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Erick uses the Callaway Golf and Good Good Golf blowup, a bad driver ad, a public apology, and a canceled partnership to make a much bigger point about a country with no adults in the room. He tells his own story of the tweet that nearly cost him CNN and how Rush Limbaugh became the […]

Erick kicks off Open Line Friday on President Trump's executive order renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America” and asks the obvious question: who exactly is switching their midterm vote over a lake? He then reports the real story behind the Canada trade war: Jamieson Greer negotiated a deal both sides liked before Commerce Secretary Howard […]

Erick closes Open Line Friday with major Iran news, reporting from Axios and Barak Ravid that the United States has broken Iran's grip on the Strait of Hormuz, plus the full CENTCOM update from Admiral Brad Cooper on the minesweeping operation, the naval blockade, and the 750 million barrels of crude the Navy has escorted […]

Canada is back in the news, but not in the good way like you want. So Steve and James find themselves weighing in on another renamed body of water while wading through the latest wave of weekly events. There's also curiously leaked reporting on CIA chief John Radcliffe's mission to Moscow, investigations into the Soros-backed […]

This Friday's show is packed with political chaos, viral moments, and some genuinely unsettling stories. Trump's fight with Canada reaches a new level as he trolls Mark Carney, takes aim at Canadian trade policies, and renames Lake Ontario “Lake America,” triggering backlash from Canadian leaders and Democrats at home. The Chicks also dig into the […]

On this edition of The Federalist Radio Hour, Matt Osborne, former CIA agent and founder of Osborne Security and Education Consultants, joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to discuss the many dangers that kids might encounter in the modern school system, including active shooter scenarios, “gun-free zones,” cyberbullying, human trafficking, and sextortion, and how parents […]

Join Jim and Greg for the Friday 3 Martini Lunch as they weigh in on President Trump renaming Lake Ontario as the trade spat with Canada intensifies, Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman's pathetic example of an accomplishment, why CIA Director John Ratcliffe secretly went to Moscow, and Politico badly mischaracterizing Jim's reporting. New episodes […]

Guests: Todd Starnes and Julio Suarez Host Scot Bertram talks with Todd Starnes, conservative columnist, commentator, writer, and radio host, about the accomplishments of the Trump administration and his new book The Golden Age: How Trump Saved America. And Julio Suarez, chairman and associate professor of art, discusses the philosophy of teaching art at Hillsdale College.

It's August, so we have the annual debate over the dropping of two atomic bombs, one on August 6, the uranium bomb called “Little Boy” that was dropped on the dual-use target, military and industrial Japanese city of Hiroshima, and then three days later on Nagasaki with a plutonium bomb. “The dropping of the atomic […]

CIA Director John Ratcliffe made a surprise trip to Moscow to warn Vladimir Putin off any attack on NATO, and hours later Latvia declared a border emergency and sent troops to its frontier with Russia and Belarus. Erick walks through the Wall Street Journal exclusive, the near extinction of America's Patriot missile batteries, and why […]

Erick maps the midterm Senate landscape after President Trump tells voters to “pretend I'm on the ballot,” with Karoline Leavitt's last day as press secretary, a $400,000-a-head Houston fundraiser for Ken Paxton, Abdul El-Sayed scrambling to distance himself from Hassan Piker in Michigan, and a democratic socialist surging against Chris Pappas in the New Hampshire […]

Erick closes the show with the most personal monologue of the day, previewing his Atlanta Journal-Constitution column on Johnathan Hamby, the psychotic man who stabbed a stranger to death on the Atlanta Beltline, arguing that deinstitutionalization was cruelty dressed up as compassion. He walks listeners from his hometown of Jackson, Louisiana, where the state mental […]

This week, Bethany is joined by Alex Adams, Assistant Secretary, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), to discuss changes to the Head Start program and address critics of the announcement. They also discuss progress on the work to prevent states from seizing the Social Security survivor benefits of children in foster care, updating a piece Bethany wrote […]

The Chicks are covering another packed day of news, politics, and internet insanity. They remember legendary actor Tim Curry, discuss the deadly glacial flood in Nepal, and break down Meta's massive $17.1 billion child social-media settlement. Then it's into politics: a ruling in LaMonica McGyver's ICE assault case, New York's latest anti-ICE law, speculation over […]

