The Al Franken Podcast
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Ep 132132: Anne Applebaum on the War in Ukraine
The Atlantic writer on where it stands and where it’s going.
Ep 131131: Franklin Foer’s New Book on Biden: The Last Politician
The Atlantic Writer on Biden’s Presidency (So Far)
Ep 130130: The Case for Universal Voting. Like in Australia!
WaPo’s E.J. Dionne & Harvard’s Miles Rapoport on making everyone vote!
Ep 129129: Molly Jong-Fast and Mark Leibovich on the GOP Debate
The Highlights and Lowlights
Ep 128128: Tim Miller and Charlie Cook on the First GOP Debate
The bloodbath in Milwaukee!!
Ep 127127: Stuart Stevens is Ashamed
Of his party and himself
Ep 126126: Neal Katyal on Jack Smith’s Very Smart Case
And Donald J. Tump’s Very Weak One
Ep 125125: Best Of: Sarah Silverman!
Because she's the best!
Ep 124124: Inside the Race to Go Viral with Ben Smith
Former Editor in Chief of Buzzfeed News and NYT Columnist on his new book TRAFFIC
Ep 123123: Marc Elias and Ari Berman
Fighting the GOP Attack on Democracy!
Ep 122122: Dahlia Lithwick on the Awful SCOTUS Term
And what it portends...
Ep 121121: Best Of: John Mayer on Playing with The Dead
Deadheads were skeptical – Not anymore!
Ep 120120: Comedian Alex Edelman on Heading to Broadway!
“Just for Us” a Jew goes to a neo-Nazi event - laughs o’plenty
Ep 119119: Ukraine Update with The Atlantic’s Frank Foer
It’s bloody, complicated!
Ep 118118: Mark Leibovich on the Documents Indictment
And How it Plays with Republicans
Ep 117117: Our Immigration System: It's Broken!
Pulitzer Prize winner Molly O'Toole and former ICE Investigator Jerry Robinette on our Southern Border.
Ep 116116: QAnon – Weirder Than You Know!!! Author Will Sommer
And 15% of Americans Believe this Stuff!
Ep 115115: Molly Jong-Fast and Al Discuss The Week’s Events
A fun one, for a change.
Ep 114114: Dahlia Lithwick is BACK!
Our SCOTUS Expert Knocks It Out of the Park
Ep 113113: NYT Columnist Paul Krugman on The Debt Ceiling
His Strategies to Thwart the GOP’s Financial Terrorism
Ep 112112: Dan Balz, WaPo’s Chief Correspondent, Explains It All!
The Dean of DC Political Correspondents meets his Jerry!
Ep 111111: Rep. Katie Porter - On Her New Book & Jeremy Peters On Dominion
Porter discusses I Swear: Politics Is Messier than My Minivan and also swears a bit.
Ep 110110: Heather McGhee - My Favorite Is Back
On Racism as Greed, Book Banning & Other Fun Topics
Ep 109109: Harry Litman – A Panorama of Trump’s Massive Legal Problems
Manhattan, Georgia, Documents, Jan. 6, & the Civil Cases!!!
Ep 108108: Israel Expert Aaron David Miller on Netanyahu’s Anti-democratic Judicial “Reforms”
Oy Yoy Yoy Yoy Yoy Yoy Yoy!!!!
Ep 107107: Adam Schiff on Lots of Stuff!
Why He Got Kicked Off Intel, Trump, etc.
Ep 106106: WaPo Economics Columnist Catherine Rampell
Discusses the SVB meltdown and the economy writ large
Ep 105105: Best Of: Chris Rock
In this 2019 conversation, Chris discusses his early struggles in comedy. Until he met me!
Ep 104104: Andy Slavitt & Laurie Garrett on “The End of the Covid Emergency?”
Where we are now
Ep 103103: NYT’s Jeremy Peters on Dominion v. FOX
Looks bad for FOX
Ep 102102: Shoshana Zuboff & Roger McNamee on Surveillance Capitalism
The Existential Threat of Big Tech’s Predatory Business Models
Ep 101101: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on The Right’s 50-Year Scheme to Capture SCOTUS
Hint: It involves a lot of dark money.
Ep 100100: Julia Ioffe - Update on The War in Ukraine
As the Brutal War Enters its 2nd Year
Ep 9999: Joyce Vance & Barbara McQuade on The Latest from Fulton County
INDICTMENTS? HOW MANY? TRUMP?!
Ep 9898: WaPo’s Dana Milbank On How Only 2/3 of GOP House Members Are Crazy
And why that won't help much...
Ep 9797: Norm Ornstein on The Radical Right Takeover of the House
And the Dangers Ahead
Ep 9696: Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report
The Political Analyst Analyzes Politics
Ep 9595: BEST OF - Neal Katyal On How Trump Would Be Prosecuted
The documents? January 6th? The Raffensperger call?
Ep 9494: BEST OF: The Day the President Laughed!
The Trump Kids Offer a Prize to Whoever Can Make Their Father Laugh
Ep 8888: BEST OF: Anne Nelson on the Right Wing Shadow Network
The journalist/author discusses the secret hub of the radical right
Ep 8787: Alexander Vindman on Ukraine
The former NSC Director of Eastern Europe Affairs on The War
Ep 5050: Rob Delaney – On the Loss of His 2-Year-Old, Henry
And his heartbreaking, raw, and, yes, funny book, A Heart That Works
Ep 8686: Jeremy Peters Traces the GOP’s Descent to Trump
The NYT journalist on How the Nutcase Right Took Over the GOP
Ep 8585: Sen. Heidi Heitkamp on The Midterms
A Fun One – For a Change!
Ep 8484: BONUS EPISODE: My Genius Hearing Parody on WHAT THE HACK!
Me as Bernie, Grassley, Sherrod, Collins, and McConnell
Ep 8383: Norm Ornstein on The Wave That Didn’t Happen
And what it means.
Ep 8282: Cecile Richards and David Axelrod on The Midterms
Our first one recorded in front of a live audience!
Ep 8181: Laboratories of Autocracy – David Pepper – It’s the States, Stupid!
The former Ohio Democratic State Chair on how state legislatures are dismantling democracy.
Ep 8080: MI Sec. of State Jocelyn Benson and Journalist Ari Berman
Our Democracy Under Threat
Ep 7979: Author Will Bunch – The Cost of College as The Source of Our Division
The GI Bill & Free College United Us. Today’s Steep Cost Has Created Deep Resentment