Podcast appearances and mentions of Neera Tanden

Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) talks about President Trump's evolving tariff strategy amid U.S.-China talks. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) reacts to former President Biden's remarks on the 2024 race. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy addresses flight safety concerns after a brief communication lapse in Newark. Matt Gorman, Sahil Kapur, Carol Lee and Neera Tanden join the roundtable.

The good news: Trump's second term has already hit historic levels of unpopularity. The bad news: we're still only 100 days into it. The White House marks this milestone by bragging about its record on immigration and defending the arrest of a Wisconsin judge and the deportation of three very young American citizens, ages 2, 4, and 7. Jon, Lovett, and Tommy reflect on where the country stands at the 100-day mark and take stock of the opposition—as Democrats, media outlets, universities, and even some law firms all ratchet up their efforts to push back. Then, Dan sits down with Neera Tanden, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress and a former top advisor to Joe Biden and Barack Obama, about the unique dangers of Trump and his allies, and how to defend against them.

Days after President Trump announced sweeping tariffs, Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent joins Meet the Press to discuss the effects on the markets and global trade. Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) reacts to the tariffs and talks about how Congress could intervene. Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) discusses Democrats' strategy to fight back. Leigh Ann Caldwell, Lanhee Chen, Garrett Haake and Neera Tanden join the Meet the Press roundtable.

The Center for American Progress’s Neera Tanden skewers Trump’s disastrous first 100 days. New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich details how Democrats fight back. Then we’ll have a special bonus from our YouTube channel with economist Justin Wolfers, who explains why tariffs aren’t the answer to our economic woes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks about Elon Musk confirming to Fox News' Sean Hannity that Joe Biden refused his first offer to use SpaceX to rescue Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the two NASA astronauts stuck in space, and reacting to the arson attack on a Tesla Dealership in Las Vegas; Scott Jennings tearing into CNN's Neera Tanden for making excuses for vandals firebombing Tesla dealerships to protest Elon Musk's handling of the DOGE; “The View's” Sunny Hostin humiliating Chuck Schumer live on-air by saying he caved in the fight over Trump's spending bill because he feared a government shutdown; “CBS Mornings'” Gayle King telling Chuck Schumer that voters no longer have any faith in Democrats; Dave Portnoy responding to Chuck Schumer's appearance on “The View” where he mocked entrepreneur's and self-made business owners; and much more. WATCH the MEMBER-EXCLUSIVE segment of the show here: https://rubinreport.locals.com/ Check out the NEW RUBIN REPORT MERCH here: https://daverubin.store/ ---------- Today's Sponsors: BlueChew - BlueChew is the original brand offering chewable tablets for better sex combining the active ingredients of Viagra and Cialis into ONE chewable. Try your first month of Blue Chew tablets FREE when you use promo code RUBIN Got to: http://bluechew.com/ and use promo code RUBIN Native Path - NativePath's Hydrate is a thoughtfully designed formula packed with BCAAs and all 9 essential amino acids to help with muscle recovery and overall vitality. Plus, it's completely sugar-free and 100% natural. Every order comes with a 365-day money-back guarantee so you can try it risk-free. Go to: http://nativehydrate.com/Rubin 1775 Coffee - 1775 Coffee isn't just coffee—it's brain fuel for patriots. Handpicked Bolivian beans, roasted in the USA, delivering pure, single-origin brilliance without a hint of deceit. The best part? Every dollar you spend enters you to win a blacked-out 2024 Tesla Cybertruck plus $30,000 cash! Rubin Report viewers get 15% off their order. Go to: https://1775coffee.com/RUBIN and use code RUBIN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump losing his base as his lies catch up to him and Meiselas speaks with CAP CEO Neera Tanden about she believes Democrats should do. Learn more about the Center for American Progress: https://www.americanprogress.org/ Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We open with another correction. Yesterday it was the AP, today it is MSNBC. Seems everyone wanted to jump right to “Putin” when DNI Tulsi Gabbard talked about Trump and his relationship with another world leader. The Hill had to admit President Trump has been correct about Ukraine and how it was badly managed by everyone involved. Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) thinks it's funny to mock an American company that builds an American production with American labor. The war on Tesla is a coordinated implementation of domestic terrorism. CNN's Scott Jennings basically says, that's all the Left has are emotional outbursts and violence. We then move to more decisions of radical, activist judges who need to be reined before we really do suffer a full collapse over the rule of law. Congress has the ability to do that if they would get off their lazy butts. Even Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) put out a message to that effect. This also leads to more discussion over the memo of Chief Justice Roberts. Sean Davis, CEO and co-founder of The Federalist shares his frustration with trying to get an actual copy of the whole statement. Elon Musk describes what DOGE is finding and it is tantamount to legalized corruption, especially as it relates to NGO's and non-profits. The activist judges all see to have connections to the money flowing into the hands of family, spouses and/or relatives. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says people are mad because Elon Musk is “moving their cheese.” Musk corrects him and says, “It's not their cheese.” That is the corruption we are seeing in a nutshell. We know the name of the White House Staff Secretary how used the autopen with what appears to have been without Joe Biden's knowledge. Her name is Neera Tanden. The coronated Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, shows us that VP Kamala Harris isn't the only one gifted with nonsensical word salad. It seems incoming students at Harvard are not good at basic Algebra. In fact, they are adding remedial algebra classes.  Finally, Trump released a tweet right after talking for an hour with President Zelenskyy about the call he had the previous day with Russia. It seems progress is being made toward a peace deal. Please take a moment to rate and review the show and then share the episode on social media. You can find me on Facebook, X, Instagram, GETTR and TRUTH Social by searching for The Alan Sanders Show. And, consider becoming a sponsor of the show by visiting my Patreon page!!

Neera Tanden, the new CEO of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, joins the show to talk about the harms of the MAGA agenda and how the center-left should fight back. Daniella and Colin also talk about Republicans' partisan government funding bill and speak with Emily Gee, senior vice president of Inclusive Growth at CAP Action, about the economy's "Trump slump."

Donald Trump is hurting the American people. The DOGE cuts are not only waging war on jobs, they're also harming the American public and undermining the safety, health, and economic well-being of everyday Americans. And by cowering to his favorite bully in Moscow, Trump is prepping the US to be a subservient partner of Russia. Plus, John Fetterman joins Tim to share his opposition to the campaigns against both transgender athletes and soldiers, and to chastise Dems for the way they received the POTUS in Congress. Sen. John Fetterman and Neera Tanden join Tim Miller. show notes Fetterman's tweet after the Senate blocked a ban on transgender athletes  Fetterman's video on Trump's trans military ban  Fetterman's tweet after Trump's address to Congress  Neera's Center for American Progress 

On the latest episode of The New Abnormal, Trump is poised to recreate Russia's oligarch system by putting a $5 million price tag on U.S. citizenship with his “gold card” visas. Plus! Mike Masnick, founder and editor of Techdirt, breaks down how Elon Musk's latest DOGE move mirrors his Twitter takeover. Then incoming Center for American Progress president Neera Tanden discusses how Democrats can turn the tables on Trump's agenda. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

White House Domestic Policy Advisor Neera Tanden delivers remarks at the White House Tribal Nations Summit. Tanden spoke during the afternoon session of the one-day summit, which took place at the main building of the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C., on December 9, 2024.