Join Jim and Greg for the Thursday 3 Martini Lunch as they watch Democrats begging people to stop linking them with Hasan Piker, Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones going after local law enforcement for cooperating with ICE, Republicans suddenly leading in the New Hampshire Senate race, and the NFL putting the Pro Bowl out of […]

The connection between immigration and housing costs is the subject of this week's episode of the Center for Immigration Studies' Parsing Immigration Policy podcast. Jason Richwine, a resident scholar at the Center, discusses his forthcoming study, scheduled for publication this fall in the peer-reviewed journal Cityscape. The large majority of academic studies find a positive […]

What the hell is Beijing doing to seduce Washington? Join us for the last in our summer book series for a discussion with Dr. Audrye Wong for a conversation about her new book, Subversion and Seduction: China's Economic Statecraft. How the hell has Beijing gained influence inside the United States? What the hell are their […]

With a weaker Iran, do Turkey's regional ambitions put it on a collision course with Israel? Dan and Nadav Eyal analyze the shifting dynamics in the Middle East, focusing on whether Turkey's President Erdogan aspires to become a regional superpower given the vacuum left by a weaker Iran. They discuss whether Turkey's military is trying […]

With the primary results in from the most competitive states, we're entering the calm-before-the-storm season of this year's midterm election. But rather than letting their guard down, top election analysts are bracing for another wacky cycle like the one that defied forecasts in 2o22. NBC's chief data analyst, Steve Kornacki, returns to Beyond the Polls to discuss […]

Many schools today offer mental health programming, but according to Carolyn Gorman, a lot of school mental health programming is not only wasteful and ineffective but also directionally misguided: School mental health programming often targets students who don't need help, pathologizes ordinary emotions, and fails to adequately help students with the most severe mental health […]

Most Americans used to be supportive of legal immigration because most immigrants loved the country that welcomed them in. Today's immigrants, such as Hasan Piker and Ilhan Omar, are somehow ungrateful yet refuse to return to their home country. “You set one foot in here or your parents set one foot in here, and immediately […]

The Chicks remember country music legend Dolly Parton following her passing, looking back at her funniest quotes, final health update, her family's statement, and her request for fans to support the Imagination Library in her memory. Plus, Trump reacts to Dolly's death — and the difference between his tribute and reactions from the DSA gets […]

In this week's episode of The Learning Curve, co-hosts Alisha Searcy of Center for Strong Public Schools and retired Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Barry Anderson speak with Ilan Wurman, Julius E. Davis Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School, about constitutional originalism, textualism, and the enduring principles of the U.S. Constitution. Prof. […]

Erick opens with the Coldstream Guards playing “9 to 5” at Buckingham Palace and turns the death of Dolly Parton into a sermon on the second great commandment: she died with $650 million after giving away $600 million, refused the Presidential Medal of Freedom from both Donald Trump and Joe Biden, and told Tennessee to […]

Erick reads the extraordinary public apology from the family of Jonathan Hamby, the mentally ill man with more than thirty arrests who stabbed a stranger to death on the Atlanta Beltline, and turns it into a hard argument that closing the mental institutions was never compassionate. Then billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller goes to the Wall […]

Charles Barkley goes on Michael Smerconish and says he supports his gay and transgender friends but that men have no business competing against women, and Erick Erickson explains why an 80/20 issue still gets covered as though the girls defending girls' sports are the villains, with Sophie Cunningham, Enes Kanter Freedom, Adam Silver, and Cathy […]

James Smithson left his fortune to America so that she could “increase and diffuse knowledge.” Smithsonian leadership now uses tax dollars to diffuse a Marxist distortion of American history instead. We need a course correction: new board members, new leadership, and exhibits that tell the whole truth—our shared inheritance—without teaching visitors to hate their country. […]

The guys do some deep work. Prolific author and computer scientist Cal Newport joins the podcast. The gang talks about why email is a slog, what sparks human creativity, why the good life needs thoughtful deliberation, why Slack is a bummer, why the apocalyptic AI warnings are out of control, why productivity is different than […]

