New Yorker: The Political Scene
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Steve Coll and Dexter Filkins on Obama's...
Steve Coll and Dexter Filkins on Obama's national-security speech.
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Steve Coll, Margaret Talbot, and Ryan Lizza on Obama's...
Steve Coll, Margaret Talbot, and Ryan Lizza on Obama's scandal season.
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Dexter Filkins and Jon Lee Anderson on Obama and Syria.
Dexter Filkins and Jon Lee Anderson on Obama and Syria.
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David Remnick and Jane Mayer on counterterrorism after...
David Remnick and Jane Mayer on counterterrorism after Boston.
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Barbara Demick and Evan Osnos on North Korea.
Barbara Demick and Evan Osnos on North Korea.
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John Cassidy and James Surowiecki on whether the economy...
John Cassidy and James Surowiecki on whether the economy is really getting better.
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Jeffrey Toobin and Margaret Talbot on same-sex marriage...
Jeffrey Toobin and Margaret Talbot on same-sex marriage and the Supreme Court.
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David Remnick and Ryan Lizza on Obama's speech in...
David Remnick and Ryan Lizza on Obama's speech in Jerusalem.
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Joan Acocella and Margaret Talbot on Pope Francis.
Joan Acocella and Margaret Talbot on Pope Francis.
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Jon Lee Anderson and John Cassidy on Hugo Chavez's...
Jon Lee Anderson and John Cassidy on Hugo Chavez's legacy.
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Ryan Lizza and Hendrik Hertzberg on the budget battles.
Ryan Lizza and Hendrik Hertzberg on the budget battles.
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George Packer and James Surowiecki on Obama's embattled...
George Packer and James Surowiecki on Obama's embattled efforts to help the middle class.
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Hendrik Hertzberg, John Cassidy, and Ryan Lizza on...
Hendrik Hertzberg, John Cassidy, and Ryan Lizza on Obama's permanent campaign.
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John Cassidy and Ryan Lizza review Hillary Clinton's...
John Cassidy and Ryan Lizza review Hillary Clinton's performance and her prospects.
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Ryan Lizza and Hendrik Herzberg on Obama's second...
Ryan Lizza and Hendrik Herzberg on Obama's second Inaugural.
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Jeffrey Toobin and Jill Lepore discuss abortion rights...
Jeffrey Toobin and Jill Lepore discuss abortion rights on the fortieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
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Steve Coll and Jane Mayer on Obama's new...
Steve Coll and Jane Mayer on Obama's new non-interventionist national-security team.
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John Cassidy and Ryan Lizza discuss the big fiscal...
John Cassidy and Ryan Lizza discuss the big fiscal battles to come.
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Jill Lepore and Patrick Radden Keefe on the politics of...
Jill Lepore and Patrick Radden Keefe on the politics of gun control after the Newtown shooting.
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Dexter Filkins and Jon Lee Anderson discuss the upheaval...
Dexter Filkins and Jon Lee Anderson discuss the upheaval in the Middle East two years into the Arab Spring.
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Hendrik Hertzberg, John Cassidy, and Ryan Lizza discuss...
Hendrik Hertzberg, John Cassidy, and Ryan Lizza discuss Obama, Boehner, tax increases, and "Lincoln."
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Steve Coll, Jane Mayer, and Patrick Keefe on the...
Steve Coll, Jane Mayer, and Patrick Keefe on the Petraeus scandal and Israel's new conflict with Gaza.
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Jane Mayer, Ryan Lizza, and John Cassidy on the election...
Jane Mayer, Ryan Lizza, and John Cassidy on the election and what's next.
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Hendrik Hertzberg and John Cassidy on Sandy and the...
Hendrik Hertzberg and John Cassidy on Sandy and the election.
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David Remnick and Hendrik Hertzberg on the choice...
David Remnick and Hendrik Hertzberg on the choice between Obama and Romney.
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John Cassidy and Hendrik Hertzberg on the campaign after...
John Cassidy and Hendrik Hertzberg on the campaign after the second debate.
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Hendrik Hertzberg and John Cassidy on the V.P. debate.
Hendrik Hertzberg and John Cassidy on the V.P. debate.
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Hendrik Hertzberg and John Cassidy discuss the first...
Hendrik Hertzberg and John Cassidy discuss the first debate.
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Nicholas Lemann on Romney's beginnings.
Nicholas Lemann on Romney's beginnings.
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John Cassidy, Ryan Lizza, and Amy Davidson on Romney's...
John Cassidy, Ryan Lizza, and Amy Davidson on Romney's floundering campaign.