“Once upon a time you dressed so fineThrew the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?People call say 'beware doll, you're bound to fall'You thought they were all kidding youYou used to laugh aboutEverybody that was hanging outNow you don't talk so loudNow you don't seem so proudAbout having to be scrounging your next mealHow does it feel?” - Bob DylanI've listened to Bob Dylan's anthem of alienation, Like a Rolling Stone, so many times throughout my life, but it's never hit home quite the way it does now as I've been exiled by almost everyone I once knew. How does it feel, Bob Dylan asks? It feels like tumbling through space with no place to land. It feels like being trapped in a nightmare. It feels like nothing I've ever gone through before.But it's too late to turn back now. It's full steam ahead. Yes, I am a California Liberal voting for Donald J. Trump. Why am I doing it? Why was I willing to destroy my so-called “career,” end friendships overnight, and lose any status I've attained in the past 30 years I've been online, which, granted, isn't saying much? The answer is easy. I couldn't do the other thing.For many of us, 2020 was like Devil's Tower in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. We all had the same idea all at once, but we didn't understand it. We might have come from everywhere, but we all ended up in the same place.For some, it was the government's authoritarian crackdown on masks and lockdowns. For others, it was the lies about COVID. But for me, it was suddenly seeing that unseen hands were manipulating us as a form of social control. It sounds paranoid. I'll grant you that. I don't know how else to explain it. I was very much inside the insular feedback loop of the Left. I genuinely believed everything they said on CNN, MSNBC, and the New York Times. They turned on a dime from COVID hysteria to “systemic racism,” which allowed millions to pour into the streets - the largest protest in American history - amid a global pandemic that had closed schools, churches, and businesses. What was going on?None of us knew. They wouldn't tell us anything they did not think we needed to know. As I was crying out on Twitter about how crazy things were getting on the Left, Neera Tanden DM'd me. “You've changed,” she said. I was worried Biden would not win because the protests were too violent. By then, I was finding my news on the Right, where they weren't as afraid to post videos about what was happening on the streets.I told Neera Tanden that Trump would benefit from the public's desire for law and order. She told me to keep quiet until after the election. I told her I couldn't do that, but it did strike me as odd that such a high-level Democrat would care what I thought. But that's how it is on the Left. No one is allowed to stray from the mandated narrative.Even now, most people I know on the Left have no idea how bad it got. That's why they don't understand the comparisons to January 6th. They only saw one violent riot but they saw it over and over again, yet more proof of social control.It wasn't until Bari Weiss resigned from the New York Times after exposing their unwillingness to publish the truth about what was happening on the streets for fear it was racist even just to report on it, that I realized I had to separate myself from the hive mind whose sole mission was to support the Democrats. And that's how it went for the rest of the year. It was “don't ask, don't tell” for a once-mighty movement that now cowered in fear.But for many of us, it was the summer when we stopped trusting our institutions and our legacy media to tell us the truth about anything. Everything that happened in 2020 was designed to push Trump out of power. I watched them all but rig the 2020 election using the same unseen hands. I walked away from that election no longer a registered Democrat for the first time in my life.But that would only be the beginning. The Democrats had the White House, and they had four years to show America they really were the better side, the side that cared about all of us. Instead, whatever fundamentalist cult had overtaken the Left now spread throughout our government. Biden took his role seriously, using equity for policy and staffing his administration mostly with women, women of color, and members of the LGBTQIA lobby.And in so doing, he neglected to address the core problem for the Democrats, one that began back in 2008, the crisis that sparked the Fourth Turning. The Wall Street meltdown and subsequent bailout of the banks to the tune of $700 billion. Two populist movements that threatened the government meant a pivot to what Vivek Ramaswamy calls “woke capitalism.” Focus on identity politics and woke ideology, and they get to do whatever they want to the people of the United States.They ignored the problem until it exploded in 2016 with Trump's win. They failed to address the urgent needs of the people and instead went to war on Trump. Now, here we are, all of these years later, and the Democrats still can't even see the problem, let alone address it.Instead of unity, we got division. Instead of hope, we got despair. Instead of freedom, the Biden administration and the FBI began censoring speech on social media platforms. Maybe none of that would have been bad enough to make me a Trump supporter, but it meant I could never vote blue no matter who, ever again, and worse, we now had an even bigger problem to deal with. Could we ever win an election against this unprecedented alignment of power?I never thought I would vote for Republicans, but that is exactly what I have done, largely due to the embrace of “gender-affirming care” for minor children who cannot consent and the lack of protection for female athletes to compete fairly. Even now, there are no women, no feminists, no “girl dads” in the Democratic Party. They are too afraid of the activists. So it has to be up to those of us who do have the guts to stand up to them and who are strong enough to survive their attacks.That was when I knew I had to throw whatever power I had as an American citizen and political activist online into voting for the Republicans. But still, I was not quite ready to cross the Trump line. BraveheartIt was the humiliation of a former president when they raided Mar-a-Lago, with the whole world watching, that was the last straw for me. It seemed there were no limits to what they could do to Trump, and all of the legacy press and their obedient voters would go along with it, believing any wild fantasy they manifested.Trump might be selling nuclear secrets to North Korea. Trump might pull out a machine gun and spray the FBI with bullets like Al Pacino in Scarface.It just got worse from there. The indictments, the Civil trials, the felony conviction - none of the cases were even legit. Here is Megyn Kelly running them down on the All In podcast:And that was how I transformed from a lonely, shut-in I'm-with-her Democrat into a MAGA meme on X.Now, I am left wondering why I wouldn't vote for Trump. Why wouldn't I do the one thing I know that could end this madness? I know that the minute he wins and he shows them all that he's not a dictator and he's not Hitler and the world won't stop turning on its axis, all of this will finally end, and we can get back to some kind of normal life. In This House, We BelieveWhen I began spending time in MAGA world, watching Trump rallies and hanging out with Trump supporters, at least online, I got to know them well. When I reported back to the Left's fear bunker, I tried to explain it to them. I tried to humanize those we'd all been conditioned to hate.I remember seeing pictures of the faces contorted by hate when schools were ordered to allow Black students to attend — and no, you freaks, I'm not comparing them; I'm just saying that hate is hate, dehumanization is dehumanization, and people always feel justified doing it, and history always condemns them. Always. But they would not listen to me. They would scream at me, attack me, shun me, try to destroy my business. Even just being kind - practicing what they preached - was crossing a forbidden line. The attacks against Trump supporters began right around 2015 when Trump's warnings about the border were interpreted as Hitler-esque racism. That is what justified punching, kicking, spitting on, and, in some cases, even killing Trump supporters. What is their solution to the “MAGA problem” anyway? Gulags? Concentration camps? Re-education camps? Just exile them to the outer regions and forbid them from participating in the thriving new economy online or in our elections? Why am I a California liberal voting for Trump? I wake up in a cold sweat every night, and panic runs through me. What have I done? But then I remember I couldn't do the other thing. The Case for TrumpI would have voted for Trump just on the lawfare alone, but a funny thing happened in the past few months. Trump built an unprecedented alliance with RFK, Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Vivek Ramaswamy, Nicole Shanahan, and Elon Musk. It was more than I could ever imagine would be on offer in an American election. Trump's choice of JD Vance might be the best of all. He chose a running mate who isn't just window-dressing like poor Tim Walz but a strong leader in his own right.I'm not getting my hopes up, considering that the powerful people who now control our government have turned to corruption just to cling to power. What won't they do to stop Trump and drag the unprepared Kamala Harris over the finish line?But it doesn't really matter. They might win the battle. They won't win the war. I am so proud to be an American today. I finally know why. I know that “Whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.” That's the wild beauty, the untamed spirit of the American experiment.It really does look like a brighter future for the kind of America I want to fight for. And suddenly, I feel grateful for the founders who built this crazy people-run government. It was built for moments like this when we all must come together and prove that yes, this is a Republic, and yes, we can keep it.Trump's gift is that he doesn't preach from on high. He makes us all feel like we're on the same journey, sharing the same space, all one family. How does he still manage to do that after all he's been through? I don't know, but I do know that's the kind of leader, the kind of “dad energy” America needs. Donald Trump isn't perfect, but then, neither am I. But I know he loves this country, no matter how many lies they tell about him. He's changed everything, this “Gray Champion” of the Fourth Turning. And we're not going back. //end This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sashastone.substack.com/subscribe