Join Jim and Greg for the Wednesday 3 Martini Lunch as they weigh in on Pennsylvania Republican voters overwhelmingly approving Democratic Sen. John Fetterman while Dems can't stand him, Darline Graham winning the GOP U.S. Senate primary runoff in South Carolina, a lefty columnist in Maine pushing voters to write in Graham Platner in November, the […]

Join Federalist Editor-In-Chief Mollie Hemingway and Washington Examiner Senior Writer David Harsanyi as they reflect on Dolly Parton's career and charity record, beef with Americans' lack of airplane etiquette, and analyze Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed's take on transgender mutilation. Mollie and David also discuss the Washington Post's rehiring of a woman who fabricated a Charlie Kirk […]

Whether recovering a lost history or charting a new land, scholars and explorers alike often hit at frontiers not only of place, but also knowledge. When the evidence only goes so far, what is the right way to advance? The answer is to make a conjecture: an educated guess that discourses on what is likely […]

New York Times journalist James Reston once quipped that “This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.” Never have those words been truer than now. The world is a very dangerous place at the moment. We are still engaged in Iran, with little sign […]

Written while the Constitutional Convention was taking place in 1787, the Northwest Ordinance was adopted fully by the new government, despite being a production of the Articles of Confederation. It also laid the foundation for many of the Founders' priorities and aspirations in terms of governance, land usage, economics, and slavery. How would the new, […]

We often associate leftist movements, anarchists of the 19th century, Jacobins of the 18th century, Marxists, Bolsheviks, Symbionese Liberation Front, the Weathermen Underground with violence. And the argument that they use is, we are for mandated equality and fairness and helping the underprivileged, and therefore to achieve those noble ends, we're allowed to use any […]

Erick takes apart Abdul El-Sayed's disastrous interview with Jesse Watters on Fox News, along with the Hassan Piker problem now swallowing his Michigan Senate campaign and why the overwhelmingly white Democratic Socialists of America keep recruiting non-white candidates who cannot stop talking. Then the breaking story of the day: CIA Director John Ratcliffe lands unannounced […]

Erick confesses he has been an original, card-carrying Canada hater since a French teacher at his school in Dubai told the class that real Americans should call themselves “United Statesians.” He then turns hard on President Trump for launching a trade war with America's largest trading partner 70 days before the midterms, explaining that the […]

Erick plays the Parton family's official video announcement from Brian Seaver, Dolly's longtime head of security and the son of Cassie Parton, and then spends the hour on the life of Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean—dead at 80, reunited with her husband Carl—the woman who wrote “I Will Always Love You,” “Jolene,” and “Coat of Many […]

Today's show starts on a somber note as we remember former producer Matt Baer and the impact he had on the team. Then we dive into a packed day of politics, viral videos, and culture-war insanity. Zohran Mamdani is facing a lawsuit over New York City's government-run grocery store plans, while a viral TikTok attempts […]

On this edition of The Federalist Radio Hour, Joe Rigney, pastor and fellow of theology at New Saint Andrews College in Idaho, joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to analyze the counterfeit compassion fueling alleged murderer Lindsay Clancy's cult of personality and discuss how toxic empathy justifies evil and delays justice. You can find Rigney's […]

This week on Conservative Crossroads, the topic is passage of the SAVE Act necessary to ensure election integrity? Here to talk about that are two experts who have, in fact, run election agencies themselves. Don Palmer, Senior Legal Fellow of Election Integrity at the Heritage Foundation, will say it is essential. Stephen Richer, lecturer at […]

Join Jim and Greg for the Tuesday 3 Martini Lunch. Today they focus on President Trump's “Economic D-Day” against Iran and those doing business there, Abdul El-Sayed comparing circumcision to trans surgeries for kids, Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen's pointless plans of running for president, and a super close runoff expected today in South Carolina. […]

Nonprofit think tanks conduct research, prepare policy reports, and hold briefings for lawmakers. But does anyone in the halls of power really care? This question guides today's conversation with Scott Centorino. Scott previously served as President Trump's Special Assistant for Domestic Policy in the White House and as a senior fellow at the Foundation for […]