Show overview
CAFE Insider has been publishing since 2018, and across the 8 years since has built a catalogue of 1,377 episodes, alongside 654 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 490 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence.
Episodes typically run under ten minutes — most land between 7 min and 42 min — with run-times ranging widely across the catalogue. It is catalogued as a EN-language News show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed earlier today, with 41 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2021, with 285 episodes published. Published by CAFE / Vox Media.
From the publisher
Co-hosts Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance help you to make sense of law and politics each week, plus weekly notes and bonus content exclusive to CAFE Insider members.
Latest Episodes
View all 1,377 episodesIs SCOTUS Diluting Your Vote? (with Doug Jones)
Bonus: Evan Osnos on the American Relationship with Wealth
Trump's Revenge Fund
Bonus: The Politics We Deserve (with George Packer)
The Abortion Pill on SCOTUS’s Shadow Docket (with Mary Ziegler)
Bonus: Building a Fulfilling Career
Is the Voting Rights Act Dead? (with Janai Nelson)
Bonus: The Decline of Thoughtfulness
Trump Goes After Civil Rights Groups
Bonus: How Rebecca Weiner Found Her Way to Counterterrorism
Trump v. the Courts v. Congress. Who Will Win?
Bonus: State Prisons & Reforming Rikers Island
Swalwell, Blanche, Bondi & Presidential Records Act (with Mimi Rocah)
Ep 691Bonus: Press Controversy at DOD (with Jim Sciutto)
In the Stay Tuned podcast bonus for Insiders, Preet and Jim Sciutto discuss the controversy surrounding press coverage at the Defense Department. For more content at the intersection of law, politics, and policy, sign up to receive the weekly CAFE Brief newsletter, for free: cafe.com/briefTweet your questions to @PreetBharara with hashtag #AskPreet, email us at [email protected], or call 833-997-7338 to leave a voicemail.Stay Tuned with Preet is brought to you by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Ep 690Bondi, Birthright & Conversion Therapy (with Dahlia Lithwick)
On a new episode of the Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance are joined by Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor at Slate and host of the Amicus podcast. They discuss:– President Trump’s firing of Attorney General Pam Bondi; – Supreme Court oral arguments in a case challenging President Trump’s effort to restrict birthright citizenship; and– The Court’s 8–1 decision in favor of a therapist who challenged a Colorado law banning conversion therapy for minors.We hope you’re finding CAFE Insider informative. Email us at [email protected] with your suggestions and questions for Preet and Joyce. Watch livestreams on YouTube or Substack.This podcast is brought to you by CAFE and Vox Media Podcast Network. Executive Producer: Tamara Sepper; Supervising Producer: Jake Kaplan; Associate Producer: Claudia Hernández; Senior Audio Producer: Matthew Billy; CAFE Team: Celine Rohr, Nat Weiner, Jennifer Indig, and Liana Greenway.
Ep 689Bonus: Death, Taxes, and Consciousness (with Michael Pollan)
Does life truly have meaning without death? In the Stay Tuned podcast bonus for Insiders, author Michael Pollan and Preet discuss what differentiates humans from machines. Plus, is it possible to control our own thoughts?For more content at the intersection of law, politics, and policy, subscribe to the Stay Tuned with Preet Substack: staytuned.substack.comTweet your questions to @PreetBharara with hashtag #AskPreet, email us at [email protected], or call 833-997-7338 to leave a voicemail.Stay Tuned with Preet is brought to you by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Ep 688Trump’s Criminal Profit Motive
On the Insider docket:– New reporting alleging that President Trump took classified documents to Mar-a-Lago to aid his business interests;– The $1.2 million settlement in Michael Flynn’s malicious prosecution lawsuit against the Department of Justice; and– Attorney General Pam Bondi’s proposed rule deferring state bar ethics investigations into federal prosecutors to the Department’s own ethics committee.We hope you’re finding CAFE Insider informative. Email us at [email protected] with your suggestions and questions for Preet and Joyce. Watch livestreams on YouTube or Substack.This podcast is brought to you by CAFE and Vox Media Podcast Network. Executive Producer: Tamara Sepper; Supervising Producer: Jake Kaplan; Associate Producer: Claudia Hernández; Senior Audio Producer: Matthew Billy; CAFE Team: Celine Rohr, Nat Weiner, Jennifer Indig, and Liana Greenway.
Ep 687Bonus: The FCC Attempts to Censor Broadcasters
In the Stay Tuned podcast bonus for Insiders, Preet answers listener questions. He explains whether the FCC can legally strip TV broadcasters of their licenses for coverage it doesn’t like. Plus, what’s the deal with Trump’s Florsheim shoe pressure campaign?For more content at the intersection of law, politics, and policy, sign up to receive the weekly CAFE Brief newsletter, for free: cafe.com/briefTweet your questions to @PreetBharara with hashtag #AskPreet, email us at [email protected], or call 833-997-7338 to leave a voicemail.Stay Tuned with Preet is brought to you by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Ep 686Voting Rights & Wrongs, According to SCOTUS (with Steve Vladeck)
Constitutional law professor and Supreme Court expert Steve Vladeck joins Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance to break down oral arguments in an election case (Watson v. RNC), which has the potential to reshape the way ballots are counted. Then, they preview next week’s oral arguments in the birthright citizenship case.Plus, Preet and Joyce pay tribute to former FBI Director and special counsel Robert Mueller, who passed last week at age 81.We hope you’re finding CAFE Insider informative. Email us at [email protected] with your suggestions and questions for Preet and Joyce. Watch livestreams on YouTube or Substack.This podcast is brought to you by CAFE and Vox Media Podcast Network. Executive Producer: Tamara Sepper; Supervising Producer: Jake Kaplan; Associate Producer: Claudia Hernández; Senior Audio Producer: Matthew Billy; CAFE Team: Celine Rohr, Nat Weiner, Jennifer Indig, and Liana Greenway.
Ep 685Bonus: Is David French Too Polite?
What is David French-ism and is it a bad thing? In the Stay Tuned podcast bonus for Insiders, New York Times columnist and co-host of the Advisory Opinions podcast David French joins Preet to discuss politeness and whether it’s French’s Achilles heel or his biggest strength.For more content at the intersection of law, politics, and policy, sign up to receive the weekly CAFE Brief newsletter, for free: cafe.com/briefTweet your questions to @PreetBharara with hashtag #AskPreet, email us at [email protected], or call 833-997-7338 to leave a voicemail.Stay Tuned with Preet is brought to you by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network.