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The Atlantic 110 - Are You Better Off Under Trump? The Numbers Say No

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The David Frum Show

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Are You Better Off Under Trump? The Numbers Say No

How Trump Could Threaten the 2026 Election

Trump’s Desperate Diesel Plan Will Backfire

How to Argue in the Trump Era Without Losing Your Mind

Trump Has Turned America Into a Credit Risk

The Atrocities That Shaped the Modern Middle East

Did America Win the War on Terror?

Inside the White House on 9/11

How Trump Lost Asia

What Are Jewish Voters Supposed to Do?

Was Herbert Hoover America’s Most Misunderstood President?

The Fight That Could Decide 2028

Why Are Groceries So Expensive?

Social Security Is Running Out of Time

Is the Left Driving Women Away?

The American Experiment Is Worth Believing In

Did Trump Surrender to Iran?

Cuba Is Collapsing. Will Trump Invade?

Republicans vs. the Fourteenth Amendment

How to Save the Supreme Court From Itself

Has Trump Corrupted the Military?

Trump’s Iran War: America's Loss Is China’s Win

What Happens if the U.S. Defaults?

How to Survive Losing a Child

Who Is the Real Base of the Democratic Party?

On the Brink of Global Recession

Is Anybody Actually Winning Trump’s Iran War?

What It Means to Be American

Watching War From the Strait of Hormuz

The Far-Right Algorithm: Anti-Churchill, Anti-West

Why Britain Is Saying No to Trump’s Iran War

Can Democrats Actually Win in Texas?

Trump’s War With Iran and a New Danger at Home

When Caring Becomes Counterculture

Why We Changed Our Minds About Politics

How Trump Could Break the 2026 Elections

Trump Versus Canada

What the Neocons Got Right

Why Trump Sides With Putin

Trump Has Redefined Presidential Scandal

Trump Has No Plan for Venezuela

Bonus Episode: How Is Trump Planning to ‘Run’ Venezuela?

Facts Vs. Clicks: How Algorithms Reward Extremism

Why Has Comedy Become So Right-Wing?

How Crypto Is Turning America Into a Kleptocracy

How to Stop Trump’s Plan to Steal the 2026 Elections

Architect of Obamacare: Health Care Is Still a Mess

My Friend, Bill Buckley

The End of the American Empire

MAGA Has Repulsed Young Women