With the election upon us here in the US, these next few weeks on TRUST ME I KNOW WHAT I'm DOING , we're sharing a series of Lotus for POTUS conversations, hearing insights from leading edge voices to help inform and get out the vote!  A few months ago, I created a meme with a photo of Vice President Harris that went “In Sanskrit, Kamala means Lotus… In America, Kamala means POTUS” and for me and many others, that sentiment sums up the imperative choice we're making at the highest level, being thoughtful about our past, present, and future.  Now, Neera Tanden is someone who has had a front row seat at both the campaign and policy level, with decades of experience as an advisor and leader.  She currently serves as Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council, which drives the development and implementation of President Biden's domestic policy agenda. Previously, she was Senior Advisor and Staff Secretary in the White House, where she was responsible for Presidential decision-making. Prior to her roles in the Biden-Harris Administration, Neera was the President and CEO of the Center for American Progress, one of the largest think tanks in the country. She has served in both the Obama and Clinton administrations, and Neera has also been a policy advisor to Hillary Clinton in the White House, the Senate, and her campaigns. So it was great to catch up with her about the campaign, and what's resonating for her, as I was particularly curious about hearing what was both compelling and unique about Kamala Harris as a presidential candidate. Remember, conversation is the antidote to apathy. Go to vote.gov for information about registering, and to kamalaharris.com to learn about the Harris-Walz campaign. Please get involved, get engaged, and get informed about all your local issues and candidates up and down the ballot. 

Naturally, with Dan Shafer appearing from The Discombobulation Area, we had to research the etymology of that special word, only to end up down the rabbit hole of early 1800s mock-Latin as a source of humor. Hey, anything for a quick diversion from politics, of which Dan will share aplenty. Also, White House senior advisor Neera Tanden recently spoke in Chippewa Falls about more Biden-Harris investments in rural Wisconsin. We'll cover her remarks with dairy farmer Hans Breitenmoser. UpNorthNews with Pat Kreitlow airs on several stations across the Civic Media radio network, Monday through Friday from 6-8 am. Subscribe to the podcast to be sure not to miss out on a single episode! To learn more about the show and all of the programming across the Civic Media network, head over to https://civicmedia.us/shows to see the entire broadcast line up. Follow the show on Facebook, X, and Instagram to keep up with Pat & the show. Guests: Dan Shafer, Chad Holmes, Hans Breitenmoser

In the name of consumer protection, a slew of U.S. federal agencies are working to make it easier for Americans to click the unsubscribe button for unwanted memberships and recurring payment services. A broad new government initiative, dubbed “Time Is Money,” includes a rollout of new regulations and the promise of more for industries spanning from healthcare and fitness memberships to media subscriptions. “The administration is cracking down on all the ways that companies, through paperwork, hold times, and general aggravation waste people's money and waste people's time and really hold onto their money,” Neera Tanden, White House domestic policy adviser, told reporters in advance of the announcement. “Essentially in all of these practices, companies are delaying services to you or really trying to make it so difficult for you to cancel the service that they get to hold onto your money for longer and longer,” Tanden said. “These seemingly small inconveniences don't happen by accident—they have huge financial consequences.” Efforts being rolled out include a new Federal Communications Commission (FCC) inquiry into whether to impose requirements on communications companies that would make it as easy to cancel a subscription or service as it was to sign up for one. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in March 2023 initiated a “click to cancel” rulemaking requiring companies to let customers end subscriptions as easily as they started them. The government already has launched several initiatives aimed at improving the consumer experience. In June, the Justice Department, referred by the FTC, filed a lawsuit against software maker Adobe and two of its executives, Maninder Sawhney and David Wadhwani, for allegedly pushing consumers toward the firm's “annual paid monthly” subscription without properly disclosing that canceling the plan in the first year could cost hundreds of dollars. Dana Rao, Adobe's general counsel, said in an emailed statement that Adobe disagrees with the lawsuit's characterization of its business and “we will refute the FTC's claims in court.” “The early termination fees equate to minimal impact to our revenue, accounting for less than half a percent of our total revenue globally, but is an important part of our ability to offer customers a choice in plans that balance cost and commitment,” Rao said. This article was provided by The Associated Press.

The media still haven't figured out how to cover Trump, so they don't scrutinize even his most shocking statements—like when he claimed he had the right to interfere in the '20 election. Plus, Kamala's strong Indian mom, the Dems' improved response to sexist and racist attacks, winning rural voters, Mark Robinson's porn habits, and how it looks in Trump country.  Neera Tanden and Sen. Heidi Heitkamp join Tim Miller. show notes: Heitkamp's One Country Project Heitkamp's "Hot Dish" podcast

The Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank weighs Kamala Harris's decision to forgo mainstream media interviews. Domestic Policy Advisor to President Biden Neera Tanden details the Biden administration's move to fix drug prices. Congressman Mondaire Jones details his race to get back into Congress.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Medicare reached agreements with major pharmaceutical companies to cut the cost the government pays for ten prescription drugs used by millions of Americans. It marks the first time the government has been able to negotiate directly with drugmakers, a result of provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act. Amna Nawaz discussed the impact with Neera Tanden, domestic policy adviser to President Biden. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

This week, the Biden administration announced it is taking on more of what it calls "everyday headaches and hassles that waste Americans' time and money."And it's doing that by having federal agencies make new business rules. There are actions to simplify health insurance paperwork, crack down on fake product reviews, streamline parent-teacher communications in schools and circumvent those automated customer service calls that the White House labels "doom loops."It's all part of a wider economic mission to eliminate modern business practices that the Biden administration believes exploit Americans.Neera Tanden, the director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, breaks down why this is happening and how it will work in reality.For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.Email us at considerthis@npr.org.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

In episode 19, Gandhi talks with Neera Tanden, President Biden's domestic Policy Advisor, about rescheduling and reclassifying Marijuana. This entry of the Burn Book is about someone on Diamond's favorite team, and we discuss how to handle planning and caneling on major life events.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CPF Director Bob Shrum joins Neera Tanden, Chief Domestic Policy Advisor to President Biden, for a conversation on climate policy in the Biden-Harris Administration, the ClimateCorps, and practical solutions to climate change. This discussion is part of the "Climate Forward 2024: Climate at the Crossroads" conference, sponsored by USC Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability and CPF, in collaboration with POLITICO.   Featuring: Neera Tanden: Chief Domestic Policy Advisor to President Biden Bob Shrum: Director, Center for the Political Future; Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics, USC Dornsife

CPF Director Bob Shrum joins Neera Tanden, Chief Domestic Policy Advisor to President Biden, for a conversation on climate policy in the Biden-Harris Administration, the ClimateCorps, and practical solutions to climate change. This discussion is part of the "Climate Forward 2024: Climate at the Crossroads" conference, sponsored by USC Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability and CPF, in collaboration with POLITICO.   Featuring: Neera Tanden: Chief Domestic Policy Advisor to President Biden Bob Shrum: Director, Center for the Political Future; Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics, USC Dornsife

Domestic Policy Advisor to President Biden Neera Tanden examines the Republicans' war on reproductive rights. NBC national affairs correspondent John Heilemann lays out President Biden's reelection odds. Historian Thomas Zimmer details his deep dive into The Heritage Foundation's plan for their Project 2025.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Neera Tanden, domestic policy advisor to President Biden, discusses the fight against junk fees impacting college students. What hidden “junk fees” are college students facing? How is the Biden Administration addressing fees to make higher education more affordable? Hosts Sean Pyles and Anna Helhoski discuss the Biden Administration's recent efforts to combat junk fees in colleges, from financial products marketed to students like credit cards and bank accounts to textbook costs and unused meal plan dollars. They speak with Neera Tanden, domestic policy advisor to President Biden, about the more than $1 billion annual impact of these fees and the bipartisan support she expects for some of these policies. Then, in this week's Money News roundup, Sean and Anna discuss issues with the new FAFSA, the Federal Reserve's latest stance on interest rates, and continuing surge of home sales. Get a comprehensive overview of the latest developments affecting your finances and gain valuable insights to stay ahead in an ever-changing economic environment, whether you're a student navigating the labyrinth of college fees or a homeowner keeping tabs on market trends. In their conversation, the Nerds discuss: hidden fees, FAFSA troubles, Federal Reserve, interest rates, housing market, college fees, student finances, financial aid, junk fees, textbook costs, student loans, college expenses, student banking, origination fees, meal plans, tuition bills, open-source textbooks, college affordability, financial literacy, student debt, financial aid applications, existing homes, home prices, National Association of Realtors, mortgage rates, economic indicators, market trends, financial decisions, and personal finance. To send the Nerds your money questions, call or text the Nerd hotline at 901-730-6373 or email podcast@nerdwallet.com. Like what you hear? Please leave us a review and tell a friend.

At last, Congress is getting half of its annual spending bills across the finish line, albeit five months after the start of the fiscal year. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden delivers his annual State of the Union address, an over-the-counter birth control pill is (finally) available, and controversy erupts over new public health guidelines for covid-19 isolation. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet, and Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call join KFF Health News' Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Neera Tanden, the White House domestic policy adviser, about Biden's health agenda. Plus, for “extra credit,” the panelists suggest health policy stories they read this week that they think you should read, too.Julie Rovner: NPR's “How States Giving Rights to Fetuses Could Set Up a National Case on Abortion,” by Regan McCarthy.Sarah Karlin-Smith: Stat's “The War on Recovery,” by Lev Facher.Alice Miranda Ollstein: KFF Health News' “Why Even Public Health Experts Have Limited Insight Into Stopping Gun Violence in America,” by Christine Spolar.Sandhya Raman: The Journal's “‘My Son Is Not There Anymore': How Young People With Psychosis Are Falling Through the Cracks,” by Órla Ryan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Neera Tanden, director of the White House's Domestic Policy Council, previews President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech Thursday night.

MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Friday, January 12, and reports on Donald Trump, the Iowa caucuses, book bans and Obamacare. Neera Tanden, Steve Kornacki and Rachel Paine Caufield join.

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President Joe Biden and members of his administration host the White House Tribal Nations Summit on December 7, 2023. The summit is taking place at the Department of the Interior headquarters in Washington, D.C.

You wouldn't know me if you met me in May of 2019, as I drove to a luncheon for Joe Biden sponsored by a big donor at one of the mansions in a wealthy pocket of Los Angeles. I'd been hand-picked as an influencer after rising in the ranks of Team Hillary on social media. I'd thrown myself into politics in 2015, panicking about climate change. “We have to win,” I thought.By the end of 2020, just one year later, I'd have left the Democratic Party for good, been yelled at by Neera Tanden on Twitter, and lost a good many of my friends and very nearly everything else, and now, by 2023, all I can think is that the Democrats have to lose. They have to be voted out.I've been trying to tell my story in a way that matters for three years. I have failed to convince or persuade anyone from my side. They still treat me like someone who has been radicalized online or is somehow mentally incapacitated. They still see Trump as an existential threat to “democracy” and the grassroots movement known as MAGA as domestic extremists, white supremacists and a threat to their way of life. Get full access to Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning with Sasha Stone at sashastone.substack.com/subscribe

