The Common Good with Sam Epstein

Sam and Max break down primary night: Francesca Hong's frontrunner run in Wisconsin and the resurfaced comments that should be disqualifying, Netanyahu's public rejection of Trump's own Gaza peace plan, and a Supreme Court case landing on Election Day that could reshape religious liberty law. Plus: Nate Silver's new midterm model, and why both parties are headed for a reckoning in November.

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Sam flies solo this episode, breaking down Tucker Carlson’s 10-point manifesto and what it actually reveals about a coming JD Vance 2028 run. Then: Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed and his “I don’t do ideology” defense, and what it has in common with Tucker’s own vagueness. Closes with breaking news on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s fraud case: An organization that funded the very extremism it built its brand fighting.

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Sam Epstein and Max Markov break down the week's biggest stories through a common-good lens: the migrant crisis in Ceuta, Spain, and the court ruling behind it; the latest twist in the US-Iran standoff; and the Michigan Senate primary the night before results come in. They close by taking on a direct challenge to the show's core idea: is "the common good" a real concept, or just cover for collectivism?

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Sam Epstein and Max Markov launch The Common Good — a new show arguing that politics should be about what's actually right, not who wins. Episode 1: who we are, what the common good means, and what's coming next.

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