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Erick breaks down a wild primary night: Democratic socialist Francesca Hong loses Wisconsin after Governor Tony Evers talked David Crowley back into the race, the polls badly oversampled white progressives, and Mike Lindell gets crushed in Minnesota's GOP governor primary. Then he warns Republicans that college-educated suburban voters are the new turnout machine, that Ken […]

On the seventh anniversary of his syndicated show, Erick Erickson tells the untold story of how Rush Limbaugh “lied through his teeth” to launch his radio career and later fought behind the scenes to let him talk faith on the air. He then turns to the “progressive madrasas”: how Stanford University let Marxists write the […]

Erick walks through a sobering Washington Post editorial on America's fiscal reckoning: with Social Security projected insolvent by 2032 and the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund by 2033, demographics and mandatory spending are driving the country toward a debt cliff that no war or recession created. He revisits Mitch McConnell's “we will not fix it […]

Join Federalist Editor-In-Chief Mollie Hemingway and Washington Examiner Senior Writer David Harsanyi as they discuss how left-wing politicians and media are trying to cover up the history of wokeness and its champions, why AOC's fertility advice is horrible for women, and how importing un-American ideology has corroded our politics. Mollie and David also discuss their […]

The Chicks break down a packed day of political chaos, viral moments, media drama, and culture-war headlines. Election results bring some major surprises, including Francesca Hong's narrow loss, the South Carolina Senate primary heading to a runoff, Michelle Tafoya's Minnesota Senate primary victory, and Mike Lindell's loss. Then, Scott Jennings shares an update involving Mitch […]

In this week's episode of The Learning Curve, co-hosts Prof. Albert Cheng of Ohio State University and Walter Blanks, Policy and Advocacy Director of EdChoice speak with Carole Boston Weatherford, a New York Times best-selling author of more than 80 children's books and a leading voice in African American children's literature. Weatherford discusses her career writing poetry […]

Join Jim and Greg for the Wednesday 3 Martini Lunch as they dig into Tuesday's critical primary results in three states, another blue state enthusiastically embracing abortion up to the moment of birth, Tucker Carlson and Hunter Biden blaming Israel for Hunter's laptop scandal, and another House incumbent losing his primary. New episodes every weekday. […]

Portland was once held up as a model of urban America: a walkable, vibrant city known for parks, restaurants, breweries, and a thriving downtown. Today, record office vacancies, rampant homelessness, drug use, and shuttered businesses have turned the City of Roses into a warning for other American cities. So what happened? On this episode of […]

Two hundred fifty years ago, when the United States declared independence, Edward Gibbon across the ocean published the first volume of his magisterial series, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Immediately his text caused a storm of controversy. Many readers thought that Gibbon had implied that the rise of Christianity caused the fall of […]

First in war, first in peace, and traditionally first in the hearts of Americans – what can we learn from Washington, the man? What made him the person around whom history seemed to turn, and why is his character worth studying and, in many ways, emulating? Professor Stephen Knott, noted presidential historian, discusses Washington, the […]

Do environmentalists—and the rest of the progressive left that includes combating climate change as part of its “Omnicause”—care more about saving the planet or replacing market capitalism, private property, and pluralist living arrangements with socialist tower-blocks connected by overcrowded light rail (on which there will be no enforcement of fare payment, naturally)? There's a tell—opposing […]

Erick opens on the Washington Post's exclusive that President Donald Trump secretly slipped out of Turkey after the NATO summit in Ankara, boarding the old Air Force One as a decoy and then being shuttled by catering truck onto a smaller Air Force jet, all because of a credible Iranian assassination threat. The White House […]

Erick tears into Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed after CNN's Andrew Kaczynski and the KFile surface old clips of the democratic socialist calling football “toxically masculine” and tied to slavery, demanding an end to Fourth of July fireworks, floating a repeal of the Second Amendment, and promoting “feminist prison abolition”—all now disowned as “cherry-picked” […]

Erick pivots from Zohran Mamdani to the Flock camera fight, using the Manhattan Institute's Stu Smith to trace the organized opposition to license plate readers back not to civil libertarians but to the Democratic Socialists of America, the Communist Party USA, and the defund the police and abolish prisons movements. While conceding the genuine privacy […]

