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13 days ago 25m 14s

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmThis week on Politix, Matt and Brian step back from the news cycle to examine Donald Trump’s policy agenda, and the weird extent to which he’s getting a pass on toxic i

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20 days ago 34m 7s

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmThis week on Politix, Brian returns from a long weekend in real America (western Mexico) with some fresh insight on how Trump-stalgia works. He and Matt discuss:* Why f

Trash Tok

27 days ago 46m 22s

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmThis week on Politix, Julian Sanchez joins Matt and Brian to discuss:* Donald Trump’s uncanny ability to evade justice;* Why a panel of New York appeals court judges le

Blood Bath & Beyond

Mar 20th, 2024 38m 21s

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmThis week on Politix, Matt and Brian discuss:* Donald Trump’s warning of “a bloodbath for the whole country” if he loses;* The relative political value of exploiting Tr

Trump Sells Out

Mar 13th, 2024 26m 8s

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmThis week on Politix, Matt and Brian discuss:* The biggest political takeaways from Joe Biden’s State of the Union address; * Whether the press corps will do any soul s

Were You REALLY Better Off Four Years Ago?

Mar 6th, 2024 42m 19s

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmThis week on Politix, Matt and Brian discuss:* How Donald Trump wriggled away from his disastrous pandemic response and the horribleness of 2020; * Whether Joe Biden’s

What Democrats Can Learn From #NeverTrump

Feb 28th, 2024 37m 31s

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmIn this special crossover episode, The Bulwark's joins Matt and Brian to answer burning questions like: * Why have most Never Trumpers have embraced liberalism and the

Who Will Bail Out Donald Trump?

Feb 21st, 2024 31m 33s

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmThis week on Politix, Matt and Brian discuss:* The nearly half-billion dollar judgment Trump owes New York for engaging in fraudulent business practices; * Why MAGA spi

Joe Biden Is Old

Feb 14th, 2024 1h 12m

This week on Politix, Matt and Brian discuss:* The Robert Hur report, and the fire storm the special counsel ignited with his rule-breaking, partisan attack on Biden;* How Biden could in theory alleviate concerns that he’s too old to be both pr

Will The Republican Border Security Bait-And-Switch Backfire?

Feb 7th, 2024 27m 21s

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmThis week on Politix, Matt and Brian discuss:* How we reached the point where Republicans wrung a bunch of immigration-policy concessions out of Democrats, then reneged

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Jan 31st, 2024 25m 29s

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmThis week on Politix, Matt and Brian discuss:* The $83.3 million a New York jury ordered Donald Trump to pay E. Jean Carroll for sexually assaulting then serially defam

What Democrats Can Learn From Ron DeSantis's Humiliation

Jan 24th, 2024 35m 18s

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmThis week on Politix, Matt and Brian discuss:* Ron DeSantis’s humiliation.* What policy literalism and pandering to base activists (as opposed to grassroots voters) has

Foreign Governments Paid Trump Millions

Jan 17th, 2024 31m 54s

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fmThis week on Politix, Matt and Brian discuss:* Donald Trump’s predictable, big (but not actually all that big) victory in Iowa* Why leading Republicans (who know Trump

Taking January 6 Seriously AND Literally

Jan 10th, 2024 1h 19m

This week on Politix, Matt and Brian discuss:* Was Joe Biden’s January 6 speech a good speech? (No spoilers.)* Was Joe Biden’s January 6 speech good politics? (No spoilers.)* Was Joe Biden’s January 6 speech true? (Spoiler: Yes.)* How the truth

How We Got Here

Jan 3rd, 2024 1h 26m

Thank you for listening to Politix. (Or for watching it, if you’re some kind of eccentric.) In our pilot episode, we discuss: * The state of the race as we kick off the new year: A dead-heat rematch between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, and a gre

Introducing: Politix!

Dec 20th, 2023 2m 54s

Politix will be a weekly podcast about the 2024 election hosted by Brian Beutler of Off Message and Matthew Yglesias of Slow Boring. We'll bring you good-faith disagreement, points of consensus, brilliant guests, and do our best to maintain a c

A Very Intriguing 30 Second Teaser

Dec 18th, 2023 39s

What's up Positively Dreadful fans, it’s me Brian.I know this feed has been quiet for a couple months now, as I’ve been getting my new venture Off Message up and running. (Come check it out!) But I’ve got something exciting in the works, and I

Packing Our Mailbags

Sep 8th, 2023 55m 30s

Don’t smile because it’s over. Cry because it happened! In this final episode of Positively Dreadful, host Brian “Maverick” Beutler answers listener’s questions with the help of his trusty producer copilot, Emma “Rooster” Illick-Frank. It’s les

Should Biden Give Up on Student Loan Debt?

Sep 1st, 2023 58m 21s

After a three-year hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans will have to begin repaying their student-loan debt this month. And after the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in June to strike down President Biden’s student-loan forgiveness progr

There Goes the Sun?

Aug 25th, 2023 46m 57s

We have every reason in the world to try to stop climate change. But when it comes to geoengineering––lacing the atmosphere with particles to block the sun’s warming effect––experts are split on whether the intervention would create more proble

Why Does the U.S. Suck at Building Things?

Aug 18th, 2023 1h 5m

At the start of the pandemic, China built a 1,500 room hospital in 5 days. In the United States, things don’t tend to go that way. We’re notorious for our boondoggles, cost overruns, and the slug-like pace it takes us to complete relatively sma

Have AOC and the Squad Become Part of the System?

Aug 11th, 2023 1h 7m

A few weeks ago the left-wing writer and critic Freddie DeBoer published an essay in New York magazine, in which he argued that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has become “just a regular old Democrat now.” The piece described left-wing dissatisfaction

Should Crooked Media Have Interviewed Chris Christie?

Aug 4th, 2023 59m 57s

Last week, Pod Save America interviewed former New Jersey governor Chris Christie. An early and critical endorser of Donald Trump, Christie has now broken with his Republican contemporaries to wage a staunch never-Trump presidential campaign. S

Should Democrats be Trashing Trump?

Jul 28th, 2023 1h 1m

The runaway favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination will soon be under felony indictment in three, or maybe four jurisdictions, but most leading Democrats are withholding comment on Donald Trump’s mounting legal problems. Joe Bid