America This Week

By Matt Taibbi & Walter KirnNews Politics

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September 19, 2025 America This Week, Sept 19, 2025: Kimmel, Kirk, and The Speech Crisis Strikes Back
After years of First Amendment threats in the digital realm, Trump’s FCC aims at the public airwaves. Also, wrapping up The Hound of the Baskervilles.

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2 hr 14 min
September 16, 2025 America This Week Monday Live Show 9/15/25
A recording from Monday’s live show

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2 hr 5 min
September 09, 2025 America This Week, Monday Live Show 9/8/2025

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1 hr 48 min
September 05, 2025 America This Week, September 5, 2025: "The Arrest of Graham Linehan, Heretic to the Civic Religion"
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Linehan is punished, Malcolm Gladwell rewarded, and world politics has become contests of dueling faiths. Plus, a classic novel by a childhood favorite of Walt and Matt
2 hr 32 min
August 29, 2025 America This Week, August 29, 2025: "Everyone in Minnesota Has Gone Crazy"
Mass murder is one thing, but misgendering is apparently the real crime. Plus, wrapping up "That Hideous Strength" by C.S. Lewis

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2 hr 6 min
August 26, 2025 America This Week Monday Live Show 8/25/25
A recording from Monday night’s live video

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2 hr 5 min
August 22, 2025 America This Week, August 22, 2025: "Is the New York Times a Government-in-Exile?"
From journalism icon to daily newsletter of an ousted micro-minority, the Times has taken quite a journey. Also, "That Hideous Strength," by CS Lewis

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2 hr 8 min
August 15, 2025 America This Week, August 15, 2025: An Avalanche of Russiagate Revelations, and Walter Prepares for Real Time
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Devastating documents are being released at a breakneck pace, but will they matter? Plus “That Hideous Strength,” by CS LewiS
31 min
August 08, 2025 America This Week, August 8, 2025: "The AI Invasion: Why the Media Won't Correct Itself"
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When all you have to convince is a programmable AI, journalism becomes a contest of might, not right. Plus, the brutal hilarity of Voltaire's "Candide"
31 min
August 01, 2025 America This Week, August 1, 2025: "Durham Declassified: History's Stupidest Political Conspiracy Unmasked"
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