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Politics may be dismal, but the ideas that swirl around it and shape it are fascinating. This is a show that looks not just at politics, but the deeper ideas from history, science, psychology, economics, and technology that are shaping our world. We feature smart, lively, upbeat discussions with people who know what they're talking about and can help us understand the world better. Hosted by Matt Robison: writer, former senior congressional staffer, and campaign manager.

Financial Life Planning: Inflation is a drag

21 mins; September 10, 2023

Trump Endorsed Him for Senate. Why's He Fighting to Kick Trump off the Ballot?

37 mins; September 07, 2023

Are Republicans Finally Ready to Take On Trump Or Were They Never Really Trying?

35 mins; September 05, 2023

Financial Life Planning: The Logistics Matter

22 mins; September 03, 2023

How to Kill BS, OutThink Spin, and Get Smarter, with WaPo's Philip Bump

36 mins; August 31, 2023

With one new legal filing, are we about to have unprecedented political chaos?

37 mins; August 30, 2023

An Amazing Scene at the January 6 Trump Trial

24 mins; August 29, 2023

Former Governor Ted Strickland: Is Ohio a Sign of Good Things to Come for Democrats?

34 mins; August 28, 2023

Financial Life Planning: Read the Ingredients - Even on your investment funds

23 mins; August 27, 2023

Swing Voters Hated Last Night's Debate. Did Republicans Hurt Themselves Even More?

39 mins; August 24, 2023

Do Republicans Need to Attack Trump in the Debate to Actually Win the Race?

28 mins; August 22, 2023

Financial Life Planning: Your Life Doesn’t Matter, and That's Good News!

25 mins; August 21, 2023

How YOU Can Help Save Democracy, Kill Dark Money, and Win $50,000

38 mins; August 18, 2023

"Four Armed Men Were Chasing Me Down": Reporting from Global War Zones with Sean Carberry

38 mins; August 16, 2023

Is There a Clever Legal Way Out of Our Trump Trap After ANOTHER Indictment?

40 mins; August 15, 2023

How to Shut Down Stupid Politics Myths, with Media Star Matt McNeil

18 mins; August 13, 2023

***FIXED*** What Happens When One Party Starts Ignoring the Legal System?

24 mins; August 09, 2023

What Happens When One Party Starts Ignoring the Legal System?

26 mins; August 09, 2023

Do We Want the Trump Trial on TV? Do We Want ANY Politicians on TV?

34 mins; August 08, 2023

Why Trump's Legal Defenses Probably Won't Work

44 mins; August 04, 2023

Matt in Newsweek: No, These Indictments Don't Strengthen Trump. That's Just Media Nonsense

24 mins; August 03, 2023

Devastating New Trump Indictments Set Up Even More Tantalizing Questions

25 mins; August 02, 2023

Political campaigns run on one thing, and he's the master of getting it

32 mins; August 01, 2023

PART TWO Horrible and Embarrassing: DeSantis Actually Running the Worst Campaign Ever?

24 mins; July 30, 2023

Horrible and Embarrassing: DeSantis Actually Running the Worst Campaign Ever?

26 mins; July 28, 2023

Top Five Mind-Blowing Images from the James Webb Telescope in Year One

35 mins; July 27, 2023

Three Signs Republicans Are Back in Epic Presidential Hell Again

29 mins; July 25, 2023

Third Disastrous Trump Indictment Day Is Looming. And Is Sununu REALLY Done?

32 mins; July 19, 2023

Did a Famous Cop Mind Trick An Innocent Man Into a Murder Confession?

34 mins; July 18, 2023

Mailbag! Is A Shrewd Strategy Bringing MORE Trump Legal Danger?

34 mins; July 17, 2023

Trump and Netanyahu Make New Moves to Kill Democracy, Save Themselves

26 mins; July 12, 2023

Why is Israel Erupting Again? Leader of Pro-Democracy Protests Explains.

26 mins; July 11, 2023

America's ultimate political insider: four voter types Dems need to win next year

40 mins; July 07, 2023

Was the Supreme Court Actually Tricked Into Ruling on a Fake Case?

29 mins; July 04, 2023

Supreme Court Ends Affirmative Action. What Will Colleges Do Now?

24 mins; June 30, 2023

Important New Poll Has Good News for Trump, Even Better News for Biden

27 mins; June 28, 2023

An epic MAGA showdown in New Hampshire: will anyone win?

33 mins; June 27, 2023

A Huge Supreme Court Ruling Will Impact the US Congress for Decades to Come

29 mins; June 22, 2023

One Insane Day: A President, Prison, and Unprecedented Political Peril.

27 mins; June 14, 2023

One Hidden Rule Could Let Trump Go Free Even if a Jury Convicts Him

36 mins; June 13, 2023

MORE Mailbag Questions! How Do You Turn Family Away From the MAGA Right Wing?

44 mins; June 12, 2023

A Devastating Federal Indictment for Trump. Why Is He in Bigger Trouble This Time?

25 mins; June 09, 2023

YOUR Mailbag questions! Can We Just Get Rid of the Supreme Court?

22 mins; June 07, 2023

A Republican Governor Issues A Devastating Warning to His Party

25 mins; June 06, 2023

Financial Life Planning: PART TWO How to teach your kids about money (without driving yourself crazy)

23 mins; June 04, 2023

Democrats Won the Big Showdown. Now What Happens Next?

29 mins; June 01, 2023

There's a Surprising Deal to Avoid Economic Catastophe. Did Anyone Come Out Ahead?

27 mins; May 30, 2023

Financial Life Planning: How to teach your kids about money (without driving yourself crazy)

19 mins; May 28, 2023

Did this clever candidate figure out the key to the Democrats' future?

27 mins; May 26, 2023

Dems Need to Change Their Entire Approach. Here's How.

