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.
Bonus: Death, Taxes, and Consciousness (with Michael Pollan)
4 mins; April 02, 2026
Trump’s Criminal Profit Motive
47 mins; March 31, 2026
Bonus: The FCC Attempts to Censor Broadcasters
6 mins; March 26, 2026
Voting Rights & Wrongs, According to SCOTUS (with Steve Vladeck)
52 mins; March 24, 2026
Bonus: Is David French Too Polite?
5 mins; March 19, 2026
Court to Trump: Drop Fed
48 mins; March 17, 2026
Bonus: Bullish On AI (with Lloyd Blankfein)
12 mins; March 12, 2026
Kristi Noem, Law Firms & No-Knock Warrants
48 mins; March 10, 2026
Bonus: Iran’s Impact on the Elections (with Mark Leibovich)
9 mins; March 05, 2026
Clintons Testify About Epstein — Will Trump?
29 mins; March 03, 2026
Bonus: Is Trump Lying to Himself? (with Astead Herndon and Joanne Freeman)
7 mins; February 26, 2026
Trump Tariff Takedown (with Don Verrilli)
46 mins; February 24, 2026
Bonus: Can the Rule of Law Be Restored? (with Susan Rice)
3 mins; February 19, 2026
Oversight v. Overreach at DOJ
40 mins; February 17, 2026
Bonus: After the Pendulum Swings (with Douglas Brinkley)
5 mins; February 12, 2026
DOJ in Crisis
52 mins; February 10, 2026
Bonus: Ukraine, Greenland, and Venezuela (with Anne Applebaum)
6 mins; February 05, 2026
Political Retribution: From Minnesota to Georgia
43 mins; February 03, 2026
Bonus: Can the Trump Era Teach Us Anything? (with Ed Luce)
6 mins; January 29, 2026
ICE Out of Control
49 mins; January 27, 2026
Bonus: Zohran Mamdani Up Against Vigilantism?
5 mins; January 22, 2026
Breaking Down the Renee Good Shooting (with Vanita Gupta)
46 mins; January 20, 2026
Bonus: Education Reform… What Works? (with Rahm Emanuel)
8 mins; January 15, 2026
Will SCOTUS Let Trump Rewrite Birthright Citizenship? (with Michael Dreeben)
67 hours 21 mins; January 13, 2026
Bonus: Can Trump Rename the Kennedy Center?
5 mins; January 08, 2026
Inside the Case Against Maduro
48 mins; January 06, 2026
The Legal Battles That Defined 2025
34 mins; December 23, 2025
What Gets in the Way of Happiness (with Dan Harris)
5 mins; December 18, 2025
Trump's Law of War
45 mins; December 16, 2025
Bonus: The No Kings Movement & Change (with Jill Lepore)
2 mins; December 11, 2025
Trump v. The Press (with Erwin Chemerinsky)
57 mins; December 09, 2025
Is Smiling the Key to Winning Elections? (with Anand Giridharadas)
11 mins; December 04, 2025
From National Guard Tragedy to Immigration Battle
36 mins; December 02, 2025
Bonus: What Trump Told MBS and What He Didn’t (with Jon Finer)
8 mins; November 20, 2025
The Epstein Files Fight
46 mins; November 18, 2025
The 1929 Stock Market Crash Movie (with Andrew Ross Sorkin)
3 mins; November 13, 2025
Tariffs and Presidential Power
44 mins; November 11, 2025
Bonus: Political Prosecutions at DOJ (with Carol Leonnig & Aaron Davis)
9 mins; November 06, 2025
The Trump Doctrine of Retribution
43 mins; November 04, 2025
Bonus: Does Age Matter in Politics? (with Astead Herndon)
5 mins; October 30, 2025
Trump Admin Ramps Up Airstrikes (with Barb McQuade)
43 mins; October 28, 2025
Bonus: Live Q&A (with Joyce Vance)
12 mins; October 23, 2025
The Vindictiveness of Donald John Trump
54 mins; October 21, 2025
Bonus: Military Tribunals and Deradicalization (with Dan Senor)
8 mins; October 16, 2025
Bonus: The Sacrifice That Shaped a Scholar (with Justin Driver)
9 mins; October 09, 2025
Vindictive Prosecution? Comey & Abrego Garcia
58 mins; October 07, 2025
Bonus: Running the Process (with Antony Blinken)
4 mins; October 02, 2025
Is the Comey Prosecution Fatally Flawed?
