Joe Manchin is a rare breed: a West Virginia Democrat andself-proclaimed “radical moderate.” He's one of 10 Senate Democrats upfor reelection in 2018 in states that Trump won. Red-state Democratslike Manchin should have been putty in the pre

Sophia Bush: 'I have a right to take up space'

May 9th, 2017 48m 6s

Actress and political activist Sophia Bush sits down with Isaac Doverein New Orleans to discuss fighting for what she believes in (even ifthat means losing followers), standing up against sexism in the workplace and why her social anxiety is

Bonus: The Senators at the center of the 50-50 split

Apr 23rd, 2021 27m 45s

“If we miss this opportunity, God help us.” Joe Manchin and LisaMurkowski. Two moderate senators smack in the middle — and on eitherside — of a split 50-50 Senate. On our first episode of Playbook DeepDive, the two friends open up in a rare

Sponsored Content: How Covid-19 accelerated the future of work

Feb 10th, 2021 31m 20s

Presenting a sponsored episode of “Global Translations”: Over the past year, businesses, employees and families across the globewere forced to rethink what it means to “go to work.” Now, with theCOVID-19 vaccine rollout underway, many corpor

The page who took down the GOP

Jan 31st, 2021 29m 31s

In 2006, a young man holding no political office brought down a 180+years program and reshaped Congress forever. Scott Bland talks toPOLITICO magazine reporter Zack Stanton, a former House page who leakedtranscripts of sexual messages that f

"I haven't been able to get this moment out of my head"

Jan 23rd, 2021 26m 28s

On a special episode of POLITICO's Nerdcast:"It became clear that Scott Pruitt had sought to purchase a usedmattress from the Trump hotel. And I thought, 'This is not what Iexpected this job would look like.'" At the close of Donald Trump's

Cures for an Ailing Labor Market

Jan 7th, 2021 27m 39s

"Off Message" presents Episode 9 of the new season of POLITICO's podcast"Global Translations": The pandemic sent shockwaves through a global labor market alreadyupended by digitization and the green energy transition. It left tens ofmillio

Sponsored Content: Greening the Global Economy

Dec 21st, 2020 36m 27s

"Off Message" presents Episode 8 of the new season of POLITICO's podcast"Global Translations": [Sponsored Content] As the world looks to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG)emissions to net zero by 2050, the financial sector is playing acritical rol

Digging for Solutions: Securing Minerals for Green Energy

Dec 16th, 2020 34m 28s

"Off Message" presents Episode 7 of the new season of POLITICO's podcast"Global Translations": What will it take to secure access to the critical minerals we need forthe future — and can we solve one environmental challenge withoutcreating

Why green energy means mining: the case of cobalt

Dec 7th, 2020 28m 19s

"Off Message" presents Episode 6 of the new season of POLITICO's podcast"Global Translations": To understand how essential critical minerals are to our world, we turnto a case study: cobalt. This mineral is proving key to the future ofgreen

Critical Minerals: The next dirty fight over clean energy

Nov 23rd, 2020 24m 26s

"Off Message" presents Episode 5 of the new season of POLITICO's podcast"Global Translations": The technologies that protect us, move us and power our daily livesrequire mining minerals and metalsin distant places. But access to theseessent

How can the US compete with China, Inc.?

Nov 10th, 2020 35m 35s

"Off Message" presents Episode 3 of the new season of POLITICO's podcast"Global Translations": The pandemic and the rise of China are prompting Republicans andDemocrats to turn to government power to grow industries important toAmerica’s s

Can we get enough vaccine?

Nov 2nd, 2020 36m 2s

"Off Message" presents the second episode of the new season ofPOLITICO's podcast "Global Translations": Once there is a working Covid vaccine, manufacturers across the globewill need to scale up production to produce billions of doses — mean

Introducing... Global Translations: The world's tug-of-war

Oct 28th, 2020 36m 40s

"POLITICO's Off Message" brings you a special episode of POLITICO's newpodcast series "Global Translations." From closed factories to closed borders, the Covid-19 pandemic exposedthe fragility of our systems, creating a period of scarcity wh

Rahm Emanuel weighs in on 2020

Feb 28th, 2020 20m 8s

Rahm Emanuel — former Chicago mayor and former chief of staff toPresident Barack Obama — talks to POLITICO founding editor John Harrisabout his new book, "The Nation City: Why Mayors Are Now Running theWorld," his "toy phone" in Bill Clinton

A new tone from some in GOP on climate change -- but mostly behind closed doors

Aug 23rd, 2019 34m 24s

We're bringing you an episode of POLITICO's Global Translations, a showabout big global problems that will take a certain amount of creativityto solve. Driven by a public clamoring for action and pressure from corporateCEOs, lawmakers are

Which 2020 Democrat should Donald Trump most be afraid of?

Jun 26th, 2019 39m 24s

To get the inside view from the only people in the world who know whatit’s like to run in a primary field so large -- and do so in the shadowof Donald Trump -- we invited the strategists for four of the top GOPprimary campaigns of 2016 into

This is what Kirsten Gillibrand hates about running for president

May 31st, 2019 24m 9s

Kirsten Gillibrand is a U.S. Senator with a soaring national profile,but her presidential campaign has yet to take flight. She’s even at riskof failing to have enough donors to make the debate stage under DNCrules, leading her to ask people

Is John Hickenlooper too normal to be president?

Mar 29th, 2019 22m 30s

In a crowded field of Democratic presidential contenders, formerColorado Gov. John Hickenlooper makes an impression on voters as agenuine candidate, even if he's a bit quirky. He colors outside thelines of the political conventions -- a geol

How it feels to win (and lose) a House majority

Nov 8th, 2018 56m

For our post-midterms edition of Off Message, we talked to Corry Blissand Charlie Kelly, the two men who led the largest House campaignorganizations in 2018. This election, Bliss led the Republican-alignedCongressional Leadership Fund, and K

David Axelrod: Voters don't want a ‘Democratic version of Trump’

Oct 30th, 2018 56m 38s

The strategist behind Obama's presidential campaigns gives his midtermspredictions, shares his lightning-round thoughts on 2020 candidates andtells Tim whether he thinks any politician can recapture the Obamamagic.David Axelrod doesn’t lik

Meet the next Ted Cruz

Oct 23rd, 2018 45m 59s

When Chip Roy was a top staffer for Ted Cruz, he was an architect of theTexas senator’s strategy to shut down the government over Obamacare.Now, in all likelihood, he’s heading for Congress with a House seat ofhis own, and top Republicans w

Steve Scalise thinks he knows who'll be the next House Speaker

Oct 16th, 2018 48m 52s

Steve Scalise was nearly killed last summer when a gunman opened fire atthe Republican congressional baseball team’s practice. Last September,after months of surgeries and intensive rehabilitation, the Louisianacongressman was met with a thu

John Kerry on 2020, Trump and why we need to ask ourselves "what did you do?"

Oct 9th, 2018 46m 37s

Isaac's last episode: The former secretary of state has led a ForrestGump-like life, from his high-school days playing hockey with BobMueller to introducing John Lennon at a Vietnam protest to running forpresident and almost winning. Some pe

Elijah Cummings is ready to investigate Trump

Oct 2nd, 2018 48m

If Democrats retake the House, Maryland congressman Elijah Cummings willlikely become the new chair of the Oversight committee. Here, a previewof what to expect from their coming investigations of the Trumpadministration.Cummings says Pres