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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 […]

Guests: Jay Bhattacharya and Mark Edward Lender Host Scot Bertram plays excerpts from a lecture by Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health of the United States, titled “Restoring Gold Standard Science.” And Mark Edward Lender, author and historian, discusses the keys to victory in the American Revolution and his book War Without […]

Charges of apartheid, settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing and genocide against Israel fall apart under historical scrutiny, Victor Davis Hanson argues. He points to the glaring double standard applied to Israel while far more severe abuses by other regimes receive little attention on today's edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”

This episode of the intermittent Powerline podcast departs from the usual topics and style that features mostly book authors on political and intellectual topics, and will instead offer a conversation about . . . rock and roll journalism, with a British rock journalist that I suspect almost no Americans know at all, except for the […]

Erick takes on the viral “$20 burrito” affordability debate that lit up the right after a Turning Point USA student's tweet, arguing that tariffs, Fannie and Freddie loan guarantees, and the Jones Act are what really drive prices up (not lazy consumers). He walks through Trump scrapping tariffs on coffee, bananas, beef, and eggs, and […]

Erick catches the Democratic Socialists contradicting themselves in their own words: Bernie Sanders on Pod Save America swears no serious Democrat wants to defund the police, abolish ICE, or open the borders, while Ro Khanna openly calls to abolish ICE, pack the Supreme Court from 9 to 13, and tax billionaires. He plays Wisconsin governor […]

Erick tracks the fast-collapsing Max Miller scandal as both Ohio Republican senators — Miller's father-in-law Bernie Moreno and John Husted — now publicly call on the OH-7 congressman to quit over domestic violence and child-abuse allegations. He lays out the brutal math: an R+5 district against a D+8 generic ballot, where Miller staying on the […]

Today's political news roundup covers the biggest stories making headlines across America. We break down the Washington Post's Iran munitions controversy and the White House response from Caroline Leavitt, JD Vance's comments on the economy, socialism, and the WNBA backlash, plus the latest developments involving Dr. Anthony Fauci. We also cover President Trump's Las Vegas […]

In this week's episode, Bethany sits down with DailyWire's Upstream editor Madeline Fry Schultz to talk about the last time they got together in person—in labor and delivery—and how we should be talking about Ariana Grande.

The surge of more than 60,000 migrants into Spain's North African exclave of Ceuta has reignited debate over border security, immigration policy, and the growing use of migration as a geopolitical weapon. In the latest episode of the Parsing Immigration Policy podcast, Fellow in Law and Policy Andrew Arthur, filling in for host Mark Krikorian, […]

The Wisconsin state motto is one word: “Forward.” And after Tuesday's primary in Michigan, we're reminded again that the progressive left has the momentum in the Democratic Party. To dive into what this left-wing insurgency means for Wisconsin, Henry brings back the Badger State's premier election analyst, Craig Gilbert. Craig explains how Democratic Socialist gubernatorial […]

Join Jim and Greg for the Thursday 3 Martini Lunch as they explore how Democrats nominating far-left candidates might help Republicans in November, deepening concerns about how low the U.S. missile arsenal is, one House Republican abandoning his re-election bid amid scandal while another digs in, and a Senate committee holding Dr. Anthony Fauci in […]

Kicking off our annual What the Hell summer book series, Hussain Abdul-Hussain discusses his new book, “The Arab Case for Israel: And Other Essays from a Distant Conflict”. Having grown up in Beirut and in Baghdad surrounded by anti-Israel rhetoric, Hussain recounts his journey from accepting the region's conventional wisdom to concluding that normalization with […]

The Senate is gearing up for another multi-week vacation before the midterms without passing the crucial and overwhelmingly popular SAVE America Act. Leader Thune and a handful of other senators say there is no path to passage, but in this week's episode of The Kevin Roberts Show with Larry O'Connor, Dr. Roberts explains why that […]

Why did an Israeli-U.S. plan that counted on Kurdish fighters to help topple the Iranian regime fall apart? Dan is joined by investigative journalist, documentary filmmaker Itai Anghel who risked his life to follow Kurdish fighters in Syria, Iraq and Iran to document their guerrilla warfare tactics, explore how Kurdish leaders viewed Israel, why that […]

This week was packed with major political developments, viral moments, campaign drama, and cultural debates. We cover Cori Bush's primary loss, Abdul El-Sayed's campaign, new developments involving Dr. Anthony Fauci, the latest Trump-related investigation, and the ongoing Max Miller controversy. We also break down CNN interviews, Tucker Carlson's latest comments, Marjorie Taylor Greene's criticism of […]