On this edition of The Federalist Radio Hour, Caitlin Sutherland, executive director of Americans for Public Trust, joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to discuss how foreign money influences American policy fights and elections and explain why that funding undermines national sovereignty. Read more about APT's campaign to follow foreign money here. The Federalist Foundation […]

Trump takes aim at Iran and announces a major vaccine schedule shakeup, newly released Fauci texts raise questions about COVID vaccine concerns during pregnancy, and Democratic Socialists get put on the spot over policing, taxes, student debt, Israel and their radical agenda. We break down the latest on the Strait of Hormuz, a razor-thin Indiana […]

The guys get fancy when Andrew Roberts, Baron Roberts of Belgravia, joins the pod. (Again with the historians.) The guys talk about Churchill and the Special Relationship between the United States and Great Britain. What was Churchill's political philosophy? What did the wilderness years teach him? What's the deal with the “Black Dog” anyway? And […]

Join Jim and Greg for the Tuesday 3 Martini Lunch as they discuss the Trump political team reportedly telling Ohio Republicans to stop trying to force Max Miller out of his re-election bid, the Democratic Socialists of America having no ideas beyond slogans, Mamdani's rent adviser owing more than $108,000 in rent, and critical primaries […]

John Adams famously said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Perhaps he should have included “a mentally healthy people.” In recent years, Americans have become more willing to discuss mental health and seek professional help for anxiety, depression, and other […]

Does the president have the sole and unitary authority to wield all tasks inside to the executive branch by the Constitution? Here to talk about this important topic are two excellent scholars and thinkers. John Yoo, the Emanuel Heller Professor of Law at UC Berkeley and perhaps the man who is most known for reviving […]

Erick Erickson opens on the fight to let Ukraine build its own Patriot missiles and the Lockheed and Raytheon protectionism blocking it (this, while Ukraine out-produces all of NATO with five million drones this year while America makes fewer than 100,000). He ties a sclerotic defense industry and a stumbling Boeing to why the United […]

Erick Erickson breaks down Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's first big TV interview in two years—a soft sit-down with ABC's Jonathan Karl—and argues “Woke 2.0” is just the old defund-the-police, abolish-ICE agenda with the honesty stripped out. He contrasts Brian Kemp's early COVID reopening of Georgia, including the “human sacrifice” smear from The Atlantic and Anthony Fauci, against […]

Erick Erickson takes apart the left's redefinition of violence, playing James Talarico's claim that poverty, pollution, and prison are all “violence,” then walks through a case from Savannah, Georgia, where a man arrested 27 times (and released by Judge Claire Williams) attempted to rape a homeless woman in a public restroom. He argues prisons exist […]

We break down AOC's explanation of socialism vs. communism and her viral discussion about freezing her eggs, plus reactions to Kamala Harris discussing the SAVE Act, Tucker Carlson's Hunter Biden interview, resurfaced Francesca Hong posts, Hasan Piker controversy, and the latest clips surrounding El-Sayed. Then we dive into the WNBA drama surrounding Sophie Cunningham, Caitlin […]

Richard Epstein and Charles C. W. Cooke discuss Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey—its departures from Homer, its moral themes, and its spectacular scale. They also explore aesthetics, virtue, Greek and Roman law, and the relationship between ordinary moral intuition and formal legal reasoning.

CJoin Jim and Greg for the Monday 3 Martini Lunch as they focus on AOC trying to giggle away the left's repressive and woke lurch during the pandemic and riots of 2020, Abdul El-Sayed refusing to disavow Hasan Piker and trying to dismiss Piker's comment that the U.S. deserved 9/11, Wisconsin Democrats frantically trying to […]

Dr. Larry P. Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, joins Hugh Hewitt on the Hillsdale Dialogues to continue a series on The Second World War, Churchill's sprawling memoir and history of World War II in six volumes. Release date: 7 August 2026

