Synopsis
Chronicling Donald Trump's rise to the presidency and his current administration. Jacob Weisberg, chairman of Slate, along with Slate chief political correspondent Jamelle Bouie, and the writer Virginia Heffernan, talk to journalists, historians, psychiatrists, and other experts to help explain who this man is and why this is happening, right now, in the United States of America.
Episodes
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A Public Display of Autoeroticism
14/04/2016 Duration: 28minJacob Weisberg talks to Mark Singer, a staff writer at The New Yorker, about his 1997 profile of Donald Trump and whether Donald has changed in the past 20 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Reporting The Future From The Boston Globe
11/04/2016 Duration: 14minSlate’s Leon Neyfakh talks to Katie Kingsbury, Editor at The Boston Globe, about this weekend’s satirical front page that looks a year into the future at Donald Trump’s presidency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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My Mom's Voting For Him
08/04/2016 Duration: 16minHanna Rosin of Slate's DoubleX Gabfest and NPR's Invisibilia calls her mother to ask why she's voting for Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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When Trump Doesn’t Win
07/04/2016 Duration: 28minSlate’s Jacob Weisberg talks to EJ Dionne about the results of the Wisconsin primary and why it’s OK for the media to be calling the demise of Trump (again). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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What's With The White Working Class?
04/04/2016 Duration: 13minSlate’s Jacob Weisberg talks to Barbara Ehrenreich about the white working class. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Why This Podcast Isn't Neutral
31/03/2016 Duration: 32minJacob Weisberg talks to Glenn Greenwald about media neutrality, objectivity, and the history of an opinionated press. Plus, a trip to the doctor's office. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The GOP's Top Trump Buster
31/03/2016 Duration: 21minJacob Weisberg talks to Stuart Stevens, Mitt Romney's top political strategist in 2012, about stopping Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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I LOVE Women!
25/03/2016 Duration: 19minJacob Weisberg talks to Christina Cauterucci about Trump's core philosophy: misogyny. Plus, a taste of Trump Wine! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Brussels, ISIS & Islam
24/03/2016 Duration: 17minJacob Weisberg talks to former Islamic extremist (and now Senior Advisor at the Centre on Religion & Geopolitics) Ed Husain about how Trump is perceived within Muslim communities around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Negotiation 101
23/03/2016 Duration: 21minSeth Stevenson guest-hosts and talks to Columbia Business School lecturer Aaron Wallen about negotiation tactics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Life on the Trump Trail
21/03/2016 Duration: 22minLeon Neyfakh guest-hosts and talks to Seth Stevenson about what it's like to write about a candidate who hates you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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A Campus Outlier
18/03/2016 Duration: 14minJacob Weisberg talks to a college student about his support for Donald Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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A Contested Convention?
17/03/2016 Duration: 17minJacob Weisberg talks to Jeff Greenfield about possible GOP scenarios. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Let's Talk To A Shrink
15/03/2016 Duration: 12minJacob Weisberg talks to Dr. Ben Michaelis, a clinical psychologist, about narcissistic personality order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Is Trump A Racist?
14/03/2016 Duration: 16minJacob Weisberg talks to Jamelle Bouie about his latest article "How Trump Happened" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Slate's Trumpcast Trailer
14/03/2016 Duration: 03minA quasi-daily podcast from Slate that sets out to understand the real Donald Trump. Jacob Weisberg, chairman and editor-in-chef of Slate, will be talking to historians, psychiatrists, and other experts to help explain who this man is, and why this is happening, right now, in the United States of America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices