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How private equity ate youth sports
Big investors are pouring money into kids' sports and parents say it’s ruining the game. This episode was produced by Danielle Hewitt, edited by Miranda Kennedy, fact checked by Hady Mawajdeh and Gabriel Dunatov, engineered by David Tatasciore and Bridger Dunnagan, and hosted by Noel King. The Curaçao Region from…
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Will Trump's Postal Service Seize This Mail Bag?
Jon, Tommy, Lovett, and Dan answer listener questions, diving into what they’re most hoping to learn from the 2026 midterms, their favorite political ads of all time, and the groyper takeover of the Republican Party. Then, Vote Save America’s Shaniqua McClendon returns to the pod to talk to Tommy about the Crooked…
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The Precap | Michael Kosta on America's Battles with Iran, Canada, and US Open Tennis Influencers
This week's host Michael Kosta sits down with Daily Show writer Scott Hercman to catch up on the latest news, and preview the week to come. They dig in to what happened while the show was on summer break only to discover that not much has changed. America's still at war with Iran, still antagonizing Canada with…
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Labor Day 2026
Happy Labor Day! The MR Crew is off today but in the meantime please enjoy our annual audio compilation of labor-themed excerpts from luminaries such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Mario Savio, John L. Lewis, as well as Sen. Bernie Sanders reading the words of Eugene Debs.
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Bill Kristol: A Blue Wave vs. the Toxic Red Tide
With just under two months until Election Day, Tim and Bill revisit the run-up to the midterms in 2006 and 1994, two major wave election cycles where the bottom just fell out from under the party in power. The 1994 blowout was more about the end of an era, while 2006 was about an unpopular war in the Middle East, a…
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TDS Time Machine | Labor Day
United we podcast. Enjoy a holiday thanks to the hard work of labor unions, and listen to this compilation of labor stories from The Daily Show. Sam Bee meets the French Canadian man that unionized Walmart. Author Philip Dray, visits to talk about labor and his book, "There is Power in a Union." Jon Stewart covers the…
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Poll Me Twice, Shame On Me
Nate Silver, Clare Malone, and Galen Druke — the hosts of Crooked Media's new show Still Counting — join Lovett to talk about the Senate races they find most interesting and Trump doing everything in his power to help Republicans lose the midterms. The crew, who you may remember from the FiveThirtyEight podcast, dives…
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Why Government Makes Us Miserable
Americans don’t trust the government anymore. Annie Lowery, Atlantic staff writer and author of the new book The Time Tax , joins Offline to identify the culprit: a plodding, vindictive, racist bureaucracy that people must navigate to get government services and benefits. The paperwork, lines and emotional strain—just…
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David French: MAGA Is Making America Less Free
Marco Rubio is using dubious powers to create a new class of immigrant political prisoners. Meanwhile, DHS officials are bragging about how they're brutally shackling and frog-marching Haitians who came here under protected status. On this American holiday weekend, David takes a "nerd moment" to explain that the…
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2725 - The Corporatist 2028 Ploy Playing out Now w/ Astead Herndon
It's Casual Friday. On today's program: JD Vance is asked by Kaitlin Collins about the widow of an airman who was killed in the War on Iran, struggling access to benefits due to there being no real declaration of war. Vance says he is grateful for the sacrifice and offers his love. That should help pay bills. Astead…
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Blame it on the inflammation
We are living in a time of inflammation information overload. Chronic inflammation is real, but Vox’s Unexplainable asks if it’s all bad. This episode was produced and hosted by Sally Helm, edited by Lissa Soep, with help from Joanna Solotaroff. Mixing and sound design from Cristian Ayala. Fact checking from Melissa…
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Republicans Suddenly Have Plans Next Week
Dozens of Republican lawmakers tell the press that they won't be attending Trump's midterm convention next week, citing a variety of unconvincing excuses, but the president seems unfazed by his party's lack of enthusiasm for more Trump, announcing Trump midterm ads, Trump coins, and the possibility he may rename the…
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TDS Time Machine | Even Stephven with Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell
In the words of Jon Stewart, "What better way to understand the issue than to have two pundits of violently opposing viewpoints disagree with each other?" Join The Daily Show as we look back at years of Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell arguing with each other in their segment, Even Stephven. -- The Daily Show airs…
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Jonathan V. Last: How Much Stupid Can We Possibly Take?
Thom Tillis was the pivotal vote to confirm a buffoon to run the Department of Defense, and now he’s shocked about Hegseth’s incompetency. JD wants everyone to know he’s a Catholic now, but he doesn’t seem to have absorbed even the basic teachings of Catholicism. And Susan Collins claims she has influence with her…
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2724 - Trump Infuriates Ranchers; The Failing Efforts To Save Zionism w/ Séamus Malekafzali
It's an Emmajority Report Thursday On today's program: Trump suspends tariffs on imported beef from South America at a devastating cost to American ranchers. According to the Wall Street Journal, the plan to flood the markets with foreign beef was influenced by a Brazilian billionaire, Joesely Bautista . Bautista just…
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The farmers turning on Trump
As farmers and rural voters reel from moves made by the Trump administration, Democrats see an opening. This episode was produced by Peter Balonon-Rosen, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Gabriel Dunatov, engineered by David Tatasciore and Bridger Dunnagan, and hosted by Noel King. Guests attend a campaign event…
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Michael Weiss: The Clown Car at the Pentagon
The Army is currently operating without any Senate-confirmed civilian or military leaders at the top. For Navy secretary, Trump is nominating an election-denying veteran who thinks witches and Wiccans are taking over cities. And when Hegseth is not busy purging the DOD’s leadership, he seems to be under the spell of a…
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2723 - Mike Johnson Melts Down; Markey Mauls Moulton; HBCU Funding Crisis w/ Milton Allimadi
It's Hump Day and we're back with another Majority Report On today's program: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson melts down after CNN's Manu Raju asks him if the public should judge Johnson for his lies about the war on Iran. Senator Ed Markey trounces Seth Moulton in the Democratic primary for Senate in Massachusetts.…
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The Art of the Venezuela Oil Deal
The war with Iran reaches six months, Trump’s Pentagon cuts a corrupt oil deal with Venezuela, and Russia makes an (unwelcome) surprise appearance at a G20 meeting. Tommy and Ben mark six months of the war with Iran, including the death toll, damage to the global economy, and reports that Trump may implement a "mow…
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Ruby Cramer: The Power of MAHA
Vaccine skepticism and distrust of pharmaceutical companies long predated RFK, Jr.'s 2024 presidential campaign. But the distrust of mainstream medical authority has now grown so deep that the United States can no longer contain the spread of measles. The country’s measles-vaccination rates have dropped below the…
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2722 - Bernie's AI Tax Explained; The Horror Of Trump's Mass Delegalization w/ Sarah Polcz, Dara Lind
It's News Day Tuesday on The Majority Report On today's program: The Supreme Court has finally taken the handcuffs off of Donald Trump 's ballroom construction after they found no one has the authority to stop such a project. ICE raids a nightclub in Memphis, arresting more than 100 people based solely on their race.…
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Is Trump Trying to Lose the Midterms?
Weeks after a Republican campaign committee called AI data centers the "anchor hanging around" GOP candidates' necks, Trump weighs in to say that all Americans who oppose data center construction are "backwards and poor" — while he digs in on the trade war with Canada and the hot war with Iran. No wonder a leading…
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Trump BUSTED in bogus ballroom claim by Obama era secret
Rachel Maddow explains how a secret bomb shelter installed under the White House during the Obama administration undercuts Donald Trump's legal claim that he needs his ballroom constructed because it will include a necessary bomb shelter for the White House. Rachel is joined by Greg Werkheiser, co-founder of Cultural…
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Bill Kristol: Keep Up the Pressure, Dems
Trump’s war is far from over, top military leaders are warning Hegseth that prolonged ops in the region are unsustainable, and Americans have been financing Pentagon propagandists who’ve been secretly collecting taxpayer money to try to convince us that things are going great in Iran. This is not the time for…
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2721 - Trump's Canadian Trade War; What It Takes To Win In Florida w/ Angie Nixon
Welcome back to The Majority Report On today's program: Donald Trump 's plan gives the Pentagon a 35% stake in Venezuela's 65-billion-barrel oil fields. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has nothing to offer Americans suffering from Trump's trade war with Canada but blustering bravado. Michigan Republican…
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Obama's Campaign Manager's 2028 Scouting Report
Jon sits down with legendary Democratic strategist David Plouffe to assess the race for the Senate and House and — why not? — look forward to 2028. The two talk through the new roster of early primary states and the political dynamics at play in each, and then do some (very) early handicapping of the rumored '28…
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Why College Was Too Woke For This Black Socialist Professor
Is the right wing’s depiction of academia NOT a complete caricature? Fromer Bates College professor—and current Atlantic staff writer—Tyler Austin Harper joins Offline to break down the legacy of Woke 1 in higher education. Tyler’s recent essay, "Confessions of a Token Black Professor" argues that academia’s social…
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Ben Rhodes: Is Trump Stumbling into a Wider War?
The wars in Iran and Ukraine are increasingly entangled, CIA Director John Ratcliffe had to personally deliver a message to Moscow, and Trump is driving our Gulf allies into the arms of China. Meanwhile, the U.S.-Israel relationship keeps mucking up our domestic politics, particularly in Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign in…
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Lake America Great Again
With his approval rating 20 points underwater, Donald Trump previews his new midterm strategy: telling voters to pretend he’s on the ballot. Jon and Dan break down how that will play, react to the president renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” and preview the Republican Party’s midterm convention. They also…
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Sam Stein Used to Be a Thief
We’ve hit the August doldrums, so Tim is taking the daily pod on a little excursion. The Bulwark community delivered some epic mailbag questions, one of which prompted Sam to make one of the nerdiest confessions ever. Also, Tim and Sam adjust their Cabinet member rankings: Marco is an utter catastrophe, RFK Jr. is…
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