Half the Answer
by Liberal Currents
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What Will Trump Try This Time? (with Adam Hochschild)
What Will Trump Try This Time? (with Adam Hochschild)
About this podcast
Caitlin M. Green and Trent R. Nelson interview experts who weigh in on current debates. In the process they seek not only to uncover answers to the questions of the day, but to explore why they are being asked in the first place. To understand the questions we ask, they believe, is half the answer.
Episodes
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- What Will Trump Try This Time? (with Adam Hochschild) · 53 min · Season 2 Episode 112This election cycle feels messy. It also feels completely unpredictable. What will the Trump administration try? What will they get away with? How will or won't states be able to…
- Midterms Madness 2026: Who's Winning the Senate? (with Ryan Cooper, Marisa Kabas, and Jonathan M. Katz) · 1 h 55 min · Season 2 Episode 111The 2026 midterm elections are an opportunity for voters to assess Donald Trump's second presidency, and they seem poised to turn some historically red states purple and blue…
- What a Future with Fewer Vehicles Will Look Like (with Doug Gordon) · 57 min · Season 2 Episode 110Trent and Caitlin are joining the war on cars! Doug Gordon, cohost of "The War On Cars" and coauthor of "Life After Cars," joins us to explain why we should work toward a world…
- Sexual Violence on Campus and the Universities That Enable It (with Nicole Bedera) · 1 h 32 min · Season 2 Episode 109Two years ago, a Cornell student reported to the police that she had been the victim of sexual assault by a group of fraternity brothers from Chi Phi. Now known as "Jane Doe,"…
- Graft the Likes of Which the World Has Never Seen Before (with Zach Everson) · 1 h 1 min · Season 2 Episode 108Donald Trump made more than two billion dollars in the first year of his second term. Much of it was from cryptocurrency, which he used to refer to as "based on thin air" until…
- At First ICE Loses, Then It Flies, Flies Again (with Gillian Brockell) · 1 h 30 min · Season 2 Episode 107ICE has been transporting people in inhumane conditions to countries to which they have no affiliation or connection. What do the courts think about this? It's…confusing…
- Everything's 'National Security' in Trump's Washington (with Stephanie Mencimer) · 46 min · Season 2 Episode 106Donald Trump is changing the landscape of Washington—literally. From East Potomac Park to the Kennedy Center to the 'Arc de Trump,' everything he touches turns to plaster and…
- Orange Man Deteriorating: What It Means for 2026 and 2028 (with Ryan Cooper) · 1 h 22 min · Season 2 Episode 105Donald Trump appears to be deteriorating…in every way possible. Physically, mentally, internationally, grammatically—somehow, orange man worsening, while word salads, IVs, and…
- How the Tech Bros of Silicon Valley Would Govern Us (with Adrian Daub) · 1 h 14 min · Season 2 Episode 103When those at the very top echelon of influence in Silicon Valley think about, talk about, and interact with government, what does that look like? Can we come up with a legible…
- Trump, Israel, the Iran War, and the Death of the Two-State Solution (with Y. L. Al-Sheikh) · 1 h 13 min · Season 2 Episode 102What is the current state of affairs in Israel, Palestine, and the surrounding nations? We ask Y. L. Al-Sheikh for her help summarizing and contextualizing recent developments…
- Very Normal, Sir: Trump's Canadian and Iranian Quagmires (with Greg Sargent) · 1 h 7 min · Season 2 Episode 101Donald Trump's unprovoked trade war with Canada and his chaotic attacks on Iran have him hemorrhaging support in states he won in 2024. Why doesn't he seem to care? What is he…
- Esther's Army: The Women Who Make Up MAGA (with Katie Gaddini) · 54 min · Season 2 Episode 100Who are the women supporting the rise of the far right in the United States? Are they brainwashed? Confused? Under coercive control? Dr. Katie Gaddini presents her findings after…
- For Back-to-School, It's Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (with Caitlin Gilbert) · 1 h 1 min · Season 2 Episode 99Vaccination rates are falling across the country, vaccine deniers are occupying positions of power in the United States government, and previously eradicated diseases are…
- Midterm Madness: Political Ads from Michigan to Texas (with Jonathan M. Katz) · 1 h 5 min · Season 2 Episode 98It's an unhinged political ad round-up, featuring racist memes from Donald Trump himself and Ken Paxton's rancid, deep-fried AI slop rip-off of one of the most famous ads from…
- Was Cultural Marxism Responsible for the Beatles? (with A. J. A. Woods) · 2 h 4 min · Season 2 Episode 97Why does the right keep talking about a handful of critical theorists from the 1960s? Why are they hellbent on rooting out discussion of progressive ideas from the public sphere?…
- Lindsey Graham: "Corporal," Senator, Hypocrite (with Maya Rupert) · 1 h 49 min · Season 2 Episode 96South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham has somehow jumped the queue, passing Mitch McConnell on the way to the place where Republican senators go at the end of a life full of…
- Ken Paxton and the Potential Boogaloo Congressman (with Steven Monacelli) · 1 h 12 min · Season 2 Episode 95Ken Paxton isn't the only Looney Toon running for a position in the United States Congress this November. An extremist gun YouTuber is the Republican nominee for a House seat in…
- Graham Platner: Walking Red Flag (with Marisa Kabas) · 1 h 17 min · Season 1 Episode 93Graham Platner is a parade of red flags stuffed into a pair of yellow rubber waders, and yet so many let those things slide with a tsk tsk at best. For others, he was a bad man…
- ICE Flights: Cattle Cars in the Sky (with Gillian Brockell) · 1 h 6 min · Season 1 Episode 92ICE flights are still happening and they are still horrifying. Gillian Brockell brings us updates on some of the major players in the game of torturing innocent people in the…
- America's 250th Birthday Party and The Green Reflecting Pool (with Amanda Moore) · 1 h 4 min · Season 1 Episode 91Why won't Gregory Bovino stay gone? Why can't Trump keep his pool clean? And how many fireworks is too many fireworks? We asked our friend and yours Amanda Moore to help us get…
