social Club

Josh and Joe are joined by TPM congressional reporter and aspiring Olympic fencer, Emine Yücel about working on Capital hill, training to be an olympian, and how growing up in Turkey helps her as a journalist in the United States. To watch this episode on video, go to our YouTube page . We also have newsletters: subscribe here ! Follow us on: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/tpmsocialclub.bsky.so...

The TPM Show and TPM Social Club collide in their first ever crossover episode to chat about the end of the Supreme Court term, the pathetic state fair and how it feels to be American under the Trump regime. To watch this episode on video, go to our YouTube page . We also have newsletters: subscribe here ! Follow us on: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/tpmsocialclub.bsky.social Facebook: https://...

Josh and Joe are joined by Andrés to discuss the current state of Cuba, how it got so bad, and what comes next. To watch this episode on video, go to our YouTube page . We also have newsletters: subscribe here ! Follow us on: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/tpmsocialclub.bsky.social Facebook: https://facebook.com/talkingpointsmemo Twitter: https://x.com/tpmsocialclub Instagram: https://www.insta...

Josh and Joe are joined by NYT tech reporter Ryan Mac to discuss all things Elon Musk, the world's first trillionaire. Musk’s Next Move May Be a Megamerger of SpaceX and Tesla To watch this episode on video, go to our YouTube page . We also have newsletters: subscribe here ! Follow us on: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/tpmsocialclub.bsky.social Facebook: https://facebook.com/talkingpointsmemo T...

Charles Davis, author of independent news outlet The Redoubt, joins the show today all the way from Vienna, Austria. He's been covering the close ties between the European far-right movement and Americans. It's led most recently to Greg Bovino and the head of the New York Young Republicans meeting with the European hard right at a conference on "remigration," a term that originated from white nati...

TPM Publisher Joe Ragazzo is joined by TPM Executive Editor John Light as they talk about The News, literally, figuratively, and even kind of spiritually. Amazing Grace 2011 - Classical Whimsical by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100820 A...

Josh and Joe are joined by Tom Kludt, special correspondent at Vanity Fair and a former TPMer. They discuss the World Cup, FIFA, corruption, doping, and more, including why Sepp Blatter, as corrupt as he was, may have been better for soccer as a sport than FIFA's current head, Gianni Infantino. We also talk about why America may have hit its ceiling on how good it can get at soccer, and whether th...

TPM's Josh Kovensky and Joe Ragazzo are joined by TPM reporter Layla A. Jones to analyze the state of the economy and why it seems to be working for some people, but against most people. They take some time to eviscerate Jeff Bezos clownshow interview on CNBC earlier this week. U.S. Workers Are Getting Record-Low Compensation Based on Their Productivity Americans still feel pessimistic about the e...

A nuanced look at the current state of the so-called Make America Healthy Again movement and it's relationship with the Trump Administration Number Two Pencil Good Girls and Alpha Males: How Conservative Media Is Targeting Gen Z Breaking: Trump withdraws MAHA darling from Surgeon General nomination I asked MAHA voters outside the Supreme Court if they’d vote Democrat To watch this episode on video...

An honest conversation about AI, language and culture with Leif Weatherby. Knowers of Ball Permanent Decline The decline of Aaron Rodgers (with Leif Weatherby) Attention is All We Need: On Leif Weatherby’s Language Machines TPM's Annual Membership Drive is underway! If you're not a member, now's the perfect time to join! For a limited time, you can get  25% off an annual Prime or Prime Ad Fre...

Josh Kovensky and Joe Ragazzo are joined by TPM contributor and conspiracy theory expert Mike Rothschild (No, not those Rothschilds) to break down the strange reaction to the WHCD assassination attempt and discuss the current state of conspiracy theorizing. And then, believe it or not, we wrap up with some surprising developments from.....Summer House? Mike Rothschild writes Rough Edges for TPM, c...

Talking Popes Memo: Josh and Joe are joined by Deputy Editor Nicole LaFond to figure out why Trump is feuding with the Pope, why Hegseth quoted Pulp Fiction, and what makes the MAGA brand of evangelicalism so different. -- The Real Religious ‘Renewal’ Happening in Gen Z -- TPM's Annual Membership Drive is underway! If you're not a member, now's the perfect time to join! For a limited time, you can...

The TPM Social Club is joined this week by Max Rivlin-Nadler of Hell Gate, an independent publication owned and run by journalists devoted to covering NYC. We talk 100 days of Zohran Mamdani, going into how he's governed so far, how that stacks up against his campaign promises, and what that means for his project to reintroduce America to democratic socialism. We also get into nagging questions ar...

TPM reporter Josh Kovensky and publisher Joe Ragazzo are back to launch The TPM Social Club, a show about what's interesting. Today they covered a lot of ground: a jury finding Meta liable for harming children's mental health, Afroman's winning battle against the law, the U.S. blockade of Cuba, and more. Finally, they talked about baseball. Specifically, Team USA baseball, who seemed to have absol...