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Steve Coll, Jon Lee Anderson, and Ryan Lizza on the...
Steve Coll, Jon Lee Anderson, and Ryan Lizza join host Dorothy Wickenden to discuss what this bout of turmoil out of the Middle East means for the stability of the regionand the election here.
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Hendrik Hertzberg, Ryan Lizza and John Cassidy review...
Hendrik Hertzberg, Ryan Lizza and John Cassidy review the conventions and assess the state of the race.
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Philip Gourevitch and Hendrik Hertzberg discuss the...
Philip Gourevitch and Hendrik Hertzberg discuss the Republican Convention and how the culture wars are dogging Mitt Romney's campaign.
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Jane Mayer and Alex Koppelman on Romney's money...
Jane Mayer and Alex Koppelman on Romney's money advantage.
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John Cassidy and Ryan Lizza on what the Paul Ryan pick...
John Cassidy and Ryan Lizza on what the Paul Ryan pick really means.
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Steve Coll and Amy Davidson on Obama's kill list and...
Steve Coll and Amy Davidson on Obama's kill list and U.S. counter-terrorism policy.
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Ryan Lizza on the rise of Paul Ryan, and Kelefa Sanneh...
Ryan Lizza on the rise of Paul Ryan, and Kelefa Sanneh on the resurgent Tea Party.
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Ken Auletta and John Cassidy on Rupert Murdoch and new...
Ken Auletta and John Cassidy on Rupert Murdoch and new developments in the phone-hacking scandal.
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Jill Lepore, Ryan Lizza, and James Surowiecki discuss...
Jill Lepore, Ryan Lizza, and James Surowiecki discuss Obama's attacks on Romney's business record.
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John Cassidy and Ryan Lizza discuss the battle over the...
John Cassidy and Ryan Lizza discuss the battle over the Bush tax cuts.
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Jeffrey Toobin and Hendrik Hertzberg on the implications...
Jeffrey Toobin and Hendrik Hertzberg on the implications of the Supreme Court's decision to uphold Obamacare.
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Peter Hessler and Wendell Steavenson discuss the...
Peter Hessler and Wendell Steavenson discuss the political chaos in Egypt.
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John Lanchester and James Surowiecki on the European...
John Lanchester and James Surowiecki on the European debt crisis.
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Ryan Lizza and Sean Wilentz discuss what Obama would do...
Ryan Lizza and Sean Wilentz discuss what Obama would do if he's reelected.
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George Packer and Amy Davidson discuss what Republican...
George Packer and Amy Davidson discuss what Republican extremism is doing to American politics.
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Nicholas Lemann and James Surowiecki on the economics...
Nicholas Lemann and James Surowiecki on the economics and politics of student debt.
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Kelefa Sanneh and William Finnegan on Romney's big...
Kelefa Sanneh and William Finnegan on Romney's big problem with Hispanic voters.
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Margaret Talbot and Ryan Lizza discuss Obama on gay...
Margaret Talbot and Ryan Lizza discuss Obama on gay marriage and reports of Romney bullying a gay student in high school.
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Evan Osnos and Ryan Lizza discuss Chen Guangcheng and...
Evan Osnos and Ryan Lizza discuss Chen Guangcheng and the diplomatic crisis with China.
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Ryan Lizza and John Cassidy on the Romney and Obama...
Ryan Lizza and John Cassidy on the Romney and Obama campaigns' search for a slogan.
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Evan Osnos and John Cassidy on the scandal in China.
Evan Osnos and John Cassidy on the scandal in China.
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James Surowiecki and Ryan Lizza on the politics of...
James Surowiecki and Ryan Lizza on the politics of taxing the rich.
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John Cassidy and Amy Davidson preview the general...
John Cassidy and Amy Davidson preview the general election.
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Jeffrey Toobin and Ryan Lizza discuss the oral arguments...
Jeffrey Toobin and Ryan Lizza discuss the oral arguments on Obamacare.
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Jeffrey Toobin and Ryan Lizza discuss the upcoming...
Jeffrey Toobin and Ryan Lizza discuss the upcoming Supreme Court hearing on Obama's health-care reform.
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Margaret Talbot and Ryan Lizza discuss the politics of...
Margaret Talbot and Ryan Lizza discuss the politics of contraception.
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David Remnick and Steve Coll discuss Obama's options on...
David Remnick and Steve Coll discuss Obama's options on Iran.
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Hendrik Hertzberg, Ryan Lizza, and John Cassidy discuss...
Hendrik Hertzberg, Ryan Lizza, and John Cassidy discuss a weakened Romney and Obama's new rhetoric.
