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We're still not allowed to have fun anymore... We're not even allowed to have in lieu of fun... But we have this.


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  • 71. Girl Security: DEI is Great, Actually

    01:02:06||Season 4, Ep. 71
    Wherein Ben and Alicia Wanless welcome Lauren Buitta, founder of the nonprofit Girl Security, to talk about women in national security in the Trump era.

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  • 70. Mike Pesca on Politics, Football, and the Penny

    01:06:08||Season 4, Ep. 70
    Wherein Ben welcomes Mike Pesca to talk about the Superbowl and how bad he thinks Trumpism is going to get. Holly Berkley Fletcher cohosts, and Anastasiia Lapatina shows off her baby.
  • 69. The New Techno-Plutocracy

    01:03:43||Season 4, Ep. 69
    Wherein Ben welcomes Raluca Csernatoni, a European scholar, to discuss European responses to our developing techno-plutocratic hellscape. Alicia Wanless, Eve Gaumond, and Jonathan Rauch join in.
  • 68. Ukraine, South Africa, and the Arctic

    01:01:24||Season 4, Ep. 68
    Wherein Ben announces the launch of a new podcast on the history of US-Ukraine relations, and Holly Berkley Fletcher and Anastasiia Lapatina discuss how Trump is screwing around in South Africa and the Arctic.
  • 67. Hypothetical War Crimes

    01:02:37||Season 4, Ep. 67
    Wherein Ben discusses the barriers to US occupation of Gaza, Eve Gaumond discusses tariffs, and Shane Harris discusses the CIA.
  • 66. The FBI Fights Back

    01:02:14||Season 4, Ep. 66
    Wherein Ben talks about the resistance to Trump from within the FBI and welcomes Jonathan Rauch to talk about public responses to corrupt government.
  • 65. Tariffs

    01:02:41||Season 4, Ep. 65
    Wherein Ben welcomes Stephanie Carvin, a Canadian political scientist, to discuss Trump's newly imposed tariffs and their impact on, well, everything.