29 mins; May 25, 2023

Republican Presidential Field Takes Shape. Do Any of Them Have a Chance?

29 mins; May 23, 2023

Dems Actually Losing Black Voters? Polling Experts on Whether Disaster Looms.

29 mins; May 18, 2023

The Durham Report Arrived And It's a Embarrassment. So Why the Big Media Headlines?

29 mins; May 16, 2023

Can the Media Prevent Trump from Serving Us Poison Again?

25 mins; May 15, 2023

The CNN Town Hall Was A Disgusting Disaster. Trump Wasn't Actually Why.

31 mins; May 11, 2023

Can One Constitutional Clause Save America from Republican Hostage-Takers?

35 mins; May 09, 2023

Sunday Financial/Life Planning: Interest Rates Are Surprisingly Interesting!

19 mins; May 07, 2023

Clarence Thomas Scandal - This Is the Reporter Who Found Out

40 mins; May 06, 2023

When Are Politicians Too Old? And Are We Wasting Money on Seniors Too?

21 mins; May 05, 2023

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse: Startling Signs of Supreme Court Corruption

24 mins; May 03, 2023

Is Trump Aiming for a Devastating Kill Shot on DeSantis Right Now?

26 mins; May 02, 2023

Financial Life Planning: When Should I Borrow Money to Pay for Stuff Like Cars?

26 mins; April 30, 2023

Can President Biden Win and Save Us from the Trump Apocalypse Again?

35 mins; April 27, 2023

After Fox News Tucker Disaster, Will Staggering Media Failures Get Even Worse Now?

43 mins; April 25, 2023

The Top 5 Enormous Flaws that Will Make DeSantis Crash Down and Burn

29 mins; April 20, 2023

Will This Weird Pudding Pornography Video Actually Help Trump's Attack?

33 mins; April 18, 2023

Clarence Thomas' Money Scandal Is Extra Dicey Once You Remember This Supreme Court Ruling

19 mins; April 17, 2023

Why Are Republicans Acting Like Criminals? They Think They're Royalty.

36 mins; April 14, 2023

Will Fumbling DeSantis Fail, and Why is Florida Actually So Damn Crazy Now?

39 mins; April 12, 2023

Can President Biden Tell Corrupt Courts to Go to Hell?

37 mins; April 11, 2023

Famous Government Expert Norm Ornstein Is Worried Sick About the Next Five Years. Why?

41 mins; April 07, 2023

PART TWO: Is the Devastating Trump Felony Indictment Way Worse Than He Imagined?

29 mins; April 05, 2023

Is the Devastating Trump Felony Indictment Way Worse Than He Imagined?

33 mins; April 04, 2023

Is Donald Trump Actually About to Go Full "Jump the Shark" Crazy?

27 mins; March 29, 2023

Media, Lies, and Laws: Will Israel's Crisis Be America's Future?

38 mins; March 27, 2023

Painful Questions, Searing Lessons: What Did We Learn in the Failed Iraq War?

43 mins; March 24, 2023

How the right wing hacked the media, and how we can hack back

69 hours 53 mins; March 23, 2023

Panic! Attack! Defend! Are Republicans Scrambling in Fear Before Trump Arrest?

29 mins; March 22, 2023

Donald Trump Arrest Preview Spectacular! Will He Doom the GOP?

22 mins; March 20, 2023

Startling Campaign Abuse; and Is President Biden Using A Time-Tested Political Strategy?

27 mins; March 16, 2023

Money, Sex, and Washington: A Week of Exploding Banks and Trapped Republicans

29 mins; March 14, 2023

Right-Wing Censorship Claims Are Lies; and How to Fix Massive Social Media Failures

38 mins; March 09, 2023

We Got Censored! The BS Myth About Right-Wing Media.

36 mins; March 08, 2023

WHERE ARE YOU GUYS? An Update On a Wild Week at Beyond Politics

5 mins; March 08, 2023

Inside the spectacular crash of one of the right wing's most vile figures

28 mins; March 03, 2023

How This Ugly Fox News Moment Opens a Window on the Gaslighting of America

38 mins; February 28, 2023

Can Democrats Get Smart, Hit Hard, Inspire, and Kick More A** NOW?

30 mins; February 24, 2023

Captured FBI. Swindled NY Times. How Did Russia Make Pawns Help Trump?

38 mins; February 23, 2023

Was Biden's Risky Stunner Worth it, And Time for Painful Political Divorce?

35 mins; February 21, 2023

Four Ways Republican Insanity is Exploding Out of Congress and Into the Open

26 mins; February 17, 2023

Can You Kinda Like Politics, and Totally Hate all the Politicians?

19 mins; February 16, 2023

UFOs, Republicans' Impossible Dilemma, and IS Trump an actual PAB?

36 mins; February 15, 2023

How to Know MTG is a Lunatic and More from Inside the Nutball Congress (with Congressman Steve Cohen)

29 mins; February 14, 2023

A 4th Craft Shot Down. But Are They Aliens? Probably Not. Our Interview with The World's Top UFO Video Expert

42 mins; February 13, 2023

A Devastating, Hidden Russian Invasion: Is America Still Failing to Stop it?

60 hours 53 mins; February 10, 2023

Breaking Eggs, Balloons, and State of the Union Speeches

33 mins; February 07, 2023

Russians, The Supreme Court, Dark Money, and Conflicts: What We Learned from Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

29 mins; February 06, 2023

Will Anything Change With Trump... or Police Violence?

41 mins; February 02, 2023

A Top FBI Official Arrested. Is Russia Winning Their Inflitration War Against Us?

43 mins; January 31, 2023

Republicans Vote on the Future of Their Party (But They're Dodging Their Biggest Orange Problem)

41 mins; January 26, 2023

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