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Kelefa Sanneh and Ryan Lizza on the Ron Paul factor.
Kelefa Sanneh and Ryan Lizza on the Ron Paul factor.
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Hendrik Herzberg, John Cassidy, and Ryan Lizza on Rick...
Hendrik Herzberg, John Cassidy, and Ryan Lizza on Rick Santorum's surge.
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Jane Mayer and Ryan Lizza on money and the Presidential...
Jane Mayer and Ryan Lizza on money and the Presidential race.
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John Cassidy and Ryan Lizza discuss Mitt Romney's...
John Cassidy and Ryan Lizza discuss Mitt Romney's attacks on Obama.
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Ryan Lizza and John Cassidy discuss the polarized...
Ahead of Thursday night's Republican Presidential debate in Florida, Dorothy Wickenden, Ryan Lizza, and John Cassidy discuss the G.O.P. candidates' chances and President Obama's State of the Union address on this weeks Political Scene podcast. Both Cassidy and Lizza say that for Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, the Florida primary will determine a lot. Lizza observes: "It still seems close in Florida. The question for the Gingrich campaign would be, if he cant build on that momentum from South...
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Steve Coll and Amy Davidson on Obama's Iran problem.
Steve Coll and Amy Davidson on Obama's Iran problem.
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John Cassidy and Ryan Lizza discuss the attacks on Mitt...
John Cassidy and Ryan Lizza discuss the attacks on Mitt Romney and Bain Capital.
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Hendrik Hertzberg, Jane Mayer, and Ryan Lizza on the new...
Already, the 2012 Presidential campaign season is shaping up to be different from campaigns past. On this week's Political Scene podcast, Hendrik Hertzberg, Jane Mayer, Ryan Lizza, and Dorothy Wickenden discuss the fallout from the Iowa caucus and the rise of Super PACs. "Iowa proved that money mattered," Lizza says. "The pro-Romney Super PAC destroyed Gingrich in Iowa. There's no doubt about that." The attacks on Gingrich, who ended up in fourth place in Iowa, cleared room for Rick Santorum...
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Former Senator Alan Simpson answers questions about...
On this week's Political Scene podcast, former Senator Alan Simpson joins Dorothy Wickenden and Ryan Lizza to discuss the failed Bowles-Simpson plan for fiscal reform, the G.O.P. candidates for President, and the polarized political climate. Simpson, a Wyoming Republican, remembers attempts to work across party lines under President George H. W. Bush, which, he says, fell apart at the hands of Newt Gingrich--Simpson calls him "Newtie"--who refused to increase taxes. Simpson is succinct about...
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Ryan Lizza, John Cassidy, and Jeffrey Toobin discuss the...
Ryan Lizza, John Cassidy, and Jeffrey Toobin discuss the race in Iowa and beyond.
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George Packer and Ryan Lizza talk to Barney Frank about...
George Packer and Ryan Lizza talk to Barney Frank about partisan gridlock, Newt Gingrich, and Occupy Wall Street.
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Jane Mayer and Ryan Lizza discuss the Gingrich surge.
Newt Gingrich "just doesn't play by anyone's rules," Jane Mayer says on this week's Political Scene podcast. Mayer joins Ryan Lizza and Dorothy Wickenden to discuss Gingrich's rise, which is beginning to look more lasting than the spikes of popularity that other Republican candidates have enjoyed. "Gingrich only looks like a plausible alternative to Romney after you've gone through this carnival of implausible nominees," says Lizza. Mayer adds: "I think anybody who has covered Gingrich over...
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Hendrik Hertzberg, John Cassidy, and Amy Davidson on...
"It's hard to say how the hell they feel, isn't it?" Hendrik Hertzberg says of Occupy Wall Street. On this week's Political Scene podcast, John Cassidy, Amy Davidson, and Hertzberg join Dorothy Wickenden to discuss whats become of O.W.S. and how politicians are responding. In New York City, protesters have been evacuated from Zuccotti Park, and are facing increasingly forceful police. Hertzberg doesn't think that the evacuation has helped Mayor Bloomberg: "Even if you posit that at some...
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David Remnick and Ryan Lizza discuss Mitt Romney and the...
On this week's Political Scene podcast, David Remnick and Ryan Lizza look at the Republican candidates, who held their tenth debate on Wednesday night. Lizza says, "These people are the washed-up dregs of the Republican Party." Remnick, whose Comment this week discussed the G.O.P. field, adds, "These candidates, everybody but Romney, are, as Tolstoy might say, a joke in their own way." Who stands to benefit more from such unserious candidates? Lizza thinks it's Mitt Romney, while Remnick...
