Show overview
The Mona Charen Show has been publishing since 2019, and across the 7 years since has built a catalogue of 285 episodes, alongside 1 trailer or bonus episode. That works out to roughly 290 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 55 min and 1h 7m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language News show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 days ago, with 28 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 52 episodes published. Published by The Bulwark.
From the publisher
After a great five year run on Beg to Differ, Mona Charen brings you a new show dedicated to deepening your understanding of complex issues and trends facing society. Each week she'll engage an expert for a probing discussion that goes past the day's headlines.
Latest Episodes
View all 285 episodesThis Reporter Calls Trump—And He Answers! (w/ Ed Luce)
Trump Bombed Iran—Then Gave It Everything It Wanted (w/ Andrew Fox) | Mona Charen Show
Book Club: “If I Don’t Return: A Father’s Wartime Journal” (w/ Mark Hertling)
Trump's Tough-Guy Act Is Finally Falling Apart (w/ Will Saletan)
Trump's Staggering Corruption Is Finally Catching Up to Him (w/ Jonathan Chait)
Danielle Crittenden on Losing Her Daughter
What Can 'A Man for All Seasons' Tell Us About Today?
Trump's Tariffs Trashed the Economy. Why Won't We Say That? (w/ Matt Bennett)
Trump's War on the Enlightenment (w/ Steven Pinker) | Mona Charen Show
Orbán Rigged the Game—and Still Lost! (w/ Dalibor Rohac)
A Beautiful Victory in Hungary
A 250-Foot Monument to Trump's Ego (w/ Philip Kennicott)
Confronting Anti-Semitism, Left and Right (w/ David Frum)
RFK's War on Vaccines Is Political Loser
Jonathan Cohn joins Mona to discuss the growing public health crisis under RFK Jr.’s leadership at HHS. From vaccine rollbacks to misinformation about autism and common medications, they walk through how policy decisions are already affecting real people—and why diseases like measles are making a comeback.They also look at the politics: internal pushback inside the Trump orbit, warning signs from polling, and whether any of this can be stopped before the damage spreads further.
DOGE Dumbed Down the Nation (w/ Jessica Riedl)
Brookings scholar Jessica Riedl analyzes the DOGE debacle and the failure of Americans to make grown up choices about spending and taxes.
Candace Owens Is Tearing MAGA Apart (w/ Will Sommer)
Will Sommer takes us on a tour of the groypers and other right wing influencers.For a limited time, try OneSkin with 15% off using code MONA at https://oneskin.co/MONA.
Why Primaries Reward The Most Extreme Candidates (w/ Nick Troiano)
Mona Charen talks with Unite America’s Nick Troiano about the structural problem driving America’s political polarization: the primary system.
Tom Nichols: There Are 500 Ways This War Goes Wrong
In this emergency episode of The Mona Charen Show, Tom Nichols lays out the tremendous risks Trump has taken with Iran war.Go to https://Quince.com/MONA for free shipping and 365-day returns. That's a full year to wear it and love it. And you will.
Kleptocrat-in-Chief (w/ Alexander Cooley & Daniel Nexon)
NOTE: This episode was recorded before the US/Israel attack on Iran.Two professors describe the staggering corruption Trump is normalizing and how it is affecting foreign policy. Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon join The Mona Charen Show to discuss their Foreign Affairs piece “The Age of Kleptocracy.” Go to https://Quince.com/MONA for free shipping and 365-day returns. That's a full year to wear it and love it. And you will.
Health in the Time of MAGA (w/ Atul Gawande)
Dr. Atul Gawande reports on what cuts to USAID are doing to the world’s most vulnerable, as well as how that is coming home. Also a look back at Covid and reflections on end of life care.