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Ezra Klein
John Heilemann December 30, 2025
The Times columnist, podcast impresario, and would-be Democratic Party uber-reformer recaps the past year in politics—and explains why, despite his ongoing sense of alarm, he’s closing out 2025 feeling moderately hopeful.
Pete Hegseth
John Heilemann December 11, 2025
A chilling conversation with retired Air Force Major General Steven Lepper, a former top military lawyer, about Trump’s legally dubious boat strike campaign, the dangers of an unfettered Department of Defense, and why he expects the worst is still to come.
Pat Ryan
John Heilemann November 17, 2025
Congressman Pat Ryan, a Democrat from the deep purple heart of New York’s Hudson Valley, thinks his party has a lot of work to do despite its off-year election win. Herewith, he makes the case for a broad Democratic coalition, praises the pugnacity of A.O.C., and explains why Trump isn’t a lame duck—yet.
J. Michael Luttig
John Heilemann November 4, 2025
A bracing conversation with conservative former federal appellate Judge J. Michael Luttig on why Trump teasing a third term is no joke.


Ro Khanna
John Heilemann October 27, 2025
A conversation with the Democratic congressman from Silicon Valley about allying with Marjorie Taylor Greene, endorsing Zohran Mamdani, defending Graham Platner, and wanting to tax the hell out of his billionaire constituents.
Chuck Schumer
John Heilemann & Leigh Ann Caldwell September 9, 2025
As Congress returns to a Washington in crisis, a candid discussion about the staying power of the Epstein scandal, the continued fallout from R.F.K.’s tenure at H.H.S., and the fluctuating odds of a government shutdown later this month.
James Talarico
John Heilemann August 26, 2025
A wide-ranging conversation with the Texas state rep on his party’s flight from Texas, the value of being in the political wilderness, and his own Senate ambitions.
Dan Pfeiffer
John Heilemann August 19, 2025
A timely conversation with Obama comms guru and Pod Save America co-host Dan Pfeiffer about Gavin Newsom’s redistricting gambit, what Dems can learn from Zohran Mamdani, and the party’s broken messaging machine.


Robert Garcia
John Heilemann August 12, 2025
In a recent conversation, California congressman and rising Democratic star Robert Garcia sounded the alarm on gerrymandering, discussed the need to keep Epstein front and center, and placed rectitude aside in favor of #RealTalk.
James Talarico
John Heilemann August 5, 2025
A pair of increasingly influential inside-game Dems are trying to cure what ails their party by looking beyond the Beltway and way downballot—to the blue team’s signs of life in the nation’s state legislatures.
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