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John Cassidy and James Surowiecki on Europe's ongoing...
"European politics are beginning to make all the scurrilous news about Republican Presidential candidates look tame," says Dorothy Wickenden on this week's Political Scene podcast. She's joined by John Cassidy and James Surowiecki to discuss the politics of Greece's economic troubles and how it may figure into politics and economics here in the States. "In the U.S., there is effectively a bailout for states that are less economically successful," says Wickenden. "If you look at the way that...
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Wendell Steavenson and Ryan Lizza discuss Qaddafi and...
Wendell Steavenson and Ryan Lizza discuss Qaddafi and the Arab Spring.
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Ryan Lizza and John Cassidy discuss income inequality...
However the Occupy Wall Street movement may turn out, Dorothy Wickenden says, it's "succeeded in making income inequality a national political issue." What is the history of this income gap? What is the government's role? And how will O.W.S. affect the 2012 election? John Cassidy and Ryan Lizza join Wickenden on this week's Political Scene podcast to discuss those questions and more. "If you look from, say, 2011 all the way back to '73, there are some staggering statistics," Cassidy notes....
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John Cassidy and James Surowiecki on Democratic efforts...
On this week's Political Scene podcast, John Cassidy and James Surowiecki discuss President Obama's jobs bill, Harry Reid's finger-pointing, Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan, and the growing Occupy Wall Street movement. "What else would you expect in a campaign season?" Cassidy tells guest host Curtis fox. That the President's American Jobs Act failed in the Senate on Tuesday night offers some weight to the claim that Republicans are using the dismal economy to their advantage. "I think there really...
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Nicholas Lemann, Jill Lepore, and Hendrik Hertzberg...
Nicholas Lemann, Jill Lepore, and Hendrik Hertzberg assess Occupy Wall Street.
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Dexter Filkins and Steve Coll discuss our shaken...
Dexter Filkins and Steve Coll discuss our shaken alliance with Pakistan.
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James Surowiecki and Ryan Lizza on the millionaire tax...
On this week's Political Scene podcast, Dorothy Wickenden calls President Obama's speech on Monday, in which he laid out his new jobs plan and called for a tax on million-dollar earners, "a much more pugnacious approach," one that suggested his willingness to take on the Republicans in Congress. But Ryan Lizza, the Washington correspondent for The New Yorker, is a bit more cautious about the President's intentions. "One view is that he doesnt care about a deal, that this is just a campaign...
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Steve Coll and Wendell Steavenson discuss Israel's...
On this week's Political Scene podcast, Steve Coll and Wendell Steavenson join Dorothy Wickenden to discuss Israel in the wake of the Arab Spring and the upcoming United Nations vote on Palestinian statehood. If the Security Council votes on statehood, the United States is expected to veto it; in the event of a General Assembly vote, which would confer a lesser status, the U.S. would be in a "lonely minority," says Coll. He adds that Israel's isolation (and America's with it) is largely its...
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Hendrik Hertzberg, John Cassidy, and Ryan Lizza review...
On this week's Political Scene podcast, Dorothy Wickenden talks with Hendrik Hertzberg, John Cassidy, and Ryan Lizza about President Obama's jobs speech, which seems to have disrupted the prevailing narrative about the White House and Congress. Hertzberg puts it this way: "It was a challenge. He was laying down a challenge. And the very thing that liberals, like me, had worried about, which was 'Oh, he's just going to ask for a bunch of Republican ideas,' he somehow turned that around and...
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Jane Mayer and Ryan Lizza discuss Dick Cheney's legacy,...
Jane Mayer and Ryan Lizza discuss former Vice-President Dick Cheney, his new book, and his political legacy in this week's Political Scene podcast. "There are gonna be heads exploding all over Washington," Dick Cheney predicted as his memoir was released earlier this week. To the contrary, Mayer found "frustration at the tedium" of "In My Time." The book does more than reveal Cheney's methodology, though: Repeat endlessly. Never apologize. Be seen with kids and dogs--a lot. Mayer also talks...
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Wendell Steavenson and Steve Coll discuss Libya, Syria,...
Wendell Steavenson and Steve Coll discuss Libya, Syria, and Obama's response to the Arab Spring.
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Lawrence Wright and Ryan Lizza on Rick Perry's candidacy.
Lawrence Wright and Ryan Lizza on Rick Perry's candidacy.
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John Cassidy and Ryan Lizza on the new financial crisis...
John Cassidy and Ryan Lizza on the new financial crisis and the 2012 campaign.
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Hendrik Hertzberg and James Surowiecki on the...
The debt ceiling may be raised, but the stock market has plummeted. The market closed today with the biggest drop since the financial crisis: a 512.76 point, or 4.31 per cent, drop for the Dow Jones industrial average, and even bigger percentage dips for the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index (4.78) and the Nasdaq (5.08). But fear not. Hendrik Hertzberg, looking back at the debt-ceiling compromise, has encouraging words on this week's Political Scene podcast: "This kind of thing keeps...
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Elaine Kamarck, George Packer, and John Cassidy on the...
Lyndon Johnson wouldn't have let things come to this. "I keep thinking back to the fifties and sixties and how a crisis like this would have been dealt with," George Packer says on this week's Political Scene podcast, where he is joined by John Cassidy and Elaine Kamarck to discuss the debt-ceiling negotiations. Back then, "it would have been dealt with in the hideaway of the Senate Majority Leader or the Speaker of the House with drinks and conversation and a lot of toughness and arm...
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Nicholas Lemann and Hendrik Hertzberg discuss Rupert...
What will happen to News Corporation in the United States? "You could see the company morphing into a less aggressive political force, for essentially business reasons, and that would change the tone of American politics," Nicholas Lemann says on this week's Political Scene podcast. Lemann predicts that "either the company would suffer the fate of other publicly held family media empires, like the one at the Wall Street Journal that Murdoch recently took over, or it would become more bland...
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Murdoch's Phone-Hacking Scandal, with Ken Auletta, John...
Ken Auletta, John Cassidy, and Lauren Collins on Rupert Murdoch's phone-hacking scandal.
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Gay Marriage and the Culture Wars, with Margaret Talbot,...
Margaret Talbot, Jeffrey Toobin, and Ryan Lizza discuss gay marriage and the culture wars.
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The drawdown in Afghanistan, with Dexter Filkins and...
Are we any better off in Afghanistan and Pakistan now than when President Obama took office? "I dont think so, no," Steve Coll says on this week's Political Scene podcast. He joins Dexter Filkins and guest host Curtis Fox to talk about what President Obama's plan for troop withdrawal will mean at home and abroad. Was the surge a success? Coll's view: "Certainly if the Afghan security forces were going to have an opportunity to defend sections of the Afghan population from the Taliban, they...
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The economy, with Elaine Kamarck, John Cassidy, and Ryan...
Elaine Kamarck joins John Cassidy and Ryan Lizza to discuss the economy and Obama's reelection chances.
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Political sex scandals, with Hendrik Hertzberg, Ryan...
"Everybody loves a good scandal," Dorothy Wickenden notes on this week's Political Scene podcast, "except the perpetrators and the victims, of course." Hendrik Hertzberg, who joins Wickenden on the podcast along with Ariel Levy and Ryan Lizza, says that Weinergate proves a pet theory of his, what he calls the "Clinton Rule." "That's the rule that when a politician starts mindlessly babbling a bunch of lies about some sexual subject, that the person hes really trying to lie to is his wife."...
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The politics of climate change, with Robert Stavins,...
"What is the matter with this country," Dorothy Wickenden asked on this week's Political Scene podcast, "when other countries around the world, including China, are moving forward quite aggressively to curb CO2 emissions and have no problem acknowledging that this is a problem thats already upon us," and yet America cannot? Robert Stavins, the director of the environmental economics program at Harvard, said that he attributed "the lack of action in the United States" to "a set of factors...
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The Republicans' Medicare problem, with John Cassidy and...
Just last month, Paul Ryan's Path to Prosperity had the overwhelming support of G.O.P. congressmen, and Ryan looked, as Dorothy Wickenden put it on this week's Political Scene podcast, "like the future of the Republican party." Now? "It's looking at this stage like Ryan's plan, which was a very long one, might turn into the longest suicide note in history," said John Cassidy, who joins Wickenden and Ryan Lizza on the podcast. Our Medicare system is "essentially going broke" and that is "a...
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Obama, Israel, and the Arab Spring, with Steve Coll,...
"Disappointing." That was the general consensus on President Obama's speech on the Middle East yesterday, which Steve Coll, Wendell Steavenson, and Hendrik Hertzberg discuss on this week's Political Scene podcast. Steavenson, who is based in Cairo and called in from Jerusalem, said that Egyptians and Israelis "were looking for something stronger, more solid, perhaps even more emotional." Coll called it "lawyerly," and said, "It was responsive to the true complexity of the Middle East, but...
