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  • How Trump is Using Kirk's 'Martyrdom' to Create a Fake Emergency
    Sep 29 2025
    The Atlantic's Jonathan Chait discusses how MAGA is using Kirk's tragic death as a pretext for full-on authoritarian repression of dissent.


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    44 min
  • Just How Much Damage Can RFK Jr. Do?
    Sep 22 2025
    The Bulwark's Jonathan Cohn discusses the harm RFK has already done, and what he's planning, which may be worse.

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    56 min
  • The Religious Impulse Behind Trumpism
    Sep 15 2025
    Holly Berkley Fletcher explains the mindset of white evangelicals from a unique perspective—that of missionary kids. She was one. Her new book sheds light on a key MAGA constituency.





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    54 min
  • More Marriage = More Happiness
    Sep 8 2025
    Mona welcomes UVA's Brad Wilcox to discuss the latest stats on marriage, what singlehood means for kids, men, and women, and marriage's new alt-Right foes.

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    REFERENCES:

    • Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization — W. Bradford Wilcox (HarperCollins, 2024)


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    34 min
  • Can Democrats Stop Bleeding Voters?
    Sep 1 2025
    Third Way's Matt Bennett and Sarah Longwell join Mona to talk about tanking Democratic voter registration numbers, words you should never say, the working class, the donors, and more.

    REFERENCES:

    Was It Something I Said? A memo to All Who Wish to Stop Donald Trump and MAGA from Third Way.
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    57 min
  • Will Trump Solve Homelessness?
    Aug 25 2025
    FREOPP's Michael Tanner joins Mona to discuss homelessness causes and potential cures.

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    40 min
  • Steve Vladeck on Trump, the Courts, and the Rule of Law
    Aug 18 2025
    Georgetown law professor Stephen Vladeck joins Mona to unpack the Justice Department’s attack on Judge James Boasberg, Trump’s efforts to bend universities to his will, the Supreme Court’s retreat into procedural evasions, and the broader erosion of guardrails in American governance. What happens when process itself—the foundation of the rule of law—comes under assault?

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    1 h et 2 min
  • They Should be Ashamed of this Manifesto
    Aug 11 2025
    Walter Olson of CATO discusses the Manhattan Statement on Higher Education, which would license Trump to ignore law, procedure, and precious liberties.

    REFERENCES:

    • The Manhattan Statement on Higher Education

    • A Troubling Right-Wing Manifesto on Universities, by Walter Olson at Persuasion
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    49 min