President Biden has been hitting the road to sell his economic record, emphasizing pocketbook and consumer issues, including a new rule to crack down on insurers for inadequate coverage of mental health care. But his agenda also faces headwinds. William Brangham discussed some of those challenges with Neera Tanden, the White House domestic policy adviser. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

President Biden has been hitting the road to sell his economic record, emphasizing pocketbook and consumer issues, including a new rule to crack down on insurers for inadequate coverage of mental health care. But his agenda also faces headwinds. William Brangham discussed some of those challenges with Neera Tanden, the White House domestic policy adviser. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Remember when we said “if they can do it to Trump they can do it to anyone?” Yeah, about that . . . Are we not entertained? Certainly you recall the great theater season of election 2016 when Liberal activists like Mark Ruffalo, Rosie O'Donnell, Neera Tanden, and Pink urged electors to flip their votes from Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton in 2016. Who can forget the tears, the laughter, the drama and the songs? Those dramatics came straight from the pages of America! Hollywood had taken their inspiration from D.CDemocrats have objected to certifying Electoral College wins for the presidential contests of 2000, 2004, and 2016. Ever raising the stakes of the reality show called “OuR DeMoCRacY”, The Game-Makers of The Capitol have delivered a wrinkle in the script: BREAKING: Michigan's AG is charging 16 Trump supporters with felonies for providing alternative electors in the 2020 election. What does God's Word say? 2 Timothy 3:1-17 3 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.6 They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, 7 always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. 9 But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.A Final Charge to Timothy10 You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, 11 persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. 12 In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, 13 while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, 15 and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God[a] may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.Episode 978 Links:BREAKING: Michigan's AG is charging 16 Trump supporters with felonies for providing alternative electors in the 2020 election. They're criminalizing being pro Trump now.Just in: Plot twist in Michigan case where Whitmer is trying to imprison 16 Trump-supporting “grandparents”…There was an insurrection while Trump was President… It just wasn't committed by who the media tells you it was.Democrats have objected to certifying Electoral College wins for the presidential contests of 2000, 2004, and 2016.Liberal activists like Mark Ruffalo, Rosie O'Donnell, Neera Tanden, and Pink urged electors to flip their votes from Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton in 2016."Investigators were not allowed to follow up on WhatsApp messages from Hunter Biden...where he suggested he was sitting next to his father." - IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley.If the IRS whistleblowers are telling the truth, Merrick Garland has committed multiple felonies. We need a special prosecutor, and the House should start holding impeachment inquiries.Congressman Byron Donalds @RepDonaldsPress. 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Ben revisits the most disgusting thing he's ever done in public. Neera Tanden frightens America's enemies by dropping it, flipping it and reversing it. The Queen has a thing or two to learn about consent. Norm does Barstool Sports. Gina Carano vs. Nathan J Robinson. Dunning-Kruger antisemitism. Fragmentation, storytelling, and why Ben is going to sue Adam Curtis for stealing his ideas. Here's the David Graeber article we refer to: ⁠https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/first-time-my-life-im-frightened-be-jewish/⁠ And here's the Felix Biederman article about MMA fighters and conspiracy theories: ⁠https://deadspin.com/why-are-so-many-mma-fighters-truthers-conspiracists-a-1782042590/amp⁠ Check out the Spaghetti For Brains newsletter: www.spaghettiforbrains.com

Subscribe to The Parrot Room at https://patreon.com/parrotroom 0:00 Mickey deflates a DeSantis challenger 10:52 Mickey's ego-inflating podcast week 14:01 Who was behind the Kremlin drone attack? 18:38 Neocon propaganda outlet busted; Bob vindicated 25:45 Who has the bigger beef with Neera Tanden? 29:30 How bad was the leaked Tucker text about how “white men fight”? 40:03 Parrot room preview: Gordon Lightfoot trivia lightning-round; adjudicating the Ed Sheeran plagiarism case; new Epstein name-drops; Bob's latest AI piece; DeSantis vs. Disney; the latest Twitter rival's arrival; Elon's subtle Tesla pricing strategy Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded May 05, 2023. Comments on BhTV: http://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66111Twitter: https://twitter.com/NonzeroPods This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nonzero.substack.com/subscribe

Mickey deflates a DeSantis challenger ... Mickey's ego-inflating podcast week ... Who was behind the Kremlin drone attack? ... Neocon propaganda outlet busted; Bob vindicated ... Who has the bigger beef with Neera Tanden? ... How bad was the leaked Tucker text about how “white men fight”? ... Parrot room preview: Gordon Lightfoot trivia lightning-round; adjudicating the Ed Sheeran case; new Epstein name-drops; Bob's latest AI piece; DeSantis vs. Disney; the latest Twitter rival's arrival; Elon's subtle Tesla pricing strategy ...

Mickey deflates a DeSantis challenger ... Mickey's ego-inflating podcast week ... Who was behind the Kremlin drone attack? ... Neocon propaganda outlet busted; Bob vindicated ... Who has the bigger beef with Neera Tanden? ... How bad was the leaked Tucker text about how “white men fight”? ... Parrot room preview: Gordon Lightfoot trivia lightning-round; adjudicating the Ed Sheeran case; new Epstein name-drops; Bob's latest AI piece; DeSantis vs. Disney; the latest Twitter rival's arrival; Elon's subtle Tesla pricing strategy ...

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This is a special edition of TRUST ME I KNOW WHAT I'm DOING, sharing a series of brief conversations from INDIASPORA's 10th annniversary forum.  (A special recording shout out to Spencer Mead)Segment outline:Intro (0:00 - 2:49)Shri Rajan (2:50)Nalini Saligram (7:23)Neera Tanden (14:17)Mohanbir Sawhney (18:37)Athreya Ramanan and Yuven Sundaramoorthy (25:35)Anand Deshpande (28:58)Anil Advani (33:18)Rohini Chakravarty (38:14)Suja Viswesan (43:44)Raju Reddy (47:07)Vasant Prabhu (51:07)M.R. Rangaswamy (54:09)Summary (56:11)