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Republican Presidential Candidates, with Hendrik...
"There's no predicting this race," Ryan Lizza says on this week's Political Scene podcast, a conversation with Hendrik Hertzberg and Dorothy Wickenden about the large, unsettled field of Republican Presidential hopefuls. Lizza says that the potential candidates with the best chance could all be described as fairly moderate former governors: Mitt Romney, Jon Huntsman, Tim Pawlenty, and Mitch Daniels. Hertzberg agrees. "By process of elimination, it's hard to see how it's not one of these...
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Osama bin Laden and Pakistan, with Steve Coll, Dexter...
On this week's Political Scene podcast, Steve Coll, Dexter Filkins, and Ryan Lizza join the host, Dorothy Wickenden, to discuss the interplay among America, Pakistan, Al Qaeda, and the Taliban. Filkins describes the "very complex" relationship between the Taliban and Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence, quoting a mid-level Taliban leader who told him that "the I.S.I., they're pimps, and we're the prostitutes. And when we want to do things like negotiate with the Karzai government, we have...
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Libya and the Arab Spring, with Jon Lee Anderson and...
Is what some have called President Obama's failure to take a strong stand against Syrian President Bashar Assad a repeat of his silence during Iran's Green Revolution? Dorothy Wickenden introduces the comparison on this week's Political Scene podcast, where she is joined by Ryan Lizza, who writes this week about Obama's foreign policy, and Jon Lee Anderson. "I do think that the turning point was over the weekend, when things got really bad and the White House did put out a very strong...
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Raffi Khatchadourian, Eric Konigsberg, and Elizabeth...
A year after the Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed eleven workers and triggered a months-long spill in the Gulf of Mexico, how safe is offshore drilling? "It certainly can be safer and more responsible than it has been and than it is right now," Elizabeth Kolbert says on this week's Political Scene podcast. Raffi Khatchadourian, who wrote last month about the BP spill and discussed the cleanup efforts in a live chat this week, says that the disaster led officials to realizing some...
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Hendrik Hertzberg, John Cassidy, and George Packer on...
President Obamas speech on the budget yesterday was "one of the best he's given," Hendrik Hertzberg says on this week's Political Scene podcast. "It was kind of like one of Roosevelt's fireside chats. He told some stories. He gave a narrative frame to why liberalism, if I may use that poisonous term, is such a crucial part of the American story." George Packer, who joins Hertzberg and John Cassidy on the podcast, also deems Obama's speech a success. "Without much poetry, it was a strong...
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Paul Ryan, James Surowiecki, and Ryan Lizza
"Who is Paul Ryan and how did he come to be the Republicans' go-to guy on fiscal policy?" That's the question Dorothy Wickenden poses on this week's Political Scene podcast to Ryan Lizza. Lizza, referring to Ryan's 2012 budget resolution that was released on Tuesday, offers two things that impress him about the young congressman from Wisconsin: 'One, he knows the details. He's smart, and can go head-to-head with any of the policy wonks on the left over these programs, and that's, frankly,...
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Libya, Egypt, Ryan Lizza, and Marwa Sharafeldin
Ryan Lizza and the activist Marwa Sharafeldin on the Libya intervention and Egypt's stalled revolution.
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Libya, Steve Coll, and Philip Gourevitch
What is America's commitment in Libya? Accounts have varied about whether the allied forces will be there for "days, not weeks" or "months, not years," and to what extent Muammar Qaddafi is a "target." Philip Gourevitch says on this week's Political Scene podcast that President Obama, in framing our involvement as a humanitarian intervention, is downplaying America's role. "We took ownership of the civil war in Libya. We've taken sides in the civil war," he says. He continues, "The reality...
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The Political Scene: March 17, 2011
In a Congressional hearing this week, Energy Secretary Steven Chu affirmed the Obama Administration's commitment to nuclear energy, despite the ongoing disaster in Japan. That's just what many of the members of the House wanted to hear, Elizabeth Kolbert says on this week's Political Scene podcastand that's "very, very frightening," she tells this week's host, Jeffrey Toobin: If you are not given pause by an incident like this at a plant that is, as many people have pointed out, virtually...
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The Political Scene: March 10, 2011
Jeffrey Toobin and Amy Davidson on Obama's Guantanamo problem.
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The Political Scene: March 3, 2011
Dexter Filkins, Wendell Steavenson, and Lawrence Wright on the uprisings in the Middle East.
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The Political Scene: February 24, 2011
George Packer, Hendrik Hertzberg, and Ryan Lizza on the budget battles in Washington and the Midwest.
