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The Al Franken Podcast

The Al Franken Podcast

A five-time Emmy winning SNL comedy writer/producer, joins a four-time #1 NYT bestselling author, a three-time highest-rated national progressive radio host, a two-time Grammy winning artist, and a former US Senator. So, it gets a little crowded in the booth when Al talks public policy and sometimes political comedy with notable guests. Think ?The Daily? without the resources of the NYTimes.

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Episodes

NPR's Senior Political Correspondent Domenico Montanaro

Domenico Mantanaro joins us to cover the political landscape! Trump trials, the general election, the Robert Hur report, and Congress. Plus, is Donald Trump taking over the RNC to help bail him out of his financial problems? And as a reporter, how does Domenico maintain objectivity vs neutrality? 

See all of Domenico's reporting here! 

https://www.npr.org/people/392602474/domenico-montanaro

Al is going on tour! See if he's coming to your town and grab tickets today! 

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2024-03-24
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Tim Miller ? New Host of The Bulwark Podcast

Former Republican operative Tim Miller joins the podcast to discuss a wide range of topics! We cover Biden's re-election strategy and react to his State of the Union speech. (Plus the GOP response from Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), With Congress as dysfunctional as it is, is there any chance of funding the effort in Ukraine? And does Tim still find common ground with his old Republican Party?

See more of Tim's work at The Bulwark

Al is going on tour! Get your tickets today! 

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2024-03-17
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Frank Foer ? The End of the Golden Age of American Jews

While anti-Semitism has run rampant among the far right, it has been growing among the political left. In Frank Foer's recent piece for The Atlantic, he explains how we got to this point. How have college campuses and schools become the center for anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic speech? How did college presidents mishandle the hate speech on their campuses? And what is the future of American Jews if Trump is elected again?

Read Frank Foer's entire piece in The Atlantic:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/04/us-anti-semitism-jewish-american-safety/677469/

Al is going back on tour! Get your tickets now! 

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2024-03-10
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Mini Timmaraju, President & CEO of Reproductive Freedom for All

Reproductive rights are under attack all over the country and will be one of the most important issues in the election this November. Abortion bans and limits on reproductive help are extremely unpopular and could be bad news for the Republicans enacting them. This is a must listen for reproductive rights!

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2024-03-03
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Tim Alberta on Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

The author of the profoundly disturbing book "The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory" explains how evangelicals have been turned into a political tool for the Republican Party. Alberta grew up in the evangelical wing of the Presbyterian Church and watched as they turned their back on him after he criticized Donald Trump. How did the evangelical church turn so far towards right wing politics? What exactly is an evangelical? How can those voters ever be won back?

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2024-02-25
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The Atlantic?s David Frum on GOP Dysfunction

David Frum from The Atlantic Monthly discusses the chaos that Donald Trump would bring if he were elected to a second term. From the border to foreign aid to Trump's attempt to pardon his crimes... Can we withstand another Trump term?

Read more from David in The Atlantic:

https://www.theatlantic.com/author/david-frum/

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2024-02-18
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Olivia Nuzzi - Washington Correspondent for New York Magazine

Tales from the Campaign Trail

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2024-02-11
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Dahlia Lithwick on the Trump Trials

Will the Jan. 6th Trial happen in time? Or will it just be the Stormy Daniels Case?

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2024-02-04
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Michael Steele

On MAGA

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2024-01-28
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Saturday Night Live Writer & Producer Jim Downey

Al & Jim On How They Tried to Reward the Audience for Knowing Stuff but Not Punish Them for Not

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2024-01-21
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Adam Serwer of The Atlantic on What Trump Would Do the The Courts in a Second Term

The Federalist Society?s Got the Worst Ones All Lined Up

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2024-01-14
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Heather Cox Richardson on Her Book Democracy Awakening

Heather says that Trumpers have bought into an alternative reality and that we are, at this moment, on a knife?s edge. She?s an historian and not a clairvoyant. But she?s also an activist, doing all she can to spread the word through historical analysis. Beat that, Trump!

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2024-01-07
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Best Of: Patton Oswalt is Great!

Really great!

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2023-12-31
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Best Of: Jim Gaffigan, The Master!

Jim talks about comedy and his decision to come out against Trump. 