What has become obvious to anyone paying attention is that we are living through a kind of revolution. It is not a physical one. As my friend Abe Greenwald wrote in Commentary Magazine, it “is not being fought within the physical limits of a battlefield. It is instead happening all around us and directly to us. It is redefining our culture, our media, and giving new shape to our public and private institutions. It is remaking the nation before our eyes.”  In other words, this is a revolution of culture. A revolution of ideas.—Bari Weiss, The New Founders America NeedsEveryone has their own version of how the Left was lost. This is mine. I tell my story as someone who was very much a devoted Hillary supporter in 2016 and an early Biden supporter. I tell this story as someone who got online in 1994 with one foot in the real world, and one foot in the virtual one. I also tell this story as someone who is no longer a Democrat. Any slim chance there might have been for me to support the Democratic Party has been eliminated by the undemocratic partisan show trials of January 6th, an authoritarian power grab based on the lie that Trump brought the Proud Boys to DC to launch a violent insurrection against the US government. Trump would not have urged Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz to debate the election in the Senate if he wanted to overthrow the government. All the violent riot did was interrupt the case he was trying to make and hand absolute power to his enemies. He might be a lot of things but dumb is not one of them. Yes, the Democrats have used January 6th as a Reichstag Fire to grow their power, punish citizens and present a litmus test to anyone who dares to question the results of the 2020 election. After the American people watched the Democrats and the media completely memory hole what happened in the Summer of 2020, most are looking at these hearings and the reactions to January 6th overall, as an existential crisis the political aristocracy has time and money to care about. Biden's AmericaBy the Summer of 2020, I could see that there was something very wrong with the Left. Because I still wanted Biden to win, I was worried they were abandoning three basic fundamentals this country relies on:Freedom of Speech - cancel culture was ragingLaw and Order - “Defund the police” was trendingPatriotism - attacking Federal buildings, and historical statues, saying America was “systemically racist.”Not only did no one listen to anything I had to say, but they were angry at me for saying it. Neera Tanden wrote me personally and asked me to stop criticizing the Democrats until after the election because defeating Donald Trump was the main priority. But I was beginning to worry more about this new version of the Left taking power than I was even Trump. If the things we were seeing at newspapers and across all institutions - silencing dissent, firing people right and left and this suddenly strident doctrine that was being forced down everyone's throat got into government? Then our country would start to look a lot more like an authoritarian utopia of the 1984 kind.Turns out, we have become that authoritarian utopia, at least online. We trusted the Big Tech oligarchs with our data, our friendships, our preferences, our financials. Now they're turning on those who are non-compliant and tossing them out of what looks a lot like the “Inner Party” in 1984. The Left was never the “resistance.” They were always the empire. You can't be that rich, that power, and control almost every area of American culture from Hollywood to book publishing to media to science and big tech and not be the empire. Trump's side was the “resistance” and still is. It feels eerily like 1984 now that the internet is ruled by a partisan cabal doing the bidding of the government. Even the Two Minutes of Hate feels like every day on Twitter or the January 6th show trials. That's because George Orwell recognized the hypocrisy of a movement supposedly based on equality that was still totally unequal. It's kind of like how the Left has those lawn signs that say “This House has no Hate” but of course, they are filled with hate of those they have deemed the “bad” people. Moral superiority against those with less power than you have is not a good look for the Left. They justify it because they have re-ordered the power hierarchy in this country, which puts the most marginalized people at the top and the least marginalized at the bottom. If you are white, to them, you are powerful therefore you must be dropped to the bottom of the new hierarchy. Likewise, if you are Black and extremely wealthy, you are still marginalized and at the top of the hierarchy. They are hard-liners when it comes to skin color but fluid with gender. The first time I heard that the Left no longer believed class to be an issue was pointed out by Conservative analyst Victor Davis Hansen who wrote:During the 1980s cultural war, the left's mantra was “race, class and gender.” Occasionally we still hear of that trifecta, but the class part has increasingly disappeared. The neglect of class is ironic given that a number of recent studies conclude class differences are widening as never before.Middle-class incomes among all races have stagnated, and family net worth has declined. Far greater percentages of rising incomes go to the already rich. Student debt, mostly a phenomenon of the middle and lower classes, has hit $1.7 trillion.States such as California have bifurcated into medieval-style societies. California's progressive coastal elites boast some of the highest incomes in the nation. But in the more conservative north and central interior, nearly a third of the population lives below the poverty line — explaining why one of every three American welfare recipients lives in California.There are two conflicting world views not just in America but in other countries — global elitism vs. nationalist populism. To the Left of this country, and much of Gen-Z, they have come of age online so they aren't so locked into the idea of America as a place with states and borders. Ideology matters to them more. One kind of future would be like 1984 where many countries have come together to form a broader, virtual union. But there is another movement across the globe to push back against it. Some have called it “Far Right” nationalism but it is the side that opposes the “woke” indoctrination, and the new environmental policies. There are already uprisings against what many countries have done with masks, vaccines, and now the climate. The Democrats, the media, and Biden tell Americans every day how little they care about their problems. Only the wealthy can afford to sit around all day ruminating on January 6th and the existential crisis of Trump.Batya Ungar-Sargon was on the Progressive Left but, like so many others out there, and understands that the working class of this country is not reading the New York Times or watching MSNBC. They're mostly watching Tucker Carlson. So she goes on his show because she knows she can reach a much broader audience. She is, to my mind, the kind of guiding light we need moving forward. And that is why I watch Tucker Carlson, because he is the most-watched cable news host and he's the most-watched among the working class, which my former party has all but abandoned. The Empire's New Clothes2008 turns out to be a pivotal year. It was the year that Neil Howe and William Strauss predicted would spark the “Fourth Turning,” which would be something along the lines of the Civil War. Here is how Howe and Strauss describe the Fourth Turning on their site:The Fourth Turning is a Crisis…This is an era in which America's institutional life is torn down and rebuilt from the ground up—always in response to a perceived threat to the nation's very survival. Civic authority revives, cultural expression finds a community purpose, and people begin to locate themselves as members of a larger group. In every instance, Fourth Turnings have eventually become new “founding moments” in America's history, refreshing and redefining the national identity. Howe has said that he believes it was the financial crisis of 2008 that led to the $700 billion bailout that sparked the Fourth Turning. And indeed, two populist uprisings sprang to life in its wake - Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party. There were other uprisings during Obama's presidency, like the storming of the Capitol in Wisconsin and Michigan, not to mention the formation and activism of Black Lives Matter, all of these mobilized by whole communities connecting online.The ways in which social media spurs political mobilization and even violence have only been applied to the Right but think about this: Kenosha burned to the ground before journalists got the false narrative corrected, that he was unarmed and “breaking up a fight.” They only seem to worry about the Trump supporters but I expect in a few years they will come to regret that. 2008 was also the historic election of the nation's first Black President, Barack Obama. That would spark not just a movement, but a full-blown religion that would influence American culture in ways not felt on the Left since JFK.The other major turning point that occurred in 2008 was that Obama became the first President to use a social media platform, Twitter, to build his coalition. Twitter became the Church and the fulcrum for the Left. It would only intensify over time and in 2020 Twitter would become the authoritarian arm of the empire, which was now controlled by the Democratic Party. Obama's first term win would send the Left into a kind of rapture. For a community that was already trying to aim towards self-improvement with the rise of therapy and anti-depressants, not to mention daily talk shows like Oprah where we began to understand the difference between “good” people and “bad” people. We were already on the path towards perfecting our new utopia even before Obama rose to power, but once he did, the utopians had a leader and a religious figure. The rapture would last just four years. By Obama's second term, 2012, the Devil had come to the Left in the form of racism. Before that, most of the country was pleased Obama had won. It felt like an important milestone in a country whose history and legacy were stained not just by slavery, but by the Jim Crow era of the South that destroyed whole generations of Black citizens. Obama had been a uniter. That was until things started going badly for his administration. His progressive policies drove an extreme reaction by the rising populist movement on the Right and eventually, in his second term, Obama had a solid red Congress. The more Obama was obstructed by Congress, and the more the Tea Party rose up to oppose Obama's policies, the more the focus on racism began to permeate the consciousness of the Left in a new way. Racism was baked-in. It wasn't anything you did it was something you were. An accusation is enough because how can anyone prove that they aren't? Any white person who opposed or even criticized Obama, who had become and remains a god-like figure on the Left, had to be racist. By 2013, Critical Race and Gender theory would spread from college campuses to high schools to online social media sites like Tumblr. Even before Trump ran in 2016, there was this idea that racism was everywhere and in everything. That 2013 generation on Tumblr went to college and enacted their online justice ideology in real-world activism. Remember, if your only experience of presidential leadership is Barack Obama — and you believe half the country is “white supremacist” then your activism is going to center around “fixing” the omnipresent racism the same way the Puritans were chasing witches to purge the Devil from their otherwise devout village. And since this generation understood that you broadcast your identity online and on social media, what you did, what you stood for, and what you fought for defined who you were and separated you from people who weren't doing that. I remember during the Summer of 2020 my niece was begging me to put something about antiracism on my Instagram but I had been writing about racism and advocating for Black artists for years on my website, awardsdaily.com. That felt performative to me and frankly, she sounded like she was in a cult - they were urging her to drop her relatives who weren't committed to racial justice. This was in 2015:My daughter told me she first started noticing what we call “Cancel Culture” originating on Tumblr in 2013 with the website “Yur Fav is Problematic” wherein a self-appointing army of strident thought-police would call out celebrities or anyone whose platform was growing if they committed any sort of crime against the new doctrine. Here is just a sample of what that looked like. Naturally, as the Left was becoming more politically extreme, so too did the Right rise up to challenge that movement and push back. Around 2013, Trump began “getting political” on Twitter. Part of it was his alignment with the Tea Party, though really its representative was Sarah Palin who ran as John McCain's running mate in the pivotal year of 2008. The Tea Party was already considered a “racist” movement by the Left, thus anyone involved in it had to be racist. Here is Steve Bannon way back in 2012 explaining what would become the Trump strategy to win in 2016. Bannon has also been labeled as a racist, along with the MAGA movement. Minute 222.One of the biggest disadvantages for the Left and even the Never Trumpers is that they are now being caught with their pants down since they are losing Hispanic and Asian voters. Even Black voters are starting to flee the Democratic Party. The America First movement per Steve Bannon has been actively trying to recruit those voters. Anyone who knows the movement knows it isn't based on race or racism. Once they become aware of that, the entire Left and the media instantly lose credibility. The media and the Democrats have been whipping members of the Left into a state of hysteria for six long years. Longer. They never stopped to think about what that might be doing to the formidable minds coming of age online. That kind of delusional thinking is what got us to Evergreen and what got us to the Summer of 2020. The Fourth FoundingThere are some offering us a way out, a new “founding” of sorts. Bari Weiss whose Common Sense offers a path forward that retains some of the altruism of the Left in its current state but also seeks to build a new foundation of American life that preserves the things that define this country. Weiss has written a brilliant manifesto of sorts from a speech she gave at the new “free-thinking” university she helped build:1. To be a founder in 21st-century America means to reject the politics of resentment and to recognize our privilege. My dad lost a younger sister to cancer. My dad also has MS. So why does he constantly say he is the most privileged man in the world? Because he grew up in a stable, loving home with two parents. Because he has meaningful work. Because he has Judaism and the community that comes with it. Because he married the love of his life. And, above all else, because he had the great, good fortune to be born in America.Even with all our flaws and failings, even with inflation and polarization and tribalization, anyone who is honest will admit that there is nowhere better to build a life. Saying that right now feels radical, because grievance and resentment define the current cultural moment. It's a dead end. We must get back to gratitude. James Strock who writes of America's Fourth Founding in a must-read piece called Who Lost America lays out exactly what has happened to this country since around 2013:Demands for recognition and respect of non-majority identities are by no means new. They recur through the course of our history. They're a feature, not a bug of our national experiment. They prompt periodic resets of American political life, sweeping more people into full participation. Those holding power are persuaded to acknowledge the rights of others, in the ceaseless cause of aligning our practices with our ideals.What's different now is that the most conspicuous variants of identity politics reject the ideals of individual rights and autonomy for all. Instead, they assert that existing hierarchies are irredeemably illegitimate, built on oppressor group power dynamics. Rather than making it possible for more people to compete and earn places in talent and competence hierarchies, these critics seek to invert them. Those classified as members of historically marginalized groups would be placed at the top based on immutable characteristics. This approach inclines toward rule by an elite, tending toward autocracy rather than democratic self-governance.This yields a banquet of consequences. Group victimization is venerated; individual achievement is derogated and deconstructed by frenzied packs of injustice collectors. Institutional power is honored; political persuasion is neglected. Representative democracy is discredited as built upon past, unjust assumptions and institutions, rather than safeguarded as a foundation for the ongoing pursuit of progress.When we put it all together and we look at what this country has become at the hands of the Left, we have a larger majority that will reject it. They will reject Hollywood movies that are soaked through with dogma (almost all of them are). They will reject candidates who drive some of the more extreme policies of the Biden administration. They will reject what appears to be indoctrination in our public schools.And hopefully, they reject this bizarre new religion that seems to exist only to alleviate the guilt and shame of the most successful and wealthy Americans who loved Obama enough that they wanted to atone, eternally, for their sins of white privilege. Watching them alternate between white guilt and being white saviors is exhausting. It seems so self-serving and punishes those in the middle or at the bottom who have no marginalized status to allow them entry to the inner party. They are asked or demanded to be “good allies” and give up their talent or their skills and take a step back to allow for equality of outcome rather than opportunity.But we are a country that still needs to be based on the hardest working and the very best to rise to the top regardless of status, race or any other way societies categorize and rank their citizens from birth. We should be giving everyone a shot, not telling others to slow down for those behind them to catch up. Strock ends his piece by saying we can't wait for any savior to rescue us:How will we diagnose and alleviate the pains afflicting our body politic? Are we experiencing America's death throes? Or is a new nation struggling to be born?The answer is unlikely to be found through the calamitous clarity and contingency of foreign war. And it's unlikely to be delivered from on high here at home, by a leader as yet unidentified.As with the generation of 1776, the Civil War generation, and the Greatest Generation, the American future depends on us, ordinary citizens bound one to another in a extraordinary, fateful experiment.The Left I used to know stood up for the little guy, the working-class poor, not just those they choose to help because they are ideologically compliant. We didn't punish or cancel artists. We didn't censor and bully journalists. There is no doubt we have lost our way. Perhaps a massive red wave will give the Democrats a chance to collapse completely and then rebuild with new blood and a better path forward. Get full access to Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning with Sasha Stone at sashastone.substack.com/subscribe