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The Political Scene: February 17, 2011
John Cassidy and Ryan Lizza on the economic roots of the uprisings across the Arab world.
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The Political Scene: February 11, 2011
Lawrence Wright and Ryan Lizza on the uprising in Egypt.
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The Political Scene: February 3, 2011
Wendell Steavenson, Steve Coll, and David Remnick on the Egyptian uprising.
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The Political Scene: January 27, 2011
Hendrik Hertzberg and Ryan Lizza on Obamas positioning for 2012.
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The Political Scene: January 20, 2011
Evan Osnos and John Cassidy on our troubled relationship with China.
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The Political Scene: January 13, 2011
Hendrik Hertzberg on the Arizona shooting, and Ryan Lizza on Darrell Issa.
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The Political Scene: January 6, 2011
Hendrik Hertzberg and Peter J. Boyer on Boehner's new majority.
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The Political Scene: December 30, 2010
Ryan Lizza, Jeffrey Toobin, and James Surowiecki on good news in 2010.
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The Political Scene: December 16, 2010
Steve Coll and Ryan Lizza on the prospects and politics of the war in Afghanistan.
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The Political Scene: December 9, 2010
Hendrik Hertzberg, Peter J. Boyer, and Ryan Lizza on Obamas tax deal.
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The Political Scene: December 2, 2010
Evan Osnos, Barbara Demick, and Ryan Lizza on North Korea, China, and WikiLeaks.
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The Political Scene: November 18, 2010
John Cassidy and Ryan Lizza on the White House and Wall Street.
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The Political Scene: November 11, 2010
Elizabeth Kolbert and Ryan Lizza on Republicans and climate change.
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The Political Scene: November 4, 2010
Hendrik Hertzberg and Ryan Lizza discuss the midterm results.
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The Political Scene: October 21, 2010
Nicholas Lemann on why the Nevada Senate race matters.
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The Political Scene: October 14, 2010
Ryan Lizza and George Packer discuss why Democrats are going negative in their ads.
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The Political Scene: October 8, 2010
Ryan Lizza and Robert Stavins on climate change.
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The Political Scene: September 30, 2010
Steve Coll and George Packer on the Middle East peace process.
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The Political Scene: September 23, 2010
Ryan Lizza and the pollster Douglas Rivers on the outlook for the midterm elections.
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The Political Scene: September 16, 2010
Robert B. Reich and Ryan Lizza on Tea Party populism and what Obama should do about it.
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The Political Scene: September 9, 2010
John Cassidy and James Surowiecki on the politics behind Obama's new economic proposals.
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The Political Scene: September 2, 2010
Jane Mayer and Ryan Lizza discuss why Republicans are surging and Democrats are floundering.
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The Political Scene: August 26, 2010
Peter J. Boyer and Jeffrey Toobin decode the ruling against Obama's embryonic stem-cell policy.
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The Political Scene: August 20, 2010
George Packer and Jon Lee Anderson on the Obama Administration's approach to the Muslim world.
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The Political Scene: August 12, 2010
Peter J. Boyer, Hendrik Hertzberg, and Ryan Lizza discuss the resurgence of nativism in politics.
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The Political Scene: August 5, 2010
George Packer and Ryan Lizza on why Republican senators just say no.
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The Political Scene: July 29, 2010
Jeffrey Toobin hosts a discussion with Raffi Khatchadourian and Steve Coll on the WikiLeaks reports.
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The Political Scene: July 22, 2010
John Cassidy and James Surowiecki on why Obama can't boost the recovery. Hosted this week by Jeffrey Toobin.
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The Political Scene: July 15, 2010
Ryan Lizza and Robert Stavins on the Senate's surprising new push for climate-change legislation.
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The Political Scene: July 1, 2010
James Surowiecki and Ryan Lizza discuss the fate of Obama's domestic agenda.
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The Political Scene: June 24, 2010
Steve Coll and George Packer on McChrystal, Petraeus, and Obama's Afghanistan strategy.
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The Political Scene: June 17, 2010
Ryan Lizza and Hendrik Hertzberg discuss Obama, BP, and the fate of energy reform.
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The Political Scene: June 10, 2010
Peter Boyer, Hendrik Hertzberg, and host Ryan Lizza discuss this week's primaries, the Sarah Palin effect, and the Tea Party movement.
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The Political Scene: June 3, 2010
David Remnick and Lawrence Wright on the Gaza flotilla and the BP oil catastrophe.
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The Political Scene: May 27, 2010
John Lanchester and John Cassidy review the British election.