51 mins; September 29, 2025
Bonus: Comedy Informs Common Knowledge Informs Comedy… (with Steven Pinker)
4 mins; September 25, 2025
Trump Ramps Up Retribution
54 mins; September 22, 2025
Bonus: When the Mob Tried to Kill Curtis Sliwa (with Elie Honig)
8 mins; September 18, 2025
SCOTUS’ Game of Chicken with Trump (with Dahlia Lithwick)
58 mins; September 16, 2025
Bonus: Refusing to Prosecute Gun Crimes in D.C. (with John Feinblatt and Adam Winkler)
5 mins; September 11, 2025
Trump’s America: Do We All Need to Carry Papers Now?
38 mins; September 09, 2025
Bonus: What People Get Wrong About the ‘AI Revolution’ (with Daron Acemoglu)
7 mins; September 04, 2025
Can Trump Do Whatever He Wants?
51 mins; September 01, 2025
Bonus: The Redistricting Frenzy (with Tom Nichols)
6 mins; August 21, 2025
Law & Order, Hold the Law
40 mins; August 19, 2025
Bonus: Should Judges Speak Out? (with Martha Minow)
5 mins; August 14, 2025
Trump's DC Police Takeover
50 mins; August 11, 2025
Bonus: Lessons from Northern Ireland (with Joe Kennedy III)
4 mins; August 07, 2025
Is Being Undocumented a Crime?
49 mins; August 05, 2025
Bonus: Could Congress Release the Epstein Files? (with Mimi Rocah, Elie Honig & Asha Rangappa)
8 mins; July 31, 2025
The Epstein Files (with Ben Wittes)
51 mins; July 29, 2025
Bonus: How Cynicism Erodes Our Politics (with Barry Diller)
5 mins; July 24, 2025
Epstein Fallout
49 mins; July 21, 2025
AI in Trump's America (with Nita Farahany)
50 mins; July 15, 2025
Bonus: How Trump is Undermining Ukraine (with Anne Applebaum)
6 mins; July 10, 2025
Fighting Trump’s Asylum Ban
50 mins; July 08, 2025
Bonus: Was the U.S. Bombing of Iran Constitutional? (with Jack Goldsmith & Trevor Morrison)
16 mins; July 03, 2025
SCOTUS to America: "You Deal With Him"
47 mins; July 01, 2025
Bonus: Inside the Situation Room (with Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer)
4 mins; June 26, 2025
Deportations at SCOTUS
50 mins; June 24, 2025
Bonus: The Return of Political Violence (with Ed Luce)
3 mins; June 19, 2025
Minnesota Killings, LA Protests, & ICE Raids
48 mins; June 17, 2025
Bonus: Trump Goes After Harvard’s International Students (with Larry Summers)
5 mins; June 12, 2025
Trump Deploys Troops to LA
41 mins; June 10, 2025
Bonus: The Megawealth of the British Monarchy (with Evan Osnos)
8 mins; June 05, 2025
Trump's Losing Streak
52 mins; June 03, 2025
ACLU v. Trump’s Immigration Agenda (with Cecillia Wang)
58 mins; May 27, 2025
Bonus: How Does a Corporation Transform into a Monopoly? (with Lina Khan)
6 mins; May 22, 2025
SCOTUS to Trump: "Not So Fast"
52 mins; May 20, 2025
Habeas Corpus in Jeopardy (with Rachel Barkow)
52 mins; May 13, 2025
Bonus: Does SCOTUS Care About Public Opinion? (with Leah Litman)
3 mins; May 08, 2025
Courts Put Trump in Check (with Trevor Morrison)
56 mins; May 06, 2025
Bonus: Are you actually thoughtful? (with Michael Roth)
5 mins; May 01, 2025
“So Now They’re Arresting Judges”
44 mins; April 29, 2025
Bonus: The Lawyers Standing Up to Trump (with Dahlia Lithwick)
7 mins; April 24, 2025
Deporting Due Process
54 mins; April 22, 2025
Bonus: Can Trump Secure a Nuclear Deal with Iran? (with Ian Bremmer)
6 mins; April 17, 2025
What the Abrego Garcia Case Means for You
46 mins; April 15, 2025
Bonus: Friendships at SCOTUS (with Justice Stephen Breyer)