You know Edward-Isaac Dovere from his work at The Atlantic, and Politico before that. His recent book Battle for the Soul chronicles the 2020 presidential campaign, especially the Democratic primaries. In this conversation, we discuss Isaac's path to writing about politics, the genesis of his book, and several of the key moments from the 2020 campaign trail.IN THIS EPISODEThe member of Congress who helped Isaac first get involved in the political process…Isaac talks through the genre of “campaign books”…Isaac shares the original title of the book and how “Battle for the Soul” later emerged…Isaac's contention that Medicare For All hindered the candidacies of the most progressive candidates…Isaac talks through a symbolically important dinner at the Georgetown Four Seasons…How close did Hillary Clinton get to jumping in?Isaac's take on why Beto O'Rourke's campaign didn't catch on…Isaac talks the importance of Lis Smith to the rise of Pete Buttigieg…Isaac breaks down the post-debate boom for Kamala Harris…Why Isaac sees the Clyburn Fish Fry as a microcosm of the primary…Isaac gets behind the scenes of the Clyburn endorsement of Joe Biden…Isaac talks Bernie at his high point post-Nevada caucus…Isaac's contention that Amy Klobuchar had an enormous impact on the Biden VP decision…The trail restaurant Isaac is most eager to visit again...AND…David Axelrod, Pete Buttigieg, Julian Castro, CBD dispensaries, Guy Cecil,  classic Iowa questions, the Clyburn Fish Fry, Cobble Hill Restaurant, Ted Cruz, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Kamala Harris, The Hill, Amy Klobuchar, John Lewis, Terry McAuliffe, Pat Moynihan, Jerry Nadler, Barack Obama, Jen O'Malley Dillon, Beto O'Rourke, Nancy Pelosi, Bernie Sanders, Al Sharpton, Stephanie Schriock, Chuck Schumer, Lis Smith, St. Kilda, Eric Swalwell, Neera Tanden, Elizabeth Warren, Gretchen Whitmer, and MORE!