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2023-12-24
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Year in Review: Molly Jong-Fast & Mark Leibovich Look Back at the Year in Politics

A Tour of the Big Political Events of 2023

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2023-12-17
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Year in Review: Anne Applebaum & Frank Foer on Foreign Affairs

A tour of Ukraine, Russia, China, Israel, and Gaza

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2023-12-10
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In Remembrance of My Friend Norman Lear

My friend Norman Lear passed on this week at 101. A great man, who created legendary TV

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2023-12-06
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Year in Review: Joyce Vance and Barbara McQuade Review ALL the Cases Against Trump

Where they?ve been and where they?re going

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2023-12-03
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Ian Bassin On The Steps Trump Would Take to Unravel Our Democracy

Protect Democracy's Executive Director on Our Nightmare

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2023-11-26
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David Fahrenthold on The Trump Organization?s Long History of Corruption

The New York Times Reporter Puts the Current Trial Into Perspective

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2023-11-19
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David Axelrod

On the 2024 Election!

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2023-11-12
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Norm Ornstein on the Israel-Hamas War

Israel?s No-Win Situation

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2023-11-05
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WaPo Columnist Dana Milbank on the Super-MAGA House

How A Far-Right Zealot Got to be 2 nd in Line for POTUS

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2023-10-29
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Aaron David Miller on the Israel-Hamas War

An Analysis from the Middle East Scholar

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2023-10-22
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BEST OF! QAnon ? Weirder Than You Know!!! Author Will Sommer

And 15% of Americans Believe this Stuff!

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2023-10-15
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Climatologist Michael Mann on How to Talk to Climate Deniers

The Climate Has Always Changed ? Just Not This Fast!!!

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2023-10-08
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Norm Ornstein on the Shutdown

And what it says about our politics

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2023-10-01
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Harry Litman and George Conway!

The Trump trials and the ug-ug-ugly Garland hearings

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2023-09-24
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Anne Applebaum on the War in Ukraine

The Atlantic writer on where it stands and where it?s going.

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2023-09-17
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Franklin Foer?s New Book on Biden: The Last Politician

The Atlantic Writer on Biden?s Presidency (So Far)

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2023-09-10
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The Case for Universal Voting. Like in Australia!

WaPo?s E.J. Dionne & Harvard?s Miles Rapoport on making everyone vote!

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2023-09-03
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Molly Jong-Fast and Mark Leibovich on the GOP Debate

The Highlights and Lowlights

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2023-08-27
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Tim Miller and Charlie Cook on the First GOP Debate

The bloodbath in Milwaukee!!

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2023-08-20
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Stuart Stevens is Ashamed

Of his party and himself

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2023-08-13
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Neal Katyal on Jack Smith?s Very Smart Case

And Donald J. Tump?s Very Weak One

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2023-08-06
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Best Of: Sarah Silverman!

Because she's the best!

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2023-07-30
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Inside the Race to Go Viral with Ben Smith

Former Editor in Chief of Buzzfeed News and NYT Columnist on his new book TRAFFIC

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2023-07-23
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Marc Elias and Ari Berman

Fighting the GOP Attack on Democracy!

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2023-07-16
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Dahlia Lithwick on the Awful SCOTUS Term

And what it portends...

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2023-07-09
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Best Of: John Mayer on Playing with The Dead

Deadheads were skeptical ? Not anymore!

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2023-07-02
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Comedian Alex Edelman on Heading to Broadway!

?Just for Us? a Jew goes to a neo-Nazi event - laughs o?plenty

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2023-06-25
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Ukraine Update with The Atlantic?s Frank Foer

It?s bloody, complicated!

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2023-06-18
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Mark Leibovich on the Documents Indictment

And How it Plays with Republicans

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2023-06-11
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Our Immigration System: It's Broken!

Pulitzer Prize winner Molly O'Toole and former ICE Investigator Jerry Robinette on our Southern Border.

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2023-06-04
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QAnon ? Weirder Than You Know!!! Author Will Sommer

And 15% of Americans Believe this Stuff!

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2023-05-28
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Molly Jong-Fast and Al Discuss The Week?s Events

A fun one, for a change.

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2023-05-21
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Dahlia Lithwick is BACK!

Our SCOTUS Expert Knocks It Out of the Park

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2023-05-14
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NYT Columnist Paul Krugman on The Debt Ceiling

His Strategies to Thwart the GOP?s Financial Terrorism

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2023-05-07
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Dan Balz, WaPo?s Chief Correspondent, Explains It All!

The Dean of DC Political Correspondents meets his Jerry!

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2023-04-30
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Rep. Katie Porter - On Her New Book & Jeremy Peters On Dominion

Porter discusses I Swear: Politics Is Messier than My Minivan and also swears a bit.

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2023-04-23
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