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The Political Scene: May 20, 2010
Evan Osnos and Barbara Demick discuss North Korea and the school killings in China.
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The Political Scene: May 12, 2010
Jeffrey Toobin and Ryan Lizza discuss Obama's Supreme Court pick, Elena Kagan.
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The Political Scene: May 6, 2010
Jane Mayer and Elizabeth Kolbert discuss the political fallout from the attempted Times Square bombing and the BP oil spill.
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The Political Scene: April 29, 2010
Hendrik Hertzberg and Ryan Lizza on why immigration reform won't happen this year.
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The Political Scene: April 23, 2010
John Cassidy and James B. Stewart on Goldman Sachs, financial reform, and Obama.
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The Political Scene: April 15, 2010
Steve Coll and Hendrik Hertzberg discuss the politics of nuclear security.
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The Political Scene: April 8, 2010
James Surowiecki on banking reform and its effect on the upcoming elections.
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The Political Scene: April 1, 2010
David Remnick on the improbable career of Barack Obama.
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The Political Scene: March 25, 2010
Hendrik Hertzberg, Ryan Lizza, and John Cassidy on how Obama's big victory has transformed the political landscape.
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The Political Scene: March 18, 2010
David Remnick and Steve Coll discuss Obama and Israel.
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The Political Scene: March 11, 2010
Jon Lee Anderson and George Packer discuss the elections in Iraq.
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The Political Scene: March 4, 2010
John Cassidy and George Packer on Obama's economic successes and political failures.
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The Political Scene: February 26, 2010
Jerome Groopman, John Cassidy, and Hendrik Hertzberg discuss Obama's plans for health-care reform.
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The Political Scene: February 19, 2010
Ryan Lizza and Hendrik Hertzberg on the brightening prospects for real political reform.
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The Political Scene: February 11, 2010
Elizabeth Kolbert and Peter J. Boyer discuss recent attacks on climate science.
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The Political Scene: February 5, 2010
Jane Mayer and Steve Coll on the politicization of counterterrorism.
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The Political Scene: January 28, 2010
Hendrik Hertzberg, John Cassidy, and George Packer on Obama's State of the Union address.
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The Political Scene: January 21, 2010
Ryan Lizza, Hendrik Hertzberg, and Andy Borowitz on why Scott Brown's victory is bad for health-care reform--but good for comedy.
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The Political Scene: January 14, 2010
Evan Osnos and Ken Auletta on Google's defiance of Chinese censorship.
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The Political Scene: January 7, 2010
John Cassidy and Ryan Lizza on Obama's waning popularity.
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The Political Scene: December 30, 2009
Steve Coll and Lawrence Wright on the political situation in Iran and the status of Al Qaeda operations in Yemen, London, and the United States.
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The Political Scene: December 17, 2009
John Cassidy and James Surowiecki on Obama, bankers, and the fading prospects for financial reform.
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The Political Scene: December 10, 2009
Robert Stavins, director of the environmental economics program at Harvard, and Evan Osnos discuss the national and international politics of climate change.
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The Political Scene: October 8, 2009
Andy Borowitz joins Ryan Lizza and Hendrik Hertzberg to talk about humor, hatred, and Obama.
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The Political Scene: October 1, 2009
Steve Coll and Laura Secor on nuclear politics, inside and outside of Iran.
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The Political Scene: September 24, 2009
Lawrence Wright and George Packer weigh the hard choices facing Obama in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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The Political Scene: September 17, 2009
John Cassidy and James B. Stewart on Obama's failure to rein in Wall Street.
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The Political Scene: September 10, 2009
Jerome Groopman, Ryan Lizza, and Hendrik Hertzberg discuss health care--and how to pay for it.
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The Political Scene: August 27, 2009
Jane Mayer and Ryan Lizza talk about Ted Kennedy's health-care-reform legacy and Eric Holder's new investigation of torture during the Bush years.
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The Political Scene: August 26, 2009
George Packer and Peter J. Boyer on Edward M. Kennedy.
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The Political Scene: August 20, 2009
George Packer and Peter J. Boyer on Afghanistan, health care, and Republicans on the rise.
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The Political Scene: August 13, 2009
Ryan Lizza and Hendrik Hertzberg discuss the battle over health-care reform.
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The Political Scene: August 6, 2009
James Surowiecki and Ryan Lizza on the state of the stimulus.
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The Political Scene: July 30, 2009
Evan Osnos and Laura Secor join Ryan Lizza and Dorothy Wickenden to talk about the shifting U.S.-China power dynamic and recent developments in Iran.
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