Wes' Memaw stops by the shed. Topics discussed include Wes' feud with his cousin's podcast, Mitch McConnell's misguided approach, how New Orleans is helping its homeless population, the return of Neera Tanden, a mother daughter duo arrested for fixing the homecoming queen election, Dan the Man Campbell, Tim Tebow as a tight end, the NBA playoffs, SEC West football predictions, sea monsters attacking German U-Boats, how the moon was made, UFOs spotted by Navy pilots, and the legend of El Chupacabra.

On this episode of Unregulated Tom & Mike throw the script out the window. Taking on the Cuomo fan club, going over the latest DOE chief's unbelievable gaffes, Murkowski's recent betrayal of Alaskans, the fall of Neera Tanden, what's going wrong with the trade groups nominally created to defend energy producers, and more. Links: • Subscribe to AEA's 'In The Pipeline" daily energy newsletter: www.americanenergyalliance.org/itp/ • Mike's latest column at the Washington Times: https://m.washingtontimes.com/staff/michael-mckenna/?page=1 • GERALDO RIVERA & DAN BONGINO | GOV. ANDREW CUOMO TO STEP DOWN AMID SCANDALS | SEAN HANNITY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kChchR43nVk • Jennifer Granholm Discusses The U.S.'s Energy Infrastructure on NPR: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/26/971701774/jennifer-granholm-discusses-the-u-s-s-energy-infrastructure • Postal Service sidetracks Biden EV plan: https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063725861 • las·si·tude (noun) a state of physical or mental weariness; lack of energy. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lassitude

Trump-appointed FBI Chief debunks claims pushed by Trump allies: No evidence rioters were "fake Trump" protesters or antifa. Republican Senator Ron Johnson claims he never said fake Trump supporters were behind the January 6 riot, after the FBI Chief debunked the claims on Tuesday. The White House pulled Neera Tanden's nomination to lead the Office of Management and Budget. Texas drops mask mandate, will fully reopen defying the CDC's warnings. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

Covid relief passes in the House but will the $15 minimum wage survive? (00:42) What else is President Biden up to? (07:30) Republican's attend CPAC. (22:30) HR1, the For the People Act (27:39) On the panel (34:23) we discuss the double standards for women in politics and Neera Tanden's mean tweets.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

We're back to current events in this episode, as we touch on our takeaways from the second impeachment trial of President Trump, the behavior of Governor Cuomo and Senator Cruz, and the confirmation hearing of Neera Tanden. We finish the episode by taking a deep dive into the situation in Texas.   0:21-41:56 -- Trump, Cuomo, Cruz, Tanden   42:10-1:16:06 -- Texas Disaster    

President Biden's pick to lead the OMB, Neera Tanden, fighting to keep her nomination alive as two key Senate committees postpone their vote on her future. Plus, the White House coronavirus response team says if the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is approved, as many as 4 million doses could be released. And GOP House Leaders Kevin McCarthy and Liz Cheney give two very different takes on former President Trump and his upcoming speech to CPAC. On today's show: CNN's Jeff Zeleny, Omar Jimenez, and Priscilla Alvarez. Plus Dr. Celine Gounder, Seung Min Kim with the Washington Post, former Republican Congresswoman Mia Love and GOP strategist Scott Jennings. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

President-elect Joe Biden introduced his picks for his economic team on Tuesday including Janet Yellen for Treasury Secretary and Neera Tanden to lead the Office on Management and Budget. The team will face the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic if confirmed by the Senate. Former Economic Adviser to President Obama Robert Wolf and founding editor of the Free Beacon Matthew Continetti weigh in on the President-elect's nominees and how the Biden administration is shaping up. The assassination of Moshen Fakhrisaden, Iran's top nuclear scientist last week comes just months after a top general was killed in a U.S. drone strike. Iran is pointing the blame at Israel and says Saudi Arabia and the U.S. may be involved in the conspiracy. Dr. Jim Walsh, a Middle East and nuclear expert, senior research associate at MIT's security studies program, discusses who could have taken part in the assassination and what impact this will have on the region and on the Biden administration . Plus, commentary by Jimmy Failla, host of "Fox Across America." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Counting down the days until the orange idiot and his minions evacuate the government. Its Tuesday, so @GottaLaff is here, sharing her prolific Twitter stream and all of its news with us. From Bill Barr to Neera Tanden and everything in between, there's lots to talk about today.