This week, the Law Talk crew tackles Trump's White House ballroom fight, the latest battle over birthright citizenship, Anthony Fauci's decision to plead the Fifth, and the controversial pardons issued by Joe Biden. They debate the limits of executive power, the authority of the courts and Congress, and whether America's expansive presidential pardon power has […]

Welcome to Last Call, a look at the biggest stories Jim and Greg covered over the past week on the 3 Martini Lunch. This week, they discuss Wisconsin Dems at each other's throats over the governor's primary, how radical Pete Buttigieg's presidential agenda would be, the University of Michigan refusing to issue grades to first […]

Did disagreements between Mossad and the IDF help lead to systematic failure to deploy Kurdish fighters and to topple the regime in Iran? Dan is joined by Nadav Eyal who provides an in-depth analysis of Israel's covert plans to destabilize Iran, the role of Kurdish forces, and the internal decision-making failures that may have impacted […]

This week's episode features frequent guest Phil Munoz of Notre Dame University, sitting in for John Yoo, discussing his very timely new article in First Things magazine on “The Founders and the Common Good.” His article is getting a fair bit of buzz on the interwebs, as it takes up the surprisingly hot topic of […]

Caitlin Clark's arrival transformed the WNBA, dramatically increasing attendance, television ratings, merchandise sales, and league revenue. Despite that success, controversy has continued to surround Clark and teammate Sophie Cunningham, including on-court treatment, public reactions, and growing debate over the league's culture. Sophie Cunningham's comments on transgender athletes competing in women's sports sparked renewed controversy, fueling […]

Britain is on its seventh prime minister since bidding adieu to the EU a decade back. There's news of once-unimaginable crimes and ethnic strife shaking once sleepy shires. Even model citizens like scholar-slash-philanthropist and casual world-class athlete Jason Arday are having a hard go of it. For the lowdown on the United Kingdom's political crisis, […]

Erick opens Open Line Friday on the ugly July jobs report: the economy lost 23,000 jobs, average wages rose just two cents while inflation outran them, and labor force participation fell to a five-year low, with middle-aged men and young workers struggling most to get hired. He argues the sectors the government controls most (housing, […]

Erick breaks down Donald Trump's Punchbowl News interview with Jake Sherman, where the president insists voters are angry at other Republicans and not at him, defends tariffs and the Save America Act, wants to terminate the filibuster, and warns he could be “the last Republican president.” Erick lays out the Axios warning from Jim VandeHei […]

Glenn welcomes back Delano Squires, director of the Heritage Foundation's DeVos Center for Human Flourishing, to discuss his new book, The Vanishing Black Family: How Welfare and Feminism Made Marriage Optional and Children Vulnerable. Squires argues that failures of black political and religious leadership, combined with a welfare system that has done more harm than […]

Jace Lington and Bennett Nuss talk with NCLA President and Chief Legal Officer Mark Chenoweth about the evolving landscape of injunctions in the legal system, particularly in light of recent cases likeTrump v. CASA. They explore the definition and function of injunctions, the surge of nationwide injunctions during the Trump administration, and the implications of forum […]

Join Jim and Greg for the Friday 3 Martini Lunch as they break down a disappointing July jobs report, the University of Michigan refusing to issue grades to first-semester freshmen, the left's backwards approach to policing and prisons, and Mitch McConnell going home but not back to the U.S. Senate – at least not yet. […]

President Trump's executive orders Thursday afternoon attempting to re-ground his opposition to birthright citizenship prompted an emergency livestream with Lucretia and me on Substack. We wanted to get ahead of the certain hysteria of the blue-faced crazies on BlueSky (and the media, but I repeat myself) that Trump is “undermining the Constitution” and “defying the […]

On this edition of The Federalist Radio Hour, the Summer 2026 Federalist interns join Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to discuss the future of conservative journalism, how COVID shaped their political perspective, and how they are working to save the Republic. You can find some of the interns' work for The Federalist here: Libby Bandelin, […]

Gary Melton — host of the Dangerous Liberty podcast and owner of Paramount Tactical Solutions — joins Chicks on the Right to break down how he went from a casual Candace Owens follower to one of her most outspoken critics. Gary walks through the moment he first noticed manipulative storytelling tactics in her coverage of […]